A revolutionary new look at the way people shrink themselves when challenged by others and how to stop this tendency. The book is built around a range of workable techniques or "hacks" called THE FREEDOM TOOLS. The main author had a saying, repeated often, which is that freedom is a quality, not a quantity. You can have as much of it as you like. Just ask for it!The trouble is, social media and cultural norms instill in people the false idea that there is only so much freedom-thus, if I want a lot, I have to take it away from other people.This just isn't true. Freedom is something you FEEL, you MANIFEST, not something you get or measure. It's impossible to quantify freedom; you can only say whether a person has it or not.But the merchants of pipping are out there. Plenty of people want to solve THEIR problems by bringing down those around them. This has many faces, from inept parenting, to trolls and bullies on the internet; pernicious teachers to former lovers' spiteful mouthings; political "meddlers" in other peoples' lives, to bosses of the Genghis Kahn school of leadership.The FREEDOM TOOLS are all about finding and re-engineering those defining moments when you decided to cave in to others. The path to recovery-freedom-is to dump the decision you took to make yourself smaller or accept another's point of view against your own. As you gain insight and shift, naturally, you quit doing it to yourself! The person undergoing this "cleansing" wakes up and comes alive. It's marvelous to see!