Book Outline

November 22, 2023

Book Outline

Fail Fast. Fail Often. Fail Forward.

I am crazed with loneliness.

I wrote these words in the middle of an apartment, four roommates coming in and out during the day. They brought with them friends and lovers and booze and problems and solutions and parties. Conversation and silence.

I am crazed with loneliness, cut off from everything and everyone.

Perhaps it was the superficial conversations that brought that thought into my mind, a deep sense of emptiness that sent it zipping from my brain through my fingertips to a buzzing computer screen. It was something else—something deeper, something pulsing in me from the time I was little. It wasn’t a temporary moment, it was the realization that I did not know who I was, not quite.

Why am I here? What is my purpose? The thought haunted me. I asked it of no one in particular.
I waited.
Nothing.
Or else the silence was my answer.

That, of course, was not enough. I knew I wanted to leave a mark on the world, without having an answer to that life-defining question: who the hell am I? I knew I was aflame with curiosity about the world, and I remain so. I want to see, to explore. I have a deep human urge to create, to discover, to achieve, to change, to improve. It is a deep, compulsive, almost primal drive that feels productively neurotic. One that brought me to the realization that I do not just want to exist.

I want to win.

It is that desire that has me here, staring down a horizon rich with the red orange of a sunrise run on possibility. And that possibility comes from drive. I am 23. I am an entrepreneur, a student of the world, a woman driven by curiosity and human understanding and the impossible-to-quench desire to achieve. In this book, I will share with you my story, the journey that has brought me to where I am today, and the philosophy behind it. I pull together the resources that have brought me to where I am - what I consider to be the in-between - on the journey to discovery of how I want to show up in this world. I remain ready to learn that everything I know is wrong. Change, the desire to learn, is the only way to become better.

And we don’t just want to become better, do we?

We want to win.

OUTLINE AND CHAPTER BUILDOUT

So, feather in those ideas in each section and chapter, with an overall focus on the topic at hand, and I think when you move from SELF RELATIONSHIP BUSINESS, it will feel natural, as these concepts have ben woven together all along. You will see the outline follow that structure.

Finally, I recommend that you include a reading list at the end, of whatever number of books feels appropriate, but also to include reading recommendations at the end of each chapter that supplement that chapter’s aims. Then you can compile those at the end in one kind of codex. I assume there will ultimately be more books at the end in the Recommended Reading List than are compiled at the end of each chapter, as I would personally suggest just including three or so at the end of each chapter. But I do think this would be a valuable resource to tie ideas together and help keep both the book and your readers organized, with meaty content and suggestions to fully develop the growth they have begun during that chapter.

PG: will signify blog content inclusion suggestions focused on personal growth

PN: will signify content inclusions based on your own personal narrative

HI: will signify content inclusions based on human interaction

B: will signify content inclusion based on business.

Let me know if you have any questions at all!

Introduction: I recommend beginning with an introduction that lays out 1) who you are, 2) why you’re qualified to/motivated to write this book, and 3) what readers will get out of the project. I envision weaving in your own personal story of growth and especially career development with advice and ideas you have picked up and would like them to know. This introduction should be fairly brief, between two and six pages, I’d say, and give you credibility along with a taste of what is to come so that busy readers know in a moment why they ought to pick it up.

PG: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: Reflection (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

Personal Foundations: Start with the foundations of personhood and human psychology. An explanation of personal ideas and beliefs, and somewhere from which to change. Experience, as well. As a business idea, I like the idea of starting with their own name, since the root of who they are is the focus of this section.

PG: Everyone Is Like A Lego Set Of Attributes - With Each Piece Coming Together To Determine PG: The Whole (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: A Look In The Mirror (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: Throw Stones At Your Own Ego (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: Why Would A Soul Want A Body? (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: I Am Not For Everyone (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Take On Accountability (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

Seeing Clearly: This chapter should focus on insight. Both seeing clearly themselves, the world. We will dive into potential in the next chapter, but for this one, we talk about the importance of being honest and real with yourself and the situation at hand. The business concept I recommend linking is the thoughts on numbers, as they directly communicate a situation as it is, not as something to fear or as something to shy away from. They are truth, unclothed.

PG: Look At Things The Way They Are, Not As Your Emotions Color Them (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: Be A Hyperrealist (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <Needed>

B: Beauty In The Numbers (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

Developing A Vision: Once you can see clearly, you can develop a vision—for the long-term or short-term future. Further, you can do this for yourself personally or for your community around you or for your income or lifestyle goals. Here, we dive into a lot of meat when it comes to future-sight and the impetus for reading a book like this. Further, in business, once you have a vision, you can learn to create one for your clientele, hence the business tie-in.

PG: Curiosity (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: Start With Why (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: Vision (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: Great Expectations Create Great Capabilities (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <Needed>

B: Setting Up The Best Poker Game (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

Creating That Vision: This chapter is the last in the full focus on personal development, and will transition us into looking outward, toward humanity as relationships and resources as well. But we wish, first, to focus on creativity and how to begin to pursue that and nurture it and use it to change our own worlds. The business portion here is on the design of office space to fuel creativity, and I recommend talking about how ultimately, creativity comes from a still, developed mind that is open and transformed by the principles we have discussed, but ALSO by the inclusion of others. Just as fire cannot burn without a starter, nor can creativity flourish without the presence of other ideas. This transitions us into the next major topic.

PG: Creativity (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: How The Mind Works (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

HI: Embracing the Beauty of Organic Nature and Its Transformative Power (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Office Space For Creativity & Innovation (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <needed>

Why We Need Everyone Else: This chapter moves toward the understanding of people being brought into our own development, as people and businesspeople. What is the potential of others? And what is the potential of integrating those people, both in the world in general, and in our own personal development? It is others that help you develop a culture in your business and world as well, and that drives people to you and your ventures.

PG: As A Man Thinketh (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

HI: Asking Questions (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

HI: Feeling of Belonging (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Culture Spurs Economic Growth (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <needed>

How To Form Relationship: We have established why we need people. Now how do we get those relationships and work together not to create something artificial, making people rungs on a ladder. But to use those relationships to succeed? How do we build them in the first place? This flows nicely into how to use this in relationships with clients as well, and how to build a business based on relationship, with things like referral, which this will build the foundation for and will come into play in the more business-focused section, as we are about to get to.

HI: How To Win Friends And Influence People (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

HI: People Judge You Based On How You Spend Your Time (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Compound Interest - Playing Long Term Games (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <needed>

We Have the Tools. We Have the Technology: This is a largely motivational chapter designed as the launch point into the business section. People need to use what we have given them, acknowledge the fear and risk involved, and dive into changing their lives and creating their businesses.

PG: Fear (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PG: Do It Anyways. (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

Start Building Your Business, Start Building Your Life: They have the emotional and social tools. Now we launch into beginning a business and restructuring their lives. This incorporates both personal philosophy and business acumen and will be the first place that they see real hardline advice. I HIGHLY recommend personal stories here.

B: Is There Such Think As Luck? (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Starting a Business (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <needed>

Sales: The Backbone of Your Business: Without sales, a business fails. It’s as simple as that. I recommend focusing on sales, customer attraction, and sales tactics, which also brings in human interaction once again. Personal stories about business growth with these tactics would be great as well.

B: The Value Of Sales and Massive Success Within Your Practice (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: An Asset You Can Sell (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Who Is Your Customers Customer? (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Persuasion (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Objections in the Aesthetic Space and How To Overcome Them (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

HI: People Have A Language Of Their Physical Movement - Interacting Requires Your Mirror Their Dance (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: Don't Argue (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

Examining Your Business: Examine your goals. Do you have what you need to thrive? Are you performing as well as possible? Now, look toward expansion and development.

B: The Mysterious Mindset of a B Player (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Culture - Do You Have A Soul? (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Why Aren't You Getting Referrals? (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Mergers & Acquisitions (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <potentially needed, to discuss how this reflection or examination might have worked in your own business>

Shifting Your Goals: Now that your lifestyle goals are laid out, your mind developed, and your business going smoothly, it’s time to shift focus to running a business that can truly allow you free time. How can you do that? Personal stories will be very effective here!

B: Earn With Your Mind, Not Your Time (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: You're Never Going To Get Rich Renting Out Your Time (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Get Paid For Your Judgement (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <needed>

The End Game: To have a comfortable, self-sustaining life, we must use all we have learned to build wealth and keep it growing. Then, we can rest and enjoy what we have created.

B: Warren Buffet, A Few Lessons For Investors and Managers (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

B: Building Wealth - Naval Ravikant (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: <needed>

Conclusion: I would end with the lifestyle that your readers can create. A short, page or two of a summation that incorporates your own reflection and lifestyle and something of a summary. Ideas on life and money and how one can fuel the other without causing intense anxiety. It will send your reader off with a dream and hopefully, incorporating the rest of this book, a game plan.

B: Money, Money, Money (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

PN: I want to accept where I am Each day. (sofiadeepthink.blogspot.com)

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