The Art Of Asking , Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let People Help

Rock Singer, Crowdfunding Pioneer, And Ted Speaker Amanda Palmer Knows All About Asking. Performing As A Living Statue In A Wedding Dress, She Wordlessly Asked Thousands Of Passersby For Their Dollars. When She Became A Singer, Songwriter, And Musician, She Was Not Afraid To Ask Her Audience To Support Her As She Surfed The Crowd (and Slept On Their Couches While Touring). And When She Left Her Record Label To Strike Out On Her Own, She Asked Her Fans To Support Her In Making An Album, Leading To The World's Most Successful Music Kickstarter. Even While Amanda Is Both Celebrated And Attacked For Her Fearlessness In Asking For Help, She Finds That There Are Important Things She Cannot Ask For -- As A Musician, As A Friend, And As A Wife. She Learns That She Isn't Alone In This, That So Many People Are Afraid To Ask For Help, And It Paralyzes Their Lives And Relationships. In This Groundbreaking Book, She Explores These Barriers In Her Own Life And In The Lives Of Those Around Her, And Discovers The Emotional, Philosophical, And Practical Aspects Of The Art Of Asking. Amanda Palmer ; Foreward By Brene ́brown. Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support her as she surfed the crowd (and slept on their couches while touring). And when she left her record label to strike out on her own, she asked her fans to support her in making an album, leading to the world's most successful music Kickstarter. Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for-as a musician, as a friend, and as a wife. She learns that she isn't alone in this, that so many people are afraid to ask for help, and it paralyzes their lives and relationships. In this groundbreaking book, she explores these barriers in her own life and in the lives of those around her, and discovers the emotional, philosophical, and practical aspects of The Art Of Asking . Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century, both on and off the Internet. The Art Of Asking will inspire readers to rethink their own ideas about asking, giving, art, and love. With this combination of autobiography and self-help manual, punk singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer expands on her popular 2013 TED Talk on "The Art of Asking." Palmer has worked as a human statue, a performer and a singer. Each job helped her learn how to connect with others and ask for help. She covers life on the road in her art-punk band The Dresden Dolls, explains how crowdfunding makes it easier for artists to ask for help, and discusses her personal life, including her struggles with shame and her marriage to author Neil Gaiman. Palmer's message of how to ask for help is the core of her text. But this manual, like her life, is chaotic. Her memoir sometimes seems like a stream-of-consciousness exercise and its confusion shrouds her heartfelt ideas about the need to escape shame and remorse. Still, getAbstract recommends Palmer's tale of creative ambition and fearlessness to entrepreneurs, inventors and artists of all types Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently asking 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 "Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking ... Even while Amanda is both celebrated and attacked for her fearlessness in asking for help, she finds that there are important things she cannot ask for ... Part manifesto, part revelation, this is the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the twenty-first century"--Book jacket flap.