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The Quiet Room

Name: The Quiet Room
Author: Brian Doyle

How Old Money Reads People and Holds Its Ground

Most people cannot stand a silence. In the second after it falls, they show you who they are.

Every hard moment has a quiet room in it: the second after an insult, the pause after a request, the silence after “And what do you do?” This book is about what happens in that silence. How to read the person in front of you, and hold your ground without giving away your dignity, your money or your calm.

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If you've thought this

These thoughts don't leave quietly.

They come back on the drive home, and again at 4am. They are the reason you are here.

When someone asks what I do, or what something cost, I can feel them deciding where to put me.

Someone makes a dig, adds “just kidding”, and I laugh along. Then I replay it all night.

I say yes on the spot, and spend weeks regretting it.

Who it is for

For the reader who wants the right words in the hard moments: the question that ranks you, the joke at your expense, the favour asked on the spot.

Told as stories

The lessons live inside stories set in boardrooms and kitchens, hospital corridors and family dinners, with the exact words spoken in them.

Both halves of the moment

What the other person’s question, joke or demand really means, and how you answer it without giving away your dignity, your money, your time or your calm.

Inside the book

8 parts. 42 chapters.

A selection of the chapter titles in each part.

Part OneBefore You SpeakThe Quiet Room · The Man Who Loses His Temper · The Floor That Tilts

Part TwoThe EntranceThe Door Is the Interview · Half a Second After the Handshake · Seven Minutes Early

Part ThreeThe Questions That Rank You“And What Do You Do?” · “What Did That Cost?” · “What Do You Make?”

Part FourThe Pressure“Are You Sure About That?” · “I’m Just Being Honest” · “Just Kidding”

Part FiveThe AskThe Instant Yes · A No Without a Paragraph · Money Between People Who Love Each Other

Part SixThe SlipWrong for Twenty Minutes · Red Wine on a White Tablecloth · When You Are the One Who Is Late

Part SevenThe CircleThe Friend Who Only Calls When He Needs Something · When Someone Close Makes Money · The Peace You Keep at Home

Part EightWhat We Hand DownThe Sentence Children Carry · What They Learn by Watching · Back in the Quiet Room

257 pages · PDF and EPUB

Brian Doyle

Who is writing this

He learned the code at other people’s tables.

Brian Doyle is the pen name of a writer who has spent his working life around families, their money, and the conversations that come with both.

He was not born into that world. He learned it first at his grandfather’s bank, then over forty years at the tables of wealthy families: the accounts they opened in the right order, the structures they formed before they needed them, the way they sat at dinner, the questions they asked their attorneys.

The Quiet Room is told from his own life, in the first person, with names and details changed for privacy.

Brian Doyle

From the book

A joke at your expense is a question. You decide if they get an answer.

These days, when someone needs my answer before tomorrow, I ask what happens if they have it in the morning. Almost always, nothing does.

“We cannot afford this” is a policy, not a confession.

How to get it

The Quiet Room is a companion to The Quiet Wealth System and is sold only with it. One order gives you both books. The Quiet Wealth System is $27 at its launch price (next price $49), and The Quiet Room adds $25.

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The Quiet Wealth System is about money: the accounts, the structures and the habits. The Quiet Room is about people: the question that ranks you, the joke at your expense, the favour asked on the spot, and what to say in each.

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