Cover of Who Is ME: Who I Can Be by Sanjay Divakar: a young boy and a teenager sit side by side on a park bench.
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Who Is ME:
Who I Can Be

The Act of Becoming by Believing in You Nonstop

Release26 November 2026 · Paperback PublisherVanguard Press, an imprint of Pegasus Publishers

About the book

Most people spend years trying to figure out who they are. Sanjay Divakar started at six.

Who Is ME: Who I Can Be is not a success story. It's the story before the story — the bedroom floors covered in papers, the promises that almost broke him, the team that walked away without warning, and the slow, deliberate work of rebuilding from the inside out.

Through personal stories and hard-won clarity, Sanjay explores how identity actually forms — not in a single moment, but across thousands of quiet ones. How the people who shaped you leave marks you don't recognize until later. And how understanding your inner "role" changes the way you lead, communicate, and show up for the people around you.

This isn't about having the answers early. It's about learning to ask better questions — and having the courage to sit with what comes back.

Becoming isn't a destination. It's a direction. And this book marks where the next version begins.

Description from the publisher, Pegasus Publishers.

What you'll take from it.

Inside the book
01The story before the storyThe setbacks behind the building: the promises that almost broke him, the team that walked away, and the work of rebuilding from the inside out.
02How identity formsNot in a single moment, but across thousands of quiet ones, and how the people who shaped you leave marks you only recognize later.
03Your inner roleHow understanding your inner "role" changes the way you lead, communicate, and show up for the people around you.
04Better questionsNot answers handed down early, but the habit of asking better questions and the courage to sit with what comes back.
The TEDx connection

Two stages, one story.

Sanjay's two TEDx talks are part of the story this book tells. Watch them here.

Somebody Wrote the Grading Scale. It Wasn't You TEDxThiagarajar College of Engineering, MaduraiWatch on YouTube →
The Future of Schools Starts with Letting Go TEDxThirdWard, HoustonWatch on YouTube →
Sanjay Divakar

About the author

Sanjay Divakar is the Founder & CEO of RoleColorFinder, a behavioral leadership platform that helps organizations reduce the Behavioral Tax: the cost of role misalignment under pressure. A multi-time TEDx speaker raised across Chennai, Dubai, and Greenwich, he speaks on leadership and on rethinking how schools measure and prepare students.

Book details

TitleWho Is ME: Who I Can Be
SubtitleThe Act of Becoming by Believing in You Nonstop
AuthorSanjay Divakar
PublisherVanguard Press, an imprint of Pegasus Publishers
Publication26 November 2026 (paperback)
ISBN978-1-80693-260-3
Pages92
FormatPaperback, 197 × 130 mm. Hardback edition (ISBN 978-1-80693-261-0) available to pre-order for 25 March 2027.
Out 26 November 2026

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