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

Refreshing, Honest, and Actually Helpful
This book is a game changer. It cuts through the usual self help fluff and gets straight to the point with raw honesty and real life truth. The author challenges the idea that we need to be positive all the time and explains how choosing what truly matters while letting go of the rest leads to a more meaningful life. The writing is bold, funny and brutally real which kept me engaged from start to finish. If you are tired of cliché advice and want something practical that actually sticks with you then this book is worth reading. Five stars.

This book is scary
This is one of the best books I have ever read. The information that is in the book is to scary and at the same way helpful. In the middle of reading this book I felt like, then what is the point on living? Why just don’t die if we are going to do it anyways. I started to feel strange inside of me. I was scared because everything he writes about Is true. We all try to hard on impressing people. Try hard to make big goals and try to achieve them. But in the end we do it not for ourselfs we do it for the attention we will get in the result for that. We are not special, but in the same time we are. We are all unique bit not more special than the others. We live our life trying to be “successful” and convince ourself that it is because we want it for us. But in some cases we are not. We (and when I mean “we” I mean myself) try so much to achieve goals working hard everyday trying to come closer to that goal. But when I readed this book my eyes opened. I was wrong. I was not doing it for myself. I was doing it to prove others I am worth of their attention. Because I wanted to feel special because yeah. I always said to myself “nobody work hard enough for success so I am special I work harder than the others and that is why i deserve it more”. I was every day working hard, I did not want to accept it but when I readed this book it really hurted me. I felt like he was 100% seeing through me. I felt like my life was pointless. All I did, the goals I was pursuing was only to make other think in the future. “Wow he is special. He worked hard to obtaining he’s goals. He is inspiring”. I wanted to show the people that made me feel bad about myself see me in the future and look up on me and say to themselves. “Well I think I am the real loser”. But in this book I began to think. I was always looking at other people judging them about being at their 30-40 having a s***ty job, family, complaining about everyone and everything etc. Or the ones on my ages always working hard, making fools of themselves trying to get the attention of others. Or people screaming at others just to feel like they are better than the other person. I always felt sorry about them. When reading this book I realised I am exactly at them. We live our whole life trying to be somebody. When the real thing we should do is try to be the person we want to be. But it is not easy. The society always look up to successes and winners but never at the ones that are not that “successful” but are happy. And that make us all feel like we are not enough. Which we think is true. We give fu*ks about so many things that are not really important and that does not mean anything at all. The fact that we are going to die is terrifying. Not because we don’t know what comes next, it’s because, we thing yeah if we all will die then what is the point of trying? That’s the reason this book is good it does not just make you unsure about all your beliefs. It also makes you realise that it does not mather at all if you are going to die. The real problem is what you should care about while you are alive. The old lady crossing the road in the pace of a turtle. Or the really fact that we are alive and are able to choose what we want to care about.Why did i writte a so long post? Well because if this can help somebody in my situation it will be nice. And the other reason was for myself. Because even if I say I don’t care I actually care about what others think about me, and even if you don’t know me in person. Knowing someone readed this and got the inspiration to read the book then it’s enough for me. To feel like I did something good.And the third reason is because I liked the super hero “Disappointed Panda”. He is cool and I would like a hero like that. Instead of the false super heroes that lies to others just to get liked by them.So this is an executive book. It gives a new way to look at things. I really recomend it for the people that are tired of this world and the humans on it, and even worst that tries way to hard to imprese those humans you hate, because you were told that is the right way to fulfill yourself. “You should do like the rest”,they said. It does not help in the long run. It have never and will never!

Great read
So I don’t have much I disliked about the book if anything. It’s a relatively fast read I think 200 pages or so and for me and Mark Manson we are about the same as far as childhood goes. Little burnout stoner kid here. Probably quite a dick head My dad passed when I was 13 and things kind of went downhill from there. Ended up in BD schools and what not for those of you do not know behavioral disorder lol. Anyway I can relate a lot to this book. From myself I just quit smoking and I’m trying to quit drinking I could drop smoking about 5 months ago I’ve got a 9-year-old boy a beautiful wife I’ve been with almost 10 years now. But I’m trying to get my s*** together and so I’m looking for books like this and some self-help books. I just feel like this book was what I needed right now. Some of it is kind of a smack in the face like get your s*** together. I like how he tells it like it is. I’m not a huge fan of sugarcoating stuff. At one point in the book he says his wife came out all dressed up and wanted his input and he said I don’t think he looked that good lol That’s the s*** that I would say to my wife but she likes it that way. And I don’t want to tell her she looks good if she looks bad and then she goes out and people are giving a weird looks hahaha. Anyway it’s a damn good read I recommend it highly. There’s some pretty good side stories as well. The one about his friend and the cliff that one kind of hit hard. I’ll tell you what I’m going to read his other book I noticed he has another book about hope or something so I will be checking that out right now. I wish I could find another books similar to this book it was such a good one I’m really sad that I’m finished with it. Good stuff Mark Manson. Keep up the good work!!! Looks like this is what humanity needs for guidance. I think we all need to read certain books in our lifetime and by certain books I mean all of them.

Awesome read
I returned this book because I actually wanted the paperback set so I can write in it. But the book is great. Im reading it on line but wanted to own my own copy to reread and jot in. I dont like writing on/in hardback books. Just me

It really teaches you to not give a F!

Apesar do título, este é um livro sério, os temas abordados pelo autor, Mark Manson, não são novidades, nem inovadores, mas são sérios e devem ser encarados com seriedade. Não vou negar que comprei o livro pelo título, primeiro a versão americana que tem um sugestivo título, depois de ler alguns capítulos abandonei a leitura, por que tinha outros títulos mais interessantes para ler, quando a edição brasileira saiu, meu interesse voltou e comecei a ler o livro novamente desde o início.Em síntese o livro trata de nossa cabeça, de nossa percepção como ser humano e de como a força das circunstâncias em ter uma vida perfeita nos faz sempre cair em armadilhas. Me identifiquei em várias partes do livro com o autor, que sim tem uma vida muita bem preenchida, mas aquela sensaçãozinha de que “estou fazendo algo errado” no fim não é tão ruim assim e serve como alerta para avaliarmos o rumo que nossa vida está e nos dá a chance de refletir e mudá-lo se necessário.O texto reforça que uma das maiores capacidades do ser humano, é a de poder estar errado, de errar, e depois, a de poder corrigir ou permanecer errado.O autor nos dá dicas e reflexões óbvias, mas verdadeiras, afinal estas, as verdadeiras, são sempre as melhores, para nos ajudar a compreender que nós, e somente nós, somos responsáveis pelas nossas emoções e emoções e consequente estado de espírito e felicidade. O livro é recheado de exemplos de pessoas e eventos que começaram ruim e se deram bem e vice versa e faz o balanço de como “não dar a mínima é importante em nossas vidas.Este trecho sintetiza um pouco da linha de pensamento do autor: “Pessoas com limites fortes não têm medo de chiliques, discussões ou tristeza. Pessoas com limites fracos morrem de medo dessas coisas e sempre moldarão o próprio comportamento para se adequar aos altos e baixos da montanha-russa emocional do relacionamento.Este é um dos melhores livros que li este ano e um dos poucos que me fizeram parar para pensar na vida literalmente.Não se iluda este é um livro sério que trata de coisas sérias da vida.