Understanding Yourself - Chasing Shadows is about YOU It is about understanding yourself, understanding yourself and others, understanding yourself better, understanding yourself worth, understanding your inner self, and understanding your accountability. It is a self-help book that describes the problem with the way people view things around them, their relationships, their interactions and more. It defines the way people embrace subjective thought while ignoring objective truth. It takes you into the realm of the human mind and sorts out the cobwebs by identifying the exercises in futility people constantly employ in their lives. By understanding yourself, you can easy engage a quiet and peaceful life once you define terms away from the definitions the world assigns.