You Look Fine From Here

You Look Fine From Here

Silent burnout, the competence that hides it, and the way outBy Sela Marchetti
Michael Caine
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Length6h 7m

About this audiobook

Exhaustion does not always arrive as collapse. Sometimes it arrives as flawless performance, in people who answer within the hour and hand things in early. Every system built to find people in trouble looks for absence, complaint or decline. You produce none of them. Which means the better you get at carrying it, the less evidence exists that anything is being carried. You Look Fine From Here explains how competence became camouflage, why the reward for coping is more of what caused it, and why rest stopped working long before anything else did. Then it does the part most books like this leave out. It gives you a way to measure where you actually are, using evidence that does not depend on how you feel, because how you feel is the instrument this thing has damaged. And it gives you four moves. The first one costs two conversations. No moralizing. No detoxes. No productivity theater. Narrated by a digital voice.

Audiobook details

GenrePsychology, Self-Help
Length6 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2026
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credits
2Introduction. Filed Under Fine
3Chapter 1. Nobody Is Coming to Check
4Chapter 2. Why Collapse Is Easier to Treat
5Chapter 3. A Safe Pair of Hands
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6Chapter 4. You Learned This Early
7Chapter 5. The Person Who Never Misses a Deadline
8Chapter 6. The Second Job
9Chapter 7. The Performance Becomes the Person
10Chapter 8. What It Costs
11Chapter 9. Learning to See It
12Chapter 10. The Way Out
13Conclusion. What You Look Like From Here
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