321: Neil Pasricha – You Are Awesome, Intentional Living, Becoming Anti-Fragile

Neil Pasricha (IG: @neilpasricha) is a New York Times bestselling author that is all about living intentionally. His current work focuses under the themes of gratitude, happiness, failure, resilience, and trust.

Neil gives over 50 speeches a year at places like TED, SXSW, and Google. He also hosts an Apple “Best of 2018” podcast called 3 Books where he’s on a 15-year-long mission to uncover and discuss the 1000 most formative books in the world.

Neil’s book, You Are Awesome, is launching today.

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In this episode, we discuss:

• Building resilience by tearing away the layers
• Will it matter on my deathbed?
• Reveal to heal
• 3 simple prompts to start your day
• Don’t Look Back In Anger Theory
• Practicing gratitude in the mornings
• How Neil’s blog (1000 Awesome Things) became therapeutic
• Gratitude builds a shield of resilience
• Do you suffer from decision fatigue?
• The idea of practicing untouchable days
• Battling cellphone & social media addiction
• Becoming anti-fragile
• More failure = more success
• Purposeful failure increases learning
• What is benign envy?
• Sharing your failures
• The Spotlight Effect
• How to develop confidence
• Are you spending enough time alone?
• The path of pain and punishment
• 168 hours a week
• Neil’s thoughts on parenthood
• Intentional living inspired by Neil’s wife, Leslie

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Related links:

Neil Pasricha – You Are Awesome (book)
Neil Pasricha’s website
Follow Neil Pasricha on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
3 Books with Neil Pasricha (podcast)
1000 Awesome Things (blog)
Neil Pasricha – Two-Minute Mornings (journal)
Neil Pasricha – The Happiness Equation (book)
Neil Pasricha – The Book of Awesome
Neil Pasricha – The Book of (Even More) Awesome
Listen to Neil Pasricha previously on TUHP (episode #265)
PostSecret
Adam Atler – Irresistible (book)
Buffer: Social Media Management
Malcom Gladwell (books)
Warren Buffet (books)
Tim Urban – Wait But Why – Taming The Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (article)
Mark Manson – The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck (book)
Listen to Mark Manson previously on TUHP (episode #293)
Listen to Gretchen Rubin previously on TUHP (episode #037 and #207)

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