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

Episode 321

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.

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