Fuck Average

What if the breaking point you're most afraid of is the exact thing that could finally wake you up?

In October 2025, a car accident put Edward Rodarte in a coma. On the other side of it, he was given a choice: go in peace and finally rest, or come back and fight through an uphill battle of recovery. He chose to come back - and the moment he did, the lessons came flooding in faster than he could catch them. Fuck Average: Life's Real Playbook is the manual he built from a hospital bed in the ICU, for anyone who has been cracked open by life and is done pretending average feels okay.

Here's the truth most people never face: you don't fail because you're incapable. You fail because you were programmed for average - taught to play it safe, chase approval, avoid pain, and call it being realistic. This book is the deprogramming.

Across eighteen chapters, Rodarte takes you from the inside out. You'll start by defining what a non-average life actually means for you, then do the inner work - healing old wounds, reclaiming your identity, killing limiting beliefs, rewiring how you think, grieving honestly, and learning to climb back from rock bottom. From there you'll rebuild the rest: your relationships, your family, your career, your leadership, your habits, your body, and your money. And you'll finish with the things that make all of it mean something - service, legacy, joy, peace, and faith.

This isn't another self-help book full of quotes on walls and the lie that gratitude fixes everything. It's raw, emotionally direct, and built around a single promise at the end of every lesson: one honest action you can take today. It's for the person carrying unhealed scars under their work clothes, the father trying to find his footing, and anyone whose soul has started whispering one word - enough.

Motivation wears off by lunch. This is a playbook - one you'll return to every time life hits, and one that doesn't leave you when you close it. You were never meant to be average. It's time to prove it.