Not All Wounds Bleed.

Some just quietly run your life.

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 patterns he had to interrupt in his own life before he could see anyone else's.

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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.
Dez, Amazon Review
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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.
Diana Owens, LCSW
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I've been back through my notes 3 times and keep gaining new perspectives with each pass.
Matthew Hope, Amazon Review

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
The Shift List
Expand Your Capacity
The recalibration. Forty days, one area, built to be lived. "Capacity changes everything."
The Shift List: Expand Your Capacity by Brent Perkins Read the Back Cover →
Book Two / The Field Guide

The Shift List

Expand Your Capacity and Show Up Like You Mean It

If Papercuts turned on the lights, this is the field guide for what you do once you can see. Forty days, one area of your life, written to be read in fifteen seconds and carried all day.

Part One: Explore the Edge. Finding the one thing you’ve been holding back from, the place you’ve stepped out of yourself for everyone else, and naming it as yours.

Part Two: Expand Your Capacity. Putting down what was never yours to carry in the first place, and what opens up the moment you stop performing and start choosing.

Part Three: Show Up Like You Mean It. What happens when you show up the same way at home, at work, everywhere, because you finally have the room to.

This one isn’t sold. It’s a numbered, printed companion to the work itself, which means the only way to get a copy is to do the work, with Brent directly or inside a company he’s working with.

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

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