Be Who You Want

Christian’s new award-winning book is out now! From left to right along each row: US edition / UK & Commonwealth edition / Chinese / Korean / Russian / Polish / Japanese / Taiwanese and Portuguese. Further edition forthcoming in Spanish.

Winner of the 2022 Book Prize from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

“Warmly recommended” — Stephen Fry; “Inspiring yet bracingly down-to-earth” — Oliver Burkeman; “Deeply researched and insightful” — Melissa Dahl; “Fascinating and revelatory” — David Robson. Read all the advance praise.

Selected as one of the 7 best audio science books of 2021 by BBC Science Focus.

Selected as a “must read” title for summer 2021 by the Next Big Idea book club.

Selected as a monthly pick by Leaderbooks, the book club from Full Focus (The Michael Hyatt company).

Selected as one of the best new science releases of May 2021 by BBC Science Focus magazine.

Read the reviews in the New York Journal of Books , Psychotherapy Networker, Financial Times and in Publishers Weekly.

Read an extract published in BBC Science Focus.

(Be Who You Want is based on the Big Five Model of personality. To score your own personality using the kind of tests that feature in the book, visit this website hosted by Colby Personality lab.)