You Are a Badass

WANT TO THINK When you hang out with whiners, pessimists, tweakers, bleakers, freakers- outers and life-is-so-unfairers, it’s an ...

new friends. If you stop at, “there’s no one like that around here,” that will be the truth and will set the wimpy tone for how ...

fastest ways to massively transform your life. 6. LOVE YOURSELF Unless you have a better idea. ...

CHAPTER 12: LEAD WITH YOUR CROTCH In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few. —Shunr ...

I know the big saying is “youth is wasted on the young,” but I think, in certain respects anyway, we’ve really got it going on i ...

awesome, disregard for “what-if’s.” Admittedly, I remember doing things in the danger department that still have me sleeping wit ...

obliviousness and, as a result, getting utterly spectacular and thrilling results. Which is why I find it so odd to hear people ...

that waking up feeling excited about life is for the young, and once we’re older, we need to trade that in, settle down and be m ...

celebrate the journey instead of merely riding it out until it’s over? We’re still allowed to dream, and our dreams are still av ...

with our inner kids. I know how unacceptably dorky this may sound, but just stay with me here. Even though you’re now most likel ...

year in high school when you got voted Class Clown for repeatedly charming your way past the ladies in the front office to make ...

with things like learning to play our instruments or practicing or any of that snooty musicianship crap. We had bigger fish to f ...

ability to drink anyone in the room under the table. The testosterone-fueled chip on my shoulder came from a high school career ...

grow up in the deep, redneck South. Within the first few months of starting the band, she traded in her long, raven locks for a ...

of: talented and endlessly enthusiastic with a very high threshold for pain. The great tragedy of Crotch was that underneath our ...

to beat us with it. In spite of ourselves, we quickly acquired quite the following. In less than a year’s time we also wrote, pr ...

unstoppable as a freight train full of fuck-yeah. If you’ve ever known what it’s like to be in your groove, and are having troub ...

1. JUST SEE WHAT YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH Life is r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s. It so seriously is—we have no freakin’ idea what we’re even ...

game. Yes, we have bigger responsibilities and more pressure as adults, but come on folks, I guarantee you there are countless p ...

can sell one of my paintings for fifty grand; I just wanna see if I can meet my soul mate. Take the pressure off and get back in ...