Name: Restless By Design: Notes on Staying With Yourself While Everything Moves
SKU: 68922138
Price: 640.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Heise Alden, Annie
ISBN: 9798191194929

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Restless By Design: Notes on Staying With Yourself While Everything Moves

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Independently published

Author

Heise Alden, Annie

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9798191194929

Restless By Design: Notes on Staying With Yourself While Everything Moves

Heise Alden, Annie (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Delivery: 30 Oct - 09 Nov

NT$ 640

NT$ 640

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Synopsis "Restless By Design: Notes on Staying With Yourself While Everything Moves"

Restless by Design is a book about what happens when your life refuses to resolve into one neat answer. We are often taught to think of identity as something we are supposed to figure out: choose the path, find the thing, become the person, arrive. But some lives don't work that way. They evolve through seemingly unrelated interests, unexpected turns, abandoned versions of ourselves, new questions, and ideas we don't yet know how to connect. What if that isn't a lack of direction? What if there is a pattern underneath it? Across seventeen short essays, Restless by Design explores identity, ambition, creativity, work, change, uncertainty, and the strange experience of becoming someone while still being the person you already are. It is less interested in telling you how to live than in examining how we make sense of the lives we are already living. This is not a self-help book. There is no five-step plan, no optimized version of you waiting at the end, and no promise that everything eventually ties itself into a perfect bow. Instead, the book asks you to pay attention. To what keeps pulling at you. To what you keep returning to. To the parts of yourself that seem contradictory until you stop demanding that they make sense separately. Written by designer and writer Annie (Heise) Alden, whose work moves across design, business, creativity, and philosophy, Restless by Design grew from a question at the center of her own work: What if the things that appear disconnected are actually expressions of the same underlying way of seeing? The book moves from the internal landscape of identity, through the friction of building a life in the external world, and toward what Alden calls the self that keeps becoming. Not a final self. Not an arrival. A throughline. Because perhaps the goal was never to become one thing. Perhaps it was to understand what has been connecting the pieces all along.