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

The book's author, Mark Manson, argues that the world is full of negative emotions and attitudes that can be exhausting and detrimental to our well-being. By embracing a "not giving a f*ck" attitude, we can free ourselves from these negative emotions and focus on what's important to us.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck UK is a practical and actionable guide that helps readers to live a more fulfilling and enjoyable life. It's not a book that tells readers what to do, but rather provides them with the tools and insights they need to make positive changes in their own lives.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

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True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.

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If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.

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The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.

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Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.

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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. "F*ck positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f*cked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Mason 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*ck is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American 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.