A review by colourbandit
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.5

I’m a bit mixed on my opinions of this book as I started out with it on a completely different page than I finished. Initially I absolutely hated the tone and wasn’t really very engaged in the content or how it was discussed. But then as it progressed, I began to see some of the value in what was being said and how it could maybe apply to my own life. 

Mainly what I took from this was the need to redefine your successes and failures to be more tangible, to enable you to make real progress and alter your perceptions about what has happened. It is something I think most of us could benefit from considering as we do tend to be raised with a certain set of expectations, which will naturally transition into our goals for life, but often this isn’t really what we want or what is best for us at the time, and ultimately, like the author discusses, can lead to us becoming stuck and lost. 

I don’t think a lot of this book will stick with me unfortunately, but I will take some snippets, which counts for something. It’s a short one with some good messages, so it’s likely worthwhile giving it a go and I’m sure a lot of people will take a lot from it, it just wasn’t entirely for me.