You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero · 2013
You Are a Badass (2013) is a book by Jen Sincero on Confidence & self-belief. A profanity-laced, high-energy pep talk that hands you the mindset shifts and self-love habits to stop sabotaging yourself and finally build the life you secretly know you want.
An accessible, motivating kick-start for building self-worth and creating the life you want.
Three of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of You Are a Badass pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.
- Spot your 'Big Snooze', the fear-driven inner critic running on beliefs you absorbed in childhood, and treat its limiting stories as opinions you can override, not facts.
- Trade wishing for deciding: a real, non-negotiable decision to change is what moves you, while wanting is just wishful thinking that never leaves the couch.
- Raise your frequency on purpose, gratitude, presence, and confidence put you in the energetic state that attracts opportunities, so practice them daily rather than waiting to feel them.
The other 4 — and the full 9-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 10 chapters
The whole summary runs about 9 minutes, read or listened to.
- Meet Your Big Snooze
- How You Got This Way
- Loving Yourself On Purpose
- Finding Your Calling
- Tapping Into Source Energy
- Decide, Don't Just Wish
- Getting Over Your B.S.
- Surrender and Let It Come
- Money and Abundance
- Kick Some Ass
Finish You Are a Badass tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 9 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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