The emotional pain of rejection or failure teaches us how to avoid making the same mistakes in the future. There’s no value in suffering when it’s done without purpose.ġ5. If you find yourself consistently giving too many fucks about trivial shit that bothers you, chances are you don’t have much going on in your real life to give a legitimate fuck about. You can’t be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and an embarrassment to others.ġ3. Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent it means being comfortable with being different.ġ2. If you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice-well then you’re going to get fucked.ġ1. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain.ġ0. Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience.Ĩ. Wanting positive experience is a negative experience accepting negative experience is a positive experience.ħ. Because there’s an infinite amount of things we can now see or know, there are also infinite number of ways we can discover that we don’t measure up.Ħ. It causes you to be overly attached to the superficial and the fake.ĥ. The problem to giving too many fucks is bad for your mental health. The world is constantly telling you that path to a better life is more (…) You are constantly bombarded with messages to give a fuck about everything all the time (…) Why? My guess: because giving a fuck about more is good for business.Ĥ. It lasers in on what you perceive your personal shortcomings and failures to already be, and then emphasizes them for you.ģ. ![]() Conventional life advice (…) is actually focusing on what you lack. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they are the same thing.Ģ. Self-improvement and success often occur together. What are the things I should give a fuck about? Here are 45 of, what I experienced to be, some of the most eye-opening quotes from the book.ġ. Necessary to actually realize what are the things that really matter in life. It was confrontational and at times even painful. But was it gonna tell me how capable I am and how special I am? Nope! It did everything but that and I loved the book for it. In all honesty, I hadn’t read any reviews on this book and actually thought it would be another self-help book that would tell me how capable I am of achieving marvelous things in life as long as I cared less about what people think. To the point that I’ll just have a glass of wine and hide in bed instead.Īnd all because I have too much fucks to give. However, the thoughts of these things I wish to achieve, in combination with social media immediately get me overwhelmed, anxious and depressed. The reason I chose this book is because -get ready for the cliché- I really want to achieve bigger things in life. The first book I chose to read this year was in line with one of my other goals: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson. Which basically means reading 2 books per month. Samantha is flawless I won’t hear a bad word! But these women both represented and arguably dictated a generation’s frustrations with dating, working, and trying to have it all.For this year, one of my goals is to read at least 24 books. It might have all been at times totally frustrating-Carrie’s narcissism, Charlotte’s Republican bent, Miranda’s deep underselling of herself. Here were four women sat around in chic Manhattan walk-ups, smoking, playing poker, talking about abortions as casually as last season’s runways, objectifying men, and expecting more from them at once. And yet somehow these women spoke to us problematically aspirational girls the world over. ![]() One critic called it flat, bitter, and flaccid (iconic), claiming the pilot’s script needed a shot of Viagra (also iconic). It was 1998, and this show was something new: We were approaching the millennium, the ’90s’ whole thing was optimism, and these four love-and-sex enthusiasts arrived into our lives to present a new future for women and gays everywhere-a sort of pre-fourth-wave-feminism feminism some good bits, some bad. Today marks 25 years-yes, a quarter of a century-since Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte first graced our screens in the sizzling-hot Sex and the City pilot.
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