We are born into a world that hands us a name before we can speak, a gender before we can understand it, a nationality before we've taken our first steps. Before our eyes can focus, we're given mirrors - not to see ourselves, but to see what others expect us to be. We spend our lives collecting masks: the good child, the perfect student, the model citizen, the social media persona. But beneath these layers of performance and expectation, in that quiet space where no likes or judgments reach, who are we really?

'Individuality' is a journey into the heart of this question. It begins where most self-help books end - not with easy answers, but with unsettling truths. Drawing from the ancient wisdom of Buddhist monks who spoke of 'no-self,' the piercing insights of existentialist philosophers, and the startling revelations of modern neuroscience, this book reveals how our...