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The Art of Asking

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

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The Art of Asking

By: Amanda Palmer
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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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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.

Just take the F'ing flower!!!

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It was like hanging out with a good friend over coffee. I miss her already.

Great listen

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This is probably the 5th time I've listened to this book Inspiringly honest and please Amanda write another book Huge fan for many years Don't ever stop being real Love to you Neil and your growing family xx A must read!

Amanda Palmer you are amazing!

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What a special book... for the beautiful, complicated and artistic soul in all of us. Thank you Amanda

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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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