18 Facts About Neil Pasricha

Neil Pasricha was born on September 17,1979 and is a Canadian author, entrepreneur, podcaster, and public speaker characterized by his advocacy of positivity and simple pleasures.

Neil Pasricha is best known for his The Book of Awesome series, and "The Happiness Equation" which are international bestsellers.

Neil Pasricha is 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.

Neil Pasricha is frequently sought out by media outlets as an expert on the topics of positivity and leadership.

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

Neil Pasricha was born in Oshawa, Ontario to a Hindu family.

Neil Pasricha's mother is from Nairobi, Kenya; his father is from Amritsar, India, and he has one sister.

Neil Pasricha says much of his wonder for the world comes from his immigrant parents and their perspective on seeing everything for the first time in Canada.

Neil Pasricha graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce at Queen's University in 2002.

Neil 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.

Neil Pasricha began writing a daily blog called 1000 Awesome Things on June 20,2008.

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

Neil Pasricha wrote The Book of Awesome while attempting to get over his divorce and close friend's suicide.

Publishers Weekly said "Pasricha emerges a committed but inviting optimist, combating life's unending stream of bad news by identifying opportunities to share a universal high five with humanity" while Maclean's wrote that Pasricha was "partly to blame for turning 'awesome' into the exuberant adjective of our time' and the Toronto Star wrote that Neil Pasricha "helped destroy language through linguistic bleaching.

Neil Pasricha was returning from his honeymoon in Asia when his wife took a pregnancy test in the airplane bathroom and told him on the plane that she was pregnant.

Neil Pasricha performed the recording for the book with a minor cameo by his father.

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

Neil Pasricha worked at Walmart Canada in the field of leadership.