![]() ![]() ![]() *Bonus PDF Included with Awesomeness/Suckiness Chart Ideal and provides a new and inspiring framework for understanding friendship, success, and happiness in our everyday lives. On Being Awesome articulates a singular and gripping cultural What can the invention of the high five and the history of “cool” tell us about the origins of awesome? Can introverts beĪwesome? How do our expectations of awesome relate to race, gender, and sexuality? How is our desire for awesomeness shaping our cultural landscape-art, altruism, athletics, and public life? TheseĪre just a few of the questions Riggle explores in this accessible, philosophical road trip through the ethos of our time. Openings in the office, in public, or with our friends and loved ones. To be down, game, chill, basic, wack, or a preference dictator are just a handful of ways we can create, respond to, or fail to take up social We foil their attempts at creative community building. At the core of his work is the idea that awesome people are exemplars of social creativity. ![]() Investigation of a thoroughly contemporary condition, philosopher and former pro skater Nick Riggle argues that our collective interest in being awesome (and not sucking) marks a new era in AmericanĬulture, one that is shaped by relatively recent social, political, and technological shifts. A lively philosophical exploration of what it means to be awesome and not suck, and a plea for more awesomeness in our personal, social, and public lives In this engaging, fun, and astute ![]()
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