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February 23, 2024February 15, 2024 Neil Pasricha

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
22 Feb

#599 Reading the same book as your 11-year-old son and then seeing the movie together and then having a great conversation on the drive home about what you liked and what you didn’t and why

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21 Feb

Podcast request:

I'd been pursuing an interview with Alexei Navalny for several years. (May he rest in peace.)

I would like to speak to more activists -- especially those focused on human rights / civil rights.

Who might you recommend?

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
21 Feb

#600 When you walk into the corner convenience store and you are the first one to get coffee from the fresh pot

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21 Feb

"Don't delegate your word" by @jasonfried

"The moment it’s not you to someone on the other end, you’ve lost something you’ll never get back. If they write you, and they don’t get you back, you’ve gone wrong."
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I interviewed comedian Pete Holmes in Chapter 40 o I interviewed comedian Pete Holmes in Chapter 40 of my podcast 3 Books and he had me read ‘Be Here Now’ by Ram Dass – where this quote is from. The format of the podcast keeps exposing me to books I’ve never heard of and likely wouldn’t have come across – and yet, every single one of them was life-changing to the person I’m interviewing. What’s one of your most formative books? A book that changed you or shaped you in some way…
The last bastion. Our final hold. What's one tiny The last bastion. Our final hold. What's one tiny thing you do to be intentional with your intention? I took all social media, game, and email apps off my phone.
The happiness model we’re taught from a young ag The happiness model we’re taught from a young age is actually completely backward. We think we work hard in order to achieve big success and then we’re happy. We think it goes like this: Great Work --> Big Success --> Be Happy Don't we hear that all the time? Study hard! --> Straight A’s! --> Be happy! Interview lots! --> Great job! --> Be happy! Work overtime! --> Get promoted! --> Be happy! But it doesn’t work like that in real life. That model is broken. We do great work, have a big success, but instead of being happy, we just set new goals. Now we study for the next job, the next degree, the next promotion. Why stop at a college degree when you can get a master’s? Why stop at Director when you can be VP? Why stop at one house when you can have two? We never get to happiness. It keeps getting pushed further and further away. What happens when we snap “Be Happy” off the end and stick it on the beginning? Be Happy --> Great Work --> Big Success Now everything changes. Everything changes. If we start with being happy, then we feel great. We look great. We exercise. We connect. What happens? We end up doing great work because we feel great doing it. What does great work lead to? Big success. Massive feelings of accomplishment and the resulting degrees, promotions, and phone calls from your mom telling you she’s proud of you. Research shows that happy people are 31% more productive, have 37% higher sales, and are three times more creative than their counterparts. So what’s the first thing you must do before you can be happy? Be happy. Be happy FIRST. Being happy opens up your learning centers. Your brain will light up like Manhattan skyscrapers at dusk, sparkle like diamonds under jewelry store lights, glow like stars in the black sky above a farmer’s field. American philosopher William James says, “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” Remember, it's not: Great Work --> Big Success --> Be Happy It's the opposite: Be Happy --> Great Work --> Big Success #thehappinessequation
Good things happen in bookstores! The hot pink p Good things happen in bookstores! The hot pink paperback of ‘Our Book Of Awesome’ just dropped so I went around town signing copies and geeking out about books with so many readers. A woman rushed up to me at Indigo Sherway Gardens to tell me that the first ‘Book of Awesome’ helped her out of a really dark place in tenth grade. A 3 Booker told me he’s listened to 40 chapters of the podcast and his absolute favorite was Chapter 123 with @suzybatiz. A woman named Siobhan came up to me telling me about her three daughters and we talked about how to get phones out of schools. Her youngest daughter suffered a concussion and has been struggling and she got her a book to help cheer her up. I also got so many book recommendations and left with piles of new books myself including ‘The Mystery Guest’ by @nitaprose and a giant ‘Saga of the Swamp Thing’ graphic novel. So Toronto folks: There are piles of freshly signed books at Indigo Yorkdale (@indigoyorkdalemall), Book City Bloor West Village (@bookcityto), Chapters Woodbridge (@chapterswoodbridge), Indigo Sherway Gardens (@indigosherwaygardens), and Indigo Square One (@squareoneindigo). PS. For you, for someone you love, you can check out all my books — with links to buy them — at www.neil.blog/books
Do you do the two-minute morning practice? I wro Do you do the two-minute morning practice? I wrote about the process in my book You Are Awesome and it’s the basis of my journal Two-Minute Mornings. Every morning I write my answers to these three prompts: ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I will let go of …⁣⁣⁣ I am grateful for …⁣ I will focus on … So today I wrote: I will let go of …⁣⁣⁣ checking coronavirus case rates and death rates every day ⁣ I am grateful for … making macaroni and cheese with my 3-year-old at lunch⁣ ⁣ I will focus on … organizing the research for one chapter of my next book It takes only two minutes to do and the difference in my life has been both immediate and incredible. What would you fill out for your prompts? #TwoMinuteMornings #YouAreAwesome 📷@fit_sweat_hustle
Our Book of Awesome comes out in paperback today! Our Book of Awesome comes out in paperback today! It’s my first book of awesome in a decade and was a #1 international bestseller with 15 weeks on the list. This is the first book I made *with* all of you – 400 pages of never-before-printed awesome things with community entries and contributions (culled from over 10,000 submitted to me!) all sifted and mixed in throughout. I dare say a perfect holiday present for someone awesome in your life… Here’s the original book launch trailer & the new HOT PINK paperback cover. Grab a copy at your local indie bookstore or from any retailer listed in the link I’ve just thrown in my bio @neilpasricha…
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