69: THE PAIN IN PLEASURE
Manual on Perspective, Ego and Human Conflict.By REALLY PARABLES
Length3h 47m
About this audiobook
A Manual on Perspective, Power, Ego, and Unity
Two people stand at opposite ends of a digit chalked on the floor. One sees a 6. The other sees a 9. Both are right, and both are about to walk away from each other.
This is a practical guide to the conflicts that cost us the most: in marriage, in business partnerships, in church and in family. Each of its fifteen chapters opens with a fictional dialogue set in a real city, from a kitchen in Croydon to a boardroom in Palo Alto. It then draws on research from John Gottman, Fisher and Ury, Clayton Christensen and others, and ends with one small thing to do tomorrow morning before coffee.
Written with a diaspora reader in mind, and rooted in Amos 3:3: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?”
For couples, founders, ministers, mediators and anyone who has ever stood at the wrong end of a 6.
Audiobook details
GenreChristian & Inspirational, Psychology
Length3 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraphs
2Dedication
3Foreword — The Number on the Floor
4Introduction — Why 69, Why Now
5PART ONE
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6Chapter 1 — The Two Honest Witnesses
7Chapter 2 — Ten Steps Apart
8Chapter 3 — Adding the 9 to the 6 — The Illusion of Agreement
9PART TWO
10Chapter 4 — The Empathy Trap
11Chapter 5 — The Hard Stand
12Chapter 6 — The Wall of Stone
13Chapter 7 — The Soft Knife — Manipulation and the Long Game
14PART THREE
15Chapter 8 — He Who Pays the Piper
16Chapter 9 — The Wisdom of the Weak
17Chapter 10 — The Foolishness of Mighty Pride
18PART FOUR
19Chapter 11 — Disruption as Survival
20Chapter 12 — The Heretic in the Boardroom
21PART FIVE
22Chapter 13 — Emotional Attachment and the Foggy Digit
23Chapter 14 — The Diaspora Chapter — Two Countries, Two Numbers
24Chapter 15 — The Field Manual — Twelve Moves Toward Unity
25Epilogue — The Pleasure
26Appendix A — Notes on Amos 3:3
27Appendix B — Discussion Questions
28Appendix C — The Reader’s One-Page Cheat Sheet
29References and Further Reading
30About the Author
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