A Thousand Unlived Lives
On how attention, environment, choice, and action create new directions in life.
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MECHANICS
OF LIFE.
Books and ideas about how attention, environment, choices, and actions shape the direction of a life — and the futures still within reach.
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How to Survive a Breakup
On surviving the end of a relationship, rebuilding your sense of self, and learning how to move forward.
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A life is never just one story.
Mechanics of Life is a body of books and ideas about the forces that shape a human life: attention, environment, relationships, choices, and repeated action. Not a set of answers — an attempt to understand the causes behind the lives we build.
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Notes on the lives we live. And the ones we imagine.
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How to Meet New People When Your Routine Never Changes
Give new connections a place in your ordinary week. Choose a recurring activity, take a manageable first step, and decide whether the setting is worth returning to.
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How to Stop Waiting to Feel Ready for a Life Change
Some answers become available only after a small step. Separate useful preparation from a search for certainty, and choose an experiment you can manage.
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Mechanics of Life
with Roman Tretiakov
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Conversations about identity, relationships, change, and creativity. Part of Mechanics of Life.
About the podcast
04 / About Roman
Roman Tretiakov
Roman Tretiakov is the author of Mechanics of Life. His books and ideas explore identity, choice, loss, rebuilding, and creativity.
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