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Metaphors We Live By: Book I: Success, Goals, & Power
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Series: Metaphors We Live by, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798249392369
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Winners and losers want the same things. The difference is not desire. It is what they are willing to pay. More importantly, what they are willing to lose without being seen. Most people fail not because they lack ambition, but because they never ask what ambition costs. Goals are cheap. They can be declared without changing anything about how you live today. Prices are paid in currencies most people never see: time without recognition, effort without feedback, loneliness without drama, identity without confirmation. Metaphors We Live By: Success, Goals, & Power is a collection of forty essays that strip success down to its actual conditions. Not the motivational version, but the one that selects people quietly through tolerance, trade-offs, and time. Inside, you will explore: - Why effort is not scarce, but patience is
- The real difference between wanting and willing
- How comfort compounds quietly until it becomes a cage
- Why discipline is often delayed grief
- What happens when you climb the wrong ladder perfectly
- The entrance fee most people refuse to acknowledge This is not a how-to guide.
This is not a framework. It is a series of observations about the invisible structure beneath outcomes. For those serious about success.
Or honest about the cost of walking away.
- How comfort compounds quietly until it becomes a cage
- Why discipline is often delayed grief
- What happens when you climb the wrong ladder perfectly
- The entrance fee most people refuse to acknowledge This is not a how-to guide.
This is not a framework. It is a series of observations about the invisible structure beneath outcomes. For those serious about success.
Or honest about the cost of walking away.
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