The Short Fuse

di Robert Smith (Autore)

Robert Smith, 2026

You are not a violent man. You are a tired one. You hold down a job. You love your family. By every outside measure, you are fine. And yet there is a version of you that shows up in the worst six seconds, the one who snaps at the people he would take a bullet for, who feels the heat climb his neck in traffic and at the dinner table, who says the thing, sees his kid flinch, and spends the rest of the night quietly hating himself for it. If you know that man, this book was written for you. The Short Fuse is not an anger-management workbook, and it is not a lecture about staying calm. It is an honest, plain-spoken field manual for the one place your anger actually lives: the six seconds between the spark and the explosion, the window where the body has already decided and you have not yet caught up. The whole point is to widen that window until you can step into it on purpose. Written for ordinary, high-functioning men, it throws out the lie at the center of most anger advice, that the feeling itself is the problem, and gives you something that actually works instead. Across three parts and fifteen field-tested protocols, you will learn: - What your anger is really protecting, the fear, shame, and hurt under the heat - Where your fuse came from, and how to stop handing it down to your kids - How to read your body's earliest warning sign before the point of no return - The tactical pause that buys back the six seconds, without going cold or shutting down - The repair that actually works when you blow it anyway, no groveling, no excuses - How to lower your baseline so you stop detonating at the smallest spark - How to use anger well, as a clean boundary rather than a weapon, without becoming a doormat The goal was never a man with no fuse. A man with no fuse is not safe, he is absent. The goal is a man with a long one, long enough to think, long enough to choose, who is genuinely hard to provoke. Not numb, not a doormat, steady, the man the people around you have learned they can count on. If you are done meeting the worst version of yourself, start here.

• Autore: Robert Smith
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: Robert Smith
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798235132245