The You You Are
By Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD

- Release Date: 2025-01-31
- Genre: Self-Improvement
Description
This book is drawn from the universe of Severance, the globally acclaimed hit Apple Original series from director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson.
Are you ready to meet the person who truly makes you “You”: You?
In his quinquennial tome, Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD guides You on a brave journey of self-learnedness. Fertile with mind-engorging insights, The You You Are is an invitation to merge with your true “You,” and expel from your essence the dead-eyed conventionalism that has defined your life since infancy.
For the first time ever, Dr. Ricken’s luminous writings are available in digital format, only on Apple Books. Though librarians strongly urge reading his complete oeuvre, this ebook — featuring the inaugural eight chapters from The You You Are — is sure to tickle both the completist and the layman. In addition, enjoy an exclusive letter of apology from the author himself, addressed to none other than YOU.
In Severance, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark - a widower who happens to be Dr. Ricken Hale’s brother in law - finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work … and of himself.
Watch Severance, now streaming on Apple TV+.
Reviews
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5By Jen303Love Lumon. But I'll never got the time spent perusing this book back!The mind of a severed individual
5By Jesse"Jay"GarciaI like the show and to be able to read what Mark Scott ended up getting as a Christmas gift is an awesome feeling.LOL
5By STM57Makes me wish MY brain was severed….Good read
5By experiment12/91I actually read this through, it kept my attention. I like the pattern Dr. Ricken placed each chapter, points 1-2 & how it relates to the You! I especially enjoy this totem tactic. I hope the full version is released sooner than later.Life changing. And also highly legible.
5By BNTangoI dare say, this book is even more fun than the tv series. A brilliant satire of self-help books and the pompous self-anointed gurus that write themAs if I took a bird bath
5By TheYodibearA thousand beautiful thoughts came onto my hair and into my brainFunny, witty, irreverent, unintentionally poignant.
4By filmguyryanThis satirical extension of the show is tongue in cheek and yet insightful in its own self-aware kind of way. I’m elated and deeply satisfied to discover the me I am! Pray tell, when oh when will the additional chapters be released?iykyk
5By ElleEmAycheI’m sifting through the pages like a Taylor Swift fan on TTPD release day - and I love it. Somewhere in this hilarious nonsense is an answer or two, but if not the absurdity alone was worth it. It read like an extended version of the dinner-with-no-dinner, but it does have me thinking new thoughts about Ricken. Maybe, Rick N.?Literature worthy of liturgy
5By Jesus's concubineYou will find the data contained herein both ethereal and refined. The words seem to frolic across the page like energetic kids on a sunny afternoon.Enlightening
4By fashionablefoodieYes, it’s part of the Severance universe ; although we all can understand a bit more on The You You Are.