Jan 1

Jan 1 Embrace Your Weird

Score: 4/5 Bookmarks

Thank you to Libro.fm and Simon & Schuster Audio for gifting me an advance audiobook copy of Embrace Your Weird by Felicia Day.

I’ve been a Felicia Day fan since The Guild days, and have been fortunate enough to run into (and chat with) her a couple of times at CES, ComicCon etc.

Embrace Your Weird is all about developing and growing your creativity while facing the fears that might be holding you back. As expected, Day’s sense of humor shines through and hearing her read the book in the audio was an absolute delight.

However, the book is filled with fun and useful exercises that are a little hard to follow on the audio alone, so I actually ended up purchasing a copy of the book as well.

There are chapters on working out and visualizing who our most creative selves are (titled Our Hero-Selves) along with chapters and exercises to help you work out what is holding you back (aptly named Enemies). I definitely recommend this book for anyone who is trying to discover, or rediscover, their creativity, or for anyone who is facing a mental block or self-doubt where their creativity is concerned.

You can grab the audiobook on Libro.fm or click the button below to snag a physical copy.

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Synopsis:

In Embrace Your Weird, New York Times bestselling author, producer, actress, TV writer, and award-winning web series creator, Felicia Day takes you on a journey to find, rekindle, or expand your creative passions.

Including Felicia’s personal stories and hard-won wisdom, Embrace Your Weird offers:

—Entertaining and revelatory exercises that empower you to be fearless, so you can rediscover the things that bring you joy, and crack your imagination wide open

—Unique techniques to vanquish enemies of creativity like: anxiety, fear, procrastination, perfectionism, criticism, and jealousy

—Tips to cultivate a creative community

—Space to explore and get your neurons firing

Whether you enjoy writing, baking, painting, podcasting, playing music, or have yet to uncover your favorite creative outlet, Embrace Your Weird will help you unlock the power of self-expression. Get motivated. Get creative. Get weird.