Neil Pasricha

Pasricha is also a recipient for the 2018 Canada's 40 under 40 award.

Published in 2018 by Audible Studios, the production arm of Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon.

As of October 31, 2018, the audio book "How to Get Back Up" has a 4.45/5 rating from the social cataloging site Good Reads.

Pasricha hosts a podcast titled 3 Books with Neil Pasricha which focuses on discussing the three most formative books of guests such as Judy Blume, Seth Godin, and the "world's greatest Uber driver." The podcast publishes on the lunar calendar and is stated to be uncovering the 1000 most formative books over 333 consecutive new moons and full moons from March 31, 2018 to September 1, 2031.

Pasricha returned to Toronto and worked in Marketing for Procter & Gamble before leaving to run a Quiznos Sub franchise and then selling his franchise to move to Boston to attend Harvard Business School. Upon graduating, Pasricha returned to Toronto to run Leadership Development at Walmart Canada. Pasricha left Walmart in 2016 to devote more time to the Institute for Global Happiness, an organization he founded in November 2015 to improve happiness in the workplace.

Published in 2016 by Putnam Publishing, a division of PenguinRandomHouse.

Published 2015, Awesome is Everywhere is a Children's book that Neil wrote to share "the principles of attitude awareness and authenticity" with his child. The beach theme was inspired by a meditation like experience on the beach while honeymooning. The super-realistic images in the book were created by a professional Visual Effects studio using a process that composites many images into one image.

In 2015, to help with literacy among children, Pasricha spearheaded an initiative with book publishers and educators to bring more books and funding to elementary schools.

Pasricha is the Director of The Institute for Global Happiness with the mission "to increase happiness in organizations." The organization shares resources such as workshops, videos, and speeches with the goal of making happiness accessible. Pasricha says the organization focuses on happiness at work specifically because 'aggregate data from 150,000 people showed the place we're spending most of our time is also the place we're the least happy—which is work."

Pasricha continued publishing one awesome thing a day until #1 Anything you want it to be was posted on April 19, 2012.

Published 2011 by Amy Einhorn Books, a division of Penguin Publishing.

The Book of (Even More) Awesome is a #1 international bestseller and a Globe and Mail bestseller and was published in 2011 as the sequel to The Book of Awesome.

Published 2011 by Amy Einhorn Books, a division of Penguin Publishing.

Published 2010 by Amy Einhorn Books, a division of Penguin Publishing.

The Book of Awesome has spent over 130 weeks on The Globe and Mail bestseller list and was the #1 Globe and Mail non-fiction book of the year for 2010 and 2011.

In 2009, Pasricha was approached by literary agents after his blog hit 10 million hits and won the Webby Award for "Best Blog" and signed with Erin Malone from WME who also represents Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like, and Rainn Wilson, star of The Office and author of SoulPancake.

Pasricha began writing a daily blog called 1000 Awesome Things on June 20, 2008. The site was billed as 'a time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things. Updated every weekday.'

In July, 2008, the popular links site Fark.com linked to post #980 Old, dangerous playground equipment which gave the blog new readership and got attention from Wired and CNN.com.

Pasricha graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce at Queen's University in 2002. While there, he wrote for campus humor newspaper Golden Words which then took him to New York City to work for a humor syndicate with former Saturday Night Live and The Simpsons writers. He says "It was a cool rush but it became draining very quickly. I realized this could never be my full time thing." Pasricha also holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws- Faculty of Education from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).

Neil Pasricha (born September 17, 1979) is a Canadian author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and public speaker characterized by his advocacy of positivity and simple pleasures. He is best known for his The Book of Awesome series, and "The Happiness Equation" which are international bestsellers. He is also an established speaker and his TEDx talk, "The 3 A's of Awesome", is ranked as the ninth most inspiring TEDx talk with over 3 million views to date. In total, he has sold over 1 million books. The book and TED talk are based on Pasricha's popular blog, 1000 Awesome Things. The blog has won three Webby Awards and ranked in PC Magazines list of top blogs and websites in 2009 and 2010.