You Do You: Why It's Good to Be Selfish, Bad to Be Perfect, and Other Unconventional Wisdom to Help You Survive in a Conventional World

Knight, Sarah

ISBN 10: 0316445126 / ISBN 13: 9780316445122

Published by Little Brown & Co, 2017

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256 pages. 7.25x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Do You: Why It's Good to Be Selfish, Bad to Be Perfect, and Other Unconventional Wisdom to Help You Survive in a Conventional World
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication Date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0316445126
• ISBN 13: 9780316445122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.32 kilograms

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Synopsis

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and Get Your Sh*t Together comes more straight talk about how to stand up for who you are and what you really want, need, and deserve -- showing when it's okay to be selfish, why it's pointless to be perfect, and how to be "difficult."

Being yourself should be easy, yet too many of us struggle to live on other people's terms instead of our own. Rather than feeling large and in charge, we feel little and belittled.

Sound familiar? Bestselling "anti-guru" Sarah Knight has three simple words for you: YOU DO YOU.

It's time to start putting your happiness first -- and stop letting other people tell you what to do, how to do it, or why it can't be done. And don't panic! You can do it without losing friends and alienating people. Knight delivers her trademark no-bullsh*t advice about:

• The Tyranny of "Just Because"
• The social contract and how to amend it
• Turning "flaws" into strengths -- aka "mental redecorating"
• Why it's not your job to be nice
• Letting your freak flag fly
• How to take risks, silence the doubters, and prove the haters wrong

About the Author

Sarah Knight's first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, has been published in 30 languages and counting, and her TEDx talk, "The Magic of Not Giving a F*ck," has more than nine million views. She is a New York Times bestselling author, and her other titles include Get Your Sh*t Together, You Do You, Calm the F*ck Down, and F*ck No. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Red, Refinery29, and elsewhere, and her No F*cks Given podcast has 1 million downloads.

After quitting her corporate job in 2015 to pursue a freelance life, she moved from Brooklyn, New York, to the Dominican Republic, where she currently resides with her husband and a sh*tload of lizards.

Learn more at sarahknightauthor.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @MCSnugz. You can also sign up for her No F*cks Given newsletter at tinyletter.com/sarahknight.