Average is the New Awesome: A Manifesto for the Rest of Us

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Samantha Matt is the director of audience development at Reviewed, a USA TODAY website, and the founder and editor-in-chief of ForeverTwentySomethings.com. Her writing has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, Seventeen, Good Housekeeping, USA Today, Esquire, Redbook and more. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

A lighthearted but impactful defence of ordinary awesomeness, for those of us who believed the message "You can do anything!" and then found out we actually cant Crappy homes, lame love lives, getting passed over for a great job (again)-not what we expected for our adulthoods. Americans tell their children you can become anything! But lets face it-most of us cant. Sure, some of our peers go on to become astronauts or billionaires. But most of us dont. In Average Is the New Awesome, Samantha Matt offers encouragement to us regular humans. Full of hilarious stories and insightful advice, this is a manifesto for ordinary awesomeness-for the beauty that can be found when we acknowledge that good enough really is good enough and that greatness is ours to define.

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