The Guides

Twenty-four short books.
One for each thing nobody explained.

Each one is the companion to a Pattern Weaver Mind video: 28 to 39 pages, the tools, most with worksheets to actually run them, and a Sources chapter where every source is a link you can check. $13 each. PDF, instant download, yours to keep.

The twenty-four
I. The Cartographer's Atlas 32 pp II. The Translator's Handbook 30 pp III. The Second Half 29 pp IV. Three Circles 29 pp V. Both 30 pp VI. Unlearning 29 pp VII. The Clear Mind 31 pp VIII. The Renaissance Years 29 pp IX. Steal This Mind 30 pp X. The Recharge Manual 29 pp XI. The Terrifying Mind 30 pp XII. The Competence Filter 39 pp XIII. The Crisis Hire 31 pp XIV. Friends After Forty 29 pp XV. Married to a Mind 29 pp XVI. The Second Half 31 pp XVII. After the Last Day 28 pp XVIII. The Co-Explorer 31 pp XIX. The Box Ladder 29 pp XX. The Keystone and the Quarry 30 pp XXI. The Room 29 pp XXII. Raising a Pattern Weaver 30 pp XXIII. The Three Doors 32 pp XXIV. The Constellation Mind 31 pp
I.

The twenty-four guides

$13 each · PDF
01 Too many interests · 32 pages The Cartographer's Atlas The three tools from the video, with the pages to fill in and every source behind them linked. $13 · See inside 02 When the room goes quiet · 30 pages The Translator's Handbook Why rooms react the way they do, and the three moves that keep you understood without making you smaller. $13 · See inside 03 After fifty · 29 pages The Second Half What actually rises after fifty, what falls, and three tools for the part nobody warned you was coming. $13 · See inside 04 Friends, family, partners · 29 pages Three Circles A way to sort the people in your life into three circles, so that none of them has to be everything. $13 · See inside 05 The question at two in the morning · 30 pages Both Seven differences that actually separate the two, and what to do about each, without pretending to diagnose you. $13 · See inside 06 What school left behind · 29 pages Unlearning The five things school taught you about your own attention, and how to take each one back out. $13 · See inside 07 When the room agrees · 31 pages The Clear Mind Four reasons a wide mind resists a certain kind of room, what that costs, and three practices for staying clear without becoming the person who disagrees for sport. $13 · See inside 08 The empty Monday · 29 pages The Renaissance Years What a job was quietly giving you, and three tools for replacing it on your own terms. $13 · See inside 09 Five habits, thirty five days · 30 pages Steal This Mind The five habits three famous polymaths actually practised, turned into thirty five days you can run. $13 · See inside 10 Nine ordinary things · 29 pages The Recharge Manual All nine things, the one trait underneath them, and the exits that get you out of each without being rude. $13 · See inside 11 Five traits, and what they cost · 30 pages The Terrifying Mind The five traits from the video, the research behind each one, the costs the comment section kept naming, and one practice per trait for keeping the trait while paying less for it. $13 · See inside 12 Bad authority, and what to do about it · 39 pages The Competence Filter Why a mind built for coherence cannot follow a leader who has none, what the research says about the nodding room and the forgotten warning, and a framework for deciding whether to speak, fix quietly, stay or leave. $13 · See inside 13 Brilliant, but difficult · 31 pages The Crisis Hire Why a connecting mind fails almost every test a workplace uses to decide who is valuable, why it is the one the workplace calls in a crisis, and six moves for making your value readable from a distance. $13 · See inside 14 Friendships that went quiet · 29 pages Friends After Forty Why a connecting mind loses its friends one at a time, the false assumption that keeps old friendships silent, and four moves for getting the people back, with twenty messages sorted by how long the silence has lasted. $13 · See inside 15 Marriage, from both sides · 29 pages Married to a Mind Where the cost of a connecting mind lands in a marriage, what the research says holds couples together, and five tools for dividing that cost fairly, written for both of you. $13 · See inside 16 Money, and why it comes late · 31 pages The Second Half Why a mind with too many interests is often poorer at forty, why the research says it is not too late, and five moves for being paid for a combination of fields almost nobody else has. $13 · See inside 17 When retirement goes flat · 28 pages After the Last Day The three things a job supplied without asking, why a connecting mind goes flat about three months after they stop, and a five-part structure that replaces them, with a plain chapter on when the flatness is depression. $13 · See inside 18 Single for a long time · 31 pages The Co-Explorer The five mistakes a connecting mind makes in dating, each with the study behind it, and five moves that correct them, with forty beginner's dates, questions for second and third dates, and a chapter on dating after divorce. $13 · See inside 19 Promotions, and who gets them · 29 pages The Box Ladder Why promotion goes to the person with one lane and one number, why the work between departments is not counted, where breadth is paid a premium, and five moves toward the rung that pays for it. $13 · See inside 20 When you own the business · 30 pages The Keystone and the Quarry Four reasons a normal business fails in the hands of a connecting mind, the research behind each, and one structure in its place: one offer at the top, every other interest feeding it, and six rules for running it. $13 · See inside 21 When only you see the flaw · 29 pages The Room Why a meeting is built not to hear the one fact only you hold, why speaking and staying silent both cost you, and six moves that get the fact into the room without making you the one everyone dreads. $13 · See inside 22 When your child wants to quit · 30 pages Raising a Pattern Weaver What the research says happens to children who sample many things rather than being made to pick one, why the sticker chart backfires, and five moves, including what to say when they quit and when the school calls. $13 · See inside 23 The type you keep choosing · 32 pages The Three Doors Why looking for a partner just like you never worked, the three traits that matter instead and the research behind each, four tests for spotting them, and how to open the same three doors from your side. $13 · See inside 24 The child who could not pick one · 31 pages The Constellation Mind Why you could never say what you wanted to be, the four mechanisms that explain what has happened to you since and the research behind each, an honest test for telling it apart from plain indecision, and three tools for answering the question with the shape instead of a star. $13 · See inside
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