You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything

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The way deep cultural norms are often communicated—like a heavy, invisible blanket pushing down on her, a force she couldn’t see but felt in her bones. It was awarded the title Children's Illustrated Non-Fiction Book of the Year [2] by the British Book Awards in 2019 and was listed on The Sunday Times Bestseller list in July 2018.

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This is a guidebook for those establishing careers and raising families but it’s also for those of us in later years who face a whole new set of challenges. Pasricha blends science, story and a healthy dose of humor to deliver tools and strategies that cultivate resilience in a world that’s never needed it more. I have long retired from teaching and am now watching as he becomes the teacher for me and many others. And the side effect is that we no longer have the tools to handle failure or even perceived failure. With real-life stories and a conversational style, he shows how we can move forward in the face of challenge to make our days more intentional and joyful.Whenever I read the fable of the farmer with one horse I sort of picture one of those inflatable clown punching bags that stands in the corner at a five-year-old’s birthday party. But my dad’s idea of fun was going to Club Loreley, the local German Club, and waltzing her around the room. As a mum of four girls of quite varying ages I have seen over the year the pressures that have mounted on children to be perfect almost without even trying.

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In the face of a life sentence ending in a full stop, my mom had a choice to make: would she ever see past the period? The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. He’s steady, he’s ready, and whatever the future brings, we all know he’s going to stare it straight in the face with eyes that scream,“Bring it on. Neil Pasricha's book You are Awesome is the exact kind of book we need to read to help offset the constant negativity that comes in and out of our life each day. Thank you, Neil, for showing us that we are awesome, for helping us become more awesome, and for always believing that we are awesome.It breaks my heart to think about my mom opening her newborn eyes, slowly soaking in the sea of faces in front of her, and what was the first thing she probably saw? For the next few years, my mom’s life was full of reciting The Lord’s Prayer, memorizing Shakespeare passages, and eating soft-boiled eggs in the corner of the school cafeteria. From page one, Neil guides us through a number of strategies designed to instill more forgiveness and self-love in ourselves, all of it circling back to the main theme of this book: we are all works in progress. He hosts the award-winning podcast 3 Books with Neil Pasricha, which features live conversations with guests such as Malcolm Gladwell, Judy Blume, and David Sedaris.