I recently started reading a book for the second time called “Yes Man” by Danny Wallace. 📖
I first read this book in my 20’s when I was living in London, and the book is also set in London.
This book is a hilarious, chaotic memoir about what happens when a man decides to say “yes” to literally everything for a year.
After being stuck in a rut after a couple of break ups, becoming cynical, and saying “no” to life more often than not, Danny describes a chance encounter with a stranger on a bus who tells him to “say yes more.” 💫
In a mix of curiosity and midlife crisis energy, he takes it literally.
From there, his life turns into a rollercoaster of absurdity where Danny says yes to spam emails, loan offers, random invitations, TV appearances, even a trip halfway around the world; and in the process, he accidentally transforms his life.
What starts as a social experiment turns into a story about breaking out of fear and routine, opening up to opportunity, and rediscovering joy and spontaneity. 😍
He finds love, adventure, and meaning, all because he stopped defaulting to “no.”
It’s funny, ridiculous, surprisingly deep, and basically a manual for how saying “yes” to life can change everything.
I remember the first time I read it it definitely inspired me to say yes more.
How often do we get stuck in our comfort zone and turn down opportunities and invites where you just never know what could happen if we’d said yes… who we could have met, the interesting conversations we could have had… all the “sliding doors” moments that could have opened up weird and wonderful experiences.
The book gives us a lesson on how we get so comfortable in our comfort zone that it can become a coffin of “same shit, different day”. ⚰️
Yes, I know, you may just feel like you can’t be arsed… but what if you went to that thing you got invited to anyway? 🧐
What if you said yes to that opportunity?
Half the things Danny said yes to turned into the best experiences of his life.
Connection comes from openness. 🤗
He even won £25,000, all because he said yes to a guy who asked for change (he didn’t have any, so he paid for a newspaper with a fiver, the newspaper contained a free scratch card and he won the money).
He actually lost it immediately, but the lesson stuck with him!
What do you keep saying no to, that if you said yes instead, might change your whole life?
Something to think about…
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Catcha on the flip side,
