I ask for my coffee extra hot. Sometimes, I do that, and it comes cold anyway. There would be times when that happened and I would drink it anyway. Most people don’t like to cause a scene and sometimes that means we don’t speak up. It’s a small moment, but also a symbol of larger opportunities for defiance in our lives that we often let pass by.
According to Dr. Sunita Sah, the ability to embrace your defiant side is critical in learning to speak up for yourself. When I spoke to her for this week’s episode of the Non-Obvious Show podcast, she shared some of her best tips to unlearn that common behavior or “just going with it” and instead getting more comfortable with being defiant. In a world where increasing complacency allows all sorts of bad things to happen, you could easily describe this as an urgent skill we all need to learn and practice for ourselves. For that reason, Defy is my pick for this week’s Non-Obvious Book of the Week.
About the Non-Obvious Book Selection of the Week:
Every week I share a new “non-obvious” book selection. Titles featured here may be new or classic books, but the date of publication doesn’t really matter. My goal is to elevate great reads that perhaps deserve a second look which you might have otherwise missed.