#178 Sarah Knight: How To Give Less Of A F*ck
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emma gannon
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🗓️ 3 February 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Sarah Knight, the New York Times Bestselling author of the "No Fucks Given Guides". Before writing and releasing her own books, she spent 15 years as a top editor, working with authors such as Gillian Flynn and Jessica Knoll.
In her books, she gives tough love and honest advice on setting goals, boundaries, mental health, making big decisions, and getting organised. Her book was called The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A Fuck, then Get Your Shit Together, then You Do You. Her fourth book, all about dealing with anxiety called Calm The Fuck down.
We talk about her decision to quit her publishing job, why she moved to the Dominican Republic, how to say no, how to stop comparing and why you shouldn't care what about people think.
Some favourite quotes from the episode:
"Marie Kondo's books are about unburdening yourself from ~stuff~ - I thought, 'I could do this for your mind.'"
"I just don't care if people don't like me. I think I'm pretty awesome."
"I'm the pied piper of not giving a fck"
"I'm not out here advising anyone to be assholes or sociopaths, I'm just saying it's OK to live your life the way you want to live it."
"If you are choosing to punch yourself in the gut each morning by looking at stuff [online] that makes you feel bad about yourself, then stop doing it. I have very little patience for that kind of self-sabotage."
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| 0:56.7 | Hello and welcome back to Control-Or Delete. My guest today is the |
| 1:06.1 | amazing Sarah Knight, the New York Times best-selling author of the No Fucks |
| 1:11.1 | given guides. You probably recognize them. They are in pretty much every |
| 1:15.2 | airport all over the world. They are very motivating and full of tough love. I've wanted to get |
| 1:21.9 | Sarah on the podcast for so long it's been quite impossible |
| 1:25.1 | because she lives in the Dominican Republic. So we could have done it over Skype but |
| 1:30.3 | it was so nice to meet her finally in person in London. |
| 1:34.0 | Before releasing and writing her own books, |
| 1:37.0 | Sarah spent 15 years as a top editor in New York, |
| 1:41.0 | working with some incredible authors such as Jillian Flynn, who wrote |
| 1:46.2 | Gong Girl and Jessica Knowles, who wrote Luckiest Girl Alive. |
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