The subtle art of not giving a f*ck Review The bold book that sold over 8 million copies

The subtle art of not giving a f*ck Review (Book by Mark Manson ). This book is Your guide to better suffering, prioritizing, looking at things in perspective and more. It is written by an extremely successful blogger and now a book bestseller – Mark Manson. He had sold 11 million copies of his 3 books combined which also include Models: Attract Women Through Honesty and Every Thing is Fucked: A book about Hope.

Again with the stuff of meaning after my latest review by Viktor E. Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning
This time from a different perspective. 
Read this post till the end to find out whether the book is worth a read.

Looking for a 5 hour self-improvement book

Yesterday I have been looking for a new 5 hour book or so to read, so that I’ll be able to finish it within a day hopefully.
So I searched it in google and this was one of the books. I have seen it on audible a few times and by now I have seen people review it on Youtube as well. ( Which made it appear popular to me, and popular might be a metric of good a lot of times, it is social proof )

Decision Process

I then turned to Patrick’s Decision Process as always and looked at the 4 factors.
Author – which is a well established blogger and twice a bestseller, plus had a book that was already on possibly to read list (Models).

Subject – Self improvement , just as I like it.

Reviews – I’ve watched 3 reviews on YouTube, and eventually got the impression that this book is readable 😀
Credibility of Recommender – just the reviews , no recommender besides them.

Summary on Amazon

On top of that read summary of the book on Amazon of course, also I am trying to read a book a day (Meanwhile no luck :D) and so to decide as quickly as possible and pull the trigger on choosing books as quickly as possible.

Book table of contents:

-The Feedback Loop from Hell
-The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F–k
-So Mark, What the F–k is the Point of This Book Anyway?

-The Misadventures of Disappointment Panda
-Happiness Comes from Solving Problems
-Emotions are overrated
-Choose Your struggle

-Things Fall Apart
-The Tyranny of Exceptionalism
-B b-b-but, If I’m Not Going to Be Special or Extraordinary, What’s the Point?

-The Self-Awareness Onion
-Rock Star Problems
-Shitty Values
-Defining Good and Bad Values

-The Choice
-The Responsibility/Fault Fallacy
-Responding to Tragedy
-Genetics and the Hand We’re Dealt
-Victimhood Chic
-There is no “How”

-Architects of Our Own Beliefs
-The Dangers of Pure Certainty
-Manson’s Law of Avoidance
-Kill Yourself
-How to be a little less certain of yourself

-The Failure/Success Paradox
-Pain Is Part of the Process
-The “Do Something” Principle

-Rejection Makes your life Better
-Boundaries
-How to Build Trust
-Freedom Through Commitment

-Something Beyond Our Selves
-The Sunny Side of Death

A taste from a few of the chapters

Chapter 2: Happiness Is a Problem.

Everybody around us seem so happy all the time, every photo we open, all the social media posts. All the people who just made a public offering and made millions of dollars.
We therefor try to appear happy all the time, like there are no problems, and sometimes we start believing in it, that is a big problem because when we think there are no problems, we are very unlikely to solve them. It is okay to be thankful, but not complacent.

Chapter 5: You are always choosing.

That’s the concept of that was found in my latest two reviews – Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. What the authors are trying to convey is that we have a great human ability to decide how we look at a situation and we can shape our thoughts and actions, and therefor even when we choose to say that it is not our choice and blame others for our situation it is still our choice that we choose to say it is not our choice paradoxically. Though there is a difference between responsibility and fault, which Mark stresses out pretty accurately right here in this chapter.


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Chapter 8: The Importance of saying: No

We cannot become effective, or honest if we cannot concentrate on the things that matter to us. Though we can concentrate on things that matter to us only by saying no to other things.
Also, in order to be trustworthy we must learn to say “No”. Meaning in case our friend asks us if he acted wrongly, we must not hide the truth, and tell him that he was fine, but rather tell him the truth, it might be uncomfortable in the moment but he will thank you later! (Show him a “No” in the sense of “Not everything is as you want it to be” )

My experience and opinion of the book

Overlaps with content of other books, presented differently.

This book has many concepts in it, some of which are repeated through other books I’ve read, like the concept of responsibility and choice of reaction, prioritizing. 
But as one of the reviews I’ve watched stated, this is a chance to get another perspective on all those things. 

We are defining ourselves

But, although it had a few parts that already are known, it had many others that I didn’t pay attention to earlier, like the way in which he says that we must not surrender to our definitions of ourselves and strive to define ourselves in as wide of a definition as we can, so that we would not condition ourselves to trying to live up to those definitions.

For example if we believe that we are good in relationships, than we will do everything to maintain that image, including avoiding improvement, that conclusion was key for me, and after that chapter I even found myself lying on the floor looking at the ceiling, scared of the uncertainty that there really is, to subject all the values that I have to question and understand that all of them are a result of my definitions is scary as hell, because changing some of those most basic assumptions will cause an earthquake beneath your feet, when you change some of your core beliefs it is like being reborn.

Another idea that will stick with me

Also there was the idea that we cannot strive to maintain positive all the time. Because what we actually do is deny the problems and when we deny them we can’t solve them, we must allow the pain to show and digest it.

Conclusion

The book is stuffed with great conclusions which I guess he gathered from reading a ton of other books, most of them are deep, maybe even all, although lessons from books like this have to sink in, but I already feel it changing my perspective. And that is a great metric of a good book for me, a book that could drive me to change. It makes you question your most basic ideas and assumptions about your identity, awesome! It also gives very deep advice on relationships, as mark was a blogger on relationships earlier. Get this book to get a ton of value!

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