How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things

Author:   Kate Williams
Publisher:   Flatiron Books
ISBN:  

9781250340924


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   16 March 2026
Format:   Paperback
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How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things


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Author:   Kate Williams
Publisher:   Flatiron Books
Imprint:   Flatiron Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.80cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781250340924


ISBN 10:   1250340926
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   16 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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""For a generation raised to have it all, which actually meant doing it all--and doing it all perfectly, with no help--How to Stop Trying offers a lifesaving proposition: What about . . . doing much, much less? With openness and wit, Kate Williams celebrates the art of giving up on endless to-do lists to make space for unhoped-for joy."" --Ada Calhoun, New York Times bestselling author of Why We Can't Sleep ""In How to Stop Trying, Kate Williams explores what happens in a mindfu*king culture where women are extolled to overachieve while simultaneously being admonished that there's no way to have it all. What Williams offers--with wit and provocation--is that the only way to unsubscribe from a society where we just can't win in the eyes of others is to choose ourselves instead, an act of rebellion that just might save our lives."" --Elise Loehnen, New York Times bestselling author of On Our Best Behavior ""The famous bard once asked, 'What are you going to do with your one wild and precious life'? Frankly, you can start by reading this book because it will damn well help you figure it out. Carefully crafted with resonant essays rife with wit and charm, How to Stop Trying packs a powerful, honest literary punch."" --Kathleen Glasgow, bestselling author of Girl in Pieces ""As a lifelong try-hard, How to Stop Trying really spoke to me. Don't tell me to calm down, but also thank you, Kate Williams, for telling me to calm down."" --Maris Kreizman, author of I Want to Burn This Place Down


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Kate Williams is a women's magazine veteran who has written for Shape, Nylon, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health, and Seventeen, among others, and also spent years in the fashion industry, working for brands such as Urban Outfitters, Calvin Klein, and Sophia Amoruso's Nasty Gal during the publication of the era-defining #GIRLBOSS. A New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, she has written seven uncredited books in addition to four young adult novels: the Babysitters Coven trilogy-which was optioned by Nickelodeon-and the thriller Never Coming Home. How to Stop Trying is her first work of nonfiction.

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