The Existential Hygienes: A Framework for Modern Seekers
Something's missing, isn't it?
Despite the achievements, despite the self-improvement, despite checking all the right boxes-there's a gap between the life you've built and the life you thought you were building.
This isn't a crisis. It's maintenance failure.
THE EXISTENTIAL HYGIENES introduces a revolutionary premise: the quality of your existence depends not on what you add but what you clear away. Jacob Sager identifies five domains where modern humans experience critical buildup:
How you know (when information no longer leads to clarity)Who you are (when adaptation obscures authentic being)What matters (when stated values drift from lived priorities)Your story (when narrative fragments instead of integrates)Your time (when temporal existence constricts rather than expands)The framework emerges from a deceptively simple insight: just as physical hygiene requires regular maintenance rather than one-time transformation, existential clarity demands ongoing practices that prevent accumulation of mental, emotional, and spiritual plaque.
This isn't academic philosophy or wishful spirituality. It's a practical maintenance system that has already transformed how leaders make decisions, creatives break through blocks, parents communicate with children, and individuals navigate complexity without drowning in it.
Each domain contains specific tenets and practices that integrate seamlessly into daily life without requiring additional hours in your schedule or exotic retreats from reality. The approach works not by changing who you are but by removing what separates you from your natural clarity.
For the professional who's achieved success but lost meaning, the creative mind drowning in possibilities, the thoughtful parent modeling clarity you yourself seek, or anyone who suspects that beneath modern complexity lies a simplicity you've glimpsed but struggled to maintain-this book provides both the conceptual framework and practical tools to reclaim it.
The most important maintenance isn't for your teeth, your car, or your home. It's for the lens through which you experience existence itself.
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