You Are a Badass (Deluxe Edition): How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

this book will change your mindset. i love it.

I wish I read more reviews before purchasing this, rather than just looking at the overall high rating. I made it about halfway through this book and could not continue on. The author is oblivious about many real life things, one of them being depression. She wrote, "If you're depressed, just act like someone who isn't depressed." How would a depressed person know what that is like? Depression is a real illness, like cancer. It is like saying, "If you are chronically ill, just act like someone who isn't chronically ill".Depression is something to be taken very seriously. Some people battle it their whole lives while others have to deal with it long-term, and some seasonally, but it is not the same as feeling sad for a bit. It concerns me even more deeply that this is a best selling book and people who read this may begin to believe that depression is an act or a choice or a 'story' as the author would call it. Our society truly does not understand this condition or support people who are suffering with it.There are over 50,000+ books on Amazon helping people who have depression. This is not one of them. I absolutely do not recommend reading this book if you struggle with depression. I also do not recommend it in general as I gleaned nothing useful from the first half of the book. I'd return this if I could.

I was really excited about this book. I've read my share of witty, in your face, self help books before but this one does it all WRONG. The author's perspective is incredibly privileged and there's a point about mid way through where she says "if you're depressed, just act like someone who isn't depressed". While I do think the idea of manifesting what you want through positive thinking is great, this book isn't the first to suggest it. Overall the author seems out of touch, the books is potentially triggering, and I would not recommend it.

I have to commend Jen Sincero for putting her on spin on the whole LOA thing and making some money off it, or at least making some money off me. Because no one forced me to buy this book. Everything in this book, I PROMISE YOU, can be found for free on the internet, just without the sassy, pseudo punk-rocky demeanor that is really the selling point of this thing. Following one of the main points of this book, I take full responsibility for wasting time and money on reading this pile of hoo-hah.

Hard to read. Writer has a condescending tone throughout. Tried to read book from different chapters and just could not read it. Have read dozens of self-help books during my life, but this one is not recommended.

I felt a little silly reading about “Source Energy” and what the Universe wants for me, but that is not why I gave this book such a low rating. To dismiss depression as “lame-o realities” or “self-sabotaging stories” and to suggest that there are benefits to being depressed made me very angry.Here is the exact quote from Chapter 18 (please excuse any minor errors, as I was transcribing from an audiobook): “Become aware of what you are gaining from your stories. We pretty much don’t ever do anything that we don’t benefit from in some way... If you are perpetuating something dismal in your life because of some dopey story, there is definitely something about it that you are getting off on. Let’s say, for example, that your story is that you’re depressed. Chances are pretty good that even though it feels awful, when you feel awful you don’t have to work hard, or do the laundry, or go to the gym. It also feels very familiar and cozy and comfortable. It gets you attention. People come in and check on you and sometimes bring food. It gives you something to talk about. It allows you to not try too hard or move forward and face possible failure. It lets you drink beer for breakfast.”I disagreed with a lot of Ms. Sincero’s ideas in the book, but I pretty much live my life by the “to each, his own” philosophy. I could have even overlooked the advice to go into debt to manifest your reality, but I could not in good conscience, let this go without trying to make others aware. Depression is a serious issue and to treat it otherwise is irresponsible and dangerous.