Genre: Nonfiction
Length: 224 pages
Audiobook Length: 5 hours and 17 minutes
First Published: 2016
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Publisher’s Description
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be “positive” all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.
For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.
Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—”not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault.” Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.
Quotes from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.
Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes.
About Mark Manson
Mark Manson is a blogger, entrepreneur, and author of the books Everything is F*cked and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. Visit the author’s website →