You Are Awesome
How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life
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Publisher Description
An instant #1 international bestseller! From Neil Pasricha—New York Times, million-copy bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series and The Happiness Equation, thought leader for the next generation, and one of the most popular TED speakers in the world—comes a revelatory and inspiring book that will change the way we view failure and help us build resilience.
Why is life getting harder instead of easier?
How do I get back up after life knocks me down?
And how do I grow stronger and live more intentionally?
We no longer have the tools to handle failure…or even perceived failure. When we fall, we lie on the sidewalk crying. When we spill, we splatter. When we crack, we shatter. We are turning into an army of porcelain dolls.
Cell phones show us we’re never good enough. Yesterday’s butterflies are tomorrow’s panic attacks. Record numbers suffer from anxiety, depression, and loneliness. What do we need to learn? RESILIENCE. And we need to learn it fast.
Let this #1 international bestseller teach you:
-The 2-minute morning practice that helps eliminate stress
-What every commencement speech gets wrong
-3 questions that help tell yourself a different story
-The single word that keeps your options open after failure
-Why you need an Untouchable Day (and how to get one)
…and much, much more!
Because the truth is, you really are awesome.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this undercooked work, Pasricha (The Happiness Equation), 1000 Awesome Things blogger and host of the 3 Books podcast, offers nine concepts that, with mixed effectiveness, promise to initiate the reader into a "secret" life of inner strength. Pasricha's nuggets of perceived wisdom range from decent advice (don't relent "in the face of things that look immovable") to the less helpful (the only possible movement is forward). Pasricha's writing is punchy ("benign envy is contagious... it motivates others to improve their own performance") but also tends toward oversimplification. Secrets he lets readers in on include "keep your options infinite," "shift the spotlight" (direct one's attention to what is important), see challenges as a "step," and "tell yourself a different story." Fans of the author's blog will find his trademark style in evidence here; however, newcomers may find Pasricha's prose shallow ("real growth doesn't come through destruction. It comes from taking what came before and integrating it into a greater whole"), his claims poorly substantiated, and much of his logic worrying as in the section on "always moving forward," in which he treats his father's refusal ever to return to his native India (with no substantive explanation), where he still has family, as behavior to be admired and copied. This is a slick but ultimately underwhelming production with little to appeal to the thoughtful reader.
