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If you aren’t familiar with Mark Manson, perhaps you’ve seen one of his f*cking novels on the shelf at your local bookseller: "The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck" and Everything Is F*cked"."
That’s where I first came across this gentleman. The books were in the bestseller section and I was slightly bemused/shocked at the titles — as I’m sure most people are at first. Mark takes the best of the best of the self-help publishing industry and "translates some of those ideas into language that your average, overworked 26-year-old will understand."
Want to cut to the chase and go straight to the last chapter, "... And Then You Die"? In it, the famous - but to you perhaps unknown - Charles Bukowski (watch his semi-autobiographical film "Barfly" here) - is quoted as saying, "We're all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by life's trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing."
Here are some of Mark Manson's quotes:
“Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.”
“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”
“Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.”
“To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action.”
“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”
“If you want to change how you see your problems, you have to change what you value and/or how you measure failure/success.”
“Don’t hope for a life without problems,” the panda said. “There’s no such thing. Instead, hope for a life full of good problems.”
“Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.”
“Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone. It’s there. It’s your job to find it. Not their job to show you.”
“If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.”
Read Mark Manson's book or listen to the audiobook. If you should happen not to like it, don't bother to tell me. I don't give a f*ck!
