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The Art of Asking
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
- Narrated by: Amanda Palmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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.
This audio digital download includes a PDF featuring photographs and song lyrics.
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- Misty
- 27-05-2015
Just take the F'ing flower!!!
Amanda has the most captivating voice - she draws you in from the first word to the last. She shares her story with honesty, love, and opens up in a way that puts you right there with her. There are so many stellar points and learning curves from her story, and you can feel and appreciate the vulnerability in her voice - she really does lay it on the line.
Without a doubt one of my Top 3 favourites of all time.
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- Luna
- 13-02-2017
Its real....really real.
By far the best autobiography I have read so far. Moving and raw...it gets to the heart of what it means to be human.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-04-2019
Brave and Resilient
One of the most vulnerable autobiographies I have read. Such a resilient, brave and unique person. I was inspired to hear the realities of making things happen as a full-time musician, particularly with crowdfunding, setting up house concerts, overcoming critics and her loyalty to her community of fans. It was incredible to hear how the community spirit and support would rise for her when she was struggling to produce her records and when later cancelling a tour. I am taken aback by how resilient Amanda is.
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- Aaron Compton
- 08-04-2019
Inspirational
actually made me laugh and cry, this book is great and hearing the authors voice is great. plus it's got songs!
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- Faerie Sarah
- 26-04-2017
Heart Opening
Would you consider the audio edition of The Art of Asking to be better than the print version?
Yes, completely. I love this audio edition because it's actually Amanda telling you a story and singing to you as well, so wonderful to hear her voice tell her story.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Art of Asking?
I listened whilst working on some projects and had to often stop and take notes and let tears fall down my face so many times, oh my how I love this audio book
Have you listened to any of Amanda Palmer’s other performances? How does this one compare?
I have been to a concert and I am a Patreon, I love what Amanda does but this book was the gateway to all those things for me... this was a wonderful beginning.
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- kerry
- 30-03-2015
Painful
A total waste of free trial should have picked Stephen King no words to express how dissapointed
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- Anonymous User
- 21-04-2023
required text for humanity
tearing into ourselves to see what we are made of is important. listening to someone else do it is helpful and instructive even if occasionally painful.
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- Bob
- 24-11-2021
loved it. im 52yo male and just loved it
If your looking for a book it's raw honest this book reminded me to life will be OK met what dramas or emergencies are going on around youIf your looking for a book it's raw honest this book reminded me to life will be OK met what dramas or emergencies are going on around you
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- Michael Botur
- 29-01-2021
inspirational
She is a brave artist. This book explores all the risks she's taken. shame she compares herself to Einstein and the Dalai Lama though!
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- Anonymous User
- 20-04-2020
Special
What a special book... for the beautiful, complicated and artistic soul in all of us. Thank you Amanda
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