Surviving Survival Mode: The Hidden Cost of Holding It Together - Couverture souple

Kahn, Warren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1048303381 ISBN 13 : 9781048303384

Editeur : WK Press, 2026

Synopsis

You keep waiting for the breakdown that explains how you feel.

The dramatic floor moment. The resignation letter. The crying in a car park. It doesn't come. You keep going. You answer the emails, get through the meetings, say the right things to the right people, and from the outside everything looks fine.

There is no word for that state, which is part of why it goes on for years. It isn't burnout. Burnout is visible, and in the end it stops you. This is the long stretch before it, where you are still delivering while running on nothing underneath. That is the hidden cost of holding it together—and it accumulates somewhere nobody is looking. Including you.

Warren Kahn spent four years there before he had a word for it. He was performing well. He was the one people relied on. And he had stopped playing the drums, stopped reading properly, and stopped feeling much of anything about the things that used to matter.

Surviving Survival Mode is the book he went looking for and couldn't find. Not clinical. Not selling anything. Just an honest account of what the state actually is, why it happens to capable people in particular, and what genuinely helps.

Inside, you’ll discover:

• Why survival mode is not burnout and why the difference changes what you do about it

• What is happening in your body, explained gently and without jargon

• Why wins stop landing, and why that isn't ingratitude

• What the people closest to you are actually receiving

• Practical ways to signal to your nervous system that the pressure has eased

• What recovery looks like, and what comes back first

If you have ever said you were fine when it wasn't true, this is for you.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WK Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1048303381
• ISBN 13: 9781048303384
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Nombre de pages: 146
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• Personne responsable: non disponible