You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything

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The story that really stood out to me was the one from his scholarship donor that was apart of the Harvard School of Business, where he told Pasricha "Find small ponds so you can be the big fish." What an interesting perspective; and for a college student wanting a job in a business related field it was something I had never thought about. Of course we want to work for the biggest and best companies, but we are all competing for those jobs, where we wouldn't do much work. Why not take the risk and be the big fish in the small pond and bring a business up from bankruptcy. It's a difficult job but it was interesting advice.

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Look like small potatoes? Well, let’s see if we can come up with a new punctuation mark the whole world will use in 500 years. It’s not easy. But Terence had help. After he created the ellipsis, Ben Johnson began using it in his plays and then that old bard Shakespeare joined in the fray. Boom! That was the Middle Age equivalent of getting retweeted by Oprah. The ellipsis then moved from there all the way up into Virginia Woolfe and Joseph Conrad. Today, even Adele has used the dot-dot-dot when teasing the first few chords of her new album in TV ads. The point is that although it may be hard to admit it and hard to see it and certainly hard to do it, we really do subconsciously crave adding that dot-dot-dot. Matthew Syed Consulting 2023. All rights reserved. Registered in England and Wales. Matthew Syed Consulting. Company No. 08760326. VAT No. 176704488. Mindset Analytics Ltd. Company No. 12234380. VAT No. 333252530. This positive and empowering guide, by bestselling mindset author Matthew Syed, will help boys and girls build resilience, fulfil their potential and become successful, happy, awesome adults.

When a boy was born, friends and neighbors would say Badhaee ho! It meant wonderful, great, congratulations! And when a girl was born? Chalo koi nahi. What’s the translation? Keep going. Soldier on. Oh well – you have to keep moving. This is why overcoming the fear of failure is so important". The Independent. 19 April 2018. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022 . Retrieved 30 August 2019. As a self help book, You Are Awesome has well structured chapters that focus on key concepts on how to deal with change, failure, and living a more intentional life. The advice and suggestions offered are genuinely helpful and useful. Neil shares many personal stories within the chapters and the personalization helps you connect with him and his experiences, while also helping you feel less alone and lost on your journey.

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Our negative talk is even more insidious when we’re just moving through the motions. Just walking down the path. Painting in the paint-by-numbers. Hopscotching the chalky boxes. She added a dot-dot-dot to her story throughout her upbringing. Creating games to memorize license plates. Extra studying, extra homework, whenever it fit in after the cooking and cleaning. All of her studying came to a head in 1963 when she took the government’s standard National Exam with every other thirteen-year-old in the country.

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And she said, “I didn’t do anything dad did. But what was I supposed to do? Sit at home? I just told myself I don’t waltz … yet.” Today we need to learn the skills the farmer had in spades. And we need to learn them fast. Volatility, uncertainty, and complexity are accelerating. Change? Constant. Latest disruption? Getting disrupted. Meanwhile we know relationships will always spin and swerve and and life always, always, always has other plans. With Neil’s 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…”