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Buch (Softcover): Ratgeber
The Odysseus Pact
A Field Guide to Willpower, Habits and Self-Mastery Inspired by the Odyssey by Homer
Verlag:
Grete Books Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35726353
EAN: 9789189876767
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 13.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 39.75
Beschreibung
Inspired by the Odyssey by Homer. Three thousand years ago, a man tied himself to a mast so his future self couldn't destroy him. It's still the best trick anyone has ever invented for beating your own worst impulses. Odysseus didn't survive the Odyssey by being stronger than everyone else. He survived it by knowing exactly when to not. trust himself, and building a plan for that moment in advance. The Odysseus Pact. takes all twenty stops on his voyage, the Cyclops, Circe, the Sirens, the cattle of the sun, and turns each one into a concrete method for the modern version of that same trap: the habit you can't break, the comfort you've overstayed, the rule you keep negotiating with yourself at the worst possible moment. Inside, you'll learn:. How to build your own "Ulysses pact" for the one temptation that keeps beating you. Why willpower fails predictably right after a win, and the one habit that protects you. How to tell a "merely difficult" situation from a truly destructive one, before it costs you everything. Why the most successful people rely on bright-line rules instead of willpower, and how to build your own. Each chapter ends with The Pact. , a specific, doable exercise you can complete the same day you read it. You don't need to have read Homer. You don't even need to have seen the film. You just need one shore you've been trying to leave for longer than it should have taken.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Ronald Homer
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 170