Neil Pasricha

Neil Pasricha is a Canadian author and speaker characterized by his advocacy of positivity and simple pleasures. He is best known for his book, The Book of Awesome, which is a New York Times best seller, and been a best seller from 2010 to 2015. He is also an established speaker and his TEDx talk, TheAs of Awesome, is ranked as the ninth most inspiring TEDx talk with overmillion views to date. In total, he has sold overmillion books.

Pasricha was born in Oshawa, Ontario. His mother is from Nairobi, Kenya, his father is from a small village outside of Amritsar, India, and he has one sister. Pasricha says much of his wonder for the world comes from his immigrant parents and their perspective on seeing everything for the first time in Canada. In his TED Talk he explains how his father would stare in wonder at the little stickers on all the fruits and vegetables.

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