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You Knew Everything. It Changed Nothing. | The Hale & Wise Trilogy
Neil W. Smith introduces The Hale & Wise Trilogy: three books on gifted ADHD, addiction as learned relief, recovery, practical wisdom, and the life that goes well.
You Knew Everything. It Changed Nothing. | The Hale & Wise Trilogy
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Welcome to The Hale & Wise Trilogy — three books about the gap between what we know and what we do, how relief becomes compulsory, and what recovery is ultimately for. Living and Lying maps the gifted, ADHD, and twice-exceptional intention-action gap: why a person can know the better and still fail to do it. Long Addiction, Short Recovery reframes addiction as learned relief: how alcohol, substances, and compulsive behaviors become the fastest bridge across an unbearable internal state — and how recovery restores steering. The Stranger in the Scanner asks the question that comes after survival: once the bridge is rebuilt and the bottle set down, how do we recover the practical wisdom to live toward the life that goes well? The trilogy moves from coherence, to steering, to wisdom. Functioning is not flourishing. Relief is not the good. Recovery is the rebuilding of practical wisdom. Start where the friction is strongest. Learn more and download the free guide at NeilWSmith.com.
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