Michael Schaller: How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together, Kartoniert / Broschiert
How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together
- When You Absolutely Know You Don't
- Publisher:
- BoD - Books on Demand, 01/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783695741595
- Item number:
- 12607511
- Volume:
- 136 Pages
- Edition number:
- 26001
- Ausgabe:
- 1. Auflage
- Weight:
- 208 g
- Format:
- 210 x 148 mm
- Thickness:
- 10 mm
- Release date:
- 27.1.2026
- Series:
- The Quiet Competence Series - volume 1
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together is a calm, ironic, and sharply observant book about modern exhaustion, invisible social pressure, and the performance of competence.
It is written for people who appear functional, capable, and reliable - while quietly improvising everything behind the scenes.
Instead of offering motivation, routines, or self-optimization strategies, this book removes the invisible rules that drain energy: over-explaining, over-performing, constant availability, guilt-based politeness, and nightly self-surveillance.
Through short chapters, precise language, and dry humor, the book explores everyday situations such as saying no, leaving conversations, ending meetings, canceling plans, answering messages, resting without guilt, and finishing the day without mentally rewriting it.
This is not a classic self-help book. It does not promise transformation.
It offers recognition, relief, and the permission to stop trying so hard to appear normal.
How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together is the first volume in The Quiet Competence Series.
Biography
Michael Schaller is the Regents Professor of History at the University of Arizona. He has published numerous books about 20th-century American political history and foreign policy, including The Republican Ascendancy and Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era.Notes:
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