The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

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Initially, I had the impression, may be the book is moving along the lines of the art of letting go, but that also stopped very quickly. Chances are you know somebody in your life who, at one time or another, did not give a fuck and went on to accomplish amazing feats. What Manson has done here is dust off some older self-help philosophies, replace as many words as possible with FUCK and tried to make it look shiny, new and innovative.

As the enlightenment is accepted to be related to letting go of the worldly pleasures according to Buddhism, Manson takes this as an example to justify his opinions. After all, no truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she’s happy. Summer means different things to different people, depending on their age, their life situation, their life goals—and their reading habits. One could certainly empathize with everything stated here, and agree to most of it, but that's pretty much it: I couldn't find the self-help part (if there was any).When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business. We now reserve our ever-dwindling fucks only for the most truly fuckworthy parts of our lives: our families, our best friends, our golf swing. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness.

Actor and voice-over pro Roger Wayne captures most of Manson’s oppositional energy, and he narrates with a lively engagement that only occasionally sounds overdone. In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger shows us that the key to being happier is to stop trying to be “positive” all the time and instead to become better at handling adversity. Resilience, happiness and freedom come from knowing what to care about—and most importantly, what not to care about. If you’re avoiding your problems or think you don’t have any problems, then you’re going to make yourself miserable.

Though Manson and his narrator at times try too hard to succeed, the audio delivers enough worthwhile ideas to make it useful. I know for myself, quitting my day job in finance after only six weeks and telling my boss that I was going to start selling dating advice online ranks pretty high up there in my own “didn’t give a fuck” hall of fame. The book would probably be most appealing to straight white men, since there are some parts of advice that would not resonate well with other groups - for example, he talks about the entitlement of victimhood and how that prevents positive change, which is true to a certain extent if we were to look at specific places like twitter, but should not be boasted as blanket statements coming from a white man who admits to coming from a wealthy family. On the contrary, I'm only reviewing this one to warn any future readers, especially if you're new to self-help or non-fiction books.

If you find yourself consistently giving too many fucks about trivial shit that bothers you—your ex-girlfriend’s new Facebook picture, how quickly the batteries die in the TV remote, missing out on yet another 2-for-1 sale on hand sanitizer—chances are you don’t have much going on in your life to give a legitimate fuck about. They say “Fuck it,” not to everything in life, but rather they say “Fuck it” to everything unimportant in life. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties—once we stop running from and avoiding, and start confronting painful truths—we can begin to find the courage and confidence we desperately seek.It’s the first truly no BS guide to flourishing in a crazy, crazy world—a truly counterintuitive approach to living a good life. Ignore the 1* reviews, I think anyone giving it 1* means they got nothing out of it at all which I doubt very much. But even with getting do-not-continue warning signs right from the start, I proceeded till the end, hoping something will change my opinion. Perhaps there was a time in your life where you simply did not give a fuck and excelled to some extraordinary heights. 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.

Thankfully, Manson brilliantly improves on Emerson and makes himself so much more profound in this generation-defining self-help guide. And there’s an elderly lady screaming at the cashier, berating him for not accepting her 30-cent coupon.

I found that this book contained mostly opinions, with a few hidden facts chucked in for good measure. With titles like "The Most Important Question of Your Life," "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck," and "No, You Can't Have It All," his work was reposted by Elizabeth Gilbert, Chris Hemsworth, Will Smith, and Chelsea Handler. We are making necessary security upgrades that will end this device's access to the digital library on October 30, 2020. Manson's message is straightforward and raw, rejecting the superficial and coddling positivity that has become commonplace in modern society. 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.