Saturday 4 August 2018

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Title: The subtle art of not giving a f*ck
 

Author: Mark Manson
Year : 2106
My Rating: 4/5


Synopsis:  Thought provoking perspective that a pain free life isn't real, you just have to make sure that you're choosing a path that you're prepared to put in the hard graft for


As someone who has a tendenc to overthink things and sweat the small stuff this felt like a read that could help to put things into persepctive and I wasn't dissappointed.


Biggest lightbulb moment was the idea that you have to decide 'what pain you want in your life' as 'most people want to get the corner office and make a boatload of money - but not many people want to suffer through the sixty hour workweeks, long commutes...'  You can't achevie something unless you are prepared to not give a f*ck about the hardship and problems you will encounter on the way.  You are defined by what you are prepared to struggle for whether its the perfect body, happy family or the big house.


Other key points that resinated with me were...
 

  • Unless you find the things in life that are important to you, you'll end up wasting you f*cks on the trivial
  • There is no such thing as a life without problems, just hope for good problems
  • Negative emotions are a call to action, you feel them as you need to do something
  • Entitled people exude a delusional degree of self confidence
  • Anti-entitled people are the ones that become great as they recognise that they're average and could be so much better
  • Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking to see how we are wrong as this is how we grow the fastest
  • If someone is better than you at something they have probably failed mor times
  • If you're stuck on something just start working on it and the right ideas will materialise
  • If you lack motivation, do something and harness the action to create motivation... the 'do something principle' overcomes procrastination
And then you die, what is the legacy you want to leave??