Stefan's Books
People have asked me for years why I do not write down my life story. I never had a good answer. Now I have the time, the memories keep returning, and this site gives me a place to collect them properly instead of pretending I already know what the final books should look like.
Working title to come
Childhood in Transylvania, teenage years in Nagyvárad, water polo and boxing, communist Romania, attempted escape, the Securitate, Hungary, teaching, America, Globusz Publishing, airline work, becoming an IT developer, family, retirement — and the strange chain of accidents, decisions, mistakes, and opportunities connecting them.
The method: collect the memories first. Decide what the book is really about later.
Working title
A self-development book built around real episodes rather than commandments: temper, fear, resilience, meditation, Silva, visualization, reading, work, relationships, curiosity, aging, starting again, and the techniques that survived contact with real life.
The principle: no guru pose. Try things, keep what works, discard the nonsense.
Why they are separate from Globusz summaries
Globusz Books helps readers discover the work of other authors. This section is different: it is where I will slowly turn my own memories and experiences into original books.
The articles on the site may become source material, but the books will be written as books — not as collections of blog posts stapled together.
In the meantime
Many of the themes that will eventually appear in these books are already present in my articles and self-development pages.