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To be genuine the cover of this book trap me to read it. I admire books where authors don’t play around the "Superficial attractive" but tell you the harsh truth, ( Disappointing Panda, gives entry)

"Get out of your head & into your life"

I would call it as more of anti-self help book but all the harsh reality you need to hear about yourself

From my point of view, we need more writers like Mark who don’t candycoat things, he is simply brutally honest.

This book is a self help guide that open your eyes, to cut all the Bitch Shield and concentrate on the important things in your life. “Not giving a f**k does not mean been indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different”, Manson writes.

Reading this book changed me and now i see the world in a whole new perspective. It’s a wake up call which tells you to put your self together and do something meaningful. He stresses on the point that life is all not filled with happiness, at times you gonna go through shit but it’s okay.

i mean, life is not a bed of roses, you gonna catch some painful thorns before you make this “beautiful bed”. Furthermore, we can’t solve all problems in our life, its impossible to do this. “Life is essentially an endless series of problems.

“The path to happiness is a path full of shit heaps and shame,” he remarks.

Basically he maxim us to enjoy our "struggle".

Happiness requires struggle. He continues that everybody wants the good life. But nobody is asking; “What are I willing to struggle for?”.

CHASE HAPPINESS

“The path to happiness is a path full of shit heaps and shame,” he remarks.

Think positive?

“Fuck positivity,” Manson says. “Let’s be honest; sometimes things are fucked up and we have to live with it.”

Ensure extraordinary?

“Not everyone can be extraordinary - there are winners and losers in society, and some if it is not fair or your fault,” Manson writes.

Mark illustrates this clearly, by writing, ” don’t be engaged in the superficial and fake definition of a good life, it will mentally drain you”. Most of us spend nearly half of our lives, fantasizing on a life that full of joy, getting anything we want without lifting a figure.

Instead of aiming for an unattainably perfect, problem free, feel-good life, Mark suggests asking the essential question, “What problem do you want to have?”

The greatest statement from this book is , “change is inevitable.” As we grow older we change for the better and we learn from our previous mistakes.

The irony is the book actually is about greatness. It is hopeful. There’s greatness to be discovered in accepting our lack of greatness, our simplicity and beauty amidst the complex and ugly.

You are wrong about everything but so is everyone else. Everyday you learn you become less wrong than yesterday but never you would be totally correct about anything.

Paradox of success and failure

Paradox of success and failure

I loved the concepts he portrayed.

1. Feedback loop from hell

2. Backwards law -(don't try don't give a salad)

3. Entitlement

4. Paradox of success and failure

5. Problems

6. Failure

7. Saying ‘no’

8. Rejections

FEEDBACK LOOP FROM HELL

Embracing our problems this book yanks you out of delusion and denial, points at the pit you’re stuck in and forces you to not only look at the filth and dirt covering you but also to accept it.

Like anything of true value in life, dig a little deeper and you’ll find treasure worthy of any explorer willing to look below the surface.

And it won’t be the DESSERT kind of good that makes your body crave real nourishment, but the kind of goodness that warms you from deep within, like you’ve just been served a healthy platter of whole, raw, organic, unfiltered truth.