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The GAP - Rob Larney

The GAP

By: Rob Larney

Paperback | 1 March 2026

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This is not a book about fixing yourself.

The GAP is a reflective examination of the survival systems men build early in life-and often continue to live inside long after those systems stop serving them.

Written for men navigating midlife, identity shifts, or the quiet exhaustion of always being "on," it looks beneath behaviour and outcomes to the internal machinery that keeps a man moving, armoured, and productive while quietly wearing him down.

Drawing on thirteen years of reconstruction following a personal collapse, the author examines these patterns not as flaws to eliminate, but as systems designed for survival-necessary once, costly later. Rather than offering a program or a path forward, the book stays with recognition. It explores what becomes possible when a man begins stepping down from survival mode, not through dramatic transformation, but by seeing clearly what has been running him.

At the centre of the book is the gap: the space between impulse and action, where urgency loosens its grip and choice can re-enter. The book does not rush to fill that space. It holds it.

The GAP stops at orientation. It makes no promises about what comes next-only the quiet assertion that seeing clearly is meaningful work in itself, and that a life no longer driven by default must ultimately be chosen, not prescribed.

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