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The Ground Beneath
Four simple steps to a life that holds. An afternoon read.
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Three books, one foundation.
Start with the short one. Go deeper with the full research. Book two, on business, is coming soon.
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Structure First
The hidden systems running your mind, body and work. Eight chapters, the full research.
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Root System
The hidden structure beneath your business. The same foundations, taken into the work you build.
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Four simple steps to a life that holds.
Each chapter opens with a true story and ends with one small practice to try that week.
Awareness
See what is actually here.
Audit
Understand what you found.
Action
Build the structure it needs.
Alignment
Let it settle into how you live.
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弐Structure First · $14
The hidden systems running your mind, body and work.
Why do the same patterns keep coming back, even when you understand them and truly want to change? How a life runs depends less on effort and motivation, and more on the structure underneath. You can't build what you can't see.
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What's inside
- The Machine Under PressureWhat stress does to the thinking brain, and why trying harder stops working.Neuroscience
- What the Body KeepsThe patterns that live in the body, not the mind.Somatic and nervous system work
- Wired DifferentlyWhy not everyone runs on the same kind of energy.Human Design
- The Two MindsFocused and diffuse thinking, and the cost of only using one.Focus and energy
- The Logic of the LoopWhy a pattern can persist even when you want it gone.Behavior and relationships
- What They Cannot Yet GiveThe stages of adult growth, and what each one can hold.Developmental psychology
- The Shadow in the WorkWhat runs in the background when nothing else explains it.Jungian psychology
- The Structure That Runs It AllStepping back to see the system shaping the outcome.Systems thinking
- The Architecture Has a NameWhere it all comes together: the 4 A's.The close
Why you can trust it
Built on named research
Every idea traces back to researchers and published records named in the text, so you can look them up yourself.
Real, documented stories
The examples come from history, like Phineas Gage and Eleanor Roosevelt. No invented case studies, no testimonials.
Tested in practice
Everything in it was tested on my own life first, and in years of building operations for real businesses.
Honest about its limits
I'm a researcher and lived-experience practitioner, not a clinician. The book is for understanding and reflection, not treatment.
Researchers in its pages includeViktor Frankl · Peter Levine · Stephen Porges · Bessel van der Kolk · Dan Siegel · John Bowlby · Mary Ainsworth · Robert Kegan · Lisa Laskow Lahey · Carl Jung · Graham Wallas · Jay Forrester · Donella Meadows · Peter Senge
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The hidden structure beneath your business.
Book two takes the same foundations into business: the structure underneath how a business runs, from the owner outward. Organized by the 4 A's, and written for any business, at any size.
Aslan Studies · Book Two · Coming soon
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SystemThe hidden structure beneath your businessYume Huang
SystemThe hidden structure beneath your businessYume Huang