{ "item_title" : "I Am Probably Not Your Cup of Tea", "item_author" : [" Jason McIlrath "], "item_description" : "You spent years becoming who the world rewarded. This is the quiet rebellion of finally becoming yourself.At forty-eight, in a maintenance bay that smelled of flux and machine oil, Jason McIlrath had a thought he couldn't shake: Who would I be if nobody needed anything from me? He didn't have an answer - and the silence where the answer should have been is where this book begins.I Am Probably Not Your Cup of Tea is a memoir about the masks we build to survive - the Reliable One, the Smart One, the Performer - and the slow, unglamorous, occasionally humiliating work of taking them off. It's the story of a working-class Indiana kid who spent thirty years being exactly who every room required, until he realized he'd lost the thread back to whoever he was before the performing started.But it's more than one man's story. McIlrath spent his life keeping machines running, and he brings that lens to the human one: people drift the same way machines do - quietly, a thousandth of an inch at a time - until one day the reading doesn't match the person. He calls the antidote Human Maintenance. The same discipline that keeps a factory floor reliable turns out to keep a person honest: catch the drift before it becomes a breakdown.Each chapter uncovers the hidden system beneath an ordinary story - the feedback loop wired to the wrong reward, the confidence that runs on borrowed power, the self that's been running quietly in the background the whole time - and hands you language for something you've felt your entire life but never knew how to name.This is not a five-step program. It's a field guide for anyone who's ever been known for what they do and quietly wondered whether anyone knows who they are.If you've spent your life making yourself smaller, easier, more digestible - this one's for you.Not everyone will like the real you. That's the price of freedom. It turns out to be a fair one.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/574/9798185748466_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "11.99", "online_price" : "11.99", "our_price" : "11.99", "club_price" : "11.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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