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Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
adventurous
challenging
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
Professional Troublemaker by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
This is my favourite book of 2021!!! Luvvie is like the big sister one needs in life. She is bada$$ and takes no Sh#t. She provides a blanket of comfort and support for this time of needs. I bumped into this book after her 2017 TEDtalk - Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable. Oh. The. Grace!
How to be a professional Troublemaker
BE – SAY – DO! and do not fear. Or fear but go ahead anyway. Because you are so worth it. She says: ‘While a Professional Troublemaker isn’t someone who manufactures chaos and crises, they do understand that chaos can come from being honest and authentic and going against the tide.” How to do that? Well, she talks a lot about being and asserting your TOOmuchness. She says: ‘We err on the side of humility to our detriment. Do. Not. Shrink. We’ve had so much practice shrinking ourselves and trying to make ourselves smaller that when it’s time for us to take up space we do no know how... who are we helping by being muted versions of ourselves?”
BE – SAY – DO! Write your life statement mission. How? Use the Game of Thrones method. AAAHHH!
Who are you? Who are your tribe? What do you stand for? What do you want to do to get to the throne? Be as authentic as you can be with yourself, she says and work on that.
Because ‘when there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.’
Another thing that made my jaw drop when reading the book was the positive racism within. Omg. Those capitalist white dudes took a heavy toll. Her boldness is priceless.
“The audacity of unshackled white men is massive. The system that white men created, designed and profit from, that makes the rest of us afraid of our own shadow while they step on our backs, is well done, ain’t it? It works so well. We need the same nerve and rashness to dare to think these things are possible too, even when we know that we might need to be four times as good, three times as qualified, and twice as professional to get what they will have handed to them when they walk into a room in their cargo shorts. So, i say with caveat and without naivete: Dreaming big is in itself a privilege. However, I’m asking us to trick ourselves into thinking we HAVE the privilege to think big.”
Do you hear Olivia Pope talking? Well, you should. Imagine how dope she is, she recaps Scandal episode on her blog!!!
You think this is bold... now think again. She challenges Michelle Obama’s most trending quote, ‘When they go low we go high’. SHE. DOES. NOT. AGREE. She explains this part during the immigrate isolation in America when ‘the walking cheetos’ announced he is closing the borders. NO. She says, we do not go high because ain’t half the country is understanding niceness, WE. GO. AS. WILD. And makes us heard.
The next best thing is quoting, Maya Angelou, Khalil Gribran, Palms 61 aaaannnnddd Allah. Like literally. This is Dope. READ IT!!! READ IT NOW.
This is my favourite book of 2021!!! Luvvie is like the big sister one needs in life. She is bada$$ and takes no Sh#t. She provides a blanket of comfort and support for this time of needs. I bumped into this book after her 2017 TEDtalk - Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable. Oh. The. Grace!
How to be a professional Troublemaker
BE – SAY – DO! and do not fear. Or fear but go ahead anyway. Because you are so worth it. She says: ‘While a Professional Troublemaker isn’t someone who manufactures chaos and crises, they do understand that chaos can come from being honest and authentic and going against the tide.” How to do that? Well, she talks a lot about being and asserting your TOOmuchness. She says: ‘We err on the side of humility to our detriment. Do. Not. Shrink. We’ve had so much practice shrinking ourselves and trying to make ourselves smaller that when it’s time for us to take up space we do no know how... who are we helping by being muted versions of ourselves?”
BE – SAY – DO! Write your life statement mission. How? Use the Game of Thrones method. AAAHHH!
Who are you? Who are your tribe? What do you stand for? What do you want to do to get to the throne? Be as authentic as you can be with yourself, she says and work on that.
Because ‘when there is no enemy within, the enemy outside can do you no harm.’
Another thing that made my jaw drop when reading the book was the positive racism within. Omg. Those capitalist white dudes took a heavy toll. Her boldness is priceless.
“The audacity of unshackled white men is massive. The system that white men created, designed and profit from, that makes the rest of us afraid of our own shadow while they step on our backs, is well done, ain’t it? It works so well. We need the same nerve and rashness to dare to think these things are possible too, even when we know that we might need to be four times as good, three times as qualified, and twice as professional to get what they will have handed to them when they walk into a room in their cargo shorts. So, i say with caveat and without naivete: Dreaming big is in itself a privilege. However, I’m asking us to trick ourselves into thinking we HAVE the privilege to think big.”
Do you hear Olivia Pope talking? Well, you should. Imagine how dope she is, she recaps Scandal episode on her blog!!!
You think this is bold... now think again. She challenges Michelle Obama’s most trending quote, ‘When they go low we go high’. SHE. DOES. NOT. AGREE. She explains this part during the immigrate isolation in America when ‘the walking cheetos’ announced he is closing the borders. NO. She says, we do not go high because ain’t half the country is understanding niceness, WE. GO. AS. WILD. And makes us heard.
The next best thing is quoting, Maya Angelou, Khalil Gribran, Palms 61 aaaannnnddd Allah. Like literally. This is Dope. READ IT!!! READ IT NOW.