Schaller How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together

When You Absolutely Know You Don't
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-6957-6739-7
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 136 Seiten

Reihe: The Quiet Competence Series

How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together is a calm, ironic, and sharply observant book about modern exhaustion, invisible social pressure, and the performance of competence. It is written for people who appear functional, capable, and reliable - while quietly improvising everything behind the scenes. Instead of offering motivation, routines, or self-optimization strategies, this book removes the invisible rules that drain energy: over-explaining, over-performing, constant availability, guilt-based politeness, and nightly self-surveillance. Through short chapters, precise language, and dry humor, the book explores everyday situations such as saying no, leaving conversations, ending meetings, canceling plans, answering messages, resting without guilt, and finishing the day without mentally rewriting it. This is not a classic self-help book. It does not promise transformation. It offers recognition, relief, and the permission to stop trying so hard to appear normal. How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together is the first volume in The Quiet Competence Series.

Michael Schaller is an author, educator, and systems thinker. His work explores modern social pressure, invisible labor, and the quiet exhaustion of people who appear highly functional. Rather than teaching motivation or performance, he examines the hidden rules that shape behavior, confidence, and burnout in everyday life. Michael Schaller works with professionals, creatives, and high-performing individuals who are done proving themselves and interested in calm, structure, and sustainable clarity. How to Look Like You Have Your Shit Together is the first book in The Quiet Competence Series.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaller, Michael