The Hidden Power of F*cking Up

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The Try Guys have created a guide to taking chances and making mistakes. You'll learn how jumping out of your comfort zone can lead to inspiration and a boost in self-confidence. And you'll learn that sometimes things don't turn out the way you expect them to and it's ok. It just means you need to try again and do it in a different way. Learning what works best for you, is part of the experience.

I think fans of The Try Guys will absolutely love this book. I highly recommend the audio because each of The Try Guys reads their own sections. Hearing their humor and personalities really made the lessons stand out. Will people who haven't heard of The Try Guys enjoy this? Ned, Keith, Eugene, and Zach each have unique personalities and perspectives of life. I think just about anyone can connect with at least one of the guys. And their approach to giving advice is different from other self-help books.

The greatest part about this book is that The Try Guys don't just give you advice. They use their advice throughout the book to show how real-life examples work. Is it hard? Absolutely. They dive into some of the most insecure areas of their life and talk about how they feel during the process of their try. The Try Guys also don't gloss over the difficulties they have each faced in their lives. The challenges of work/life balance, being comfortable in their physical appearances, the dynamics of their families, there is a myriad of topics available for readers to learn from.

Not only do they venture into different tries, but they also have no problem complaining about them and explaining why they may not work for them. This truly is a book about mistakes. Not every decision you make is going to be a good one. That's the course of life. But just because you made a mistake, doesn't mean the next time you try something it will be bad. Just keep trying, and you'll find some amazing results.

I loved this book. The humor each Try Guy brought into the narration was fantastic. While self-help books can be educational they tend to also be dry. This is educational and entertaining at the same time. I was laughing at their antics while also enjoying the lessons they were sharing. I would read another book by The Try Guys in a heartbeat.

It seemed that I will ask Audible to take this book back and give me my money back. First chapter was terrible. But then they calmed down and started to talk mostly normally. One of the most sincere and entertaining books I have had. Especially in this genre.

Yes, the book is chaotic, the book is filled with advice being from terrible to brilliant and the book is mostly their life stories and experience than self help. And it seems it was meant to be like that. Trying and actually doing things is messy and very subjective. Thank god there was no 12 universal rules of how to be happy, it would be just lame. Putting fucking in every quote was eye roll inducing but bearable. But sincerity, kindness, openness and may I say love pouring from their stories is heartwarming. And I could really appreciate their dedication to failing. It was even inspiring. And maybe I will take a thing or two from this book.

If you haven't read or listened to The Hidden Power of F*cking Up then I definitely recommend it. I've enjoyed all of the guys' perspectives so far - and with four perspectives, that's four for me to really connect to and that can connect with me and my life, like how I can connect more with Zach's perspective on health because hey, chronic pain buddies (I have fibromyalgia so very different from AS but still sucks majorly), but I can connect more with Eugene about love and family.

If you're a fan of Keith, Zach, Eugene and Ned and haven't read/listened to this book, please do; their personalities truly come out making the book feel alive - sometimes it feels like a conversation with friends, and the book has made me genuinely laugh a few times which I've bookmarked parts to go back to for a laugh. But there's a lot of good advice and thoughts on the subjects included in the book.

There's plenty to be taken away from in this book and again, there's four perspectives to connect to - and none of them act like they know better or their way is the only way, it's simply their experiences, their thoughts and feelings put forth for us to listen and for us to make our own decisions to try

I really liked the format of the book and how the Try Guys narrated it.