The book may be titled The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, but there is nothing subtle about Mark Manson. The 33 year-old self-help author and blogger is vulgar, raw, and brutally honest…three factors when put together result in the most brilliantly clever book in the history of books.
We’ve all heard the saying “never judge a book by it’s cover”. However, if you were in a bookstore and walked past a novel with the F-bomb blatantly printed in large letters on the cover, wouldn’t you immediately be drawn to it? I suppose we could give Manson the exception, as I am sure his wickedly eye-catching title has lured many readers into purchasing his book without even opening to the first page. In fact, he sold over 1 million copies in just under 2 years.
Published in 2016, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck wisely uses language to, in a way, disguise and trick the reader into reading a book about values. It is full of
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The author encourages readers to “give a f*ck” only about things that have deep meaning and value to you. Everything else, is simply not worth wasting your energy on. He emphasizes greatly on the one key to living a good life; “it’s not about not giving a f*ck about more things, but rather, giving a f*ck only about the things that are true and important, and that align with your personal values. Not giving a f*ck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different…There’s absolutely nothing admirable or confident about indifference. People who are indifferent are lame and scared. They’re couch potatoes and Internet trolls….They hide in a gray, emotionless pit of their own making, self-absorbed and self-pitying, perpetually distracting themselves from this unfortunate thing demanding their time and energy called life.” he