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Heather Havrilesky

How to Be a Person in the World

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*Now a New York Times Love and Relationships bestseller*
For readers of Cheryl Strayed and Anne Lamott, a collection of brand new, impassioned, and inspiring letters by the author of the popular advice column Ask Polly, featured weekly on New York Magazine's The Cut
Should you quit your day job to follow your dreams? How do you rein in an overbearing mother? Will you ever stop dating wishy-washy, noncommittal guys? Should you put off having a baby for your career?
Heather Havrilesky, the author of the weekly advice column Ask Polly, featured in New York magazine's The Cut, is here to guide you through the “what if's” and “I don't knows” of modern life with the signature wisdom and tough love her readers have come to expect.

How to Be a Person in the World is a collection of never-before-published material along with a few fan favorites. Whether she's responding to cheaters or loners, lovers or haters, the depressed or the…
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  • Dani CyChas quoted4 months ago
    And sometimes you won’t know, too. But it won’t feel the same as the “I don’t know” that haunts you now. It will be a new kind of “I don’t know” that helps you close your eyes, to feel how good it is to be alive, to feel how good it is to just breathe.
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    • Dani CyChas quoted4 months ago
      Follow your uncertainty and fear into the darkness, accept that the darkness will always be a part of you, and recognize that that’s where you’ll find your passions. Then you’ll finally KNOW.
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      • Dani CyChas quoted4 months ago
        It sounds paradoxical, but uncertainty and vulnerability are your guides through this soggy life you’re living. Leaning into your not knowing will bring you more knowledge and wisdom and understanding than you ever dreamed of.
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