"Using her cheeky signature graphs, Hagy keenly outlines the 7 steps that will desaturate your fear and alter the way you approach each day: with fresh purpose, power, and clarity.” —Meera Lee Patel, author of Create Your Own Calm and Start Where You Are
Ready to shake off worry and jump-start your life, but not sure if that’s even possible? This quick read from Jessica Hagy, master of the Venn diagram and author of the bestselling How to Be Interesting, will get you started. Told entirely through insightful infographics, mood-boosting charts and short, inspiring messages, this little book will shift your thinking away from swirling doubt and help you find your path. Written like a series of gentle, encouraging notes and doodles from your smartest, funniest friend, it's a helpful gift for new graduates, the newly married, the newly divorced, and the newly employed or unemployed. This bright and colorful small-format hardcover book fits easily into a bag or pack.
"This inviting handbook will be of aid to those in need of strategies to overcome anxious thoughts." —Publisher's Weekly
Praise for How to Be Fearless:
"Using her cheeky signature graphs, Hagy keenly outlines the 7 steps that will desaturate your fear and alter the way you approach each day: with fresh purpose, power, and clarity.” —Meera Lee Patel, author of Create Your Own Calm and Start Where You Are
"This book is my new chart-therapist. It's exactly the advice I needed right now." —Michelle Rial, author of Am I Overthinking This?
"Jessica faces down fear and invites in courage with humor, heart, and visual delight. This truly is a book where a picture can be worth a thousand words." —Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit
"This inviting handbook will be of aid to those in need of strategies to overcome anxious thoughts." —Publishers Weekly
Praise for Jessica Hagy:
"With just a few arrows, circles, and tart words, Jessica Hagy makes more sense of the human condition than the rest of us combined." —Stephen J. Dubner, author of Freakonomics
"If there's a thinker to steal from, it's Jessica Hagy." —Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!
JESSICA HAGY is an artist and writer best known for her Webby Award-winning blog, Indexed. A fixture in the creative online space, including 15 years as a guerrilla advertising creative, Jessica has been illustrating, consulting, and speaking to international media and events since 2006. She is the author of How to Be Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps) and The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs. Combined they have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her illustrated articles have appeared in Wired, Forbes, BBC Magazine (online), Harvard Business Review, and TheAtlantic.com. She holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from Ohio University, an MBA from Otterbein University, and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from the University of Washington.
Hope is more of a skill than a feeling. You need to practice it to experience it.
Here's how: If you get worried, scared, or frustrated, think, "This has to get better soon." Then do one thing to make that happen. Over and over. Until your hope has a momentum all its own.
"Using her cheeky signature graphs, Hagy keenly outlines the 7 steps that will desaturate your fear and alter the way you approach each day: with fresh purpose, power, and clarity.” —Meera Lee Patel, author of Create Your Own Calm and Start Where You Are
Ready to shake off worry and jump-start your life, but not sure if that’s even possible? This quick read from Jessica Hagy, master of the Venn diagram and author of the bestselling How to Be Interesting, will get you started. Told entirely through insightful infographics, mood-boosting charts and short, inspiring messages, this little book will shift your thinking away from swirling doubt and help you find your path. Written like a series of gentle, encouraging notes and doodles from your smartest, funniest friend, it's a helpful gift for new graduates, the newly married, the newly divorced, and the newly employed or unemployed. This bright and colorful small-format hardcover book fits easily into a bag or pack.
"This inviting handbook will be of aid to those in need of strategies to overcome anxious thoughts." —Publisher's Weekly
Praise
Praise for How to Be Fearless:
"Using her cheeky signature graphs, Hagy keenly outlines the 7 steps that will desaturate your fear and alter the way you approach each day: with fresh purpose, power, and clarity.” —Meera Lee Patel, author of Create Your Own Calm and Start Where You Are
"This book is my new chart-therapist. It's exactly the advice I needed right now." —Michelle Rial, author of Am I Overthinking This?
"Jessica faces down fear and invites in courage with humor, heart, and visual delight. This truly is a book where a picture can be worth a thousand words." —Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Coaching Habit
"This inviting handbook will be of aid to those in need of strategies to overcome anxious thoughts." —Publishers Weekly
Praise for Jessica Hagy:
"With just a few arrows, circles, and tart words, Jessica Hagy makes more sense of the human condition than the rest of us combined." —Stephen J. Dubner, author of Freakonomics
"If there's a thinker to steal from, it's Jessica Hagy." —Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!
Author
JESSICA HAGY is an artist and writer best known for her Webby Award-winning blog, Indexed. A fixture in the creative online space, including 15 years as a guerrilla advertising creative, Jessica has been illustrating, consulting, and speaking to international media and events since 2006. She is the author of How to Be Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps) and The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs. Combined they have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her illustrated articles have appeared in Wired, Forbes, BBC Magazine (online), Harvard Business Review, and TheAtlantic.com. She holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from Ohio University, an MBA from Otterbein University, and an MFA in creative writing and poetics from the University of Washington.
Hope is more of a skill than a feeling. You need to practice it to experience it.
Here's how: If you get worried, scared, or frustrated, think, "This has to get better soon." Then do one thing to make that happen. Over and over. Until your hope has a momentum all its own.
