My name is Amin. I'm a French software engineer who lives in London, and I write these books in both English and French.

The idea to write these books came from getting tired of watching people let their emotions run and ruin their lives.

It started with one conversation. A close friend, late one night, telling me he could not work out why nothing in his love life ever moved. We talked for hours and got nowhere. He was not short of advice. He had plenty. He just had no idea which part to do first and how.

Then I started seeing the pattern everywhere. Friends coming out of a breakup and getting stuck in the same loop for months, running the same thoughts on repeat, losing time they were never going to get back.

I am not a psychologist, and I will never pretend to be one. I started from zero on all of this myself, and did the work anyway.

I fed the books with my own personal experiences to make the content authentic and genuine while still relying on research to avoid making these too subjective. Every claim is tied to a published study, listed in an appendix with its DOI, so you can check any of it yourself instead of taking my word for it.

Not more advice. A first step, then the next one.