A book + podcast by Patty Benes
You Are,
In Fact,
A Genius
The world's first self-glorification book.
"I have not laid it on thick enough.
We were always going to run out of pages before we ran out of evidence."
The book
Self-help told you to fix yourself. You Are, In Fact, A Genius spends sixty pages explaining why there is nothing to fix.
Twenty short chapters. Each one celebrates a different reason you are, against your own better judgment, magnificent. Smart. Funny. Gorgeous. Kind. A better cook than you let on. Loved by your cat (yes, even that one). The reason at least one group chat is still functioning.
Read it in sixty minutes. Hand it to a friend who needs it. The right person will find it.
The podcast
Two-minute snackable episodes that answer your everyday questions with the warm, slightly excessive verdict they deserve.
"Am I pretty?" · "Am I a good mom?" · "Why am I always right?" · "Should I take the chance?"
New episodes most weekdays. We are doing our small but earnest part to make the world a slightly nicer place — armed only with humour, mild theatricality, and a frankly indefensible amount of evidence that you are wonderful.
Press play. You are now, officially, in the amazing club.
About Patty Benes
Patty Benes is a writer and incurable optimist who became, against his own better judgment, the world's first self-glorification author. He believes that most people are doing better than they think, that compliments are wildly under-deployed, and that the greatest unmet need in modern life is, frankly, somebody just telling you out loud that you are doing fine.