But Mark Manson says fuck that. Let's be honest, shit is fucked and we have to live wit it. His wildly popular internet blog doesn't sugar coat or equivocate. It tells it like it is - a dose of raw, refreshing honesty that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck (PDF available) is his antidote to the cozying, lets-all-feel- good mindset that has infected America and rewarded them with gold medals just because they showed up.
Manson argues, supported by both academic research and well timed poop jokes, that improving people's lives depends not on turning lemons into lemonade but on learning to tolerate lemons better. Humans are flawed and limited—not everyone can be extraordinary, there're winners and losers in society and some of it is unfair or your fault. Manson suggests we learn to accept these things and move on. Once we do, we'll be able to find the courage, persistence, honesty, responsibility, and curiosity we seek.
Money is nice, but caring about what you do is better, because true riches are about experience. A much needed wakeup call, filled with entertaining stories, profanity, and brutal honesty, The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck is a refreshing slap for those who've grown complacent with their careers.
Mark Manson was born in 1984. He started his blog in 2007 and has helped thousands of people with their emotional and relational problems. He has written books about relationships and emotions.
Mark Manson is the number 1 bestselling author of everything is fucked: a book about hope and the subtle art of not giving a fuck: a counterintuitive approach to living a good life. He is also the creator of markmanson.com, a website with 2 million monthly readers and half million subscribers. His writing has been featured in the New York times, wall street journal, Time magazine, Forbes, VICE, cnn, and vox, among others. He currently lives New York City.
Masterpiece, incredibly hilarious. I rarely read self-help books because they're all basically the same thing. But this one was the exception! Any book with cursing on the cover gets my attention. The first part of the book was my favorite, the goal of this book is to teach the reader to think a bit clearer about what they're choosing to find important in their lives and what they're choosing to ignore.
These are few of favorite quotes in this book: The desire for more positive experiences is itself a negative experience; and, paradoxically, the ability to accept one's negative experiences is itself a positive experience; self improvement and success often occur together; but that doesn't necessarily mean they're the same thing. Our society today is obsessed with unrealistic positive expectations: Be happier; be healthier; be the best, better than everyone else. Be perfect and amazing, and crap out 12-carat gold nuggets before breakfast each day while kissing your selfie-worthy spouse and two and a quarter children goodbye. Then fly your chopper to your wonderful fulfilling job, where you do incredibly meaningful work that's likely to save the world one day.
As someone who has spent his whole life being preoccupied with everything he's ever done wrong, this book was the perfect way to get back on track. Even as a kid, I could tell that I was always trying to make myself feel better by doing something good for somebody else, whether it was giving them a gift or helping them out in some way. But as I grew older, I became more aware of how much of my own happiness depended on what other people were thinking of me. I learned that you can't always change other people, so I decided to start changing myself instead. I started taking responsibility for my actions and realizing that I wasn't always right, no matter how hard I tried to convince myself otherwise. I realized that I didn't have to put up with the negative feelings that came along with feeling sorry for myself, and I began to focus on the positive aspects of life instead. In short, I learned that I could take charge of my emotions and not let them run wild anymore.
This book helps you be more practical and be more realistic in your life. Mark Manson teaches you to let most of the stuff go as they aren’t that worth it but you constantly pay attention to them and focus on what truly matter. It changes the whole view of your life and especially if you are a teenager when you think of life full of luxuries with no problem, the author tells that happiness doesn‘t lie in such life. It only comes from facing problems and finding the way out of them. If you are ready to endure the pain associated to certain happiness, surely you will find it and that is what we should know as everyone here wants something according to their own priority but most of the people just don‘t want to go through that process to get that.