So in a previous post I mentioned how I was reading, and loving the book Yes Man. The author, Danny Wallace, of this book has seriously become my new hero, and not because he has a great first name. You know that time where you had a great idea of something fun and interesting to do, but then chickened out at the last second, or started doing it but lost all dedication to it. Yeah, he doesn't chicken out, and he definitely follows through. In his first book, which I read by sneaking it off the shelf of the BYU-Hawaii bookstore where I worked, called Join Me, he accidently starts a cult, or a collective as he would rather it be called. In a fit of boredom and curiosity, he took out an ad in the paper stating, "Join me. Send one passport-sized photograph to..." and then he published his address, to see if anyone would join him. As to why they were joining him, he had no particular reason, but soon had to find a reason as people actually started joining him, so he started the Karma Army. Funny thing, the website he started in to bring people into his collective is still there, and if you want, you can still join. He seems like the type of person that everyone would want in their group of friends to make life much more interesting, as he comes up with various projects. Whether it be crazy things like trying to start his own country in his apartment, looking for the center of the universe in Idaho, saying yes to everything for 6 months or something a little more normal like tracking down all of his old friends from elementary and high school, a sort of twisted profoundness comes from it. For example, in Yes Man, no other statement has hit me harder than, "Every good thing in your life has come from saying yes to something somewhere along the line." Or when he realizes that sometimes saying no is a freeing experience and is okay, as long as you don't let it prevent yourself from missing out on life. In the end, he's become one of my new heroes and I strongly recommend picking up one of his books, and I guarantee you'll become a believer.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
One of my new heroes.
So in a previous post I mentioned how I was reading, and loving the book Yes Man. The author, Danny Wallace, of this book has seriously become my new hero, and not because he has a great first name. You know that time where you had a great idea of something fun and interesting to do, but then chickened out at the last second, or started doing it but lost all dedication to it. Yeah, he doesn't chicken out, and he definitely follows through. In his first book, which I read by sneaking it off the shelf of the BYU-Hawaii bookstore where I worked, called Join Me, he accidently starts a cult, or a collective as he would rather it be called. In a fit of boredom and curiosity, he took out an ad in the paper stating, "Join me. Send one passport-sized photograph to..." and then he published his address, to see if anyone would join him. As to why they were joining him, he had no particular reason, but soon had to find a reason as people actually started joining him, so he started the Karma Army. Funny thing, the website he started in to bring people into his collective is still there, and if you want, you can still join. He seems like the type of person that everyone would want in their group of friends to make life much more interesting, as he comes up with various projects. Whether it be crazy things like trying to start his own country in his apartment, looking for the center of the universe in Idaho, saying yes to everything for 6 months or something a little more normal like tracking down all of his old friends from elementary and high school, a sort of twisted profoundness comes from it. For example, in Yes Man, no other statement has hit me harder than, "Every good thing in your life has come from saying yes to something somewhere along the line." Or when he realizes that sometimes saying no is a freeing experience and is okay, as long as you don't let it prevent yourself from missing out on life. In the end, he's become one of my new heroes and I strongly recommend picking up one of his books, and I guarantee you'll become a believer.
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