THE SUBTLE ART OF NOT GIVING A F*CK BOOK REVIEW

"F*ck positivity," Manson says. "Let's be honest; sometimes things are fucked up and we have to live with it." At first the title will chock you, but you will find behind the profanity that the book is actually incredibly inspiring, deeply philosophical, and extremely clever. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck in my modest opinion is the book that any person or entrepreneur pursuing a project or an objective should imperatively read.

These days we are overwhelmed with messages from everywhere, emphasizing that if you “JUST THINK POSITIVE” everything will be ok. Hum…Don’t think so? You think I’m being negative… I’m just saying enough with your toxic positivity.

Haven’t’ you notice that if we display any sign of discouragement or unhappiness or doubt that what we are doing isn’t working, we are told that we are not trying hard enough, that the problem must be us as opposed to what we have learned. Furthermore, we are constantly told that the people who raise concerns or make observations that point out problems with what we are doing are negative people and we shouldn’t be friends with anymore. We are told that they don’t appreciate what we are doing and they are getting in our way.

Manson in his book highlighted a very important fact “people who are happy all the time are psychopath”. Think a moment, don’t you have as a person moments or days when you just feeling down and you just want to cry and do nothing, but at the same time you are afraid of displaying these emotions and being judged and called a looser for letting these negative thoughts overwhelm you. Manson is saying that being sad is normal, instead of fighting it you just need to allow yourself to feel without guilt and embrace those dark moments, he calls it “the value of suffering”

This, he says, is the real source of empowerment. "Once we embrace our fears, faults and uncertainties - once we stop running from and avoiding, and start confronting painful truths - we can begin to find the courage and confidence we desperately seek."

You don’t have to be positive all the time to prosper and succeed. You just need to know when and how to use positivity to help you discover a different perspective or see an opportunity, but also you need to know when to give it a rest and pay attention to what else is going on around you. Because in most times what’s going on around you will have a direct impact on your life and business and can help you dodge a calamity before it happens. This will only happen if you’re grounded enough in reality to see past the toxic positivity.

He also point out that Instead of aiming for an unattainably perfect, problem free, feel-good life, Manson suggests asking the essential question, "What problem do you want to have?" , In his point of view "Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another”. So instead of asking "how can I get rid of my problems?" the question becomes, "What are the problems that excite me? What are the problems for which I am willing to sacrifice for, to work for?"

At the end of his book Manson offers no hope but a very strong message “Failure is a way forward”.

Personally when I finished reading it, I found the world suddenly brighter and lighter. I felt free from stereotypes and judgments, moreover oddly, good, despite the heavy ideas and values of the book.

Hope you will enjoy reading the book as well. And if you did, feel free to share your thoughts!