According to the musical "In Transit" (and I am sure those writers got it from somewhere reliable), the average New Yorker's commute to work takes about an hour one way. So you spend two hours per day, ten hours per week, forty hours per month on a train (check my math? I failed it in college...) To battle this demon of public transit I made a really sick (relatively speaking..) playlist on Spotify when I moved here. However, a person can only listen to Ed Sheeran and the soundtrack to S!NG so much, ya know? I decided that I needed another pass time whilst on the daily grind to and from Washington Heights; so I started reading "You Are A Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life". And let me tell you, Oh. My. God. This book is amazing. I can't say enough good things about it. It is the perfect book to read if you are a performer and you are struggling in audition season, trying to get seen, trying to book, trying to follow through from that callback to the contract (Hi, hello, this is my struggle, please help me), or just plain needing a little boost because life is happening to you and you are feeling unsafe. I have not finished this book even though I have been reading it for quite some time and it is not because I am an incredibly slow reader. It's because you can't skim through it. You have to take the time to read and re read and re re read exactly what it is telling you. This book tackles so many important things such as: self perception, self doubt, when exactly we were taught to be ashamed of our bodies and if we were worthy of love/who was appropriate to love/ lots of other positively awful dumb things that as children we are raised to believe just because that is what our parents believed and their parents believed and their parents believed...it's never ending...just like this sentence. This is one of those books where (much like many acting classes in college) you will read it and you will say, "oh, why didn't I think of that before? Obviously that is why I was feeling that way". It's the kind of book you want to take notes in (which I do) and highlight in (which I REALLY do because I love color) and pass on to a friend. Which is what I am going to do. In the hopes that it will continue on to other people who need to read it.
Something you need to know: This is absolutely classified as a "Self Help Book"...did I ever see myself picking up a self help book after work one Tuesday afternoon (I don't actually know what day I bought this but Tuesday fits the scenario) when I was 25 years old? No. I didn't. I really really didn't. But, damn, I am really glad I did. I am not reading this book because I am depressed or particularly unhappy with my life. I love my life and the things I get to do and experience, but it has given me a little bit of insight. There are many things that I want to do in my life, ie: get into better shape, start doing yoga, create things on a daily basis: such as a youtube series where I explain how to play select board games in normal and easy to understand language because some of these strategy games are absolute gibberish...and instead of jumping in head first I have been procrastinating and just letting life pass me by...and for what? I am not waiting on anything. I am just letting life happen to me instead of me happening to life. I need to live more. I need to do more than work and audition. There is more to life than that (other than hulu and netflix). Guys, I know this seems very random and maybe a little scattered. But this book is important and could do a lot for many people in my life. So, if your light is looking a little dim, you're bored, or you spend half of your life on a subway going to and from a busy, exhausting, and incredibly stressful restaurant job pick. up. this. book. Also, my washer and dryer got fixed and so now I have all the clean clothes and I feel like a champion princess. I smell great and I happy. Look out world. "You are the only you in the world. Don't deny the world your greatness." - Amazing book i have been going on and on about. READ IT.
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