The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help is a 2014 memoir by American musician Amanda Palmer with a foreword by Brené Brown.

In the book Palmer details her early life as a performer and further expands on topics covered in her speech at the TED talks.

[4][5] Flavorwire commented that while they were "pleasantly surprised by the value within The Art of Asking" and that the book "has passion behind it", it was "not necessarily a fertile and comprehensive vision for the average reader".

She writes as though the biggest obstacle to getting the help you need is a reluctance to ask — not, say, ingrained social structures having to do with race and class".

[7] The Boston Globe was also mixed in their opinion, stating that while the book had some compelling and touching elements it was also "a study in contradictions, which makes for frustrating reading".