Still Boring. Still Alive: Notes From an Overstimulated Life
Paperback
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What if you're not broken?
What if you're just exhausted by a world that never stops demanding more?
More productivity.
More self-improvement.
More success.
More noise.
Still Boring. Still Alive. isn't another self-help book promising to transform your life in ten easy steps.
It won't tell you to wake up at 5 AM.
It won't teach you how to optimize every minute.
It won't convince you that happiness is just one habit away.
Instead, it asks a different question:
What if modern life itself is the problem?
Through ten brutally honest essays, Koncz Sámuel explores what it feels like to grow up in a world obsessed with performance, endless scrolling, productivity, and constant comparison.
This book is about:
- burnout that sleep can't fix
- adulthood that feels like endless maintenance
- social media and the performance of happiness
- loneliness in a permanently connected world
- distraction disguised as living
- the attention economy stealing our minds
- why everyone seems to be improvising adulthood
- and why ordinary life might be more meaningful than we've been taught to believe.
Written with dark humor, sharp observations, and uncomfortable honesty, Still Boring. Still Alive. doesn't offer easy answers.
It offers something rarer.
The feeling that maybe you're not the only one quietly wondering:
Is this really what being alive is supposed to feel like?
If you've ever felt overwhelmed by modern life, disconnected from yourself, or tired of pretending everything is fine...
This book is for you.
Still boring.
Still alive.
Still human.
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