But something about this book appealed to me. I just didn’t want to put myself in yet another stressful situation of feeling like I had to more things on my to-do list than I could manage. So when I was approached to read this book and post a review I almost considered declining. I’ve got a lot going on these days, with work and online school – not to mention regular family ordeals. I was given an advanced reader copy of You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Lifein exchange for my honest review. And what about depression, loneliness, and suicide? Record numbers of students have clinical anxiety. Yesterday’s butterflies are tomorrow’s panic attacks. Cell phones show us we’re never good enough.

Only two likes on our post means we don’t have friends. We are turning into an army of porcelain dolls.Ī rude email from the boss means calling in sick. When we fall, we lie on the sidewalk crying. We no longer have the tools to handle failure…or even perceived failure. We have it all!īut there’s just one side effect. Cars drive us home as our phones entertain us before we arrive to food delivered to the front door. We’re living in an era with the highest-ever rates of longevity, education, and wealth. For most of us, famine, plague, economic depression, and other life-threatening catastrophes are the stuff of history books. Read it and you’ll remember all the things there are to feel good about.You Are Awesome’s Back-of-Book Descriptionįrom 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. With laugh-out-loud observations from award-winning comedy writer Neil Pasricha, The Book of Awesome is filled with smile-inducing moments on every page that make you feel like a kid looking at the world for the first time.

The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free (yes, your grandma was right).

Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row.

Watching The Price Is Right when you’re home sick.

Getting called up to the dinner buffet first at a wedding.

Wearing underwear just out of the dryer.

But awesome things are all around us, like: With a 24/7 news cycle reporting that the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are swirling in the seas, wars are heating up around the world, and the job market is in a deep freeze, it’s tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. Sometimes it’s easy to forget the things that make us smile. Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Book of Awesome is an international bestselling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life’s little moments.

The book of awesome by neil pasricha