Neil Pasricha - You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life by (2019)

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR

You Are Awesome

BY NEIL PASRICHA

With all the world throws at us, resilience is now a precious commodity, and its the underpinning of this terrifically helpful book by Neil Pasricha. You Are Awesome is more than a boost for your self-esteemits a perspective-setter for failure and success, and an homage to the amazing reserves of the human soul.

MITCH ALBOM , author of Finding Chika and The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Do you have thin skin like the rest of us? The tool you need is resilience. Let this deeply researched book be your step-by-step guide.

SUSAN CAIN , author of Quiet

Neil was an incredibly quiet, shy, and curious student in my classroom over thirty years ago. I have long retired from teaching and am now watching as he becomes the teacher for me and many others. This book is a guidebook for those establishing careers and raising families. But its also for those of us in later years who are still seeking to set aside precious time for people and activities we love and who face a whole new set of challenges. As always, Neils glass is half full and his enthusiasm for living is truly infectious.

MRS. STELLA DORSMAN , Neils third-grade teacher

I have been through struggle. I have been through loss. And I have had to get stronger. Resilience is a muscle that hurts to build. What would have made it easier? Neils words. This book. A recipe for thickening our skin in thin-skinned times.

JAMES FREY , author of A Million Little Pieces

I give this book five stars! Actually stars rating be so insufficient when it comes to Neil Pasricha, I give him all the universe for being the Sun, the light, the hope the happiness for so many of us in life with his extraordinary efforts in writing this book, what a book, seems a bible of happiness, a Google map of revisiting life! Thanks for yet another wonder Neil

VISHWAS AGGRAWAL , the worlds greatest Uber driver with a 4.99 rating and over 5,000 rides

Pick up this book for its gloriously self-affirming titleafter all, you are awesome!and stay for its wise and transformative advice. Writing in his usual engaging style, Pasricha will challenge you to build resilience, get out of your own way, and pursue a life of accomplishment and meaning.

DANIEL H. PINK , author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human

You Are Awesome is the exact book we need to offset the constant negativity that comes in and out of our life each day. Pasricha forces us to look within and become the best we can be by controlling our inner voice and blocking all the distractions.

MICHAEL LOMBARDI , former NFL executive with three Super Bowl rings and host of The GM Shuffle

This utterly charming book will put a smile on your face and a skip in your step.

ADAM GRANT , New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B, and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

With Neils signature style of humor, research, whimsy, and insight, You Are Awesome touches a chord and shows us the power of combining optimism and resilience to create more meaning at work, school, and home.

SHAWN ACHOR , New York Times bestselling author of Big Potential

There are few things more certain in all aspects of life than setbacks! Finding the resilience to not just cope but also take these in your stride and ultimately learn from them is a critical skill in todays unpredictable world. Neils book provides an invaluable framework and tool kit. Full of practical ideas and suggestions, supported by personal anecdotes and stories that bring them to life. Neil has done it again, producing a personal, practical, and universal guide to life.

DAVID CHEESEWRIGHT , former president and CEO, Walmart International

Neil is the happiness mixologist. He combines an insight for awesome, a dry sense of humor, hard-earned wisdom, and just the right amount of science, shakes it all together vigorously, and then pours you a libation you can toast to life thats rich, resilient, and deeply delicious.

MICHAEL BUNGAY STANIER , author of The Coaching Habit

A brilliant book, generous, heartfelt, and true. Neil is going to help you change your life.

SETH GODIN , New York Times bestselling author of Linchpin and Tribes

A playful, yet powerful path from anxious to awesome. Pasricha blends science, story and a healthy dose of humor to deliver tools and strategies that cultivate resilience in a world thats never needed it more.

JONATHAN FIELDS , author, podcaster, and creator of Good Life Project and SparketypeTM

No one knows awesome like Neil Pasricha, and here he explores how we can make our very lives more awesome. 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.

GRETCHEN RUBIN , author of The Happiness Project and Outer Order, Inner Calm

ALSO BY NEIL PASRICHA

BOOKS

The Happiness Equation

The Book of (Holiday) Awesome

The Book of (Even More) Awesome

The Book of Awesome

PICTURE BOOK

Awesome Is Everywhere

JOURNALS

Two Minute Mornings

The Journal of Awesome

PODCAST

3 Books with Neil Pasricha

TED TALKS

How Do You Maximize Your Tiny, Short Life?

The 3 As of Awesome

SITES

neil.blog

3books.co

globalhappiness.org

1000awesomethings.com

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ISBN 978-1-9821-3590-4 (ebook)

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