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 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."
→
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 →
Book Two / In Development

Osmotic Leadership

The Courage to Be Human

If Papercuts turned on the lights, this book hands you the map.

Part One: The Hero Addiction. It doesn't feel like a pattern. It feels like responsibility. 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 opens up when you finally trust the brilliance in others, and the knowing that's been inside you all along. Not delegation as task management. Delegation as release. As love. As the thing that makes everything else work.

This is the full body of work. Three movements from performing to living. And on the other side: influence you don't have to force, impact that doesn't require your exhaustion, and one version of you that works everywhere.

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

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