Naturalist

You can coach. You've watched somebody's face change while you were talking to them. Then you sit down to write one post about it and your body reacts like you're about to get eaten.

A naturalist sits in the field and watches one animal for a long time. What it eats, what scares it, what it does when it thinks nobody is looking. The animal in this book is the shy coach who does the work well and freezes the second somebody watches. I watched that animal for years. It was me.

This book won't tell you what to post. You already know that. It's about the two seconds before the button. The lizard brain is a myth, and a neuroscientist says so. Your fear is a guess, made off information that's 200,000 years old, and a guess can be updated. You'll meet the Gremlin, the Higher Self, and the Fool from King Lear, who walks into the locker room and names the fear so it shrinks. You'll learn ADAPT, five moves that get you from frozen to sent. You'll meet a fish that swims in water that should kill it and a tiny animal that survives outer space by curling up and doing nothing, and you'll pick which one you are.

Field notes in the margins. A glossary at the back. Reps, not theory.

Paperback, printed when you order it and shipped to your door. Printing and mailing take about two to three weeks, so this is slower than Amazon. The ebook comes with it, sent to your email the minute you order, so you can start reading tonight.

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