{"product_id":"like-you-again-the-science-of-timing-identity-collapse-and-the-path-back-to-yourself","title":"Like You Again: The Science of Timing Identity Collapse and the Path Back to Yourself","description":"The fog. The hesitation. The confusion. The subtle sense that you are running half a beat behind your own life.\nFor many people, cognitive decline does not begin dramatically. It begins quietly — in missed words, slower reading, awkward movement, diminished confidence. After concussion, illness, stress, stroke, or simply age, something fundamental feels altered. Not intelligence. Not personality. Something deeper.\nTiming.\nIn Like You Again, Erskine Maytorena introduces a new concept: Timing Identity Collapse — the idea that when the brain's internal timing mechanisms falter, the structures built on top of them begin to destabilize.\n\nReading slows. Reactions hesitate. Memory fragments. Movement feels uncertain. Gradually, the sense of self begins to shift.\nDrawing from neuroscience research on temporal processing, predictive coding, and sensory integration — along with his own documented recovery from neurological disruption — Maytorena argues that timing is not a minor skill but a foundational neural substrate. The invisible architecture beneath cognition, coordination, and identity.\n\nMany people are told their symptoms are psychological, stress-related, or \"just aging.\" Standard evaluations often miss millisecond-level timing disruptions that fall below diagnostic thresholds yet still affect reading fluency, speech pacing, motor coordination, emotional regulation, and decision speed.\nInstead of asking, 'What's wrong with me?' this book invites a more precise question: 'What has shifted in my internal timing?'\nThe book includes a 28-day timing recalibration program built around validated cortical metrics — not vague lifestyle advice, but measurable changes in how the brain processes time.\nFor people who have spent months or years being told nothing is wrong, that loss accumulates. Confidence erodes. Relationships strain. Work suffers. The person you were before begins to feel like someone you used to know.\nIf you have felt not broken, but off — not incapable, but mistimed — what feels like losing yourself may simply be losing tempo.\nAnd tempo can be trained.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0GQNP9XF9\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0GQNP9XF9.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Maytorena, Erskine\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43719570554941,"sku":"BVV.B0GQNP9XF9.G","price":20.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/B0GQNP9XF9-0.jpg?v=1790374362","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/like-you-again-the-science-of-timing-identity-collapse-and-the-path-back-to-yourself","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}