You are awesome : how to navigate change, wrestle with failure, and live an intentional life

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Pasricha, Neil author.

ISBN:

9781982135881

Edition:

1st Gallery books hardcover ed.

Physical Description:

xx, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Contents:

Introduction: You need to be more resilient -- Secret #1: Add a dot-dot-dot -- Secret #2: Shift the spotlight -- Secret #3: See it as a step -- Secret #4: Tell yourself a different story -- Secret #5: Lose more to win more -- Secret #6: Reveal to heal -- Secret #7: Find small ponds -- Secret #8: Go untouchable -- Secret #9: Never, never stop.

Subject Term:

Failure (Psychology).

Resilience (Personality trait).

Summary:

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 worldcomes a revelatory and inspiring book that will change the way we view failure and help us build resilience. We are lucky. For most of us, famine, plague, economic depression, and other life-threatening catastrophes are the stuff of history books. Were living in an era with the highest-ever rates of longevity, education, and wealth. Cars drive us home as our phones entertain us before we arrive to food delivered to the front door. We have it all! But theres just one side effect. 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. A rude email from the boss means calling in sick. Only two likes on our post means we dont have friends. Cell phones show us were never good enough. Yesterdays butterflies are tomorrows panic attacks. Record numbers of students have clinical anxiety. And what about depression, loneliness, and suicide? All rising! What do we desperately need to learn? RESILIENCE. And we need to learn it fast. Read You Are Awesome to learn: The single word that keeps your options open after failure What every commencement speech gets wrong 3 ways to dramatically accelerate your ability to learn and adapt The 2-minute morning practice that helps eliminate worry Why you need an Untouchable Day (and how to get one) and much, much more... Because the truth is, you really are awesome.

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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.

We are lucky. For most of us, famine, plague, economic depression, and other life-threatening catastrophes are the stuff of history books. We're living in an era with the highest-ever rates of longevity, education, and wealth. Cars drive us home as our phones entertain us before we arrive to food delivered to the front door. We have it all!

But there's just one side effect. 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.

A rude email from the boss means calling in sick. Only two likes on our post means we don't have friends. Cell phones show us we're never good enough. Yesterday's butterflies are tomorrow's panic attacks. Record numbers of students have clinical anxiety. And what about depression, loneliness, and suicide?

All rising!

What do we desperately need to learn?

RESILIENCE. And we need to learn it fast.

Read You Are Awesome to learn:
* The single word that keeps your options open after failure
* What every commencement speech gets wrong
* 3 ways to dramatically accelerate your ability to learn and adapt
* The 2-minute morning practice that helps eliminate worry
* Why you need an Untouchable Day (and how to get one)
* and much, much more...

Because the truth is, you really are awesome.

Author Notes

Neil Pasricha thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living. He is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including The Book of Awesome and The Happiness Equation , which together have spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists and have sold over a million copies. He hosts the award-winning podcast 3 Books , where he's on a fifteen-year quest to uncover the 1000 most formative books in the world by interviewing people such as Malcolm Gladwell, Judy Blume, and the world's top-ranked Uber driver. He gives more than fifty speeches a year, appearing for audiences at places such as Harvard, SXSW, and Shopify. He has degrees from Queen's University and Harvard Business School, and lives in Toronto with his family. Connect with him on social media @NeilPasricha or get his latest writing for free at Neil.blog/Newsletters.

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Publisher's Weekly Review

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. (Nov.)

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