# On Wanting to Change

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- Book: [On Wanting to Change](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-phillips/on-wanting-to-change) ([On Wanting to Change.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-phillips/on-wanting-to-change.md))
- Authors: [Adam Phillips](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-phillips)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 3 h 49 min
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- ISBN: 978-02-4199-385-9
- Published: 2021-03-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 3 h 49 min

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives. We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy. We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we think about change changes over time too. We want to think of our lives as progress myths - as narratives of positive personal growth - at the same time as we inevitably age and suffer setbacks. So there are the stories we tell about change, and there are the changes we actually make - and they don't always go, or come, together . . . This sparkling book is about that fact. © Adam Phillips 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021