Liam Ferré Solán

Liam Ferré Soláncame to writing the least direct way possible: through a crisis. Trained as an engineer, he spent most of his adult life trusting systems, structures, and verifiable answers. But at fifty he began to notice something the data could not resolve: that much of what he believed about the world, about himself, about what was worth doing and what wasn't, hadn't been consciously chosen. He had absorbed it. From his family, his culture, his generation, his country.

That discomfort — not the enlightenment, the discomfort — was the starting point of None of This Was Mine. As a philosophical essayist, he doesn't write from a position of moral authority, nor does he claim to have reached any final truth. He writes from the process: of unlearning inherited beliefs, examining his own identity, and constructing, with more humility than certainty, a more authentic way of thinking.