You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Author: Visit Amazon's Jen Sincero Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0762447699 | Format: PDF
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Description
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“Sincero (Don't Sleep With Your Drummer) brings a fun, feminine verve to now well-tread self-help tropes… The tone is far more feisty than academic, and there's humor on every page, all of which is exactly what her intended audience most needs"
—Publishers Weekly online
“Author and success coach Jen Sincero takes the self-help book to another level with her cutthroat humor and in-your-face attitude. …The 27 thoughtful, well-written chapters are worth it—by the time you finish the book, you will understand the secrets to a life you deserve and how awesome you really are at controlling the outcome of your life. In other words, you’ll realize how much of a BAMF you really are!”
— Albuquerque’s Weekly Alibi
“Sincero has probably written the most entertaining self-help book many readers will ever get in their hands on…. Reading this book was like talking to a best friend – the one that will tell you like it is no matter the circumstances and that forces you to think outside the box.”
—The State Hornet, California State University, Sacramento campus paper
About the Author
Jen Sincero is a Bestselling author and success coach who has helped countless people transform their personal and professional lives via her private sessions, public appearances, newsletters, products and books. She's spoken on stages all over the world and has coached full-on super heroes, helping her clients build their dream businesses, become NY Times Bestselling authors, navigate million dollar business deals, find their soul mates and forgive their bitchy mothers who they now realize were doing the best they could. Her other books include the semi-autobiographical novel, Don't Sleep With Your Drummer, and the National Bestseller,The Straight Girl's Guide to Sleeping With Chicks. Jen's work has been featured in media outlets all over the world, including Interview Magazine, The Howard Stern Show, Allure, Comedy Central's "Musical Shorts," German Cosmo, Bust, Playboy Magazine/TV, The Village Voice, The NY Post and the LA Times.
In 2011 Jen bid her home in California farewell to travel the world indefinitely and encourage as many people as possible to live lives of unbridled awesomeness.
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Running Press; 1 edition (April 23, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0762447699
- ISBN-13: 978-0762447695
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I have read a lot of self-help books over the years. Normally, they contain cliched advice that you read and let go of it gets too hokey pokey. Still, some of the best advice is cliched and still important.
As one reviewer noted, this book seems largely oriented around the author pitching her life coaching session and praising herself. Most of the book is designed to teach you to constantly chase after things that are in many ways irresponsible(being irresponsible is not badass). The author, at one point, tells the reader to go into debt(I am not making this up). The terminology is sometimes amusing, but I found the ideas lacking and in many ways offensive. Here are a couple of problems that I noticed. I apologize in advance for any errors in my review, but I think readers should be aware of all the problems despite my inability to articular them well:
Manifestation-This is a common marketing tool that has historically resulted from the New Thought movement. It takes ideas of optimism and says that optimism and material thinking can turn them into material objects. The idea is that there is some sort of energy in the Universe(the author refers to it as Source Energy) that one can "match." Of course, there is no real proof of this. The positive imagery may help one maintain a positive attitude(scientifically people with positive attitudes do do better in the job market) but it will not manifest other objects. The New Thought movement comes out during the early 20th century and, to me, seems to be based on misinterpreting pragmatism. You can manifest ideals in your brain that effect your worldview(almost anyone knows this is true) but that does not lead to you being able to manifest money or food. It can also be dangerous.
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