Choose You: The Human Experiment That Changed Everything

By Kat Van Dijk

Choose You: The Experiment That Changed Everything

Kat Van Dijk has lived a full life. She has built a career, raised a family, weathered loss and come through more than one chapter she never saw coming. Through it all, she has always been curious about people, what drives them, what holds them back, and what happens when they finally decide to get out of their own way. So when life handed her a moment that demanded a reset, from her new home in Bali, she did what any curious person would do.

She turned her own mind into a human experiment.

Driven by a passion for neuroscience and positive psychology, and a quiet refusal to accept a life that looked good on paper but felt slightly misaligned, Kat set out to discover whether lasting change was genuinely possible. Not just on the surface, but change that reshapes how you think, how you show up and who you choose to be each day. What emerged became the LIFE Design Method, a three stage framework to help you move from an identity shaped by circumstance to one you have consciously chosen. And running quietly alongside it all is the story of Ruhia, a young Māori woman whose single act of courage changed more lives than she could ever have known.

Honest, warm and often laugh out loud funny, Choose You is part memoir and part strategy, grounded in neuroscience and full of the richly lived detail that makes a life story worth reading. It is for anyone who has ever suspected their life could feel more like their own, and it is proof that reinvention is not reserved for the young or the lucky. It belongs to anyone willing to do the work.

Choose you. Why wouldn't you?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1067290028
• ISBN13: 9781067290023
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: National Library of New Zealand
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"