Survival Surrender

Name: Survival Surrender
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ISBN: 9798994674109

Transcending Poverty by Recapturing Your Mind

Hugh Harris

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Open Minds Publishing
23 April 2026

Poverty & unemployment; Homelessness; Management accounting & bookkeeping; Personal finance

Break the Culture of Poverty by Recapturing Your MindYou're not broke because you're broken-you're stuck inside a system and a mindset built to keep you in survival.

Contractor and inclusionary housing developer Hugh Harris has worked for decades at the intersection of housing, economics, and daily survival and learned a fundamental truth: The culture of poverty isn't only about money. It's mental, emotional, and spiritual-and it runs on mental slavery, the kind of conditioning that trains people to stay predictable, dependent, and exhausted.

Through Survival Surrender, you'll gain the direct blueprint for reclaiming personal agency in a ""mental pandemic"" of rising anxiety, depression, and distraction. Harris calls it mental diabetes: an overload of meaningless information that makes it harder to think clearly, build financial literacy, or aim for real economic mobility. Building upon valuable ethical and sociopolitical ideas like Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity-and years of real-world observation-Harris shows how childhood programming, school systems, social media, and income inequality can lock people into a poverty cycle even when they work hard. Now you have the key to unlock independent thought and financial freedom.

Inside you'll learn how to:

Spot the hidden beliefs, money mindset, and subconscious patterns that keep you trapped. Build the bravery to suspend your current reality and choose a new one. Cut through emotional and biological distractions that derail progress. Set, track, and finish structured goals that raise financial stability. Navigate capitalism with clarity-without surrendering your mind, values, or future.

If you're tired of being a slave to your wages, disillusioned by quick fixes, and ready for personal transformation, this book hands you the mental tools to break financial cycles-one clear decision at a time.

By: Hugh Harris
Imprint: Open Minds Publishing
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9798994674109
Pages: 198
Publication Date: 23 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hugh Harris is the principal and CEO of Anthem Construction Group and a developer specializing in low-income housing. A writer and independent researcher, he studies the psychological and social forces that keep people trapped in survival mode. Born in the Bronx and now living in Armonk, New York, he's a runner and jujitsu practitioner, and he lives with his wife and three children. Learn more at hughharrisauthor.com.