The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Caring about everything is exhausting and impossible, reserve your limited capacity to care for the handful of things that are true, immediate, and genuinely important, and let the rest go.
2. Stop chasing happiness directly: the 'backwards law' says the more you pursue feeling good, the worse you feel. Accept negative experiences instead of feeling bad about feeling bad.
3. Pick your struggle, not your reward. Don't ask what you want to enjoy, ask what pain you're willing to sustain, because the problems you choose to suffer through define the life you get.

The other 4 — and the full 10-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 9 chapters

The whole summary runs about 10 minutes, read or listened to.

1. Don't Try
2. Happiness Is a Problem
3. You Are Not Special
4. The Value of Suffering
5. You Are Always Choosing
6. You're Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)
7. Failure Is the Way Forward
8. The Importance of Saying No
9. And Then You Die