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Being Human: On the Courage to Simply Be
Paperback
Publisher Price: $15.99
ISBN13: 9781066774708
Publisher: Coaching Philosophia
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Being Human: On the Courage to Simply Be is a book for anyone who has grown tired of being told they need to become more before they are allowed to be enough.
In a world obsessed with productivity, optimisation, self-improvement, personal branding, and constant performance, many people are quietly carrying a feeling they cannot quite name. They are not necessarily broken. They may not need another system, morning routine, mindset shift, or five-step plan. What they may be feeling is something deeper: the exhaustion of living in a culture that has made being human feel insufficient.
Drawing from lived experience, philosophy, walking, illness, fatherhood, nature, and the quiet wisdom of ordinary life, Rodney King explores the modern pressure to justify our existence through doing, proving, earning, improving, and managing ourselves. This is not a rejection of growth, effort, or responsibility. It is a refusal to believe that our humanity only becomes valid once it has been polished into usefulness.
Part memoir, part philosophical reflection, and part cultural critique, Being Human asks what it might mean to recover a more honest relationship with being alive. It challenges the machinery of almost, the managed self, and the machine standard that measures human worth by output, while opening a gentler and more courageous possibility: that we do not have to earn the right to exist.
This is a book about exhaustion, imperfection, attention, embodiment, walking, grief, enoughness, and the stubborn beauty of unfinished lives.
Above all, it is an invitation to come home to the ordinary miracle of being human.
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