How to Be Interesting: (In 10 Simple Steps)

Product Description

An inspiring visual guide to a richer life. 

“If there’s a thinker to steal from, it’s Jessica Hagy.”—Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Newspaper Blackout

How to Be Interesting is passionate, positive, down-to-earth, and irrepressibly upbeat, combining fresh and pithy life lessons, often just a sentence or two, with deceptively simple diagrams and graphs. Each of the book's more than 100 spreads will nudge readers a little bit further out of their comfort zones and into a place where suddenly everything is possible.

It’s about taking chance—but also about taking daily vacations. About being childlike, not childish. It’s about ideas, creativity, risk. It’s about trusting your talents and doing only what you want—but having the courage to get lost and see where the path leads. Because it’s what you don’t know that’s interesting.  

Top Reviews

Dumbed-Down Self Help
by Nathaniel Brown (3 out of 5 stars)
August 24, 2016

I guess this is on me for not using the "read the first few pages" option, but I was expecting the book to be wordier. By that, I mean that each page has only a sentence or two: usually something somewhat shallow and cliche like "go for a walk to somewhere new and learn a thing!" rather than genuine advice on how to be an interesting and altogether happy person. If you're looking for a cute graduation gift or something like that, this book is spot on. Just don't read it expecting any emotional depth or true inspiration.
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You'll love it or you'll hate it
by S. Kosloske (4 out of 5 stars)
September 19, 2013

The "writing" of this book is very sparse. Most pages are just a simple VENN Diagram or a couple of charts. Not meant to be a complaint, more of a warning. I didn't "look inside", so that's totally on me.

I did like the book overall, though. There is a lot of things in there that should be, and seem like, common sense, but you forget this stuff during the course of "normal life", so it's good to go over them again. It's one of those books where you first read it cover to cover (and it's a quick read, would take about 1-2 hours), and later on, just open it up to a random page, and remind yourself about something you read in it earlier, and ask yourself why you aren't doing it.
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I loved the quick read
by MountEverest75 (3 out of 5 stars)
June 25, 2016

Despite of the 3 star review, I loved the quick read. Author expresses her intent as simple doodles which is an easy way to teach kids. As usual when things are oversimplified, we tend to crave more. This is an outlier of human brain not a deficiency in content. Why 3 stars then ? For adults, doodles supported by textual narration would be greatly invigorating. Striking the right balance is always a difficult task. The approach is sound but I ended the book wanting more.
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GREAT BOOK!
by Jennie Sydney (5 out of 5 stars)
September 8, 2013

This book is amazing! Don't run away from it because you're in denial and you think you are already interesting. What's great about this book is that even if you're not looking to be more interesting, it's a great way to expose yourself to meeting new people, going to new places, and experiencing new things.

I recommend this book to anyone who might be living in a new place and needs direction in how to get out of their comfort zone and start discovering who they are, who the people around them are, and what makes the place and people around them interesting.
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A gem
by Miss Demeanour (5 out of 5 stars)
November 14, 2013

A timely reminder of just how small and restricted our lives can become if we spend too much time focusing on the little picture and stop paying attention to what lies beyond ourselves, immediate families and friends.

The people who are most likely to really get what Hagy is saying are probably more interesting than they give themselves credit for or have temporarily slipped into the doldrums.

Those seeking an instant fix for their perceived deficiencies may not come close to getting Hagy's message.
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Awesome Book
by Pramath Malik (5 out of 5 stars)
July 4, 2013

Jessica Hagy is brilliant. She loves venn diagrams and graphs, and it is evident. Do not take this book as conclusive research however. Most of the images are essentially colloquialisms visualized .. but still great for visual/mathematically oriented people
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Lots of great ideas
by Susanne M. Galligan (5 out of 5 stars)
July 13, 2015

Some very good concrete ideas. One I started was adopting an empty lot down the street and making it my own. Well, not my own exactly, but I did clean up the trash and prune the out of control stuff and get the city to mow an adjacent property. Looks much better! Someone else mows the lawn, a scrapper took all the metal trash to the recycling, it's fun and interesting. People say to me, "why are you doing that?" And we talk about it.
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my first thought was, eh...then I kept reading
by Greg Mcateer (5 out of 5 stars)
August 13, 2013

I have to admit, after the first section or so I wasn't super impressed. Then I think I opened up to the message Jessica was really delivering. I LOVE this book. It's a quick read, it makes you think, it's cleverly done. Very very happy I didn't bail out of it early on. I was reading through fairly quickly when one of the points made me completely rethink a project I am doing. It was like a lightbulb went on...literally.

Also, great book on the kindle. Formatted really well, nice graphics, Congrats!
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Very good and unique book
by Sean M. Finlayson (5 out of 5 stars)
October 7, 2018

On the surface you would think this is a self help book, however it is more a book about breaking down life into diagrams and ideas. It gives you a fresh perspective .
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Interesting, but tires quickly
by lee (3 out of 5 stars)
October 29, 2014

Although this book presents a lot of platitudes that are rehashed many times over, I do think that her way of presenting those platitudes (venn diagrams, graphs, etc.) is refreshingly original and incredibly simple and clear. After several pages, though, I got a bit tired of seeing essentially the same things said repeatedly, just drawn a bit differently. If anything, this book inspires me to make my own diagrams about life.

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