You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life

By Neil Pasricha

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: Nov 5, 2019
• ISBN: 9781508278238

Neil Pasricha

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.

Reviews for You Are Awesome

[mrstreme · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

If you need help improving your resilience, then be sure to a copy of You Are Awesome by Neil Pasricha.Let’s face it – resilience is a skill. If you can bounce back better and faster, you will be happier and accomplish more (this is especially important for entrepreneurs).In You Are Awesome, Pasricha outlines nine secrets to being more resilient. I’ll list them below, but I encourage you to get the book to learn more about each secret:1.Add a dot-dot-dot…2.Shift the spotlight3.See it as a step4.Tell yourself a different story5.Lose more to win more6.Reveal to heal7.Find small ponds8.Go untouchable9.Never, never stopMy big takeaways:#1: Be more like a wedding photographerIf you’ve been to a wedding, you’ll notice the wedding photographer takes a lot of photos. Hundreds, it seems, of the same shot. Photographers do this because they know that one of those shots will be “just right” – the one that will help the bride and groom remember their special day. The rest of the photos? They are deleted – without much thought.As entrepreneurs, we have to take a lot of bad pictures to find the right one. This is true for ideal clients, services we want to sell, even networking groups we attend. We have to become comfortable with failing, knowing it will lead us to success.That’s a bitter pill to swallow when you’re a perfectionist control enthusiast (ahem!), but it’s the truth. When we become more resilient after failure, we succeed. #2: The staircase is in front of you, even if you can’t see itStaying in faith is an essential virtue for any entrepreneur. Staying in faith is hard when you feel stuck, or when things aren’t going your way, but if you can believe in yourself and your abilities, you will push through.Sometimes though, we reach what seems to be the bottommost of levels. We can’t see a step, much less a staircase, to help us out of this awful place.Take a step anyway. The staircase is there. Have faith in its existence. That one step will take you to it.#3: Schedule “untouchable” days – pronto!Pasricha has “untouchable days” scheduled on his calendar.“Untouchable days” are when you are completely unavailable. No one can reach you by phone, email, text message, direct message, and social media.Guess what? We can schedule “untouchable days” too!It is a mindset shift, especially for moms (what if the kids need us? What if there’s an emergency?), but imagine what you could get accomplished if you were completely untouchable for a day. And truthfully, everyone will be okay if you’re out of pocket for 10 hours (this is what I’m telling myself).You are worthy of this time. I am worthy of this time. Let’s do this, okay?How You Are Awesome relates to entrepreneurs:I highly recommend You Are Awesome to every entrepreneur. Personal growth is an essential part of entrepreneurial success. We could learn the best marketing and business strategies in the world, but if we haven’t developed the right mindset, these strategies won’t work as well (or at all).As I mentioned already, You Are Awesome specifically helps you build better resilience. I have coached countless female entrepreneurs over the years, and resilience is something most of us could work on. A failure can really knock the wind out of us. Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could “bounce back” faster? Even better, what if we could shrug off failure and stay in faith even more? We would be unstoppable!And that’s what I want for you – to be unstoppable. Get Neil Pasricha’s book and start implementing his secrets to resilience. You won’t regret it!