Overwhelmed by the news cycle and the state of affairs in our world? This inspirational guide draws lessons of our favorite superheroes for how we can band together, live more heroically (and meaningfully), and save the world. It’s exhausting to give a damn these days, isn’t it? Perhaps you’re feeling anguished about what you see on the news or in your social media timeline, or by your personal circumstances, and are paralyzed waiting for political or religious leaders, or celebrities, to rescue us from it all. But what if you didn’t have to wait for someone else? What if you could be the hero?
This book shows you how. Pavlovitz offers a path away from the vitriol and toward compassion, with a plan to transform our burdens into dreams and our outrage into activism. Drawing from lessons of fictional superheroes, hd shows us how to identify our origin story, build protective suits of armor, guard against our personal kryptonite, and vanquish our villains. He also identifies ten specific "superpowers" that we can enlist to make our lives and our world better.
Along the way, he shares inspiring anecdotes and profiles about ordinary people who saw a gap in the world in empathy or kindness or gratitude and decided to fill it. This is an invitation to anyone hoping to be the kind of person the world so desperately needs — the kind who can save it. In other words, it invites you.
It does seem strange that we have to make an effort to have hope. I think we have to do the same with happiness since there is so much depressing information and events everywhere we look. But hope and happiness in one's life really do make a difference.
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