The Art of Yamamoto Tsunetomo

You do not need more options. You need a code!
That is the single most freeing sentence you can borrow from Yamamoto Tsunetomo, the strange, uncompromising, radically clear-eyed samurai philosopher who lived three hundred years ago and saw modern exhaustion coming from a very long way off.

While his contemporaries chased status and comfort, he retired into a hermitage in the forests of Kyushu, Japan. While they built elaborate systems of political intrigue, he cut everything down to a code that could fit on a single page. When his lord died and he was denied even the final gesture of a warrior's death, he spent the next seven years dictating the harshest, clearest, most quietly freeing philosophy of action ever written…

His book, called Hagakure, may be the sharpest medicine you can take for the specific fog of modern indecision. And this warm, practical guide brings his ancient warrior wisdom into the exhausted, over-optioned life you are living right now.

Inside this book, you will discover:

+ The rule of seven breaths, and how to end decision paralysis forever
+ Living as though already dead, and why this is the most freeing thing you can do
+ The absolute present, and how to actually be where you are
+ Rouge in your pocket, and the daily architecture of self-respect
+ The evening audit, and how to become friends with your own honest reflection!
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You will not be asked to become a samurai or move to a mountain. Only to walk into your ordinary Wednesday with a spine again, so the hovering stops, the cutting begins, and the fog inside your own head clears for the first time in years!

Stop hovering over your life. Draw your sword!