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

　　我們的一些同齡人，實現了曾經的夢想，成為太空人或億萬富翁或某個領域超級厲害的人物，但面對現實吧！大多數的我們都不是如此。住在狹窄的套房、愛情生活歷經波折、被一間又一間公司拒絕，才是我們的日常人生。

　　而或許我們也從未認真思考過，我們以為的「夢想」，是否真的是自己衷心渴望的目標，或者只是一個盲目追尋、跟隨他人一起試圖抓取的幻影呢？

　　作者Samantha Matt在此書中，不但以自身的經驗，寫出讓身為「普通人」的你我超有感的生活酸甜苦辣與內心小劇場，更提供幽默歡樂卻富有見地的建議，為處處憂心自己達不到理想標準，而不斷自我責難的我們，提供了不同的思考視角：平凡不代表不成功，如何在平凡中找到屬於自己的不凡，才是真正有意義且值得追求的事。(文/博客來編譯)

A celebration of ordinary awesomeness, for all of us who were told ＂You can do anything!＂ and then found out we actually can’t
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 let’s face it--most of us can’t.

Sure, some of our peers go on to become astronauts or billionaires. But most of us don’t. 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.

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.