The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The anti-positivity self-help phenomenon: a good life comes from choosing the few things worth caring about and letting go of the rest.
Manson’s breakout book is a blunt rebuttal to the relentless positivity of most self-help. His argument: we have a finite number of things we can care about, so a good life comes from choosing them deliberately rather than trying to feel good about everything. Through profane, funny stories and a few genuinely useful ideas, from embracing your problems to accepting mortality, he makes the case that caring less about the wrong things is what frees you to care more about the right ones.
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Derek Sivers
The opposite of every other book. Don’t try. Give up. Be wrong. Lower your standards. Stop believing in yourself. Follow the pain. And oh yeah, kill yourself. Each point is profoundly true, useful, and more powerful than the usual positivity.
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