3 Books With Neil Pasricha

Do you remember the first person who introduced you to the love of reading? Was it a teacher? A parent? A friend? For me, it was my third-grade teacher . I remember on the first day of class we all gathered on this old, dusty green carpet and Mrs. Dorsman asked us all where we went that summer. "I went to Japan," she began, with her eyes bugged open, "… and to Australia … and the waterfalls of Sou...

What was the first  TED Talk   you ever watched? Was it  Do  s chools kill creativity?   by Ken Robinson? Was it  The power of vulnerability   by Brené Brown? Whatever it is I bet you felt a bit like you stumbled onto an oasis. The Internet is junky! The whole thing feels like a pack of cougars just ran through a dollar store. Pop-up everything, ads screaming at you, and everything feels like a fi...

Our world is so full. Our world is so busy. Our world is so  cluttered. Newspaper boxes. Pop-up ads. TVs in elevators. There are so many things trying to grab our attention. So many reaching out with their little fish lures to poke and grab us into signing up for their newsletters. Don't you ever feel like it's just  too loud ? I say what we need in this world of constant stimulation are ... edito...

Do you make your own luck? Do you really control what happens? Or do you simply dump everything you can in the system, press the big green button, and then hang on for the hairy-scary ride? Elan Mastai  is the award-winning screenwriter and novelist behind one of my favorite books of last year – the incredibly fast-paced, head-twisting, and emotionally moving sci-fi epic  All Our Wrong Todays . I...

Do you remember the comedy dry zone? I'm talking about the barren, hardscrabble times when getting a free laugh from the comfort of your toilet wasn't easy. Before Internet memes, before parody Twitter themes, before viral SNL skits, before ShowerThoughts subreddits, before LOLCats and even before giant email chats… … there was one man. The inimitable, indomitable, indefatigable Dave Barry . Begin...

  It's getting tougher to grow up these days. We're surrounded by endlessly reflecting images of everyone else having fun without us.  There are incredible pressures to achieve, to be ourselves and be different, to stand up and stand out, to follow big footsteps… and follow our hearts at the same time.  A friend said to me the other day "When I was in high school and I'd stay at home on a Saturday...

In this Chapter of 3 Books , I jump into the backseat of Vishwas Aggrawal's Uber and take a trip you won't soon forget.  This is a story about setting your own standards in a world constantly hammering us into "human resources."  This is a story about setting your own winning lines in a world that wants us to be widgets. This is a story about raising the bar for yourself and deeply valuing the hum...

Did you grow up with Judy Blume? My mom says I "found my voice" reading Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to my sister in the bathtub when I was a little kid. Well, I grabbed that tattered copy and carried it with me down to Key West, Florida where I had the extreme privilege of sitting down with the one and only Judy Blume ( @JudyBlume ). Join us as Judy shares her three most formative books, how t...

Welcome to the fifth chapter of  3 Books  where I chat with Gretchen Rubin ( @Gretchen Rubin ) in the Penguin Random House studio in downtown Toronto.  I met Gretchen ten years ago before her New York Times bestsellers  The Happiness Project ,  Better Than Before , and  The Four Tendencies  took the world by storm with over three million copies sold. And before her fantastic podcast " Happier by G...

Welcome to the first chapter of 3 Books recorded live in an open bookstore! Book City is in the heart of Toronto's beautiful Bloor West Village neighborhood and that's where I settled into the children's section to talk blame, beauty, and growth with my favorite bookseller in the world -- the one and only Sarah Ramsey. I love Sarah because she takes the art of bookselling seriously and seemingly r...

I flew down to New York to uncover and discuss the most formative books of the one and only Seth Godin ( @ThisIsSethsBlog ) from his Hastings-On-Hudson studio. Seth is the bestselling author of Linchpin , Purple Cow , Tribes and many more books and is known as one of the world's biggest thinkers in communities such as TED  and the Direct Marketing Association . This year he is being inducted into...

From a sunny balcony in San Diego   overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Frank Warren of PostSecret and I uncover and discuss his three most formative books and pull out the resonant themes affecting us all. How do we give people a voice? In a flattening world, how do we build trust with new people? And what are the lessons we can take and apply to our own lives from these three life-changing books? Lea...

Welcome! This is an unusual first chapter. In every other chapter I'll have a guest, their three most formative books, and a discussion touching on life's biggest themes. But this one? You'll join me and my wife Leslie in an intimate chat in our basement just after we put our kids to bed. I share my idea of starting 3 Books and talk about the rough vision, goals, and values of the show. She asks s...

Listen in for a hint of what's to come with five-time NYT Bestselling Author Neil Pasricha's brand new podcast: 3 Books With Neil Pasricha. Click here to visit the http://3books.co/ website. Click here to Subscribe to the new podcast in iTunes . Click here to Subscribe to the new podcast in Stitcher .