About
Robert Spencer Knotts is a writer, composer and humanitarian whose work asks a single question: How can human beings become fully human? Across 27 books of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, five plays, more than 2,000 essays and blogs and numerous musical compositions, his work explores the psychology of ego, identity and self-worth. In Beyond Me: Dissecting Ego to Find the Innate Love at Humanity’s Core, Knotts introduces the concept of Identity Failure, arguing that much of human conflict stems not from malice but from fragile self-construction. Beneath defensive identity structures, he proposes, lies a universal drive: the desire to express our individual selves in ways that continually reinforce our own sense that our existence is valuable in this moment. He is the founder of the Humanity Project®, a nonprofit organization working in schools to build belonging, self-worth and respect among young students.
Featured Work
Beyond Me: Dissecting Ego To Find The Innate Love At Humanity's Core (A New Psychology As Philosophy).
This book explores in great psychological detail our human tendency toward self-doubt, self-criticism and self-sabotage. And it demonstrates convincingly that this nearly universal problem is learned, directly resulting from the many significant but irrational self-images that individuals attempt to validate through outside appreciation by others. The author has named this condition "Identity Failure." But Beyond Me also finds an innate love within every individual, the desire to be, to exist. And the book presents a new full-blown philosophy called Rational Faith based on this innate love, offering that rational approach to living as a solution to Identity Failure.
Other Works
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Songs of a Certain Humanity
2022
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Fabled Lives: Simple Stories You Need For Living In A Complex World
2021
