Summary and Analysis of You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Based on the Book by Jen Sincero

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• Publisher: Worth Books
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781504044318
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Mental Health & Wellbeing

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About You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero: Jen Sincero wants to help you live your best life. Hilarious and inspiring, You Are a Badass is a book for those ready to make big changes in their lives. From confronting your fears, to taking risks, to making money, to finding love, Sincero teaches how to become your own personal cheerleader—and kick butt doing it. The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

Summary

Introduction

Jen Sincero was a successful author, but she still felt unsatisfied. Sick of her “lukewarm life,” she decided to make a change. And now she’s here to tell you that changing your life can happen right now. You just have to decide to actually do it. Sincero asks you to keep an open mind, suspend disbelief, and to be receptive to all possibilities.

Need to Know: This will be a different sort of self-help book. It’s chatty instead of churchy, filled with quirky anecdotes and more than a few swear words. But its goal is the same as the others. It will help you achieve your best and most joyous life.

Part 1: How You Got This Way

Chapter 1: My Subconscious Made Me Do It

From birth, we are taught to live our lives based on false beliefs passed down throughout generations and imposed upon us by society. Your subconscious is where these beliefs live. Your conscious mind develops after puberty, but by then your subconscious beliefs have already solidified. They control the decision-making frontal lobe—in other words, your conscious brain. These false beliefs control the way you’re living your life.

The fact that subconscious thoughts are, well, subconscious is part of the problem. You may not even know you have them. That’s why the first step in getting rid of false beliefs is to recognize that they exist, and figure out what they are. Once you can change these thoughts, you can change your reality.

Need to Know: Sincero likens a subconscious hang-up to a dead animal under your porch—until you find it and dispose of it, you’ll never be able to get rid of the stench.

Chapter 2: The G Word

Sincero uses many terms for “God.” She refers to a higher power as the Universe, the Vortex, the Spirit, the Mother Lode, and Source Energy, and urges you to use whatever words you’re comfortable with. But it’s got to be there—she says your road to changing your life will be much harder without a belief in the Spirit. According to Sincero, everything in the Universe vibrates at a certain energy or frequency. People and things with high frequencies are closely connected to the Source Energy. Vibrations attract like vibrations, so you need to raise your frequency to match the frequencies of your desires. When you are living a high frequency lifestyle, you can harness your own capability of creating the reality you want. Your frequency is high when you’re truly aware that what you want is already available to you.

Need to Know: The trick is to keep believing in the Spirit even when things are tough. If you don’t, it will be like trying to fly in a dream the moment you realize you can’t fly—and you plummet to the ground.

Chapter 3: Present as a Pigeon

You are living in an incredible world, where every single thing about life is a miracle. From the cosmic truths of the Universe to the simple fact that you can take air into your lungs, it’s all miraculous. But you probably don’t think about that much. In fact, you probably spend a lot of time worrying about what’s coming and regretting what’s already happened. Sincero wants you to stop all that and focus on being present. When you are present in the moment, you can connect to the Source Energy—And only then, you can realize that the things you want already exist.

Need to Know: If you’re busy being anxious about the future and depressed about the past, you won’t notice all of the possibilities that surround you.

Chapter 4: The Big Snooze

The Big Snooze, or BS for short, is Sincero’s term for all the stuff that’s keeping you from being a badass. It’s your subconscious and all of the false beliefs you’re carrying around. You need to wake up from the BS to achieve your desires. Unfortunately, BS is fear-based and waking up from it is hard. Once you awake, you might encounter problem after problem—the process can be tumultuous, and sometimes requires cutting ties with people and things that you love. But you must power through and not give up on your goals. It will be difficult, scary, and people might not understand, but it’s necessary if you really want to change your life.

Need to Know: Sincero compares waking from the BS to going through detox—it will be awful at first, as you get all of the toxins out of your system. But a whole ne...

Table of contents

• Title
• Disclaimer
• Contents
• Context
• Overview
• Summary
• Direct Quotes and Analysis
• Trivia
• What’s That Word?
• Critical Response
• About Jen Sincero
• For Your Information
• Bibliography
• Copyright