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

by Mark Manson

It is then strange that on Bukowski’s tombstone, the epitaph reads: “Don’t try.”

It was his simple ability to be

Bukowski didn’t give a fuck about success.

Fame and success didn’t make him a better person.

Nor was it by becoming a better person that he became famous and successful.