He didn't set out to write a book. He set out to finally change.
For most of his adult life, Nnamdi kept a private struggle exactly that — private. He tried every piece of advice he came across: willpower, discipline, silence, shame. None of it held for long, and for twenty years he told himself the same promise on repeat, and broke it on repeat.
What eventually worked wasn't another burst of willpower. It was slowing down enough to actually understand the pattern — the specific moments, the specific triggers — and building a plan around that understanding instead of hoping discipline alone would show up when it mattered most.
Once he'd worked the system out for himself, friends started asking questions — first quietly, then more openly. Somewhere in those conversations, he also found himself on the other side of a different kind of honesty: women in his life opening up about a struggle of their own, one rarely spoken about out loud, and just as often met with silence instead of real answers. He started listening carefully, and eventually writing that down too.
Both books came out of the same place: not a title, not a clinic, but two decades of paying close attention to what actually helps a person move from "I'll deal with this someday" to "I dealt with it."