COASTING

The top of the hill is the loneliest place on earth. Not because you failed, but because you succeeded-and realized there's nowhere left to climb.

Nobody tells you about the sled. They tell you to climb, to grind, and to win. But when the building is finished and the account is full, gravity takes over. You aren't driving anymore. You're coasting-moving at a terrifying velocity, fueled by momentum, while the soul inside goes quiet.

In this raw, minimalist, and unflinching collection, Darek Sankiewicz pulls back the curtain on the "perfect" lives of twelve successful men. These are the stories the world never hears-the confessions whispered in the silence after the deal is closed and the champagne is gone.

Inside these pages, you will meet:

• Christiano, who bought a Lamborghini to drown out the silence of a perfectly planned life.

• Aleksandr, who tried to borrow youth from a woman who saw him only as a strategy.

• Ivan, who buys buildings just to prove he still has weight in the world.

• Fred, the hero firefighter who saved everyone except the family waiting at his own table.

• And the author himself, who had to hit the floor on a Tuesday morning in November to finally hear the silence.

This is not a self-help book. It doesn't offer five steps to happiness or a new productivity framework. It offers something much rarer: a mirror.

Coasting is for the man who has everything and has finally admitted that everything is not enough. It's for the man who is tired of the performance, tired of the anesthesia, and ready to take his hands off the wheel long enough to ask: Am I still here?

The sled is still on the hill. The speed is still there. But you are about to stand up.

The sled is still on the hill. But you are about to stand up.