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CONTENTSCHAPTER 1: Don’t TryThe F
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CHAPTER 1Don’t TryCharles Bukowsk
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smarter, faster, richer, sexier, mo
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Calm down, amigo. Believe it or not
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spiritually enlightened, the more s
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Meanwhile, our credit cards are max
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Mark Manson doesn’t care about ad
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whether that cute boy/girl called u
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that you can fall backwards and sti
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But the prince was more like his fa
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make us stronger by tearing us down
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Problems are a constant in life. Wh
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something is either likely right or
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A more interesting question, a ques
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to the top. And what it took me a l
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bogus business ideas were “too ig
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in themselves too. Despite all of J
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“Drugs.”The word shocks me into
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And I also cut a secret compartment
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While this period certainly had its
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of their life. Brilliant businesspe
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Being “average” has become the
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CHAPTER 4The Value of SufferingIn t
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holdout from World War II, might st
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I suffering—for what purpose?”H
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the nature of our problems, and the
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given it another name, “closeness
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Despite taking a horrible event in
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already had was more important: a b
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—problems which, by the way, if y
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immediate and controllable and enga
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CHAPTER 5You Are Always ChoosingIma
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Anyway, James made it all the way t
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About ten minutes later, the first
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reject the concepts. It may be my f
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And you know what? My ex leaving me
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what the fuck I was talking about.
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so they avoid responsibility for th
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some way and therefore deserve to b
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relationships, and many of them wil
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Every step of the way I was wrong.
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or splashing dog piss on your face
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But there are two problems. First,
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How so? Well, our brain is always t
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therapy then acted as a means to pu
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middle of the night to the voices o
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It’s the backwards law again: the
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Years passed and he never did give
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