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

by Mark Manson

This is the real story of Bukowski’s success: his comfort with himself as a failure.

This is the real story of Bukowski’s success: his comfort with himself as a failure.

An obsession and overinvestment in emotion fails us for the simple reason that emotions never last. Whatever makes us happy today will no longer make us happy tomorrow, because our biology always needs something more.

We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.

thus my self-worth is at the mercy of judgments by others.

“How do you just walk up and talk to a person?”

Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.

“We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by life’s trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.”