The Severance Self-Assist E-book Is Now Obtainable for Actual-Life Inspiration

Been feeling a little bit misplaced recently, and in want of a brand new, authoritative voice on self-help that walks a really skinny line between semi-profound insights and unvarnished New Age bullshit? Time to select up a replica of The You You Are, written by Dr. Ricken Hale—pretentious however good-hearted brother-in-law of Mark Scout, the principle character on Apple TV+ sci-fi thriller Severance. Whereas the guide was an in-universe plot system in season one (and for those who’ve seen today’s episode, you recognize it’s obtained a brand new half to play in season two), it’s now getting an precise, real-world launch.

The catch is that it’s not going to be a bodily copy which you could go away on somebody’s icy doorstep, or reluctantly share with somebody named “Rebeck” at an writer studying, or by accident abandon in a convention room, or secretly learn time and again when you’re alleged to be dealing with your Macrodata Refinement duties. As Variety notes, your choices for (full title) The You You Are: A Non secular Biography by (full identify) Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD are a digital download or an audiobook narrated by actor Michael Chernus, who performs Ricken to pompous perfection on the present.

The “guide” is just 39 pages, however it’s free, so when you may not get full Ricken philosophical immersion, that is nonetheless a really enjoyable concept. Right here’s what Apple Books says in its faux promo copy for The You You Are:

“Are you prepared to fulfill the one that actually makes you “You”: You?

In his quinquennial tome, Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD guides You on a courageous journey of self-learnedness. Fertile with mind-engorging insights, The You You Are is an invite to merge together with your true “You,” and expel out of your essence the dead-eyed conventionalism that has outlined your life since infancy.

For the primary time ever, Dr. Ricken’s luminous writings can be found in digital format, solely on Apple Books. Although librarians strongly urge studying his full oeuvre, this e book—that includes the inaugural eight chapters from The You You Are—is bound to tickle each the completist and the layman. As well as, take pleasure in an unique letter of apology from the writer himself, addressed to none apart from YOU.”

New episodes of Severance arrive Fridays on Apple TV+.

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