A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
By Mark Mansonn 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.
The Book:
For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity,"
Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked 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 f**k 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 F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
The Book Reviewed:
There's nothing subtle about Mark Manson. He's crude, vulgar and doesn't give a f*ck.
But like anything of true value in life, dig a little deeper and you'll find treasure worthy of any explorer willing to look below the surface.
In a recent interview Mark talked about his new book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Method to Living a Good Life and found that the man behind the vulgarity is really very exciting, deeply logical, and very clever.
So clever in fact that he's brilliantly masked his book using language as a way of fooling the reader into reading a book about values.
But by the time you finish reading it, you'll find yourself burning with potential. The world suddenly will seem happier and brighter. You'll feel free, and oddly, good, despite the shit snacks served throughout the book. And it won't be the surface good kind of good that makes your body crave real nourishment, but the kind of home-cooked-goodness good that warms you from deep inside, like you've just been served a wholehearted platter of whole, raw, organic, unfiltered truth.
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