The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)

it’s growth that generates happiness, not a long list of arbitrary achievements.

What is your legacy? How will the world be different and better when you’re gone? What mark will you have made? What influence will you have caused?

Often, it’s this realization—that you and your problems are actually not privileged in their severity or pain—that is the first and most important step toward solving them.

True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.

What is the pain that you want to sustain?

There are a handful of common values that create really poor problems for people—problems that can hardly be solved. So let’s go over some of them quickly: 1. Pleasure. Pleasure is great, but it’s a horrible value to prioritize your life around. Ask any drug addict how his pursuit of pleasure turned out. Ask an adulterer who shattered her family an

Whatever your problems are, the concept is the same: solve problems; be happy. Unfortunately, for many people, life doesn’t feel that simple. That’s because they fuck things up in at least one of two ways:

What is the pain that you want to sustain?

healthy relationship is when two people solve their own problems in order to feel good about each other.