STRESSHACKED: How to Get Stronger in a Civilization Designed to Break You (Hardcover)

STRESSHACKED: How to Get Stronger in a Civilization Designed to Break You is a dual-entry hardcover work by Alex Tarnava examining the role of deliberate stress in rebuilding strength, autonomy, and personal agency.

The book is structured as two opposing entries — The Body and The Mind — designed to be read from either end and converging at the center. Each entry explores how intentional exposure to physical and psychological stressors can restore resilience, discipline, and self-mastery.

Rather than offering comfort based self-help strategies, StressHacked presents a confrontational framework grounded in lived experience, philosophical inquiry, and systems-level thinking. The work challenges prevailing assumptions around fragility, over-optimization, and passive recovery, emphasizing strength as a prerequisite for autonomy.