Not All Wounds Bleed.

Some just quietly run your life. These books are the reckoning and the recalibration.

Papercuts: The Art of Self-Delusion by Brent Perkins
Book One / Available Now
Papercuts
The Art of Self-Delusion

You know the expression: death by a thousand paper cuts? This book is about the 1,001st. The invisible patterns that shape your behavior, limit your capacity, and sabotage your growth without you realizing it.

Papercuts isn't a self-help book. It's a wake-up book. The one that helps high-performing leaders see the subtle self-abandonments that keep them stuck. It's the most uncomfortable book you'll ever nod along with. Because Brent doesn't write from theory. He writes from the wreckage of a life that looked perfect from the outside and was falling apart underneath.

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Reading this book is like having a conversation with that one friend who doesn't hold back... and you love them for it.
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An unexpected gift to the business world. The vulnerability that anchors this story is accompanied by a masterful blend of psychology, philosophy and spirituality.
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I've been back through my notes 3 times and keep gaining new perspectives with each pass.
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The Two-Book Arc

These books are a conversation. The first one cracks things open. The second one shows you how to lead, love, and show up from an entirely different place.

Book One
Papercuts
The Art of Self-Delusion
The disruption. Raw, vulnerable, personal. "I've been lying to myself."
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Book Two
Osmotic Leadership
The Courage to Be Human
The recalibration. Embodied, practical, invitational. "Influence through who you are, not what you do."
Osmotic Leadership: The Courage to Be Human by Brent Perkins Read the Back Cover →
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Osmotic Leadership

The Courage to Be Human

If Papercuts turned on the lights, this book hands you the map. Three movements. One integrated life.

Part One: The Hero Addiction. The pattern you can't see because you're inside it. How the very competence that built your success is now capping it.

Part Two: Expanding Capacity. The counterintuitive move every high performer resists. Why the most powerful thing you can do right now has nothing to do with doing more.

Part Three: Delegating Genius. What happens when you stop delegating tasks and start trusting the intelligence inside everyone, including yourself.

This is the book for the leader who's ready to lead bold, love bold, and show up bold. The trademarked methodology. The full body of work. The pathway to effortless influence and exponential impact.

Start with the disruption.
Then we'll talk about the recalibration.

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