{"product_id":"a-manual-for-not-optimizing-oliver-grant-9798278910244","title":"A Manual for Not Optimizing Life: Useless Instructions for Staying Human","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book does not ask you to improve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks you to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt offers no solutions, methods, or strategies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt promises no results.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead, it presents a series of deliberately useless instructions, designed to create space where there is only pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePage after page, you move through six essential territories: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime, Work, Attention, Relationships, Body, Silence\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach text is brief, precise, and unexplained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can read it from start to finish, open it at random, or close it after a single page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no path to complete and no goal to reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is not meant to help you do more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt helps you do less - deliberately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf, while reading, you feel even a brief sense of relief, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethen it has already done enough\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798278910244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.56d","brand":"Oliver Grant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171233931519,"sku":"9798278910244","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-manual-for-not-optimizing-oliver-grant-9798278910244","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}