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

by Mark Manson

Now if you feel like shit for even five minutes, you’re bombarded with 350 images of people totally happy and having amazing fucking lives, and it’s impossible to not feel like there’s something wrong with you.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.

What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences.

A thing I think about often is the perception of something be good and bad, if you only have “bad” food then its just food but ince you have good food the bad food is considered “bad” now. A better way to word this is “What creates our positive experiences will define our negative experiences” and i think that gives a good perspective on stuff.

“With great responsibility comes great power.”

Fault is past tense. Responsibility is present tense. Fault results from choices that have already been made. Responsibility results from the choices you’re currently making, every second of every day.

“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.”