Title: You Are a Badass Pdf How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
Audie Award Winner, Personal Development, 2014
Best-selling author, speaker, and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero cuts through the din of the self-help genre with her own verbal meat cleaver in You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life. In this refreshingly blunt how-to guide, Sincero serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, life-changing insights, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word.
Via chapters such as "Your Brain Is Your Bitch", "Fear Is for Suckers", and "My Subconscious Made Me Do It", Sincero takes you on a wild joy ride to your own transformation, helping you create the money, relationships, career, and general all-around awesomeness you so desire. And should you be one of those people who dreads getting busted with a self-help book in your hands, fear not.
Sincero, a former skeptic herself, delivers the goods minus the New Age cheese, giving even the snarkiest of poo-pooers exactly what they need to get out of their ruts and start kicking some ass. By the end of You Are a Badass, you will understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to start living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.
Source Energy, The Universe, and Other Proper Nouns For the most part, I think the ideas in this book are underwhelming at best, and at some points, kind of awful. "Source Energy" is this proper noun that you can connect to if you only b e l i e v e. When you're one with Source Energy, your "vibe" lines up with the vibration of "The Universe," a proper noun equivalent to...Faith? God? Opportunity? All existing matter and space? It certainly didn't seem like the last one, but I could be wrong. In any case, I have a hard time believing that The Universe is just waiting for me to meditate a little while longer before I can finally get everything I deserve in life.So maybe I'm just too science-minded to buy into this kind of stuff. But I still think any self-help book, even one marketed toward people of faith should provide...well...actual help? I did, however, receive one shining bit of advice from this book that boosted that one star ALL THE WAY up to three, but that's coming at the end. HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS.I would like to agree with the reviewer who pointed out that one section of the book (if not more) could be EXTREMELY triggering to someone with depression or mental illness in general, so please avoid this book if that might include you. The author's mentality seems to be the classic, "Well, why don't you just stop being depressed?" GIANT EYEROLL. That mentality persists throughout: Low on money? Sell a painting for $50,000! Don't have any friends? Go get some! Don't have a job? Have you tried wanting one REALLY bad and then looking?Now for a positive bit. One extra star is for the author's humor and honesty. I found myself enjoying interjections of the author's life story along with the stories of her friends and acquaintances. She's certainly found her own voice and it does shine through. In fact, because of the tone of the book, I was able to ignore the parts I could not connect with...right up until that part about depression.And here's that last star. I needed a bit of a pep talk. At times (depending on the chapter and the day of the week) this helped me. It was like meeting up with an old friend who's doing way better than you in life. smiling politely and eating a salad, acting as though she's not judging your hamburger while humble bragging about her career. She's a bit annoying, but sometimes it's just enough to give you a little kick in the rear that sets you in motion. You'll probably never go get lunch with Jen Sincero again because, er, "I'm just so busy this month!"Still, she managed to say something that really set you in motion. For me, it was this:"If you had an unlimited supply of cash, what would you spend your life doing?" (79). And, long story short, I'm applying for another Master's. Thanks, Jen. This was...so fun. Let's totally meet for coffee in a couple months! I'll check my schedule!Bad read Hard to read. Writer has a condescending tone throughout. Tried to read book from different chapters and just could not read it. Have read dozens of self-help books during my life, but this one is not recommended.Read the reviews before you buy I was really excited about this book. I've read my share of witty, in your face, self help books before but this one does it all WRONG. The author's perspective is incredibly privileged and there's a point about mid way through where she says "if you're depressed, just act like someone who isn't depressed". While I do think the idea of manifesting what you want through positive thinking is great, this book isn't the first to suggest it. Overall the author seems out of touch, the books is potentially triggering, and I would not recommend it.
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