You Are A Badass (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Reprint Edition
Author: Visit ‘s Jen Sincero Page ID: 060637387X
Review
New York Times Bestseller
“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
“If touchy-feely self-help tomes make you feel, shall we say, less than inspired, this no-nonsense manifesto to awesomeness might be just what you’re looking for. Filled with blunt and sassy advice, do-it-yourself exercises in personal transformation, and a whole lot of hilarity, You Are a Badass will silence your inner critic, and help you build a life worthy of the kind of Facebook news feed that others envy. Take a day off from looking for your inner goddess, and spending some time cultivating your outer badass instead.”
—Bustle.com
“I adore Jen’s realistic and funny take on all matters of living an awesome life. She has such a gift for writing in a very digestible way that will appeal to everyone. If you’re looking for purple unicorns and rainbows you won’t find them here, what you will find are practical and easy ways to connect with your inner badass and change your life.”
—Madisyn Taylor, Co-Founder, DailyOM
“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
“YOU ARE A BADASS is a phenomenon!”
—Liesl Freudenstein, Boulder Book Store
–This text refers to the Paperback edition.
About the Author
travel the world indefinitely and encourage as many people as possible to live lives of unbridled awesomeness.
–This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Library Binding: 254 pagesPublisher: Turtleback Books; Reprint edition (April 23, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 060637387XISBN-13: 978-0606373876 Product Dimensions: 1 x 5.2 x 8 inches Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #235,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3430 in Books > Self-Help > Motivational #5359 in Books > Self-Help > Personal Transformation #41307 in Books > Textbooks
I rarely write negative reviews because I know that what goes into writing a book is a lot of hard work. But as a therapist, I am concerned that the "badass" attitude that the author holds toward the reader is potentially damaging. Several times in the first 1/2 of the book (which was all I could stomach) she declares that you are a wimp if you don’t follow her ideas or methods. Ick. This totally goes against the basic premise of the law of attraction. There are so many books on manifesting that are more comprehensive and respectful to the reader. And the information is not rocket surgery. Here are the basics:
1. Self limiting beliefs that you formed from early negative experiences hold you back from doing what you would most love.
2. Those same beliefs are likely creating self-criticism, anxiety and depression in you, which also holds you back.
3. Learning to love yourself (by practicing doing loving things and speaking to yourself kindly and compassionately) will eventually shift your beliefs. You can speed up this process with repetition (mantras, affirmations, etc.).
4. If all the spiritual, woo-woo talk about frequencies and vibrations makes you roll your eyes, no worries. It is your own energy that creates the relationships, experiences and perceptions you have. You know this from experience. When you are having a great day, the world looks brighter. People seem friendlier (because they are responding to your warmth). When your day is sucking, everyone becomes a pain in the butt.
5. Staying in a loving space with yourself requires ongoing maintenance and support. You will do better if you limit contact with people who make you feel bad or doubt yourself and increase contact with those you make you feel stronger and happier.
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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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