You Are a Badass

CHAPTER 16: LOOSEN YOUR BONE, WILMA You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you thr ...

Several years ago I went on a life- changing trip to India. In case you haven’t witnessed it yourself, India is heaving with lif ...

number one. In India, some people will spoon you on a bus if you fall asleep next to them, roll down their windows to chat with ...

options the country is famous for offering—who needs them? As far as I’m concerned, you can learn pretty much everything you nee ...

thought of hunkering down on the Super Deluxe and sleeping all the way to Delhi sounded good to me. But what I got instead was a ...

lasts for days, stretches for miles, welcomes anyone caught in the crossfire and includes a parade through the streets complete ...

chat, maybe light a fire in the brush in a ditch or strap giant burlap sacks full of something large and bulbous to the roof. At ...

behind a wall of glass. The people huddling around him made room for me and suddenly I felt like I was watching an action movie ...

does everyone on the bus. It turns out that Mr. Yell in My Ear was some sort of holy man who was just warming up the crowd for a ...

from New York to DC would be in a similar situation. Meanwhile, not one person on the bus was expecting this, and not one person ...

of tea. Here’s what India taught me about tapping into the Mother Lode: Talk to strangers, we’re all family on this planet. Exp ...

Loosen your bone, Wilma. LOVE YOURSELF And life becomes a party. ...

PART 4: HOW TO GET ...

OVER YOUR B.S. ALREADY ...

CHAPTER 17: IT’S SO EASY ONCE YOU FIGURE OUT IT ISN’T HARD Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —Albert ...

home one morning, reading the newspaper with the doors flung open and the stereo blasting, when all of a sudden a bird came tear ...

glass at full speed. I finally managed to escort him outside to freedom, and then spent a very bothered few minutes calming my o ...

by the nice lady in the bathrobe across the room. Then all we’d have to do is fly through it. Oh, the drama we create for oursel ...

that you’ve walked down a million times and suddenly noticed a house or a tree or a mailbox or something else totally obvious an ...

Take about a minute and count them all. Now stop, look back at this page without taking your eyes off of it, and try to think of ...