Welcome to Our Book of Awesome, a celebration of the small joys that bring us together. In a world that is often overwhelming, it’s time to return to the simple things, the AWESOME things, all around us...if only we take a moment to see -Carrying the ice cube tray from the sink to the freezer without spilling -Finally unsubscribing from that annoying email you’ve been getting forever -Seeing your parents dance -Adding a gift note to yourself on your online order -Sending a private message during the video conference and then seeing your coworker look down and silently smirk -When your kids don’t hear you opening a bag of potato chips -When the hand sanitizer isn’t that extra slippery kind that never dries -Texting your husband to do something when he’s upstairs and you’re downstairs -When the cake plops flawlessly out of the pan These are just a few of the hundreds and hundreds of things you’ll find in this new volume. You’ll also find comments, letters, and submissions from the AWESOME community around the world, leading to a final cacophony of awesome, by all of us, for all of us. Our Book of Awesome is an injection of joy, a heartfelt gift, and a smacking high five for humanity. Read it to be reminded of the endless AWESOME things that give laughter and happiness to our beautiful and brief lives.
Author
Hey Goodreads peeps, Pass me a drink. Let's chill on the ripped couch at the back. I love this place. Book lovers are my favorite people. (And my favorite lovers.) My name is Neil Pasricha (pass-REACH-ah) and I'm the New York Times / #1 int'l (blah blah blah!) bestselling author of ten books on living an intentional life including THE BOOK OF AWESOME (gratitude), THE HAPPINESS EQUATION (happiness), TWO-MINUTE MORNINGS (habits), and the poorly-titled YOU ARE AWESOME (resilience.) My books are published in a lot of languages I can't read and sold a couple million more copies than anyone was expecting. My background? Well, trust me: Nobody expected me to be writer. Least of all me. My parents aren't jazz trumpet players and watercolorists who raised me in Manhattan. They're hardcore Indian immigrants from Punjab and Nairobi who arrived in Canada scraping to get by. I was supposed to be a doctor! That was the life plan. But after my wife left me and my best friend took his own life in my late 20s I started a blog to cheer myself up. That blog was called 1000awesomethings.com and basically turned into everything else I've done and am doing. If you want to hang out without social media algorithms in between us (no offence, algorithms! please don't punish my search results!) then join the thousands and thousands of good-hearted kindred spirits globally who get my newsletters. I put a lot of work into my newsletters—they're sort of my weird digital babies—and they contain my book recommendations, my new articles, my podcasts, and, of course, my daily awesome things (which I've been writing for 15 years now!). Sign up at www.neil.blog/newsletters Hit me up if you wanna be friends! I love this clunky old site because it feels like my old hometown library somehow. Shall we both get back to reading now? XOXOXO Neil neil@globalhappiness.org
