Do Epic Shit
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Genre: Non-Fiction
Format: E-Book
Number of pages: 146
Star:
4.2/5 (Self)
Published by: Juggernaut
My
Review:
A non-fiction book worth reading, this was the 24th book I picked up to
read before this year ends and I am glad I did it. The author has compiled his
tweets into different chapters as the contents of this book. This reminds me of
the book "The almanack of Naval Ravikant" by Eric Jorgenson who has
done a similar job. Coincidentally, I got the recommendation of "The
almanack of Naval Ravikant" by Ankur Warikoo himself and finished reading
it long before "Do epic sh*t".
This book is a complete manifestation of the power of compounding -
thoughts into tweets, tweets into threads, threads into chapters, and chapters
into the book. Tweets expressing similar ideas are grouped together into a
chapter and there are 6 chapters in this book.
Amidst much criticism, the author himself has confessed at the beginning
of the Acknowledgments section that the thoughts expressed in the book are
burrowed ones and he doesn't take the responsibility of owning them. What
impresses me is the way those common thoughts are expressed in simple language
which everyone can connect to. These thoughts are raw, honest, and
unmanipulated. Ankur doesn't shy away from exposing the stark reality of life.
He aims to help people to take decisions from the point of view of awareness
and not ignorance, just like the way this book has been written with a lot of
honesty and life experiences.
A few of my favorites are written below –
1) "Nothing matters more in life than showing up every day. To
work, assume responsibilities, to nurture relationships."
2)"We bring people down because we are
feeling low."
3)"The scars that you wear on your body. Don't regret them. Don't
hate them. Don't reject them."
4)"Asking is the best thing to do, before making assumptions. It
either validates your assumption or you get to understand people better. Either
way, you get to be a better communicator."
5)"We know others through their actions. We know ourselves through
our thoughts."
6)"We're not average of the five people we
spend the most time with. We are average of the five thoughts we spend the most
time with. And those thoughts needn't come from people in our life".
7)"How we treat others is a reflection of how we treat ourselves.
It is rare, almost impossible, for a man, conniving, hurtful, racist, bigoted
person to truly love themselves."
8)"An excuse is a distance between who you are and who you wish to
be."
9)"If you don't ask, the answer is always no."
10)"It is better to be busy in the chase of finding yourself
instead of being busy in the rat race and never know yourself."
11)"Safe is better than sorry. Nope. Risk is better than regret."
12)"People will help you only when you have helped them understand
how they can."
As written by Ankur on page 83, "We may show to the world that we
seek something different from what we truly seek. Yet hand on heart, we always
know what we truly seek. And the universe has a beautiful system of landing
what you ask for, on your plate." I too have sought this book as a gift
from the universe before this year ends, lo and behold! I won this book in a
giveaway contest before 2022. My belief in the Law of Attraction strengthens.
My favourite chapters of this book are
Relationships and Epilogue. I loved the idea of writing letters to the children
and to oneself. Something, as personal as a letter, can only be written with a
heart full of gratitude and willingness to appreciate the beauty that one can
perceive. The book couldn't have been completed in a better way than the way
the epilogue has been written. It made me awestruck and emotional when I read
those concluding lines that remind the readers of their hidden superpowers and
urge to invoke them.
In the end, thank you Ankur Warikoo for writing a wonderful book like
this, of course, the title makes it stand out.
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Swati Sarangi
22.12.2022
