The Severance Self-Assist Guide Is Now Accessible for Actual-Life Inspiration

Been feeling a bit of 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 duplicate 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 in the event you’ve seen today’s episode, you already know it’s acquired 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 you can depart on somebody’s icy doorstep, or reluctantly share with somebody named “Rebeck” at an creator studying, or by accident abandon in a convention room, or secretly learn time and again whilst 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 barely 39 pages, however it’s free, so whilst you may not get full Ricken philosophical immersion, that is nonetheless a really enjoyable thought. Right here’s what Apple Books says in its faux promo copy for The You You Are:

“Are you prepared to fulfill the one who really 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 along 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 certain to tickle each the completist and the layman. As well as, get pleasure from an unique letter of apology from the creator himself, addressed to none apart from YOU.”

New episodes of Severance arrive Fridays on Apple TV+.

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