• How to Get Back Up

  • A Memoir of Failure & Resilience
  • By: Neil Pasricha
  • Narrated by: Neil Pasricha
  • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (764 ratings)

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Publisher's summary

We all fail. We all fall. We all need to know how to get back up. Few know this better than New York Times best-selling author Neil Pasricha. Before selling over a million copies of his Book of Awesome series and touring the world to teach Fortune 500 CEOs, Ivy league deans, and members of the royal family how to unlock a positive mind-set, Pasricha’s life hit rock bottom. In this Audible Original, you'll hear for the first time Neil's very personal story of failure and resilience - and you'll learn how you, too, can find the strength to get back up.

©2018 Neil Pasricha (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC.

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The problem with the self-help industry, Neil explains, is that "we aren't sharing the grey stories—the stories in between the lines of the big, high-milestone moments that are on the cover of every greeting card."
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Publisher's summary

We all fail. We all fall. We all need to know how to get back up. Few know this better than New York Times best-selling author Neil Pasricha. Before selling over a million copies of his Book of Awesome series and touring the world to teach Fortune 500 CEOs, Ivy league deans, and members of the royal family how to unlock a positive mind-set, Pasricha’s life hit rock bottom. In this Audible Original, you'll hear for the first time Neil's very personal story of failure and resilience - and you'll learn how you, too, can find the strength to get back up.

©2018 Neil Pasricha (P)2018 Audible Originals, LLC.

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How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure and Resilience
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''We will always fall off our own paths...It's important we learn to get back up.''
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''Nobody wakes up wanting to be terrible [at their job].''
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  • How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure and Resilience
  • ''Nobody wakes up wanting to be terrible [at their job].''
  • How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure and Resilience
  • ''The hard truth is that we learn from pain.''
  • How to Get Back Up: A Memoir of Failure and Resilience
  • ''The pace of productivity growth is faster than at any other time in history.''
Neil Pasricha

About the Author and Performer

Neil Pasricha is the New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Equation and the Book of Awesome series, which has been published in 10 countries, spent over five years on best seller lists, and sold over a million copies. Neil is a Harvard MBA, a popular TED speaker, and after 10 years heading Leadership Development at Walmart, he now serves as Director of the Institute for Global Happiness.

He has dedicated the past decade of his life to developing leaders, creating global programs inside the world's largest companies and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. He lives in Toronto with his wife and sons.

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Can’t wait to listen to Neil Pasricha’s other books!

The whole book felt Honest, genuine and sincere. Loved every bit. I especially loved the story of Neil’s dad.

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Great read/listen!

I enjoyed this book very much. The author was easy to relate to. I enjoyed the way he read it and kept my attention. Thank Neal for a great book

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Just what I needed!

The author is sincere and resonates with many of our daily frustrations, and helps us consider what really matters in life.
Great book!

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A Thousand times Awesome!

It is the time in my life that I am looking for an inspiration to do something different. I am not into reading books, at times i won't understand a line or I cannot concentrate and just close the book. I decided to try Audible and see if it will fit into the time I have for myself. I came across this book and thought that it may be a good topic to start after being on a lockdown for more than 3 months because of COVID 19.

When I was on Chapter 1, i light up! Oh Neil is half Indian, ok! My heart's close to Indians since I have been working with them for the past 6 years. I have adapted their culture especially food, it's awesome! Then I continued and as I go along, I find myself laughing alone, answering some his questions and finding some of my stories match.

I highly recommend this book. It's was perfectly narrated.

Neil, you are very lucky to have a supporting parents. Keep inspiring more people.

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Great listen for everyone.

What a great book even if you don’t need help on how to get back up. But who doesn’t need a little help every day, copping with this modern world. Great ideas on how to help live you life and how special life really is.

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A wonderful gem!

I loved this book. I loved listening to the author read it. It is frank and engaging and insightful and tender and funny and painful And inspiring and accessible and refreshing.

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An incredible and insightful read

Thanks for being vulnerable enough to share your stories of failure upon failure with me Neil. It was really beautiful hearing your wonderful dad's voice too. My regards to your lovely wife and kids. Bless your darling heart.

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Inspirational

This book has many inspirational stories and quotes that has made me rethink my values and perspective on specific topics.

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Touching, educational and wildly brave.

The book is touching yet also warmly and surprisingly hilarious. It's raw but also extremely delicate. It's obviously self-reflective for the author, but I love how he also made it so self-reflective for us too. So many of my own emotions, basement walls and acceptance issues to face through the journey of his story.

It's also actionable. In addition to all of the lessons in failure, there are some great tools mixed in that explain how he has managed to be so successful through failure but also in general. I needed this book. If you're searching for something then maybe you need this book too. Most of all, I appreciate the author's bravery in writing this tearful, funny and inspiring memoir.

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Simple and Effective Lessons

This Audible book is both entertaining and informative. Neil delivers this book as if he's talking in our living rooms. He talks about his most personal obstacles, his parents' lessons, and makes it all come alive. There are a lot of good tidbits of advice that are worth listening to and writing down. Well worth the investment.

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