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February 2019: Life
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Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: 1 Star (or maybe less)
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Haha - I'm reading this same book, almost finished. I'll probably have my review up tomorrow.This book was recommended by my boss (yep) and is making the rounds where I work, so I'm almost reading in self defense.
I'm so glad that you posted this. I had started reading this book to fit this month's tag of Life. However, I don't think I was able to even get through the first 10 pages, before I decided to stop reading. I am the wrong generation for this book and it rubbed me the wrong way. I hated it.
Holly R W wrote: "I'm so glad that you posted this. I had started reading this book to fit this month's tag of Life. However, I don't think I was able to even get through the first 10 pages, before I decided to stop..."I concur... I use the F word quite a bit, but not that much... It was if he was saying: "Look how often I can write this word & get paid for it..."
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson
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Really? Well let me tell you that after the first 10 pages or less, he had me: I just didn't give a f*ck.....
Redundancy after redundancy... over & over.... over analyzed, over done, over use of f*ck.... It kept getting worse. It was as if he "discovered" something new & amazing to behold. He didn't, just the same thing therapists have been saying for years. The only differences are the vocabulary & the age of the person saying it and the age group of those fawning over the book. But I guess millennials need their gurus as well as the rest of us....
The best advice from the first page was : "Don't Try"
My advice is about the same: "All you can do, Is all you can do; Let Go" "Don't Bother"
The trick is "to know when to hold em, know when to fold em, know when to walk away and know when to run...." --Kenny Rogers
As for this thoughts on using affirmations, I disagree completely: They do not highlight what we do not have what we are not.... It is a form of retraining our thought patterns, moving to another belief pattern...
Very similar to the redundancy of the book: "On Bullshit".... Just so very much one can digest before screaming aloud & chucking the book across the room!