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The Untrained Mind - Ian McEwan

The Untrained Mind

Paperback | 13 August 2025

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86 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2 x 0.52

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The Untrained Mind: A Journey Beyond Belief is not a book of answers-it's a guide to asking the questions that change everything. Most of what we believe, value, and even fear was not consciously chosen. It was absorbed-from parents, schools, cultures, and systems that shaped us before we knew how to think for ourselves.

Through clear, engaging chapters, this book leads readers on a process of mental deconstruction and renewal. It exposes the invisible architecture of inherited beliefs, cultural conditioning, and unquestioned "truths," showing how these forces shape our identities and limit our choices. From dismantling the illusion of certainty to calling off the false war between reason and emotion, the journey is as much about unlearning as it is about learning.

Drawing from psychology, philosophy, and lived experience, The Untrained Mind offers practical reflection exercises ("Slow Brain Practices") to help readers recognise the patterns running their lives, question them with honesty, and rebuild from a place of self-authorship.

This is a book for anyone who feels trapped inside their own thoughts, for those ready to trade automatic living for conscious awareness. It does not demand that you adopt a new belief system-instead, it equips you to shape your own.

The destination is not certainty, but clarity. The reward is not comfort, but freedom: a mind you chose, built from awareness rather than inheritance.

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