The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
The secret to a good life is not to feel better. It is to get better at feeling bad about the right things.
Choose Your Struggles
Mark Manson's 2016 book is an argument against the conventional self-help premise that positive thinking and happiness are goals to pursue. Drawing on Stoic philosophy, Buddhism, and his own life mistakes, Manson argues that we have a limited number of things we can truly care about and that most of our suffering comes from caring about the wrong ones. The path to meaning runs through honest confrontation with difficulty, not the avoidance of it.
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"Who you are is defined by what you're willing to struggle for.
"Mark Manson
Manson grew his audience through a brutally honest personal development blog before writing the book. He has said he wanted to write the anti-self-help book after noticing how much self-help was making him feel worse about himself.
The book sold over 12 million copies and spent over a year on the New York Times bestseller list. It launched a micro-genre of profanity-in-title self-help books, none of which replicated its success.