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A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters by Steven C. Hayes. Hayes is the originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and this is his full popular account of psychological flexibility, the six core processes, and the empirical evidence base built over four decades of research. The book is both personal — Hayes developed ACT partly in response to his own panic disorder — and rigorously grounded, and the combination makes it the most complete available account of what psychological flexibility training actually is and why it produces what it produces. The coverage of the six processes is more detailed than any other accessible account, and the chapter on the evidence base addresses directly why flexibility training outperforms anxiety reduction as a long-term goal. For an entrepreneur who wants to understand the framework fully rather than apply it through a simplified protocol, this is the starting point. Hayes does not oversimplify the model, and the book rewards careful reading in a way that most accessible psychology books do not.