The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F Backwards Law

May 05, 2022 Post a Comment

Painfully honest and outrageously funny, The Subtle Art of Non Giving a F*ck is not your typical guidebook of unicorns, rainbows, fairies, and sunshine that promises to atomic number 82 you to an unattainably perfect, problem free, experience-good life. This book is the complete opposite; information technology's a much-needed reality cheque virtually our personal problems, fears, expectations, cocky, faults, and uncertainties in the whole, raw, unfiltered, f-bomb explosion infused truth.

It's about finding what's truly important to you and letting go of everything else. In the same way that it encourages limiting exposure to mindless distractions, such as social media, technology, television, it encourages limiting business concern over things that accept little to no meaning or value in your life.

I'm halfway through it and I've learned so much; information technology's both freeing and incredibly inspirational. We live in a world where at that place are so many things - mode besides many things - to give a f*ck well-nigh, it'south important to figure out which ones actually matter. I'm so excited to go along reading and highly encourage you to choice upwards a copy. #Idontgiveachic

In the meantime, here are a few quotes from the volume that I promise inspire yous.

"This is the most simple and bones component of life: our struggles determine our successes."
"To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is, therefore, a form of action;"
"Don't just sit down there. Practice something. The answers will follow."
"We joke about offset world problems, but nosotros actually take become the victims of our own success. Stress-related health problems, anxiety disorders, and cases of depression have skyrocketed over the past xxx years, despite the fact that everyone has a flatscreen TV and can have their groceries delivered. Our crisis is no longer material; it'southward existential, it'south spiritual. Nosotros have and then much fucking stuff then many opportunities that nosotros don't fifty-fifty know what to give a fuck virtually."
"Travel is a fantastic self-development tool considering it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another lodge can live with entirely different values and still function and not detest themselves. This exposure to different cultural values and metrics then forces you to reexamine what seems obvious in your own life and to consider that perhaps it's not necessarily the all-time way to alive."
"There is a simple realization from which all personal improvement and growth emerge. This is the realization that nosotros, individually, are responsible for everything in our lives, no affair the external circumstances. Nosotros don't e'er control what happens to u.s.a.. But nosotros always control how we translate what happens to us, as well as how nosotros respond. Whether nosotros consciously recognize it or not, we are e'er responsible for our experiences. Information technology's incommunicable not to exist. Choosing to not consciously translate events in our lives is however an estimation of the events of our lives. Choosing"
"Maturity is what happens when ane learns to merely give a fuck nigh what'south truly fuckworthy."
"Because when we give too many fucks when we choose to give a fuck about everything, then we feel every bit though we are perpetually entitled to experience comfortable and happy at all times, that's when life fucks us."
"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one'due south negative experience is itself a positive feel. This is a full listen-fuck. So I'll give yous a infinitesimal to unpretzel your brain and mayhap read that again: Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience. It'southward what the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as "the backward law"—the idea that the more than yous pursue feeling better all the fourth dimension, the less satisfied you go, as pursuing something only reinforces the fact that yous lack it in the starting time place."
"Don't hope for a life without issues," the panda said. "There's no such matter. Instead, hope for a life total of good problems."
"Existence wrong opens usa up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth."
"But a true and accurate measurement of i's cocky-worth is how people feel about the negative aspects of themselves."
"Everybody enjoys what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy, and piece of cake life, to autumn in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and brand money and be pop and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part similar the Red Sea when they walk into the room. Everybody wants that. It's easy to want that. A more interesting question, a question that most people never consider, is, "What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for?" Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out."
"We all love to take responsibility for success and happiness. Hell, we often fight over who gets to exist responsible for success and happiness. Only taking responsibility for our problems is far more than important because that's where the real learning comes from. That's where the existent-life improvement comes from. "
"We are divers by what we choose to reject. And if we reject nothing we essentially have no identity at all"
"The fact is people who base their cocky-worth on being right almost everything to forbid themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information."
"What's interesting nearly the backwards law is that it's chosen "backwards" for a reason: not giving a fuck works in opposite. If pursuing the positive is a negative, and so pursuing the negative generates a positive. The pain you pursue in the gym results in better accommodating health and free energy. The failures in business are what pb to a ameliorate agreement of what's necessary to be successful. Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes y'all more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and preserverance."