A Manual for Not Optimizing Life: Useless Instructions for Staying Human

By Oliver Grant

This book does not ask you to improve.

It asks you to stop.

It offers no solutions, methods, or strategies.

It promises no results.

Instead, it presents a series of deliberately useless instructions, designed to create space where there is only pressure.

Page after page, you move through six essential territories:

Time, Work, Attention, Relationships, Body, Silence.

Each text is brief, precise, and unexplained.

You can read it from start to finish, open it at random, or close it after a single page.

There is no path to complete and no goal to reach.

This book is not meant to help you do more.

It helps you do less - deliberately.

If, while reading, you feel even a brief sense of relief,

then it has already done enough

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G7GLCGJB
• ISBN13: 9798278910244
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.6" x 5.1"