How to host a Viking funeral The case for burning your regrets, chasing your crazy ideas, and becoming the person you're meant to be
Book - 2022
The man who created a viral sensation with own Viking funeral shares the stories of countless others who also let go of their own bad choices, disappointments, and heartaches through similar rituals.
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- Self-help publications
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New York, NY :
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xii, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9780063087279
- Author's Note
- Section 1. Viking Ship Leads to Another
- 1. How This Whole Thing Got Started
- 2. A Long History of Weird Projects
- 3. The Second Ship
- 4. Everything Goes Wrong
- 5. Two Steps Forward, One and Three-Quarters Steps Back
- Section 2. A Unified Theory of Regret
- 6. No Regurts
- 7. The Person You Were Five Minutes Ago
- 8. Here There Be Dragons
- 9. Making Heads and Tails
- 10. Flats into Curves
- Section 3. Fears
- 11. My Third Favorite Roosevelt
- 12. What If Nobody Cares?
- 13. The Cave You Fear to Enter
- 14. If at First You Don't Succeed
- 15. The Opposite of Fear
- Section 4. Experiences
- 16. No Turnarounds
- 17. Cutting Circles Out of Squares
- 18. Vernon
- 19. The Danger of Seeing One Side
- 20. Company Policy
- Section 5. Identities
- 21. A Dog Named Kyle
- 22. Only an Artist
- 23. Best Cold Sandwich
- 24. Reading the Label from Inside the Jar
- 25. I'm Not That Person Anymore
- Section 6. Relationships
- 26. It Only Takes One
- 27. With a Little Help from My Friends
- 28. The Worst Kind of Fat Guy
- 29. Kid President
- 30. The Hard Thing About Relationships
- Section 7. Beliefs
- 31. A Star Named Kristina
- 32. These Things Have a Way of Working Themselves Out
- 33. I Don't Know What to Believe Anymore
- 34. I Didn't Have the Heart
- 35. What Doesn't Kill You
- Section 8. The People We Used to Be
- 36. Ounces Become Pounds
- 37. My Danny DeVito Body Pillow
- 38. "We Didn't Start the Fire"
- 39. The Ship Burns
- 40. Greener Pastures
- Epilogue: A Note on New Beginnings
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Selected Online Submissions
- Credits and Permissions