The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help

Amanda Palmer's generous work of genius will change the way you think about connection, love and grace - Seth GodinTo read Amanda Palmer's remarkable memoir about asking and giving is to tumble headlong into her world. Immediately, you notice that her world is really different from yours and mine. Amanda's world is more open, more vulnerable, more fearless, more messy, more surprising, more dangerous, more rich with human encounters and exchanges at every imaginable level. At first, you find yourself thinking, "Goodness, what a crazy world that Amanda Palmer inhabits! How does she possibly endure it?" Then, gradually, as you read along, a doorway opens up in your heart, and you realize, "I want to live in a world exactly like hers". God willing, this book will show us all how to do it - Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of EAT, PRAY, LOVEThe Art of Asking is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably close. Dangerously close. Beautifully close. And uncomfortably close is exactly where we need to be if we want to transform this culture of scarcity and fundamental distrust - From the foreword by Brene Brown, author of the bestselling DARING GREATLYThis is the kind of book that makes you want to call the author up at midnight to whisper, 'My God. I thought I was the only one - Jenny Lawson, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of LET S PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED