For many of us, life seems to arrive with a ready-made set of instructions: study hard, choose the right career, secure a good job and keep moving forward. The promise is that fulfilment will follow once the milestones are in place. But what happens when we do everything we were told to do and still find ourselves unable to make sense of what we feel?

That question sits at the heart of Off Script: The Emotional Upgrade, the newly launched book by entrepreneur and author Anushika Jain. The book explores the often-unacknowledged role emotions play in shaping our choices, relationships and sense of self. Drawing on experiences from her own life, Jain invites readers to pause, examine familiar reactions and question the expectations they may have accepted without ever choosing.