How to Get Back Up

A Memoir of Failure & Resilience

De: Neil Pasricha

Narrado por: Neil Pasricha

We all fail. We all fall. We all need to know how to get back up. Few know this better than New York Times best-selling author Neil Pasricha. Before selling over a million copies of his Book of Awesome series and touring the world to teach Fortune 500 CEOs, Ivy league deans, and members of the royal family how to unlock a positive mind-set, Pasricha’s life hit rock bottom. In this Audible Original, you'll hear for the first time Neil's very personal story of failure and resilience - and you'll learn how you, too, can find the strength to get back up.

©2018 Neil Pasricha (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC.

Great memoir. Must read!

To be honest, I did not know the author, Neil Pasricha, before I bought this book. I was just having a hard time at work as a research scientist, and was failing and feeling like I shouldn't have fun in my life at all because I'm so bad at everything, and also should not be making money receiving salaries because I'm wasting humanity's resources. Basically I was just feeling terrible. That's when this book just popped up in the audible top page so I just gave it a go using my new credit even if I didn't know the guy. I needed to get back up.

Boy I'm so glad. Neil just totally rescued myself from my 2-year stretching misery by publishing this audiobook.

Soon after I started listening, I realized that this story was organized as a memoir (rather than something like a systematic analysis or some sort of failure/resilience) about a writer podcaster and a TED talk speaker that I do not know (I'm sure he's famous but I don't usually watch TED talks). That's when I realized the word "memoir" in the subtitle of the book.

But his story was engaging, writing was beautiful, tempo was pleasant, jokes were fun and overall it was just a great listen so I kept listening.
And listening.
And I just finished the whole audiobook in 2 days and it was AWESOME.

It's a bit hard for me to pin-point what was good about this book because there are so many aspects of it. There was a lot of his memoir stories than I thought, which was very interesting and fun. But it was not just that; Neil talks about in detail how he did the "getting back up" part -- about "sticking to systems" is more important than "goal setting". And those are not like another new tricks or hacks; he describes systems in a light and easy way using his personal stories, but I understood the content itself was pretty fundamental (I think he is good at this because he has the "untouchable days" to think deeply - read the book!).

Everyday life is getting so complicated too much and it's easy to get overwhelmed by them. Until not so long ago, people used to have a common way ("system") to live that everyone sticks to, but the increasingly diverse lifestyle and the information explosion is making us difficult to decide how should we live everyday. I became increasingly confused and anxious after I came to the US few years ago from Asia, where the culture (especially working culture) was quite different. I really liked how Neil introduced his system to the readers and how it works for him. I guess I need to figure out and build a system that works for me - and his advice in Chapter 11-14 (3B, making contracts, confessions) sounds like the systems I needed to try out.

And above all, the thing that touched me the most was his wonderful family and the love that's pouring out from his voice. I especially loved listening to the final chapter.

I became a great fan of Neil by listening to this book. (Also this is my first time to write a review, ever! I'm not good at writing English and haven't thought of writing any, until now.) I will recommend this audiobook to everyone; and I'm sure you will also be able to feel the awesomeness of our everyday life that he shares by his fantastic narration.

Honest, insightful and thoroughly enjoyed

Written with warmth and honesty and spoken with candor and kindness. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audiobook and will take the thoughtfulness and wisdom forward. A pleasure to have found this on audible.

beautiful

loved it from start to finish. absolute page turner with a wide variety of knowledge

Loved it

Neil, I loved your book. Just how your mon said, so much love so much detail. I enjoyed every bit of it. You have helped me learn new ways to forget the past and look to a much brighter future; from letting to go to learning new ways to learn. I will be looking forward any other books that you release. Good job man, you made me a better person with your stories. I am glad everything has paid out. I hope that anyone that listens to it or reads your book, gets the same or even a better experience than myself.

Caution: This will have you in stitches!!!!

Loved it. I felt like Neil I was sitting there in the studio listening to and watching him record. He drew me into his story. Chapter 8 had me crying but then had me laughing hysterically - going from loss to laughter!!!!

Awesome Book

Thanks Neil for sharing the story of your life so far. And thanks for the great performance.

some great nuggets but not worth the money

overall the story was good and there were some great little pieces I took away from it. I really struggled with the narration style and tone however. it will probably not be something I recommend as much of it is overlap with a lot of other more impactful books.

More a success story than a motivational one

Heard voice squeaks, page turns. Story jumped around. More about business success than emotional resilience.

It’s his story, nothing new here.

If you are looking for a Tony Robbins style, informative instructional technique, you won’t find it here. This is the story of one man’s journey and career with little tid bits of advice, but nothing that any ordinary person couldn’t have written. But, maybe that is the point? After hours of listening, the only thing I can take away from this is that you have to continue to do what you do regardless of failures because success at anything takes much longer than you want it to.

Great storyteller, my life story is better

I’m sorry, but I got this audiobook looking for inspiration, as the book is about failure and resilience. He talks a lot. I realize I could make money, too, taking a lot about my life. I’ve had more trauma and world adventures, frankly. Not inspiring. But maybe it would work for some people.