The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: Not your typical self self book.
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This is not subtle, it is a painful slap of truth about life and how people like me had been dealing with it.
I have been reading books about life, how to deal with it, staying positive, keeping high hopes and more. From Paulo Coehlo’s to Mitch Albom, I definitely learned a lot about realities of life. But then, I came across with a book with a different approach with life.
Few months ago, I read a book recommendation of an article, so I look into the availability on the National Bookstore website and saw how expensive it is. It will cost me less than Php900 including the shipping fee, total rip off my wallet. I decided to just move on and forget about buying it.
When I get myself into buying preloved books, I look into the book again, so I found one then someone bought it first. And I haven’t found any of the bookstore’s branches here; I just have to keep on moving on and forget about it.
The time I was buying used books, I got to know few good sellers and even made new friends in them. Someone sent me a bunch of ebooks and I just let it sat on my email for weeks for I am more on reading the physical books and the other day, decided to open them on iBooks to see what those books to read are.
Books of different genre to any ages was what I have seen then I saw this “self-help” on the genre and out of curiosity, opened it and there I saw an ebook of what I have been wanting to read, “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson.
Before I talk about the book, let me give some information about the author.
Who is Mark Manson?
Mark Manson
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I was making a soft laugh as I read the book but I don’t really know anything about the author, so I checked articles about him and learned what he really is.
Mark Manson was born March 9, 1984(quite young) is an American self-help author, blogger and entrepreneur. He is the author of the website MarkManson.net and two books, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, and Models: Attract Women through Honesty. And he is also the CEO and founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC. Too many on his hand.
He is from Austin, Texas, in the United States. Then he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to study and graduated from Boston University with a degree in finance in 2007. Now I am looking more up to him.
What the book is all about?
As the subtitle suggests, “A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life”, this is not your typical book on approaching and dealing with every “lemons” in our lives. It is indeed a different approach from what I have been reading, but not trying to forget the teachings from those that I have read, just a more realistic way this time.
Let me tell you first the BOOK itself.
The Book itself.
“The subtle art of not giving a F*ck” book has just 9 chapters and 248 pages including the acknowledgment. The book can be read in one sitting if we want to or a day. But somehow I read it for two days for I spent more “stepping back” every time I read some lines to ponder, a typical me as a reader.
Now, what the book is all about.
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“The Subtle art of not giving a f*ck”: What is the book all about?
For the faint hearted, this is may be for you. To be raised in a family where cursing and swearing are not entertained, suddenly I get into reading the book, you may wonder why? Well, here are the things that made me take this “vulgar” but doesn’t give a “f*ck” book.
The title is tricky to be honest, it is not just your typical self-help book though but it an “eye-opener” of all the things we have been doing, whether we think is wrong or right. Think about of…”are they worth of it?” (Have to make the word more subtle, skipping the vulgarity.)
With all the notes I have written down as I was reading, it will serve as a justification why the book is indeed a self-help book, written in a different approach. Here are just few of those notes.
1. “Self-improvement and success often occur together. But that doesn’t mean they are the same thing.”
2. “Victim Mentality. Some choose to believe that there is nothing they can do to solve their problems, even when they in fact could. Victims seek to blame others for their problems or blame outside circumstances.
3. “Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
4. “Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”
5. “Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.”
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Book Recommendation
I love to read the book over and over again and would love to recommend them to anyone. The “quotable quotes” in this book are overwhelming, that I have taken everything like a slap stick for myself; for me to wake up when things go wrong.
No sugar coating, it was a harsh realization, painful honesty is all over the book; in every word that was written in there but I surely have the giggle while reading it. It was not me being tired of being “babyed” with the books I have read about life, but the books itself has a different “personality” that somehow made me read it.
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“Not giving a f*ck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different.”
It was written but the author doesn’t have any intention to guide everyone, not plan to give every reader a hope, and it is just ironic that the book for me meant the other way around. For I felt lighter after those soft laughs, and the world seem to be brighter.
Here is a video of the interview about the book.
*Video is credited to comfortzonecrusher via youtube
