Book Review:- The Subtle art of not giving a f*ck

The Subtle art of not giving a f#ck

A Counterintuitive approach to living a good life

Written by: - Mark Manson

Charles Bukowski was an alcoholic, a womanizer, a chronic gambler, a lout, a cheapskate, a deadbeat and on his worst days a poet. He is the last person on the earth you would ever look for life advice or expect to see in any sort of self-help book.

He wanted to be a writer. But for the decades his work was rejected by almost every magazine and newspaper, journal, agent, publisher, every magazine and newspaper agent he submitted to. His work was much horrible, they said. Crude. Disgusting. Depraved. And as the stacks of rejection slips piled up, the weight of his failures pushed him into the alcoholic fueled depression that would follow him for most of his life.

Bukowski had a day job as a letter-filer at a post office. He got a paid shit money and spent most of it on the booze. He gambled away the rest at the racetrack. At night, he would drink alone and sometimes hammer out poetry on his beat-up old typewriter. Often, he would wake up on the floor having passed out the night before.

Thirty years went by like this, most of it a meaningless blur of alcohol, drugs, gambling, and prostitutes. Then, when Bukowski was fifty, after a lifetime of failure and self-loathing, an editor at small independent publishing took a strange interest in his work. The editor couldn’t offer Bukowski much money or much promise of sales. But he had a weird affection for the drunken loser, so he decided to take a chance on him. It was the first real shot Bukowski had ever gotten, and, he realized, probably the only one he could ever get in life. He wrote back to the editor.''I have one of the two choices- stay in the post office and go crazy… or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve.''

After signing the contract, Bukowski wrote his first novel in three weeks titled simply post office. In the dedication, he wrote ''Dedicated to nobody.'' And his book went through a record breakable sale.

For the past years Mark Manson via his wildly popular blog-has been working on correcting our delusional expectations for ourselves and for the world. He now brings his hardest-fought wisdom from this book.

Manson makes the argument that human beings are flawed and limited. As he keeps on writing the fact ‘’ not everybody can be extraordinary. There are winners and losers in society and some of it is not fair or your fault.’’ The writer advises us to get to knew our strong points and limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults and uncertainties- once we stop running from our fears, and faults, and uncertainties- once we stop running from and avoiding, and start confronting painful truths- we can begin to find the courage and confidence we desperately seek.

''In our life, we have a very limited amount of fucks to give. So you must choose your fucks wisely.''

I recommend this book to read and keep it secured with you.

It will guide you throughout your life.

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Kaushik

Book Review:- Power of your subconscious mind

Writer: - Dr.Joseph Murphy

Why is one person sad and another person happy? Why is one person joyous and prosperous and another person poor? Why is one person fearful and one full of confidence? Why it is that so many good people suffer the tortures of the demand in their mind? Do miracles happen in our life? Yes, they do. Do you believe that your life should be healed with remarkable power? Miracles will happen to you too when you will realize the ultimate power of your subconscious mind.

A wonderful way to beginning getting to know the two functions of your mind is to think of it as a garden. You are the gardener of it. You are planting the seeds of thought in your subconscious mind all day long. Many times we are not aware of it because of our habitual thinking. As you sow in your subconscious mind the good things and best thoughts, so shall you get the best results of it in your body and the environment.

We all have one conscious mind with us. This conscious mind is always busy in the thinking process in our daily routine. It is mixed with all the positive and negative thoughts. There is one more mind behind the conscious mind is hidden gold called the subconscious mind. This subconscious mind keeps on working 24*7. It doesn’t understand what is good and what is bad. It keeps on recording the inputs from your conscious mind and it converts inputs into the action and results in our body and mind. This mind is very close to us. It knows us better than us. What we think in the daily routine is unknowingly captured by our subconscious mind. For Ex. If you suggest yourself prior to the sleep,’’ I want to get up at 6.30 A.M.’’ it will awaken you at that exact time without an alarm.

Imagine the pilot riding the aeroplane. In order to fly, he must know the correct and right ways to control the aeroplane. Similar way, you must give correct thought and right orders in form of images and thoughts to your conscious mind and it will pass it to the subconscious mind, which controls and governs all our lives and experiences. Your subconscious mind is always with you but you should know how to use its amazing powers. You must know the correct ways to use the miracles of the subconscious mind. In simple words, think good then good life will follow you and if you think like an evil and devil, your life will be miserable. All your subconscious mind is the seat of your emotions. Your hidden treasure also helps you to screw your fear and anxiety permanently.

Let’s go with an example. Imagine that you are going to attend the interview. Before the interview, you keep on researching the facts and unending data of the company that you are going to start our career. During this process, you also keep on thinking what will happen in the interview? What will they ask? Will they offer me a good salary? Will they reject me? These type of questions keep on coming in our mind. They come because you have fear in our mind about the interview. Today the real fact is that half of the people get suffered due to anxiety and fear power. Now if you want to attend the interview, keep on memorizing the picture in your mind that you are confidently entering in the room with a smile on your face and you are speaking confidently with your interview panel and after the interview, panel members are shaking their hands with you and you are selected. Keep on continuously reminding yourself these pictures three times a day. Keep on giving the thought to your conscious mind that you are confident and you will face the interview in a successful manner. Your conscious mind will pass these thoughts to your hidden diamond called the subconscious mind. Further, the subconscious mind will take these thoughts and it will penetrate it into your mind and body and later you will see the magical transformation of yourself.

In a private company, we all work under pressure. We have 'n' types of bosses. In some private companies, it may happen that your work is not getting considered by your C.E.O and boss. We might get frustrated in this type of situation. Don’t worry at all. Keep on giving thoughts to your conscious mind that you are doing well enough. You know yourself very well. You know what you can; also you know what you can’t. No one in this world can judge you other than you. The opinions of other people should not judge you or demoralize you unless you allow them to do. You have the right to reject all the thoughts that you don’t believe about yourself. It also vanishes entire frustration within you.

If you want to buy a bike say 'Thunderbird' but you don’t have enough money. Never say the word you cannot afford. You should always say to your mind that you will have the capacity to afford bullet in the future but never say the word “I am not capable to buy it”. If you say it, this message will get circulated in your hidden subconscious mind and it will work according to it.

 In case, you are facing the financial problems and you are looking for the wealth in your life. Everyone is eager to earn money and status. Money and Laxmi will flow towards us. Before going to sleep begin to visualize in your mind that you are blessed with tones of wealth. This message will be circulated in your subconscious mind and it will convert it into the action.

Your subconscious mind has all the solutions that you keep on looking. So don’t look into the solutions for all your problems in the outside world. All the solutions are with you. The subconscious mind has splendid healing power. It is been extensively used by all the creative people, doctors, writers and actors.

You are in search of the solution for some of the questions for so many days and you are unable to get it. Do one thing, before going to sleep just remind yourself that the solution you are looking for will be with you in the next couple of days for some days. You will notice the change in the coming days.

If you are looking for the story? Alarm it to your subconscious mind. If you cannot act satisfactorily for some days; keep the picture in front of yourself that you have the capability to act more effectively. If you are facing fear, visualize the fact that you have broken that fear. If you fear swimming, think in the way that you are at the top of the swimming pool and you are jumping into it. Always remind yourself that you can achieve all the things that you wish to achieve. Never think at all in the negative way as it is getting passed to the subconscious mind. We all have that power to live our lives in a happy and wealthy manner. Always keep your mind full of positive vibes and thoughts and pictures. And to create such positive vibes, keep on motivating yourself. Keep laughing at yourself. Exercise daily. Keep on hanging out with your friends.

Live your life with the help of the hidden diamond (Subconscious mind) in the golden manner and king size.

Cheers for your life.

  

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Kaushik Shrotri

Ichalkaranji