The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F_ck

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COPYRIGHTTHE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A FUCK. Copyright © 2016 by MarkManson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-AmericanCopyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have beengranted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read thetext of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced,transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in orintroduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any formor by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known orhereafter invented, without the express written permission ofHarperCollins e-books.First HarperOne hardcover published 2016.FIRST EDITIONISBN 978–0–06–245771–4EPub Edition August 2016 ISBN 978006245773816 17 18 19 20 RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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CONTENTSCHAPTER 1: Don’t TryThe F
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CHAPTER 1Don’t TryCharles Bukowsk
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success. Even after his fame, he st
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You get anxious about confronting s
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magic fuck-giving fairy dust, you s
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Ever notice that sometimes when you
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Look, this is how it works. You’r
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not give a fuck about what ultimate
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anything more fuck-worthy to dedica
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I believe that today we’re facing
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CHAPTER 2Happiness Is a ProblemAbou
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sit under that tree and not get up
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change. We have evolved to always l
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little pink umbrella. “The soluti
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make them feel better in the short
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really mad; I couldn’t help it.
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managing of our struggles. Whether
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just didn’t “have it,” that I
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happened. None of these “ventures
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themselves. If a person like Jimmy
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then acts to improve upon them. But
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My sweat must be pumping at the spe
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get a haircut and threw out all of
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first time since I could remember,
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freedom we’re given to express ou
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tendency toward entitlement is appa
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All of this “every person can be
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However, thousands of Japanese sold
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In 1972, Suzuki needed another adve
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“How do I stop suffering?” but
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failed to achieve some goal? Why do
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“It bugs me that my brother doesn
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As he sat on the bus back to Los An
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Mustaine is wildly, unimaginably su
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he already had was more important:
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It’s far more helpful to assume t
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Defining Good and Bad ValuesGood va
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man, with an easy life and great fa
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CHAPTER 5You Are Always ChoosingIma
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psychiatric facility one day, James
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it’s still your responsibility to
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to date only women who like me for
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See, I couldn’t control her. No m
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We all love to take responsibility
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died. The responsibility for coping
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The next step is to encourage the k
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financially. They are not to blame
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from the inside out. And it’s eve
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But as we’ll see, this is a good
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When I was with my first girlfriend
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than to actually test those beliefs
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Generally, within ten to fifteen mi
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had sexually abused her as a child.
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explain our present-day anger towar
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For people who were dissatisfied wi
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very spiritual person. She became i
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rape and abuse women out of their c
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Before we can look at our values an
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never changed. For years he went on
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victim or dismal failure. Instead,
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Many people are able to ask themsel
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chosen for ourselves. The truth is,
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Failure itself is a relative concep
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from overbearing or critical parent
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