My friends Coops and Fran wanted me to see The Hateful 8, which I didn’t and instead I read #Girl Boss by Sophia Amoruso. It’s about Sophia Amoruso who went from high school dropout to founder of one of the fastest growing online retailers in the world, which is Nasty Gal.
Alongside Me Before You, this is another new favourite book. My friend Linsey bought it me for Christmas and I loved it. It was brilliantly written and the style it was written it felt like a best friend was telling you about her life and not a founder of a very successful company.
I could wax lyrical and quote from the book all day long, but I've picked two parts which stood out for me. The first part was all about sigils which I’d never heard of before. They are abstract words or symbols that you create which embed your wishes. It sounds kind of whimsical, but a fun thing to do.
Sophia also said this, which I found very useful: ‘Don’t get so focused on one particular opportunity that you’re blind to other ones that come up. If you think about one thing, and talk about it all the time, you’re being too obsessive. You might ruin it. If you let yourself meander a bit, then the right things and the right people fall into place.’
I also wanted to see The Big Short starring Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling, and I heard great things about it. I read Patsy Kensit’s autobiography and I picked it at random from the library. Before reading it I didn't really know much about her apart from that she was married to Liam Gallagher at one point. So it was an interesting to read that she had been a child star who still had an acting career today, and had been married 3 times, and her dad was friends with the Kray brothers. She had a varied life full of highs and lows and it good to read how she bounced back from the lows life gave her.
I don’t think the films and books connect in anyway, maybe that’s something I should try and do in the future and make some sort of connection.
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