The subtle art of not giving a fuck [hardcover] and how to be fucking awesome 2 books collection set - a counterintuitive approach to living a good life

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1. silcoonJan 2026
   A bit older than you but yes, the feeling is kind of there. Let's try to be a bit more precise:

   > no hope of ever living a fruitful and meaningful life

   This is wrong. Fruitful and meaningful life can be lived anyway independently from your career and from your financial situation. Since it seems that job opportunity and growth might shrink without "hustling" or "grinding", it's extremely important to learn from a young age what really gives meaning to life, and this task has to be done entirely by you. No quick course, no AI or tutorial can teach you this. You need to learn it by yourself when you're young because it would probably make a real difference for the rest of your life. There are some tools for it, and the best one are probably books, and fiction can be really powerful to shape your thinking. I don't know you but I'll start from this one if you haven't read it before (don't think too much about the title and the tone, concentrate on the topic): The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

   > get awfully depressed

   Yes, this is a bit the feeling that over-exposition to social media provokes in a lot of people. Everything seems going shit; politics, climate, wars, nothing is right anymore. Idk you but my life is pretty stable, go out with friends, cook nice meals, traveling, stuff like that. So yes this are real problem in the world, but media currently over-expose us to this things (because it helps them sell articles and make you click). The easiest solution might be detoxing from media, and replace that with learning how things work for real trough books.

   > The means by which I could ever potentially earn a living are slowly destroyed.

   Unfortunately no-one know this for sure, so it doesn't make sense to overthink it. The technology field is changing but AIs are not near replacing humans yet. Technology has the power to automate and so replace every single job out there, so it's a field that still has work to be done and so investment will come in. It's just the current time that seems not right, and mostly it's because rich entrepreneurs tied themself with politics, to save their ass and make even more money in a period of political instability.

   The future doesn't look bright, but learn how not to fall in a negativity trap created by media and internet.

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2. SammiOct 2025
   You know the best selling pop psychology self help book The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck might actually be a good business book for people who haven't internalised that you have to say no to most things in order to be able to emphatically say yes to the actually important things.
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3. antony_pondJan 2025
   Have you read the subtle art of not giving a fuck? - you are a perfect example of what happens when someone achieve their goal. They feel empty, with nothing to do. Sad And alone. https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck

   Now you need to find yourself a new purpose. Only you can find it, maybe that can help: figure out that plants are the top of the food chain, and the more we treat them well... the most fun we have around them! Explore the spiritual world, help others who haven't been as lucky as you, be hurt, and heal again, that's life man.

   *You could join me in a suicide/impossible mission to save the world, but i doubt you will - nobody is mad enough to follow me in this endeavour.

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4. _mlbtMar 2024
   Your comment reminded me of one of the best books I’ve ever read… Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck. He talks about what he calls the “backwards law” which is about these counterintuitive truths like the one that you discovered.
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5. sshineDec 2023
   The subtle art of not giving a fuck
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6. CrzyLngPwdAug 2023
   Stop Reading the News. Hook that in with The Subtle Art of Not giving a fuck, and finish with Turning the Mind into an Ally, and I find reflecting on all three has helped me to focus on what's important.

   I no longer waste so much time on trivial unimportant nonsense.

   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Reading-News-information-overl...

   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuit...

   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Turning-Mind-into-Sakyong-Mipham/dp...

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