The Other Side of Ego (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. What if the life you spent decades building was quietly destroying everything that actually mattered?He had the career. The titles. The cameras. The recognition. He traveled the world, anchored major news broadcasts, and sat at tables with people most of us only read about. By every measure the world uses to call a man successful - he was.And then his daughter looked him in the eye and said she didn't care whether he lived or died.That was the night everything cracked open.Days later, a cancer diagnosis confirmed what that dinner table moment had already exposed - something had been rotting from the inside for a long time. The throat was just where the doctors found it.What follows is not a cancer story. It is not a self-help manual with tidy lessons and numbered steps. It is the raw, unflinching account of what happens when a man who has spent fifty years hiding behind achievement, status, and carefully managed appearances is finally forced - by illness, by loss, and by two of the most unlikely people imaginable - to stop running and start living.One of those people was a homeless man named Doug. Sitting on a piece of cardboard at a busy street corner with a small dog and a handwritten sign. A man this author crossed the road to avoid - until the day he didn't.The other was a little girl in a chemotherapy ward. Bald. Green-skinned. Combing the mane of a toy horse with the quiet focus of someone trying to hold onto something soft in the middle of something brutal.Neither of them had anything the world considers valuable.Both of them gave him everything.This book is for anyone who has ever confused providing with loving. For anyone who has built a wall so high and so strong that the people who needed them most eventually stopped trying to climb it. For anyone lying awake at night wondering why success feels so hollow. For anyone who has been so busy being important that they forgot to be present.It is for the father who cannot remember the last time he said I love you and meant it out loud. It is for the person who keeps scheduling the real living for later. It is for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of losing everything and realized, with a cold and clarifying terror, that the things they were most afraid of losing were not the things they had been spending their time on.You do not have to get cancer to read this book. But you may need to read this book before life finds its own way of making you stop.If you have ever wondered whether it is too late to show up for the people who needed, you - this book is your answer.Scroll up. Hit the button. Start reading.Some books inform. Some books entertain.This one reaches through the page, grabs you by the collar, and refuses to let go until you see yourself clearly - and decide to do something about it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798196459672
- Título
- The Other Side of Ego (Paperback)
- Autor
- Alex S. Tremper
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798196459672
What if the life you spent decades building was quietly destroying everything that actually mattered?
He had the career. The titles. The cameras. The recognition. He traveled the world, anchored major news broadcasts, and sat at tables with people most of us only read about. By every measure the world uses to call a man successful — he was.
And then his daughter looked him in the eye and said she didn't care whether he lived or died.
That was the night everything cracked open.
Days later, a cancer diagnosis confirmed what that dinner table moment had already exposed — something had been rotting from the inside for a long time. The throat was just where the doctors found it.
What follows is not a cancer story. It is not a self-help manual with tidy lessons and numbered steps. It is the raw, unflinching account of what happens when a man who has spent fifty years hiding behind achievement, status, and carefully managed appearances is finally forced — by illness, by loss, and by two of the most unlikely people imaginable — to stop running and start living.
One of those people was a homeless man named Doug. Sitting on a piece of cardboard at a busy street corner with a small dog and a handwritten sign. A man this author crossed the road to avoid — until the day he didn't.
The other was a little girl in a chemotherapy ward. Bald. Green-skinned. Combing the mane of a toy horse with the quiet focus of someone trying to hold onto something soft in the middle of something brutal.
Neither of them had anything the world considers valuable.
Both of them gave him everything.
This book is for anyone who has ever confused providing with loving. For anyone who has built a wall so high and so strong that the people who needed them most eventually stopped trying to climb it. For anyone lying awake at night wondering why success feels so hollow. For anyone who has been so busy being important that they forgot to be present.
It is for the father who cannot remember the last time he said I love you and meant it out loud. It is for the person who keeps scheduling the real living for later. It is for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of losing everything and realized, with a cold and clarifying terror, that the things they were most afraid of losing were not the things they had been spending their time on.
You do not have to get cancer to read this book. But you may need to read this book before life finds its own way of making you stop.
If you have ever wondered whether it is too late to show up for the people who needed, you — this book is your answer.
Scroll up. Hit the button. Start reading.
Some books inform. Some books entertain.
This one reaches through the page, grabs you by the collar, and refuses to let go until you see yourself clearly — and decide to do something about it.
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