The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: a Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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For this son the king had a particularly grand idea: he would make the child’s life perfect. The child would never know a moment of suffering—every need, every desire, would be accounted for at all times. The king built high walls around the palace that prevented the prince from knowing the outside world. He spoiled the child, lavishing him with food and gifts, surrounding him with servants who catered to his every whim. And just as planned, the child grew up ignorant of the routine cruelties of... human existence. All of the prince’s childhood went on like this. But despite the endless luxury and opulence, the prince became kind of a pissed-off young man. Soon, every experience felt empty and valueless. The problem was that no matter what his father gave him, it never seemed enough, never meant anything. So late one night, the prince snuck out of the palace to see what was beyond its walls. He had a servant drive him through the local village, and what he saw horrified him. For the first time in his life, the prince saw human suffering.
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Why can't I see the sides of the pages?pls tell me how to solve this .I really want to read this book
Guest5 years ago
How do we select pages? I'm already halfway through this book and i wanna select the page i last stopped reading at
Moiza6 years ago
Is it the full book here or just chap 1?please oelase please pelase please please please please please tell
Guest6 years ago
This book may have saved my life..
Guest6 years ago
Did I ask bitch
Guest6 years ago
Nice
Guest7 years ago
I hardly ever read self-help books, but I make an exception for Mark Manson. His book is about carefully choosing what you care about. About accepting that there will always be struggle in your life, and about changing your problems into better problems.
Who is this Mark Manson anyway? He’s a popular blogger who attracted immense hordes of young adult males to his blog. He started out in the troubled, questionable PUA scene, which stands for Pick-Up Artist; in other words, using armchair psychology to create rules for hitting on women. Manson soon figured out that there are some fundamental misunderstandings about human interaction in the “pick-up artistry” books, and that their weak psychology does harm to the people who take it as gospel. In general, if you want to attract good people, it doesn’t help to follow rules and jump through imagined hoops. You got to work on yourself first. He created a site with alternative advice about relationships, and focused more on stimulating self-worth and emotional hygiene.
His advice struck a chord with many people. He concluded his earlier focus on dating and relationships with his book Models, and then branched out to travel, reading and psychological well-being in general. After a couple of years of hard work, he summarized all his new findings in a new book. Maybe it will be his last book, because it sure seems like all his activities culminated towards this undertaking. We will see. In any case, Manson is one of the most clear-minded and lucid writers out there, and it is worth reading what he has to say.
Manson starts from some of the same points that Alan Watts makes in The Wisdom of Insecurity. Desperately trying to find happiness causes more anguish, and trying to avoid pain will only cause more pain. It sounds counterintuitive, but accepting pain and choosing to deal with it is actually a positive experience, and chasing after happiness is a negative experience. Manson argues that this feedback loop swings towards the negative in our modern society in which people feel ashamed to feel unsuccessful. The thing to do is to change your priorities of what matters in life, and care about the right things.
Where Watts lectures like a professor, Manson is like a rough no-nonsense friend who sits you down, points his finger in your face and swears a lot. Like a benevolent Tyler Durden. He’s quite funny, but his prose is a bit try-hard.
So far so good, but after this opening salvo I lose the thread of his arguments. In chapter three he tackles two topics: (1) He makes an extremely broad generalization that traumatic experiences in our upbringing always lead to entitlement in one way or another. And (2) the internet makes us believe that we are horribly mediocre. And then he ties them together. His first generalization is far too broad. Almost every psychological problem in every pop-psych book points towards nurture as having a major influence on all sorts of problems in later life. But in this book it’s there to introduce the second point about the internet. Manson is in fact making his argument backwards, counting the steps from entitlement and insecurity in young adults back to the childhood environment. But presenting it the other way around strains his argumentation.
So yeah, the book isn’t perfect. He uses stories as extended introductions to what he wants to say, but sometimes the topics and arguments become a little bit muddled, so that you wonder: what was the topic of this chapter again?
It gets clearer later on. The final chapters each deal with a specific value that can help you in your life. He discusses values like taking responsibility, accepting uncertainty, daring to be vulnerable and others. Most of these are not really stimulated all that much by our society and people have a thousand ways to avoid a confrontation with difficult or painful feelings, so it is good to be reminded why these values improve your life.
His message is not exactly new or unique. I mentioned before the name Alan Watts, who said similar things, and Nathaniel Branden did the same in his work on self-worth, and Brene Brown is currently a popular advocate of the power of vulnerability and honesty. I’m sure there are more names to be listed here.
It seems like all the good gurus in our society converge to the same messages. That’s an encouraging thought, because it means that we’re on to something here. It also helps to hear the same messages communicated by different voices in different ways. Manson’s book, while not exceptional in the genre, is still a positive addition to it and to the world.
Guest7 years ago
Great observation mate
Guest7 years ago
from my opinion it is not merely 'just do it' it is about do it something that is something you give value. a person who has boundaries or a person who is willing to accomplish for the things that are bigger than one conception. If you just do it as listening to your emotional pleasures then it means you did not get the philosophy of this book.
Guest7 years ago
First couple of pages and I like this book. I've changed my perspective on how I view my life. The first 10 pages I related to, like it was pointing out my character and how I need to change those negative characters.
The first few paragraphs sound like the plot of Californication the movie series
Guest7 years ago
this is brilliant shit must read for everyone
Guest6 years ago
You missed the whole point of the book. It's not about not giving a fuck at all. it's more about being selective with the fucks you are giving. Give a fuck about what really matters to you and I believe your mother matters. You have to choose between what you care about and what you don't. This is an amazing book so read it carefully and remember you are not a special snowflake, just like the rest of us.
Guest7 years ago
can someone help me understand how to download the book in pdf? :)
I would totally recommend this book. If you survive through first 10 pages full of "f*cks" you will come to a very simple but a deep explaining of the world. It will give you answers and provide directions.
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