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emilyatmidnight 's review for:
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
by Mark Manson
What a weird book. I liked it—at least, I think I did. it certainly gives you a lot to think about.
It starts at nihilism and ends at nihilism which was meaningful to me. Where the majority of self-help books try to give you something specific to find hope in, this book merely teaches you why we as humans feel hope, what the cycle between happiness and pain is and always will be, and gives us the knowledge on how to embrace or disregard hope.
I didn't agree with some of what he said, but I think the author brought up pretty valuable points about how we, as humans, tend to sit solidly at a 7 on a happiness scale of 1-10, and that when there aren't things to fear or broken things, we will find them anyway. that is exactly how we function, and knowing that means we don't have to be bound by a cycle of fear and happiness.
It's kind of odd, because he argues against trying to remove attachments and suggests that pain is as essential to life as anything, but at the same time, the book feels remarkably buddhist. It's probably because it's filled with a LOT of taoist ideas, and we tend to lump Buddhism and Taoism together in the West.
I think it's an interesting read, and worth the time it takes to read, and it also I'd a good reminder that ultimately we are always shifting information we take in and deciding what to hold onto and what to discard, so do so intentionally.
It starts at nihilism and ends at nihilism which was meaningful to me. Where the majority of self-help books try to give you something specific to find hope in, this book merely teaches you why we as humans feel hope, what the cycle between happiness and pain is and always will be, and gives us the knowledge on how to embrace or disregard hope.
I didn't agree with some of what he said, but I think the author brought up pretty valuable points about how we, as humans, tend to sit solidly at a 7 on a happiness scale of 1-10, and that when there aren't things to fear or broken things, we will find them anyway. that is exactly how we function, and knowing that means we don't have to be bound by a cycle of fear and happiness.
It's kind of odd, because he argues against trying to remove attachments and suggests that pain is as essential to life as anything, but at the same time, the book feels remarkably buddhist. It's probably because it's filled with a LOT of taoist ideas, and we tend to lump Buddhism and Taoism together in the West.
I think it's an interesting read, and worth the time it takes to read, and it also I'd a good reminder that ultimately we are always shifting information we take in and deciding what to hold onto and what to discard, so do so intentionally.