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''Appropriate Detachment : Spread Calm into the World' is a book by Drew Torchia. The book is set up as a small investment of both time and money, two things that often contribute to stress.

Synopsis
Stress accumulates when we don’t feel that we have the time, skill or energy to complete all of the tasks that have been assigned to us. Appropriate Detachment helps us realize which tasks we should tackle first and allows us to focus on them with our whole being. Without the distractions of other tasks roaming around in our mind we can be so much more productive. Just let them go.

This book will help you to analyze the aspects of your life that are causing you stress and anxiety. It will give you the tools you need to be more tolerant and calm in the face of mounting workloads and a seemingly impossible schedule of tasks that need your attention. Appropriate Detachment will help create a more efficient you, capable of untold productivity and creativity. But what is it?

Analyze your life or an aspect of it and find something that is outside of your control.

Instead of worrying about that aspect, or planning for it, or making lists to compensate for possible outcomes, just simply let it go. Erase that item from your mind. You can do nothing to effect its outcome, so do nothing. This frees up your mind to tackle tasks that you can actually affect.

So once again: Identify something that you cannot control, and just let it go.

Aspects of our life are rarely completely out of our control or fully under our control. It is then up to us to determine where in life we can best apply our finite energy and brainpower, to make the greatest impact.

This book was designed to be a small investment of both time and money so that it may be easily read, shared and understood by as many people as possible. This book will give you the tools you need to be able to analyze your life and streamline things that were causing you stress.

If we walk around this amazing world of ours assuming that we know everything, our minds won’t have any room to learn anything new. Many questions have a multitude of correct answers and it is only by exploring all of the possible answers that we will ever truly understand the question.

We live in a global community now and it behoves us to be more accepting and understanding of foreign concepts. Use the wisdom of the world to inform your daily life. Stand on the shoulders of giants and drink from the pages of world history.

This principle snowballs until you find the ideal you. Someone who is physically fit and eats healthy, therefore has a lot of residual energy. Someone who has studied the cultures of the world, yet keeps an open mind so that they can learn from every conversation and from every new person they meet. Someone who isn’t plagued by worry or fraught with stress about things they have no control over.

You may not even be able to picture yourself as this person, depending on your starting point, but you can get there. At the very least you can get a lot closer to there, than where you are now, and improvement is the name of the game.

Imagine a world full of calm people who analyze their environment and decide the best course of action rather than making snap reactions based on hatred and greed. Imagine what we can accomplish as a collaborative whole. What could we accomplish if we stopped opposing each other and instead focused that energy on working together? What indeed?

Chapter Layout
The book is broken down to help readers logically identify and separate aspects of their lives, which the goal of identifying the appropriate action for that aspect of life. The order is as follows:

Introduction
Explains what you can expect from this book and what the end goal is.

Chapter two: "What is stress?"
Gives a short definition of stress and what it means to our modern lives and a new way of looking at the root cause of stress and where it comes from.

Chapter three: "What Can you Control?"
With a large focus of the book being to do away with the unneeded worry and stress over things that you can not control it is important to first know what you can control. This Chapter starts a list of things you can control which may have no real end. The subchapters are: Scenarios, Fitness, Health and Nutrition, Sleep, Choosing who you share your life with, Work and Budget, Down Time, Knowledge of Computers(Keeping up with the Times) and there is a brief Conclusion.

Chapter four: "What is Appropriate Detachment
Chapter four covers what the central theme of the book is, it defines the term "appropriate Detachment" and help put it into context with some ideas on where it's origin and application. The subchapters are: Pros and Cons of Worry?, We have met the enemy and his name is "what if?", Why "Appropriate Detachment"?, Emotion Control, Empty Cup, Detaching yourself from your ego and a brief conclusion.

Chapter five: "The Freedom of Letting Go"
Chapter five tells the reader what they can expect by following the path laid out by the author. The subchapters are: Imagine a More Efficient You, Possibilities, How does this fit in with my current belief system?, Letting go can be scary at first, So why do it? and a brief Conclusion.

Chapter six: "How do you let Go"
Chapter six uses the reader's newfound understanding from this book to explain the technical part of how you do "Appropriate Detachment". These are the core tools used to evaluate a situation and try reduce the stress it can apply to your life. The subchapters are: Logical Reasoning, People-Watching, Asking for Help, Help Others, The Value of other people's opinions of you, Analyzing potential effect and actually letting go.

Chapter seven: "How do you apply this to your life?"
At this point in the book, the reader has a great new set of tools and a good idea of where they came from and why they are needed. To get the ball rolling, this chapters breaks out how these tools can be applied to every day life in an introductory list that empowers the reader with the ability to apply these tools to their own individual lives. The subchapters are: Home-Life, Work-Life, Love-Life, Social Life, Parental Life, School Life, Play-Life, Creative-Life, Financial-Life and a brief Conclusion

Chapter eight: "Prioritizing where you can make the biggest impact"
This sections helps readers realize that you don't get the same impact from every action. This is one more tool to help readers assign the right amount of effort to the right task to maximize the effect.

Chapter nine: "Will this make me an emotionless robot?"
This book brings up a fairly iconoclastic view on how we should conduct ourselves through life. There may be an initial worry about feeling disconnected or being perceived as an emotionless robot. This chapter just helps to assure readers and show that this method in now way impacts your humanity.

Chapter ten: "Spread calm into the world"
Chapter ten serves as a sign-off for the book and encourages people to share their journey with others, buy it as a gift or simply recommend the book, if it is something that helped you as a reader.

Release
The book was originally released through the Kobo ebook store on the 15th of May, 2014.

Links

 * Appropriate Detachment on Kobo eBookstore