NEW BOOK BY DURAN TORREZ
There's More to You
An investigation into what lies beneath the familiar assumptions we make about ourselves.
What if there's more happening beneath the life you consciously experience?
Through personal stories, observation, and an ongoing investigation of Human Design, I explore the assumptions we make about ourselves, the differences between people, and what may be operating beyond conscious awareness.
82 pages · Independent nonfiction · Paperback, Kindle & Digital PDF
How Much Are We Actually Seeing?
We're accustomed to treating the conscious mind as the authority governing our lives. We make plans, form explanations, establish expectations, and assume that understanding something should give us control over it.
Yet much of the body's operation takes place beyond conscious awareness.
And people living under similar expectations can experience profoundly different results.
What happens when we begin examining those differences instead of assuming everyone should operate the same way?
Beneath the Surface
Growing up around the rivers of the Pacific Northwest, I learned an important lesson from my father:
“Pay attention. Learn to read the water.”
A river can look familiar from the surface, even as the currents underneath are continually changing.
Learning to read those currents requires attention, observation, and experience. What you can see at first isn't necessarily everything that's happening.
That lesson eventually influenced how I began investigating much more than water.
Through experiences in education, steelhead fishing, physical work, business, and family relationships, I started questioning the assumptions we make about how people operate—and what we might be overlooking beneath the surface.
An Investigation in Four Directions
The Conscious Mind
What do we assume the mind controls, and what happens beyond our conscious awareness?
Physical Operation
How do the body's demands and limitations influence the lives we are able to sustain?
Individual Differences
Why can the same expectations affect different people in profoundly different ways?
Human Design
What has studying Human Design contributed to one person's investigation of individual differentiation?
Not a Manual. An Investigation.
There's More to You isn't a Human Design textbook, a training program, or a collection of prescribed answers.
It's an independent investigation shaped by observation, lived experience, and the questions that emerge when familiar explanations no longer seem sufficient.
Rather than telling you who you are or how you should live, this book invites you to examine what you may not have considered—and to develop your own capacity to observe what lies beneath the surface.
Read There's More to You
Choose how you'd like to read the book. Each edition contains the complete 82-page investigation.
PAPERBACK
$12.99
An 82-page, 5 × 8-inch paperback with a matte cover and cream-colored pages. Available through Amazon.
KINDLE
$6.99
The complete digital edition formatted for Kindle reading. Available through Amazon.
About Duran Torrez
I'm Duran Torrez, a writer and independent investigator of Human Design and the mechanics of human experience.
My work draws from a lifetime of observing people, examining systems, and questioning the assumptions we make about how life is supposed to work.
Experiences in business ownership, physically demanding work, family life, and the rivers of the Pacific Northwest have all influenced the questions I pursue.
I'm continuing my formal Human Design education toward professional analyst certification. Until then, my work focuses on independent investigation, personal experimentation, writing, and sharing what I'm learning.
There's More to You is my first published book and part of an ongoing body of work exploring individual differentiation, conscious experience, and the relationship between people and their environments.
The Investigation Continues
There's More to You is the beginning of a larger body of work.
Through writing, recorded conversations, and ongoing study of Human Design, I continue investigating how we operate, what shapes our experiences, and the differences that emerge when we begin paying closer attention.
If these questions interest you, the investigation continues here.
There's More to You is an independent publication. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by Jovian Archive or the International Human Design School.