The book
Hands Up, Big Smile
The story of a survival program that built an empire and nearly took a life, and the framework that finally uninstalled it.
Inside the book
The Ghost Drive, named and mapped
Every relentless achiever is running code they did not write. Hands Up, Big Smile tells the story of Mark's thirty years inside that code, from the Marine Corps to the corner office to the breaking point, and lays out the path he used to get free.
It is part memoir, part field manual: the neuroscience of survival vows, the anatomy of the achievement trap, and the somatic practices that reach where talk cannot. The book is the framework behind everything on this site, from the keynote to The Uninstall.
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Hands Up, Big Smile is in its final passage to print. If you want to know the moment it is available, reach out and say so.
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