You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life (Book of Awesome Series, The)
by Neil Pasricha
When things don’t go our way, we exaggerate the size of our problems. We biggify them! We catastrophize! We see the door as too small to fit through. We feel everyone’s eyes on our ineptitude. We decide the nightmare is only going to get worse! He said that whenever he’s asked the smart-ass question “So how do I get a job writing jokes for money like you did?” he gives a very simple answer. “Do it for free for ten years.”
When things don’t go our way, we exaggerate the size of our problems. We biggify them! We catastrophize! We see the door as too small to fit through. We feel everyone’s eyes on our ineptitude. We decide the nightmare is only going to get worse!
He said that whenever he’s asked the smart-ass question “So how do I get a job writing jokes for money like you did?” he gives a very simple answer. “Do it for free for ten years.”
Resilience is being able to see that tiny little sliver of light between the door and the frame just after you hear the latch click. Prom invite shot down? I haven’t got a date… yet. Passed over for promotion? I’m not a manager… yet. Cholesterol way out of whack? I don’t exercise… yet.
It’s egotistical, arrogant, conceited to think it’s all about you. Shift that spotlight from yourself by remembering it’s not always about you and remembering it’s arrogant to always think it is. So what do you do? Dance with it.
We don’t trust people who haven’t failed and we really don’t trust people who don’t even know they haven’t failed or like to pretend they haven’t failed. We need to talk about failures. The more we have, the more we grow.
"When things don’t go our way, we exaggerate the size of our problems. We biggify them! We catastrophize! We see the door as too small to fit through. We feel everyone’s eyes on our ineptitude. We decide the nightmare is only going to get worse!"
"He said that whenever he’s asked the smart-ass question “So how do I get a job writing jokes for money like you did?” he gives a very simple answer. “Do it for free for ten years.”"
"Resilience is being able to see that tiny little sliver of light between the door and the frame just after you hear the latch click. Prom invite shot down? I haven’t got a date… yet. Passed over for promotion? I’m not a manager… yet. Cholesterol way out of whack? I don’t exercise… yet."
"It’s egotistical, arrogant, conceited to think it’s all about you. Shift that spotlight from yourself by remembering it’s not always about you and remembering it’s arrogant to always think it is. So what do you do? Dance with it."
"We don’t trust people who haven’t failed and we really don’t trust people who don’t even know they haven’t failed or like to pretend they haven’t failed. We need to talk about failures. The more we have, the more we grow."
"We take what’s invisible to others and shine spotlights on it inside our own minds. That invisible feeling becomes the entire object of our internal focus, and it makes us stop thinking straight and seeing straight."
"Psychology. It asked a very simple and incisive question: “Is it better to be a relatively large fish in a small pond even if you don’t learn to swim as well?” The research in the study provided the clear answer."
- →He said that whenever he’s asked the smart-ass question “So how do I get a job writing jokes for money like you did?” he gives a very simple answer. “Do it for free for ten years.”
- →It’s egotistical, arrogant, conceited to think it’s all about you. Shift that spotlight from yourself by remembering it’s not always about you and remembering it’s arrogant to always think it is. So what do you do? Dance with it.
- →We take what’s invisible to others and shine spotlights on it inside our own minds. That invisible feeling becomes the entire object of our internal focus, and it makes us stop thinking straight and seeing straight.
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