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The art of asking ;, or, How I learned to stop worrying and let people help, written, read & sung by Amanda Palmer ; foreword by Brene Brown

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The art of asking ;, or, How I learned to stop worrying and let people help, written, read & sung by Amanda Palmer ; foreword by Brene Brown
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
autobiography
Main title
The art of asking ;
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Responsibility statement
written, read & sung by Amanda Palmer ; foreword by Brene Brown
Sub title
or, How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Summary
'When we really see each other, we want to help each other' - Amanda Palmer Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk cabaret band, and finding a place to sleep each night by reaching out to strangers on Twitter. For Amanda Palmer, actions like these have gone beyond satisfying her basic needs for food and shelter - they've taught her how to turn strangers into friends, build communities, and discover her own giving impulses. And because she had learned how to ask, she was able to go to the world to ask for the money to make a new album and tour with it, and to raise over a million dollars in a month. In The Art of Asking, Palmer expands upon her popular TED talk to reveal how ordinary people, those of us without thousands of Twitter followers and adoring fans, can use these same principles in our own lives
Target audience
adult
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resource.variantTitle
How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
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