Life is short. Accepting your mortality helps you prioritiwhat truly matters and live authentically.

You’re Going to Die Anyway

Pain and discomfort are part of growth. Learn to accept and even value struggles that help you improve.

Not All Pain is Bad

Base your actions on meaningful values like honesty, growth, or connection—not superficial ones like status or material success.

Your Values Define Your Life

Life is full of challenges. Instead of avoiding problems, embrace and solve them—that’s where true satisfaction lies.

Happiness Comes from Solving Problems

Blaming others gets you nowhere. Taking responsibility for your life—even in tough situations—gives you control and power.

Take Responsibility, Even When It’s Not Your Fault

You don’t need to be the best at everything. Embrace your ordinary self and find joy in meaningful, everyday experiences.

Stop Trying to Be Extraordinary

Don’t fear failure—it’s a necessary step toward growth. Every failure teaches you something valuable.

Failure is Part of the Process

You can’t control everything. Accepting uncertainty and letting go of what you can’t change leads to freedom and peace.

Let Go of Control

You can’t care about everything, and that’s okay. Focus your energy on what truly matters, and let the rest go.

Choose Your F*cks Wisely

The more you care about things that don’t matter, the more you waste your time and energy. Simplify your priorities.

Care About Fewer Things

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* is a refreshing guide to living with less stress and more purpose. It’s about letting go of societal pressures, embracing challenges, and focusing on what truly makes your life meaningful.

#1 New York Times BestsellerOver 10 million copies soldIn this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

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Mark Manson (born 1984) is a professional blogger, entrepreneur, and former dating coach. Since 2007, he's been helping people with their emotional and relationship problems. He has worked with thousands of people from over 30 different countries. He regularly writes and updates his blog at: www.markmanson.net

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