Coffee, Birdsong and the Dawn: The Place the Past and the Future Can't Reach (en Inglés)
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You look fine from the outside. You go to work, you answer messages, and when someone asks, you say you're all right. But the real you keeps going back over the past, and you haven't thought about tomorrow — or anything further — in a long time. It's late, everyone else is asleep, and you're still awake. That stretch of time is what this book is about. The Place the Past and the Future Can't Reach The past can't be changed. The future can't be held. But this moment is yours — because neither one can reach here. It's small, sometimes small enough that you can't see it. But it's the only place that weight can't reach for a while. That's what the title of this book is pointing at. A book that describes the state, and then shows the way through it. Some difficulty has no event behind it and no wound to point to. It's still heavy. This book puts that state into words, gives it a name, and then walks the distance from naming it to moving again. Fifty-two short pieces, written a day at a time during that stretch, by someone who was in it. What this book does 1. Gives it a name. High-functioning depression, horizon narrowing, the existential vacuum, tolerance for uncertainty, rumination, emotional contagion, secondary trauma — explained in plain language. Not so you can diagnose yourself, but so you know the thing that had no shape has a name and a shape. 2. Sets a standard you can keep. When you can't do anything at all, getting through today is not giving up. It's a survival strategy you can actually carry out. 3. Reads like someone who was there. Not from above, from beside you. Saying the weight is real, and staying with it. 4. Gets back what only looked lost. You have more than you think. A lot of it was never really gone — it was covered over by the dark, waiting for you to come close enough to wake it. 5. Makes a future. Not by waiting for one, but with the choices available in this moment, a little at a time. Five parts, one direction Admitting — see the weight clearly and stop arguing with yourself about it. Loosening — set down what will not move, and get the energy back. Saving — take the first step yourself, before you feel ready. Breaking Out — decide to change at the deepest level, and act on it. Moving — look up and find that the thing you thought would hold you is behind you. Fifty-two pieces — forty-six chapters, four letters, a preface and an epilogue. Each stands alone and reads in a few minutes. Begin wherever a title sounds like your own situation. From Firmiana House A small, warm companion for the hours before dawn — this book sits with you, morning after morning, until it is light. — Firmiana House About the author Wilson H. Brook is an entrepreneur, investor, and writer whose work spans mainly the markets of Asia and North America. He has been through the ups and downs of building businesses, and has long kept a written record of his life and of what goes on inside him. This book is his account of the past several years, looking back and thinking them through. It is published by Firmiana House in English, Chinese, and Japanese. There's no thirty-day plan here, and no promise that you'll be fine. There are the nights before dawn, and the cup of coffee after it gets light. Creating the future isn't waiting for it to arrive, it's using every choice in this moment to push it, little by little, toward where you want it to go. The things you thought would hold you your whole life may already be your story.
