Misaligned: Why You're Not Broken and How to Re- Train Your Life

"You're not broken. You're misaligned."Every self-help book has asked you to be stronger.This one asks you to re-specify the objective.Drawing on three unexpected teachers - the alignment problemin artificial intelligence, Gramsci's cultural hegemony, Adler'sindividual psychology, and Augustine's theology of disorderedlove - Misaligned offers a single, liberating thesis:You have been running, faithfully and flawlessly, a fictionyou didn't choose. Not in your beliefs. Not in your goals.Not in your programming. Not even in your loves.One disease, four faces. One cure: re-alignment.Inside: the war of position, the lifestyle correction,gradient descent, and grace - plus the daily practice thatmakes it real: objective-setting, the loss-function journal,the telos test, and a recovery protocol for the days you drift.You don't need a new life. You need a 1% correction,applied iteratively, with grace."You were never broken. You were just aimed wrong. Now aim well."