YOU DON’T EXIST

A book by Michele Silva

How much of who you are did you choose?

You change cities, jobs or relationships, only to encounter what you thought you had left behind. The book You Don’t Exist invites you to investigate what lies behind that repetition.

Cover of You Don’t Exist by Michele Silva

“Most people are following a rule they never wrote.”

From Michele Silva’s writing

A family expectation, a childhood experience, an opinion you heard so often that it began to sound like your own voice. It is not always easy to separate what you chose from what you learned to repeat.

The book You Don’t Exist takes that question into identity, language and behaviour. Not only what you want to change, but what you still believe about yourself when you try.

A different way to see yourself

What you believe about yourself shapes what you allow yourself to build.

Relationships, work and personal projects are not separate worlds. Your choices connect them.

The same pattern, different names

An idea abandoned before it is finished. A relationship returning to the same point. The invitation is to notice what repeats even when the setting changes.

Your voice or an inherited one?

What you have heard about yourself can influence what you allow yourself to attempt. Questioning those definitions makes room for a perspective of your own.

From understanding to choosing

The reflection connects what happens within you with the decisions you make outside, in your work, your relationships and what you want to build.

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The author

Michele Silva

Entrepreneur, strategist and author. I explore how our experiences shape our choices and why we repeat certain patterns, even when we want to change.

As an entrepreneur, I also see these questions in business, in the ideas we pursue, the risks we accept and the limits we believe we have.

Cover of You Don’t Exist by Michele Silva

You Don’t Exist · The Way You Think

What you can still build goes beyond who you have learned to be.

Understanding your patterns does not decide your future for you. It can help you notice where you are repeating the past and what you want to start doing differently.

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