This blog is about 15 best lines or quotes or learning from this book called "The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck" by "Mark Manson". This is a super amazing book. This is one of my best reads of 2021. In this book the word "f*ck" is referred as giving more importance to something or giving more attention to something. The way this book is written is so amazing that, you always feel that the author is actually talking to you.
This book is for everyone, who wants to understand how the things are in real life. The most important thing this book tells you is what are the things you should give importance to, why do they require more attention and how you can do it. There are more amazing things that you will get to know as you read this book. For now enjoy some of my key learnings.
Let's start
Pleasure is not the cause of happiness; rather, it is the effect.
When we feel that we are choosing our problems, we feel empowered. When we feel that our problems are being forced upon us against our will, we feel victimized and miserable.
We don't always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.
The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives.
A lot of people hesitate to take responsibility for their problem because they believe that to be responsible for your problems is to also be a default of your problem.
There is a difference between blaming someone else for your situation and that person's actually being responsible for your situation.
I didn't choose this life; I didn't choose this horrible, horrible condition. But I get to choose how to live with it; I have to choose how to live with it.
Growth is an endlessly iterative process.
The comedian Emo Philips once said, "I used to think that human brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realize who was telling me this."
We are in a perpetual state of misleading ourselves and others for no other reason than that our brain is designed to be efficient, not accurate.
Our mind's biggest priority when processing experiences is to interpret them in such a way that they will cohere with all of our previous experience, feelings and beliefs.
The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.
As a general rule, we are all the world's worst observers of ourselves.
If every project I started failed, if every post I wrote went unread, I'd only be back exactly where I started. So why not try?
Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something. If someone is better than you at something, then it's likely because she has failed at it more than you have.
Packwood used to say, "If you're stuck on a problem, don't sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don't know what you are doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head."
Action isn't just the effect of motivation; it's also the cause of it.
Travel is fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another society can live with entirely different values and still function and not hate themselves.
Commitment gives you freedom because you're no longer distracted by the unimportant and frivolous.
Confronting the reality of our own mortality is important because it obliterates all the creepy, fragile, superficial values inn life.
This book is super amazing all the lines mentioned above are from first few pages only. I am going to make more of this blog. I post my "Best Lines" blog every Monday 9 am. So stay tuned for another one.
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