The Ellipsis Manual: analysis and engineering of human behavior

I’m Chase Hughes.

I’ve spent most of my life studying people — not the cute, Instagram version of “behavior,” the real stuff.

– the fear under the confidence,

– the lies we tell ourselves to get through the day,

– the patterns we don’t even know we’re running.

I’ve worked with the kind of truths that don’t make the sweater-vest TED Talks.

The kind that make you sit alone in your car afterward for a few minutes, staring at your hands.

I used to think the goal was mastery. Control. Influence.

Now I think it’s something quieter:

seeing clearly, without flinching.

And maybe helping someone else see clearly too, without getting swallowed by noise.

I write books for people who are starting to unzip the costume – and some who have stripped it off.

People who want to understand others, but also want to understand the thing inside themselves that keeps steering their life when they’re not looking.

If you’re here, you’re probably one of those people.

Good. We need more of you.

— Chase