Arriving Nowhere

Everyone wants to change. Why bother?

This book finally explains why you are so good at staying put, and why, deep down, it might be the smartest thing you have ever done.

Reed has the Victim Suite. Dottie has the grudge collection. Sam has the shortlist he will never shorten. Masaru has the protocol that is not a problem. Each of them is accomplished, well liked, and living exactly the kind of life any reasonable person would call normal.

Not one of them is going anywhere. That is the point. And they have never been more comfortable.

Across 20 chapters set in 20 American towns, a warm, endlessly reasonable narrator makes the case for the patterns that keep good people pleasantly, permanently stuck. The logic is airtight. The encouragement is genuine. You will find yourself nodding along.

That is when it happens.

You will recognize someone in these pages. You may recognize yourself. The shift begins before you can even think to stop it.

Written by an EdD in educational leadership who has spent more than a decade studying why people do what they do and what it actually takes to do something different, this book is self-help in reverse: a guide so convincing in defending your comfort zone that you cannot help but see what you'd rather ignore.

Arrive nowhere. Enjoy the trip.