“ No one knows ‘awesome’ like Neil Pasricha, and here he explores how we can make our very lives more awesome. A recipe for thickening our skin in thin-skinned times.” ~ James Frey, author of ‘Katerina’ What would have made it easier? Neil’s words. Resilience is a muscle that hurts to build. This book helps us to explore what it is to be human and how we can support ourselves on the journey of life. It is useful to talk about failures, shame, mistakes, struggle and loss. This book is part life story, part research and part self-help offering ideas to help reframe challenges and tips to help you move through any challenging times. They had the resilience to keep getting up, to keep moving forward and to keep trying something new. They may look as though they have everything sorted and in order but it is likely that they have experienced many failures before they have reached their ‘successful’ position. We can understand that successful people have more failures. What can help to address issues of failure? We can learn to share our experiences, talk about our failures, ask for help and learn to support one another. But what makes high achievers different as a group? They fail harder and take it more personally.
Understanding that everyone fails, from low achievers to high achievers. The stories show how he has made sense of life and explores his valuable lessons. Neil draws on his mother’s experience as a young woman in Nairobi, Kenya and her life journey taking her to a new life in Canada as well as his personal experiences in childhood and as he navigated his adult life. Showing how to survive certain situations, learn and grow as a result and explaining why a continuing supply of resilience can help with whatever life throws at you. This book acts as a useful life reviewer, making sense of past failures and challenges. There is power in letting the story continue.” ~ Neil Pasricha, ‘You Are Awesome’ “There is power in moving slowly through the motions. Neil champions the idea that we need a quiet courage to keep going, keep moving forward, knowing that we can move past the situation, seeing beyond the current dilemma. It can be overwhelming when we are feeling stuck and caught up in these overwhelming situations. Of course life brings us challenges, some much larger and more devastating than others. The book is an easy to follow read featuring 9 concepts that explain how we can navigate failure, reframe our own perceptions and how to become our most powerful and awesome self. ‘You Are Awesome’ is all about resilience and Neil uses his life experiences and research to highlight the secrets to developing resilience in an era of increasing anxiety, depression and loneliness. Luckily for me this book arrived several weeks ago and I’ve been devouring the book’s wisdom.
In our uncertain times and rapidly changing world, ‘You Are Awesome’ is a real tonic.
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