What if the greatest philosopher in history was wrong about his most important conclusion?

And what if that single mistake has quietly distorted the way we've understood ourselves for two thousand years?

The Well-Balanced Soul is a journey through the history of human nature, and a case that we've been telling the wrong story about ourselves. You’ll walk the streets of Athens with Socrates, sit with mystics in India, and trace how a handful of ancient ideas hardened into the modern psychology we've all inherited.

Author Adam Carney offers a new central organizing principle for mental health that rewrites our most basic understanding of what it means to live a good life.