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Cool on the Outside: Screaming on the Inside
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HumorFiction AnthologiesGeneral Sociology
Publisher Price: $9.99
Publisher: Crankybooks
Published: Jan 10 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Cool on the Outside: Screaming on the Inside takes a clear-eyed, often funny look at modern work, identity, and the quiet strain of holding yourself together in public.
Built from short essays and observations, the book examines what it feels like to move through professional life while performing competence, optimism, and emotional control-often simultaneously. It looks at ambition, status, burnout, denial, resilience, and the small private negotiations people make to keep going in systems that rarely pause or care.
This isn't self-help, and it isn't a confessional memoir. It's cultural observation from the inside: meetings, inboxes, expectations, habits of thought, and the unspoken rules everyone seems to understand but no one admits out loud. The tone is wry, skeptical, and humane-interested less in solutions than in recognition.
Cool on the Outside: Screaming on the Inside is for readers who value humor without fluff, insight without instruction, and the relief that comes from realizing the strain you feel isn't personal-it's structural.
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