1000 awesome things ted talk
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The Three As of “Awesome”
Posted by DJL on Jan 23, 2013 in Living Well | 2 comments
Neil Pasricha didn’t start out to create a killer-blog, he was just going through a really, really hard time and decided he either needed to look for some of the simple joys and pleasures of life or… well, he actually wasn’t sure what else he would do.
And so he had a simple idea – notice the small delights of life and share them on a blog. And he executed it really well – these ideas are often quite simple and yet, perhaps for that reason, take you off guard. And it doesn’t hurt that his posts are written with care.
1000 Awesome Things became his project and blog. It received a couple of hits, and then a couple dozen, and then a couple hundred, thousand, and now millions. Actually, almost 50 million!
Why? Because we all need to be reminded of what is going right in the world when so much news conspires to convince us that everything is going wrong.
But Neil doesn’t want this to remain all up to him. He wants us all to notice and share the awesome things around us. And so in this TED Talk, Neil shares his 3 A’s of awesome:
1) Attitude: making a choice to choose to focus on what is going well. So much is out of our control, but how we respond to what happens to us isn’
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Neil Pasricha is one of the world's leading authorities on intentional living.
Why you should listen
In 2008, Neil Pasricha's world fell apart after a sudden divorce and death of a close friend. He channeled his energies into his blog 1000 Awesome Things, which counted down one small pleasure -- like snow days, bakery air or finding money in your coat pocket -- every single day for 1000 straight days. While writing his blog, Pasricha was working as Director of Leadership Development inside Walmart.
Years later, he fell in love again and got married. On the airplane home from his honeymoon, his wife told him she was pregnant, and Pasricha began writing again. The result was a 300-page letter written to his unborn son sharing the nine secrets to finding true happiness. That letter has evolved into The Happiness Equation.
Pasricha is the New York Times bestselling author of six books which have spent over 200 weeks on bestseller lists and sold more than a million copies, including The Book of Awesome (gratitude), The Happiness Equation (happiness) and You Are Awesome (resilience). He spent a decade running leadership development inside Walmart after completing his Harvard MBA. Pasricha is one of the world's leading authorities on intentional living.
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TEDx Talks: ‘The 3 A’s of Awesome’
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