what if you just did it anyway?

years ago, andrea r. lirio read a piece of advice: if you want to be a writer, write 100 pieces. her brain immediately went: OH! perfect. a quest! two days later after she finished, nobody emerged to declare her a real writer.

so she tried the next piece of advice. this funny, illustrated, very true story introduce the professionally trained hoop jumper, a person who has spent years becoming exceptional at systems designed by other people, for goals they never stopped to question.

andrea has uncovered seven of them that every over-achiever, gifted child has grappled with:

• the credential collector: "i'm not qualified yet."
• the helper: "i'm safer inside someone else's vision."
• the almost: "what are the odds?"
• the researcher: "i don't know enough yet."
• the optimizer: "it has to be perfect!"
• the pivot: "i shouldn't commit to anything."
• the arrived: "i did everything!! but now what?"

in this book, there are no formulas, no worksheets, and no promise your life will be perfect if you follow these steps. after all, andrea has found that self-help books with formulas have often failed her. instead, it's just one very good direction-follower's story, a quiz to find your hoop jumper, and one annoying question:

what if you just did it anyway?

for people brilliant at following directions and ready to make their own.

*this book was made entirely by a human with no AI