Jon Edward Praker
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24 HARD LINES
You cannot control the world.
You cannot control other people. You cannot control what happens to you. You cannot control whether life is fair, whether people stay, or whether the things you build survive.
You can control what you do with what remains.
24 Hard Lines is not a book about becoming happier, more successful, or more comfortable. It is a framework for becoming harder to destroy.
Twenty-four principles. Twenty-four lines drawn through the chaos.
They begin with the only territory you truly own: yourself. From there, the lines move through solitude, self-knowledge, failure, discipline, communication, loyalty, strength, money, information, adaptation, expectation, and responsibility.
Some of these lines will be easy to accept.…
Jon Edward Praker
He who walks the nothing
Marek had already lost everything.
What came after was something else.
Cast out of the life he thought he understood, Marek finds himself walking through the wreckage of a world that no longer seems to have a place for him. With nothing left to protect and nowhere left to hide, he begins to follow a path that exists somewhere between madness, revelation, and the spaces inside his own mind.
There, he encounters the Nothing.
Not emptiness. Not death. Something older.
Something that has been waiting beneath the noise of everything he thought he knew.…