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  • Retroactive Jealousy

    by Robert Smith ...
    Their past is over. So why can't your mind stop replaying it?You are in a good relationship with someone who has done nothing wrong. And yet your mind keeps screening a film of a past you never witnessed -- the people who came before you, what they did, how it must have felt. You ask questions you have already asked. You check, you compare, you replay. The answers help for an hour, and then the ... Read more

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  • Romanticize

    by Robert Smith ...
    The life you already have, met with about fifteen percent more attention, is more than enough.This is not a book about adding things to your life. There is no morning routine to install, no expensive candles to buy, no five-thirty wake-up. The promise is smaller and stranger: the apartment you are in, the partner you have, the block you walk every day, the cup you have used since 2019, all of it ... Read more

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  • RECESS

    by Robert Smith ...
    When did you last do something for no reason at all?Most adults cannot answer specifically. Not last week. Not last month. Maybe not last year. Somewhere between college and the second mortgage, the simple human capacity you had at nine, to do a thing because the thing was the point, quietly disappeared. No funeral, no announcement, just gone.RECESS is the way back.This is not a book about ... Read more

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  • Quiet Wealth

    by Robert Smith ...
    The loudest money advice of the last decade has been quietly wrong, and it has cost the people who followed it more than they know.Every money book on the shelf tells you to work harder. Wake up earlier. Grind. Optimize every minute and audit every dollar. The cover photo shows the author in front of a private jet, and the promise is that if you do exactly what the book says, you too can stand in ... Read more

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  • Quiet Panic

    by Robert Smith ...
    You look calm. You have never felt calm. That difference has been costing you for years.From the outside, you are the one who has it together, early, prepared, reliable, the person everyone calls unflappable. Underneath, an engine runs at a speed that would frighten them if they could hear it. This is high-functioning anxiety, and the cruelest thing about it is that it works. It gets the promotion ... Read more

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  • Quiet Borderline

    by Robert Smith ...
    You don't throw the phone. You turn the storm inward -- and smile, and say you're fine.Most people picture borderline personality disorder as something loud: the screaming, the scene, the relationship that burns down in public. That was never you. When the wave hits, you go still. You arrange your face. You aim the rage at your own chest instead of across the room, and you whisper the cruelest ... Read more

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  • POUR

    by Robert Smith ...
    A wine book for the grown-up who has been drinking wine for years and never quite gotten comfortable with it.You have spent a decade staring at the wine wall at the grocery store and quietly guessing. You have ordered the second-cheapest bottle at the restaurant more times than you would like to admit. You have nodded politely while a friend over-explained a fifteen-dollar Pinot Grigio. You drink ... Read more

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  • PERFECT

    by Robert Smith ...
    The flaw you are proud of is quietly running your life.Perfectionism is the rare weakness people brag about. We confess it in interviews and wear it like a medal, never noticing the sharp pin on the back. Underneath the competence is a particular exhaustion: the second job of monitoring, polishing, and bracing for judgment that never lets the work, or you, be good enough.PERFECT is a clear-eyed, ... Read more

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  • Panic

    by Robert Smith ...
    You were sure you were dying. You were not, and you never were.The racing heart. The air that will not go all the way in. The certainty, total and physical and undeniable, that this is the heart attack, the stroke, the moment you lose your mind in front of everyone. And then it passes. You survive. And under the relief a quieter terror moves in: the fear that it will happen again.That fear is the ... Read more

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  • OVERDRAWN

    by Robert Smith ...
    You can cover the bills and still feel the floor drop the moment you open the app.You already know how to budget. You know what you are supposed to do, and you have known for years. What no one explains is why your chest tightens before you have read a single number, why a raise can make the fear worse, and why the dread wakes you at three in the morning doing arithmetic you already did at dinner ... Read more

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  • Nothing Wrong With You

    by Robert Smith ...
    There was never anything wrong with you. That is the whole argument, and it is more provable than it feels.Most of us carry a conviction we never agreed to: that underneath the competence and the smile, something about us is fundamentally, permanently wrong. Psychologists call it toxic shame, the low, constant hum beneath a life that keeps you apologizing for taking up room, performing a self you ... Read more

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  • NOT A FRAUD

    by Robert Smith ...
    You do not have a syndrome. You have an accurate read on an asymmetric room.Every workshop you have sat through told you the gap between your accomplishments and your confidence is a flaw in your wiring, a defect to manage, a bug to debug on your own time. Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, the two psychologists who coined the phrase in 1978, never used the word syndrome. They used phenomenon. The ... Read more

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