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Nine to Calm - Stoicism for Professionals: What Staying Calm at Work Actually Takes (Stoicism at Work) - Softcover
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You know how to perform. You have been performing for years. You are starting to wonder what it is costing you.
Nine to Calm follows one manager through five years of early mornings, missed evenings, and a body that kept score while the inbox kept filling. It follows him to Greece, where he stopped for the first time in years — without a plan, without a purpose, and without the energy to pretend either mattered. And back — to an office that had not changed, and a person who had.
Along the way, he finds three writers who had worked out the same problem two thousand years earlier. Marcus Aurelius ran an empire. Epictetus survived slavery. Seneca argued, in the first century, that the greatest theft in a human life is not money but time — and that most people hand it over willingly.
What this book is
This is not a productivity manual. There are no ten steps, no morning routines, no optimization frameworks. What there is: an honest account of what high performance costs — in the body, in the friendships, in the capacity to sit still and feel where you are — and what it looks like to pull back from that edge without abandoning the work.
Each chapter ends with a question and a practice. Not instructions. The things the author wishes someone had offered him five years earlier, when he was running at a pace he had mistaken for ambition.
Who this is for
Nine to Calm is for the person who hits the targets, attends the meetings, answers the emails, and sits on the couch on Friday evening, unable to think of a single thing to do that is not work.
It is not written for someone in crisis. It is written for someone who can see one coming and would prefer not to arrive there.
The philosophy is the frame. The story is what happened inside it.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You know how to perform. You have been performing for years. You are starting to wonder what it is costing you.Nine to Calm follows one manager through five years of early mornings, missed evenings, and a body that kept score while the inbox kept filling. It follows him to Greece, where he stopped for the first time in years - without a plan, without a purpose, and without the energy to pretend either mattered. And back - to an office that had not changed, and a person who had.Along the way, he finds three writers who had worked out the same problem two thousand years earlier. Marcus Aurelius ran an empire. Epictetus survived slavery. Seneca argued, in the first century, that the greatest theft in a human life is not money but time - and that most people hand it over willingly.What this book isThis is not a productivity manual. There are no ten steps, no morning routines, no optimization frameworks. What there is: an honest account of what high performance costs - in the body, in the friendships, in the capacity to sit still and feel where you are - and what it looks like to pull back from that edge without abandoning the work.Each chapter ends with a question and a practice. Not instructions. The things the author wishes someone had offered him five years earlier, when he was running at a pace he had mistaken for ambition.Who this is forNine to Calm is for the person who hits the targets, attends the meetings, answers the emails, and sits on the couch on Friday evening, unable to think of a single thing to do that is not work.It is not written for someone in crisis. It is written for someone who can see one coming and would prefer not to arrive there.The philosophy is the frame. The story is what happened inside it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798259330788
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