Big Sean Adds Author To Résumé With New Book On Mental Wellness
Big Sean has revealed that, in addition to new music, he will be making his debut as an author this fall.
Sean made the announcement on Wednesday (April 3) in a video message. “I’m excited about a lot of things dropping this year […] but aside from the music, it’s another project that’s been years in the making and it’s finally time,” gushed the Detroit native.
His new book, GO HIGHER: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace, is centered around the rapper’s personal methods on doing the inner work and obtaining self-acceptance. It’s described by publisher Simon Element as an ” interactive guidebook on maintaining daily mental wellness.”
In the announcement, he continued, “Anyone who knows me since I signed my record deal knows if you look at my old YouTubes I’ve always been about speaking from the heart, following your intuition and checking in with yourself mentally because that’s how I was raised. That’s the upbringing that was surrounding me with my family. It was a lot of elevated thinkers. They’d give me gems and these books [from authors Deepak Chopra, Sadhguru, bell hooks, and others] that I eventually read. If it wasn’t for them lessons and methods that I applied to my life, I fasho wouldn’t be here today, period.”
Sean credited Jay Shetty as the person who told him he needed to write a book following his 2022 appearance on Shetty’s podcast, On Purpose With Jay Shetty. “He was like, ‘Bro you gotta write a book. It’s a lot of people that you come from where you come from that don’t know how to get from point A to point B [and] look like you. They know they’re meant for more, just don’t know where to start.’ So, I wrote my first book.”
The Dark Sky Paradise rapper concluded, “I took all the lessons I learned, all the philosophies mixed with real-life experiences and condensed what works for me into these five strategies that really will teach you what success mean to you and show you what your purpose is if you don’t already know and show you how to find inner peace through all the turbulence of life.”
E-book and audiobook versions will be available. The book itself is set for release on Oct. 8 but you can pre-order it here. Sean’s next album is also set to drop later this year.
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