Return To Real

The Last Human Advantage In an Age of Artificial Everything

De: Ryan Levesque

Narrado por: Ryan Levesque

What the world is craving isn’t more. What the world is craving is what’s real.

The first thing you reach for each morning is your phone. From there, your days are spent in your head, in your inbox, in meetings. You’re successful. And underneath it all is a nagging sense that something isn’t right.

With AI rewriting the rules of work in real time, it’s never been easier to get into the game, but it’s never been harder to stand out. So you work faster. Stay visible. But underneath it all, there’s a pull. Your body, your heart, and your spirit telling you to reconnect with something you’ve been starving for.

Your market is starving for the same thing.

After a $70 million deal to sell his company collapsed overnight, Ryan Levesque moved his family to a two-hundred-year-old hill farm in Vermont, where they learned to raise 80 percent of the food they eat. On that journey, he eventually led his company to a successful exit. What he learned along the way became the three contrarian shifts in this book.

This is not a book about unplugging. It’s about the last human advantage left in an age of artificial everything, and how to build your life and business around it—while there’s still time.

If you are not analog by design, you will become digital by default.

A MUST read for any high achiever, parent, and entrepreneur

I've been following and learning from Ryan for about a decade, and somehow every one of his books lands with thought-provoking questions for my entire career and life. I believe that this is one of the most honest - real - and profound pieces out there today for anyone that's going through the AI disruption era, and in general the loop of "what's my purpose" that we tend to get into as SUCCESSFUL individuals. Love this book and what Ryan has made me think about so far.

Possibly the most important book of the year

As a publisher, I read a ton of books but this one really resonated, pointed out some things I didn’t want to admit, and started what will be lasting change in my life and business. I’m so glad that I read it.

Embrace what's true to you

In the age of a rapidly changing world, AI, economic shifts, and people being caught up in the 5 second video streams: this book was a calm reminder that while the world will always keep spinning that we are still here to create, be true to who we are, give the world something real and be a reminder to everyone to stay grounded. Not only is the message clear but you can tell Ryan is a well read human himself, delivering beautiful stories and pouring himself into what he has to offer the world. 💜

The book everyone needs to read right now

There could not be a better timing for this book. This book reminds us what is truly important and what is truly human in a time where the world is changing so quickly.

No other business book I’ve read is as full of heartfelt stories yet also diligently researched and multidisciplinary

This is the best author-read audiobook I have heard. Ryan reads his own words with nuance and conviction.
This is not just a business book. It brings together history, philosophy, economics, literature, practical advice, and tons of heart and soul. And somehow, all of that points back to a way of looking at business for the future that every entrepreneur needs to consider.