DANIEL PARMEGGIANI was born in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to the United States when he was 12 years old. Growing up in a household traumatized by the violent death of his older brother, and caught between two radically different parental worldviews, young Daniel often felt guilty, isolated and depressed. Neither psychoanalysis nor religion offered relief, but at age 17 he experienced a deeply cathartic vision around self-forgiveness and self-love that changed his life and enabled him to go on to successful careers, first as a computer scientist and currently as a day-trader in the stock market. He articulated the profound yet simple insights that allowed him to heal and flourish in his first book, The Magnificent Truths of Our Existence