The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck 2016
It made me rethink all the times I ever gave a fuck over some of the most irrelevant things in hindsight. Information technology made me
It made me rethink all the times I e'er gave a fuck over some of the most irrelevant things in hindsight. It made me realize that it's sometimes necessary to take a pace back and re-evaluate why I think so-and-so on a daily footing.
I as well wrote down a lot of Mark Manson's writing into my notes because I knew I would need information technology in the most time to come. And I would like to thank him for answering quite a lot of fears of mine with such a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck was both personally relevant and entertaining.
Here are a few pieces that helped me and then some:
"The fundamental to a expert life is not giving a fuck about more; it'southward giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about but what is true and immediate and important."
"Because when you give besides many fucks—when you give a fuck virtually everyone and everything—you will feel that yous're perpetually entitled to exist comfortable and happy at all times, that everything is supposed to be just exactly the fucking style you want it to be. This is a sickness. And information technology will eat you alive. Yous will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge equally a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement every bit a betrayal. You lot will exist confined to your ain petty, skull-sized hell, burning with entitlement and bluster, running circles around your very own personal Feedback Loop from Hell, in abiding motility yet arriving nowhere"
YES! This is exactly how I feel when I give also many fucks about things that have petty lasting touch on on my life.
"Life is essentially an endless series of problems, Marking," the panda told me. He sipped his drink and adjusted the trivial pink umbrella. "The solution to i problem is merely the cosmos of the next one."
A moment passed, and so I wondered where the fuck the talking panda came from. And while we're at it, who fabricated these margaritas?
"Don't hope for a life without problems," the panda said. "At that place's no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of practiced bug."
Thwarting Panda was one of the best additions to this book.
"Who you are is divers by what you're willing to struggle for. People who enjoy the struggles of a gym are the ones who run triathlons and take chiseled abs and can bench-printing a pocket-size business firm. People who enjoy long workweeks and the politics of the corporate ladder are the ones who fly to the top of it. People who relish the stresses and uncertainties of the starving artist lifestyle are ultimately the ones who live it and get in.
This is not about willpower or grit. This is not another admonishment of "no pain, no gain." This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles decide our successes. Our problems birth our happiness, forth with slightly better, slightly upgraded problems.
Run across: information technology'due south a never-ending upward spiral. And if yous think at whatever bespeak yous're allowed to stop climbing, I'm agape you're missing the point. Because the joy is in the climb itself."
This book is slowly just surely shifting my world.
"If you want to change how you see your bug, you take to alter what you value and/or how y'all measure failure/success."
"Honesty is a good value because it'due south something you have complete control over, information technology reflects reality, and information technology benefits others (fifty-fifty if information technology's sometimes unpleasant). Popularity, on the other hand, is a bad value. If that'south your value, and if your metric is beingness the most popular guy/girl at the trip the light fantastic political party, much of what happens will exist out of your control: you don't know who else volition be at the event, and y'all probably won't know who half those people are. Second, the value/metric isn't based on reality: you may experience popular or unpopular, when in fact you lot have no fucking clue what anybody else really thinks about you. (Side Notation: Equally a dominion, people who are terrified of what others remember well-nigh them are actually terrified of all the shitty things they think about themselves beingness reflected back at them.)"
That side notation is speaking the truth!!!
"I'grand not proverb that this excused what my ex did—not at all. But recognizing my mistakes helped me to realize that I perhaps hadn't been the innocent victim I'd believed myself to be. That I had a part to play in enabling the shitty relationship to continue for every bit long as it did. After all, people who date each other tend to have like values. And if I dated someone with shitty values for that long, what did that say well-nigh me and my values? I learned the hard way that if the people in your relationships are selfish and doing hurtful things, it's likely yous are too, you just don't realize information technology."
Taking responsibly for your deportment, but non blaming yourself was one of the most valuable lessons I got from Mark Manson.
"A lot of people might hear all of this and so say something similar, "Okay, simply how? I get that my values suck and that I avoid responsibility for all of my issues and that I'm an entitled niggling shit who thinks the globe should revolve around me and every inconvenience I feel—only how do I change?"
And to this I say, in my best Yoda impersonation: "Do, or exercise not; there is no 'how.' "
You are already choosing, in every moment of every mean solar day, what to give a fuck about, then alter is equally uncomplicated as choosing to requite a fuck about something else.
It really is that elementary. It'south just not easy.
It's not easy because you're going to feel like a loser, a fraud, a dumbass at first. You're going to be nervous. You're going to freak out. You may get pissed off at your wife or your friends or your father in the process. These are all side effects of changing your values, of irresolute the fucks you're giving. But they are inevitable.
It's elementary merely really, really hard."
"Growth is an incessantly iterative process. When we learn something new, we don't get from "incorrect" to "right." Rather, we go from wrong to slightly less wrong. And when we learn something additional, we go from slightly less wrong to slightly less incorrect than that, and so to fifty-fifty less wrong than that, and so on. We are always in the process of approaching truth and perfection without actually ever reaching truth or perfection."
He'due south changing my world correct at present.
"We all accept values for ourselves. Nosotros protect these values. We effort to live upward to them and nosotros justify them and maintain them. Fifty-fifty if nosotros don't mean to, that's how our encephalon is wired. As noted earlier, we're unfairly biased toward what nosotros already know, what nosotros believe to exist sure. If I believe I'm a overnice guy, I'll avert situations that could potentially contradict that belief. If I believe I'one thousand an crawly cook, I'll seek out opportunities to prove that to myself over and over again. The conventionalities always takes precedence. Until we alter how nosotros view ourselves, what we believe we are and are not, we cannot overcome our avoidance and anxiety. We cannot change.
In this mode, "knowing yourself" or "finding yourself" can be dangerous. It can cement y'all into a strict role and saddle you with unnecessary expectations. It tin close you lot off to inner potential and outer opportunities.
I say don't find yourself. I say never know who you are. Because that'due south what keeps you striving and discovering. And it forces you to remain humble in your judgments and accepting of the differences in others."
I didn't even realize I felt this way until I saw information technology so clearly on paper.
"In that location's a kind of self-absorption that comes with fear based on an irrational certainty. When you presume that your aeroplane is the ane that'due south going to crash, or that your projection idea is the stupid one everyone is going to express joy at, or that y'all're the one everyone is going to choose to mock or ignore, you lot're implicitly telling yourself, "I'chiliad the exception; I'm dissimilar everybody else; I'm different and special."
This is narcissism, pure and simple. You feel equally though your issues deserve to be treated differently, that your bug accept some unique math to them that doesn't obey the laws of the physical universe.
My recommendation: don't be special; don't be unique. Redefine your metrics in mundane and broad ways. Choose to measure out yourself not as a rising star or an undiscovered genius. Choose to measure yourself non as some horrible victim or dismal failure. Instead, measure out yourself past more mundane identities: a student, a partner, a friend, a creator."
That matter about the plane is 100% me!! And so I get it know: if you think you're special—determine not to be.
"The desire to avoid rejection at all costs, to avoid confrontation and disharmonize, the want to attempt to accept everything as and to make everything cohere and harmonize, is a deep and subtle form of entitlement. Entitled people, considering they feel equally though they deserve to feel great all the time, avoid rejecting anything because doing so might brand them or someone else feel bad. And because they refuse to reject anything, they live a valueless, pleasure-driven, and self-absorbed life. All they give a fuck virtually is sustaining the high a little bit longer, to avoid the inevitable failures of their life, to pretend the suffering away."
"If y'all brand a sacrifice for someone you lot intendance about, it needs to be considering you lot want to, not because you lot feel obligated or because yous fright the consequences of not doing so. If your partner is going to make a sacrifice for yous, it needs to because he or she genuinely wants to, not considering you've manipulated the sacrifice through anger or guilt. Acts of dear are valid just if they're performed without conditions or expectations."
Damn, I wasn't prepared for The Subtle Art of Non Giving a F*ck to completely change my worldview in such a meaningful way. I will cherish this book for a long time to come.
four.5/5 stars
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