The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

This entire book was a journey through the ego of the author- fanciful nonsense with no real substance or real advice offered anywhere. It was mostly stories of him talking about people with undesirable traits (a few of which seem word for word taken from David Mcraneys book/podcast, ‘You are not so smart,' so I'd be inclined to assume he did the same for other books), and bragging about his very likely made up conquests in his 20's under the guise of self deprecation- those are interspersed with a bubblegum understanding (and mostly wrong at that) of psychology and evolutionary biology to make anyone, with even a base understanding of these topics, cringe every time he adds his inane personal views on ‘research'.

Better titles would be, ‘The subtle art of fundamentally misunderstanding how statistics and research works,' or ‘The subtle art of having a terrible vocabulary, so use the word fuck as much as you can,' or ‘The subtle art of I read a book on Stoic philosophy and Buddhism once, misunderstood it, and now I'll write a book preying on people with low self esteem,' or ‘The subtle art of if I quote smart people, and word for word take my stories from Wikipedia and plagerise other books, people will think what I'm saying is smart too.'

After reading so many rave reviews, I was expecting this to offer something valuable. It spectacularly failed. I'm glad it seemed to help some people- but I'm sceptical that it helped anything beyond an initial feeling of ‘wow I do that too,' then forgetting about it entirely a year later.

1/5 fucks given.