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CONTENTSCHAPTER 1: Don’t TryThe F
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CHAPTER 1Don’t TryCharles Bukowsk
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nuggets before breakfast each morni
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to begin with, but we humans have t
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It’s like this one time I tripped
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and Everybody Loves Raymond.Look, t
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noble. We mean that Mark Manson is
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As we get older, with the benefit o
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CHAPTER 2Happiness Is a ProblemAbou
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Years later, the prince would build
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don’t register much difference be
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1. Denial. Some people deny that th
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An obsession and overinvestment in
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happiness is a path full of shithea
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CHAPTER 3You Are Not SpecialI once
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people to believe they’re excepti
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improving their lives in any lastin
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floor, I want to cry.Mr. Price scan
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hearing, “Nobody cheated on anybo
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But for some reason, it appears tha
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the tendency toward entitlement is
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actually free you to accomplish wha
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thousands of leaflets throughout th
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became sorta-kinda friends.Suzuki a
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HER. What’s wrong?ME. Nothing’s
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ask yourself why it bugs you. Chanc
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TV, hearing him on the radio, seein
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thought he should be the face of th
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thousand dollars a year would affec
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moments of one’s life are not ple
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happiness, pleasure, and success as
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suffered life-threatening health is
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We don’t always control what happ
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superficial and vain and will never
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chapters.)Then, about a year later,
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and the man shot her in the head in
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infecting him.The goal is to get th
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Sure, some people get saddled with
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no ‘how.’ ”You are already ch
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life, I’ve been flat-out wrong ab
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what a positive or negative experie
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Second, once we create meaning for
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what we feel to be true in that mom
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courtrooms operate. Thousands of th
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respectfully or replied angrily, no
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don’t know.Uncertainty removes ou
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