Journal of Awesome

Hey peeps,Pass me a drink Let s chill on the ripped couch at the back I love this place Book lovers are my favorite people And my favorite lovers My name is Neil Pasricha PASS REACH AH and I m the New York Times blah blah bestselling author of The Happiness Equation and The Book of Awesome series My books have published a lot of languages I can t read, spent eight years and over 200 weeks on bestseller lists, and sold millions of copies But, it didn t start out like that Ten years ago my wife left me and my best friend took his own life in the span of a few weeks I channeled my energies into writing a blog called 1000 Awesome Things to cheer myself up And I gave a TED Talk about it called The 3 A s of Awesome The blog took off and won the Webby for Best Blog in the World two years in a row and scored over 50 million hits What was I doing during all this Working at Walmart I spent a decade as Director of Leadership Development there and developed a passion for managing and developing people when studying at Queen s 2002 and Harvard 2007 You can learn about what I m up to now at globalhappiness and right here as I love answering your questions Thanks for checking me out on.Neilneil globalhappiness