Sneha 🧚‍♀️ 's Key Ideas from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
by Mark Manson

wanting positive experience is a negative experience, accepting the negative experience is a positive experience.

If pursuing the positive is a negative, then pursuing the negative generates positive. For instance,

• The pain you pursue in the gym results in better all-around health and energy.
• The failure in buisness is what leads to a better understanding of what's necessary to be successful.

Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.

Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change.

Negative emotions are a call to action. when you feel them it's because you're supposed to do something.

Positive emotions are rewards for taking the proper action.

And hence, An obsession and overinvestment in emotion fails us for the simple reason that emotions never last.