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You Are a Badass
- 259 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 2013
- 17 editions
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1 About this book
You Are a Badass is a self-help book by the success coach Jen Sincero, first published in 2013. In twenty-seven short chapters with joking titles, she argues that most people are held back by beliefs about themselves that they absorbed early and never questioned, and she sets out to help readers spot those beliefs and drop them. The book moves from how such beliefs form, through self-acceptance, gratitude, forgiveness, meditation and getting past fear, to money and making decisions. Sincero mixes stories from her own life with ideas about positive thinking and the energy a person gives out, in a blunt, irreverent and often profane voice.
- Personal growth
- Self-help
2 What to expect
A blunt, jokey self-help book about dropping self-doubt and going after the life and income you want. Short chapters mix the author's own stories with advice and exercises on self-acceptance, gratitude, fear and money. It leans on positive thinking and talk of energy and the Universe, not on research, and its voice is chatty, irreverent and full of swearing.
Good for readers who want: motivation with humor, building confidence, and an informal, sweary voice.
3 About Jen Sincero
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Jen Sincero
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