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WHAT EACH ONE WILL TEACH YOU

One ladder, five areas.

Every book climbs the same three levels: starting, building, scaling. Then a plan you can start on Monday, and a log to write in.

Bodyweight Is Enough, the cover
Book One · Body

Bodyweight Is Enough

Build strength, skill and a body you're proud of, no gym required

Build real strength and real skills with your bodyweight: the rules, the ladders, the twelve weeks and the log.

  1. StartingYou need a floor, a bar and the truth about what works.
  2. BuildingThe rules that turn someone who exercises into someone who trains.
  3. ScalingHow to keep going for years, and come back when you fall.

41 chapters · graded · 22 frameworks drawn · the plan: The First Twelve Weeks

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One Day Is Forgivable, the cover
Book Two · Mind

One Day Is Forgivable

How to build a mind that comes back

Habits, the inner game and the comeback: how to build a mind that misses a day and trains the next.

  1. StartingHabits don't form the way you've been told. Here's how they actually do.
  2. BuildingThe habits get you started. The inner game decides how far they take you.
  3. ScalingEveryone falls. This is the part about what you do next.

37 chapters · graded · 42 frameworks drawn · the plan: The Six Weeks

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Say Hi First, the cover
Book Three · Social

Say Hi First

How to meet anyone, keep the right people and be someone others want around

Meeting people, keeping the right ones and the hard conversations, with the research on what actually works.

  1. StartingMeeting people is a skill. Most of it is going first.
  2. BuildingMeeting people is a moment. Keeping the right ones is a practice.
  3. ScalingEasy conversations make friends. Hard ones keep them.

36 chapters · graded · 40 frameworks drawn · the plan: The Four Weeks

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Make More, the cover
Book Four · Craft

Make More

How to have ideas, finish them and make things people actually watch

Finishing, ideas and making things people watch: the system for anyone who starts more than they finish.

  1. StartingMaking things is one skill. Most of it is finishing.
  2. BuildingFinishing gets the work out. Ideas decide what the work is.
  3. ScalingMaking it is half. The other half is making it something people watch.

38 chapters · graded · 39 frameworks drawn · the plan: The Hundred

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Build Anyway, the cover
Book Five · Build

Build Anyway

How to start something real before you're ready, and grow it honestly

Starting before you're ready, selling honestly and multiplying: a first build, run like a scientist.

  1. StartingYou won't feel ready. Start anyway, small and honest.
  2. BuildingSomething people pay for, sold in a way you'd be proud to explain.
  3. ScalingOne person can start it. Only a system, and other people, can carry it.

35 chapters · graded · 28 frameworks drawn · the plan: The Ninety Days

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MEET OLE WANG

From zero, in the open.

  1. The mission. Help ambitious young men master themselves: body, mind, social life, craft and what they build, as one system.
  2. The standard. Every method graded by the evidence behind it: strong, promising, experience or contested. The frameworks, free in the library →
  3. Tested on himself first. A freestyle calisthenics athlete who practised the handstand almost every day for three years. What's in the books ran in his own life before it was written down.
  4. Self-published, built in the open. Written here, sold and delivered by the system behind this site, corrected in public.
  5. No tricks. No discounts, no countdowns, no numbers without documents, and no review we wrote.
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Build anyway.

— Ole Wang
THE STANDARD

Graded, not guessed.

Every chapter ends with a mark. Strong and promising rest on research, experience rests on what has held up in practice and says so, contested is where the research argues with itself. The sources are at the back of each book, in plain words.

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