Reflections: Hidden in Plain Sight

By Paul Strydom

What if the things you think you understand are not quite what they appear to be?

Hidden in Plain Sight takes familiar sayings, everyday behaviours, social assumptions, and ordinary human experiences, and turns them around to reveal the ideas hiding underneath.

What if we are already manifesting our lives through thousands of unnoticed micro actions?

Would you choose yourself as your own parent, or as your own child?

Is confidence real, or is it sometimes simply the art of convincing ourselves and others?

Can a nice person be completely ineffective?

Can a good person be someone who is not particularly nice?

Does absence really make the heart grow fonder?

Is "better the devil you know" actually wisdom, or merely familiarity disguised as safety?

And what happens when "just keep swimming" has you moving confidently in completely the wrong direction?

From The Heart of Hearts to The Least You Could Have Done, from When Bullshit Doesn't Baffle Brains to If You Want Loyalty, Get a Dog, these reflections invite you to question language, behaviour, perception, identity, relationships, and the assumptions that quietly shape the way we see the world.

Some chapters will make you think.

Some may challenge you.

One may even make you laugh.

But each begins with the same invitation:

Look again.

Because sometimes the most interesting truths are not hidden at all.

They are simply hidden in plain sight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HDJN748R
• ISBN13: 9798191456966
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"