The Mind Is Flat

Argues that there are no hidden depths behind our thoughts: the mind improvises, moment by moment, and the inner story is made up as it goes. Unsettling at first, then oddly freeing: if your past moods do not define a fixed inner nature, you are less stuck than you feel.

Worth knowing: Deliberately provocative. Many psychologists think it overstates a real finding.

Find a copy · the research behind it: Why do you trust your own introspection more than anyone else's?