PDF · 29 pages · 6 × 9 in · printable worksheets
All nine things, the one trait underneath them, and the exits that get you out of each without being rude.
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Introduction: Carrying furniture.
Conclusion: Awake in a sleeping room. Then the Sources chapter, where every source named in the book is listed with a link, and a short note on the author.
A protected slot for going deep on something useless. How to fit it into a week that already feels full.
The specific antidote to the particular tiredness that comes from a week of pleasant surfaces.
How to leave a draining conversation without anybody feeling dismissed. Scripts for all nine situations.
6 sources, every one a working link. Where a finding has limits or has been revised, the book says so. Not all of them are journal papers, and the chapter says which is which.
A phrase at a party. A rule at work. A question a relative asks every Christmas. Nothing anyone would call a problem. And yet you come home from a perfectly normal day feeling as if you have been carrying furniture.
This book names nine of those things, and for each one it explains what is actually happening in a connecting mind when it hits. The explanations are not flattering stories about sensitivity. They come from a specific body of research: on the trait psychologists call need for cognition, on what boredom actually is, on the difference between small talk and substantive conversation and what each does to wellbeing, on the need for closure, and on the illusion of explanatory depth. Once the mechanism is visible, the sandpaper stops feeling like a personal failing and starts looking like what it is, which is friction between a particular kind of mind and a world not built for it.
That is the opening of 29 pages.
Partly, and here is exactly which part. The three tools are the same three tools, because they work. What the video does not have: the worksheets for all three, the full research with every source linked, a chapter on the tenth thing, which did not fit in the video, and a recovery week, and the questions there was no room for. If you only wanted the three tools, you already have them, free.
29 pages at 6 by 9 inches, about 5,000 words, 11 chapters plus an introduction and a conclusion. It is a short book and it is priced like one. It is not a 300 page business book and it does not pretend to be.
One PDF. The download link appears on the confirmation page the moment the payment clears, and the same link is emailed to you with your invoice. No account, no app, nothing to install. The link does not expire, and if you lose the email you can have it sent again.
Yes. The pages are laid out at 6 by 9 inches. The parts you fill in sit inside the chapters they belong to, so you can print just those pages, or the whole book.
Every source is named and linked in the Sources chapter, 6 of them in this one, and the links were checked when the book was built. Not all of them are journal papers: some are reference pages, talks, or news write ups of a study, and the chapter says which is which. Where a finding has limits or has been revised, the book says so rather than quoting the headline.
Reply to the email your invoice came in and it gets fixed, with a fresh link or by refunding a duplicate charge. To be straight with you, that is not a change of mind refund policy. Because the file is delivered the instant you pay, and you confirm that at checkout, the 14 day right of withdrawal does not apply. This is us fixing our own mistakes, which is a different thing.
29 pages, three tools, 6 linked sources. One file, yours to keep.
Instant download, PDF. Secure checkout by Stripe.
Sold by Sanava LTD, Cyprus, published as Oliver Mindwell.