[📚Sunday Book Club]: Mark Manson; "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"

This past week I went to a conference in Miami, and of course in my free time I couldn’t resist visiting Miami’s finest book store; The Books&Books in Coral Gables. While I was picking up new books for my library, I spotted Mark Manson’s unapologetic masterpiece with a very catchy title; The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck. 

I know. Some will laugh, some will frown, some have already stopped reading. 

It’s okay. I say, “in the world of Kardashians, let’s embrace the art of being different.”

While this book is in the self-help category, highly thought-provoking and arguable, it's witty. It will hold your attention from beginning to end, and you might find yourself highlighting page after page and sending quotes to your inner circle. 

Which I’m doing right now, with these quotes: 😁

“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame."

"Pain is an inextricable thread in the fabric of life, and to tear it out is not only impossible, but destructive: attempting to tear it out unravels everything else with it. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable.”

“In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And like the road not taken, it was the fucks not given that made all the difference.”

As the year’s end is inevitable, many of us will reflect on 2023. If we do it right, we will not sugar coat where in the past we f*d up. THAT will be the moment we have the biggest opportunity to learn and grow. 

Mark Manson’s book is one of a kind and can absolutely help you see through your own BS, if you dare.🤓

“We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.”

I’m rooting for you (while facing my own 2023 ups and downs)!

Love, Hana❤️