Cringeworthy
Portfolio (Verlag)
978-0-525-53642-0 (ISBN)
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Have you ever said goodbye to someone, only to discover that you're both walking in the same direction? Or had your next thought fly out of your brain in the middle of a presentation? Or accidentally liked an old photo on someone's Instagram or Facebook, thus revealing yourself to be a creepy social media stalker?
Melissa Dahl, editor of New York magazine's "Science of Us" website, has. After a lifetime of cringing, she became intrigued by awkwardness: a universal but underappreciated emotion. In this witty and compassionate book, Dahl explores the oddest, cringiest corners of our world. She chats with strangers on the busy New York City subway, goes on awkward friend dates using a "Tinder-for-friendship" app, takes improv comedy lessons, and even reads aloud from her (highly embarrassing!) middle school diary to a crowd of strangers.
After all of that, she realizes: Awkward moments are opportunities to test yourself. When everyone else is pretending to have it under control, you can be a little braver and grow a little bigger--while remaining true to your awkward self. And along the way, you might find that awkward moments unite us in our mutual human ridiculousness.
Melissa Dahl is a senior editor for New York 's The Cut, where she covers health and psychology. In 2014, she co-founded NYMag.com's popular social science site Science of Us. Her work has appeared in Elle , Parents and TODAY.com. Cringeworthy is her first book.
CHAPTER 1
The Awkward Age, Part 1
How come no one here likes Hanson?!! I exclaim weakly. I m reading aloud from a small spiral-bound notebook dark neon purple with multicolored swirls and stars purchased for $6.99 at a Claire s in 1997. It is my seventh-grade journal, and I m reading it now, twenty years later, to three people I only met this morning. I ve been getting pictures of them off the Internet almost all day today and they re so cute! How could anyone not like them? I stop and look up from the journal. I feel like I should note that every time I write to, it s the number and not the word, I say to my audience. All four of us are seated in armchairs near the bar at Littlefield, a performance venue in Brooklyn. Before today, I ve only been here at night, and it s a little disorienting to see it in the muted light of a sunny January afternoon, though this is by far the least surreal aspect of what s happening right now. The three strangers listening to me read are Stephen Chupaska, a bespectacled man with floppy brown hair and a skinny scarf, both of which he has a habit of tossing back with a flourish; Christina Galante, a woman with a wry smile and animated eyes who is taking notes on a laptop as I speak; and John Dorcic, an affable, extroverted guy with a neatly groomed goatee. They are producers for the New York City branch of Mortified, a live show in which performers read from their teenage diaries. Onstage. In front of hundreds of people. I think I ve had a version of that nightmare before, but in it I was only physically naked, not emotionally so. This is my audition for a spot in the show later this year, and I feel like I m maybe blowing it. The word audition is in quotes because I ve been instructed by Dave Nadelberg, the creator of Mortified, not to call it that. It isn t one, not really, because anyone brave enough to volunteer to be in this show is welcome to participate, provided they have enough material they created during their teenage years for a ten-minute piece. But I m skeptical about my chances. I ve spent the last two hours sitting in on a curating session, to use Nadelberg s preferred term, and I m in awe of the people I ve seen already today. True, a lot of it s been silly. One guy ended every journal entry with a detailed description of everything he wore and everything he ate that day, plus a signature daily sign-off: PEACE, one love. But most of what I ve heard today has suggested the beginnings of some real artistic talent. Earlier this morning, a woman read poetry she wrote in high school, which Galante, the show s lead producer, rejected because it was too good. I do not expect to encounter that problem. At my 2, not to explanation, the three producers nod politely, then indicate that I should keep going. I take a shaky breath and continue reading the March 7, 1998, entry, cringing harder with every word. What am I gonna do? I have to call long distance if I want to talk about Hanson! I pause again. It s an unseasonably warm day, but somehow I don t think that s why I m sweating. This is so ridiculous, I say. None of this seems usable. Is any of this usable? I just I don t want to waste your time, and I really respect the show and what you guys do Galante cuts me off. We won t know if it s usable unless you keep going, she says, raising her eyebrows at me over her laptop. Later all three of them wi
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 290 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
| Schlagworte | artist gifts • Awkward • awkwardness • Baby • Behavior • Body language • business • business books • Charisma • Communication • communication books • cringe • cringeworthy • cringey • Emotional Intelligence • Emotions • history lovers gifts • Humor • Internet • interpersonal skills • management books • men's gifts • Mental Health • Motivation • Motivational books • Negotiation • Networking • People Skills • Personality • pop psychology • pop science • Presence • Psychology • psychology books • Race relations • Science • Self Help • self help books • Self Improvement • self improvement books • Shame • shamed • shaming • Social commentary • Social Intelligence • Social interactions • Social Media • Social Psychology • Social Skills • Sociology |
| ISBN-10 | 0-525-53642-6 / 0525536426 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-525-53642-0 / 9780525536420 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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