Sleight of Mind: How I Reinvented Myself (and Why It Worked)

Identity is a tool. Used properly, it doesn’t break you — it frees you.

This is not a motivational story.
It’s a field report.

People occasionally ask how I moved from being skint, semi-feral, and functionally unemployable into becoming a commissioned journalist, bestselling author, and later… Doktor Snake.

The short answer is: I didn’t “find myself.” I adopted myself.

And I did it deliberately — even if, at the time, I didn’t have the language for it.