A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Mark Manson Collection, #1
Downloadable Audiobook
English language
Published Sept. 13, 2016 by HarperAudio.
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. "Fk positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is fked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. 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 …
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. "Fk positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is fked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. 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.
There are only so many things we can give a fk about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fk is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
How many f*cks were there in this book, did anyone count them?
I am older than the target audience for this book. Some of the people that I have worked with in the past few years, people in the 20 - 30ish range, who casually use words such as the last one in the title of this book in a business setting, would be much more appropriate readers for it. So, what's good about this book? Well, I would say that it mostly does give good advice. Most, if not all, of that good advice is drawn from Buddhism (which the author semi-acknowledges). What's not so good about this book? For someone like me, who did not come of age in a time when it was considered natural and proper to use some form of the words fck, sht or ss in every sentence, the language of the book is distracting. It reminds me of some of the boys in …
I am older than the target audience for this book. Some of the people that I have worked with in the past few years, people in the 20 - 30ish range, who casually use words such as the last one in the title of this book in a business setting, would be much more appropriate readers for it. So, what's good about this book? Well, I would say that it mostly does give good advice. Most, if not all, of that good advice is drawn from Buddhism (which the author semi-acknowledges). What's not so good about this book? For someone like me, who did not come of age in a time when it was considered natural and proper to use some form of the words fck, sht or ss in every sentence, the language of the book is distracting. It reminds me of some of the boys in my junior high school who thought that including the word fck in every sentence made them seem more mature, though it really just made their speech less precise. So, for me, that's a negative in this book. For younger readers, perhaps it is the only thing that will get them to read some of this Buddhist wisdom. If so, then that is fine with me. Personally, I would rather read a more traditional, and less profane, book on Buddhism.
I'm not one for self help books but this one was tolerable. The beginning and last two chapters are good. The rest is the same self help stuff you can find everywhere but with a search and replace of "Care about" to "Give a F*ck" on the same old texts.
The best idea I drew from the book is that being surrounded by experiences (filtered trough social media) you get pushed to care about much more useless stuff than it's healthy.
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