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Most Recent Book (My 4th book)
Full title: Mental Prisons: A Self-Help Book for Nobody Entrepreneurs
Short title: Mental Prisons (Entrepreneur Edition)
Author: Anthony Garone
Author website: AnthonyGarone.com
Book URL: MentalPrisons.com
Publisher: Stairway Press, StairwayPress.com
Artwork: Dave Woodruff, Semaphore Design
Publication date: September 9, 2025
Book Overview:
In Mental Prisons: A Self-Help Book for Nobody (Entrepreneur Edition), author Anthony Garone explores the hidden belief systems that keep founders and professionals stuck in cycles of self-doubt, hesitation, and self-sabotage. Drawing from years of coaching entrepreneurs and building businesses himself, Garone reveals how mental “prisons” — patterns of thought, behavior, and internal narratives — silently shape decisions and stall progress.
Unlike traditional self-help books, Mental Prisons offers no five-step frameworks, no recycled TED-Talk wisdom, and no empty motivation. Instead, it combines sharp storytelling, punchy insights, and over twenty original comic strips to illustrate the often-absurd ways smart people hold themselves back.
Entrepreneurs will recognize themselves in the pages — the hesitation before launching, the obsession with comparison, the reliance on “one more hire” before acting, and the fear of being exposed as a fraud. Each chapter surfaces a different “prison” and points readers toward a simple truth: escaping requires awareness, not another checklist.
Mental Prisons is a concise, contrarian read designed for entrepreneurs who are tired of productivity hacks and tired of being told to “just believe.” It won’t hand you the keys, but it will help you see the bars.
Biographical Information
Name: Anthony Garone
Past publications:
Winning the Job Search: The Hard Truths About Getting Hired (Stairway Press, 2022, co-written with Ellis Friedman)
Failure to Fracture: Learning King Crimson’s Impossible Song (Stairway Press, 2021)
Clueless at The Work: Advice from a Corporate Tyrant (Stairway Press, 2019)
Bio:
Anthony Garone is an author, musician, and entrepreneur from Arizona. He founded Make Weird Music, an online hub for unconventional artists, and co-founded Edify Content, a creative agency serving some of the world’s leading tech companies. His books range from corporate satire (Clueless at the Work) to obsessive musical pursuit (Failure to Fracture) to hard truths about hiring (Winning the Job Search). With Mental Prisons, he turns his attention to the hidden beliefs that sabotage entrepreneurs, blending humor, blunt honesty, and comics into a self-help book for people tired of self-help.