6 Ways to Stop Giving a F*ck

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We all wish we gave fewer f*cks in our lives, but wanting to and doing it are two different things. If you've read my book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, then you know that not giving a f*ck doesn't mean you don't care about anything—it means deliberately choosing what you give a f*ck about and ignore the rest.

In this episode, we dive into the realities of not giving f*ck, the good and the bad. We talk about why there will never be a time when you're completely free from judgement by others. Why being "normal"—whatever that means—is not something to aspire to, nor is wanting to be liked by everyone. How criticism is a part of life you can't escape—but not all criticism is created equal. And a whole lot more.

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0:00.0	So funny thing, I was just in Budapest and they lost a third of their territory after
0:06.1	World War I and they're still upset about it a hundred years later, even people are age, and they call
0:12.3	it a national trauma. like they use the word
0:14.9	trauma and it's like if you stop a random person and hungry on the street and you
0:20.2	mentioned the the tree and unpacked they understand it as a trauma.
0:23.3	It like raises this interesting question of like, can a nation experience trauma?
0:27.4	I mean, I know we're like, we're in this era now where everything is trauma and
0:31.2	there's like, there's like repressed trauma and
0:34.8	intergenerational trauma and and cultural trauma and people trauma ethnic
0:39.6	trauma can there be a national trauma Drew?
0:43.0	Hmm.
0:44.0	And why is that a trauma and why isn't like, I don't know,
0:48.0	like you don't hear, like we don't talk in the US,
0:51.0	we don't talk about the civil war is like a trauma not anymore.
0:54.6	Yeah maybe I don't know has it been long enough I don't know so so Buddha
0:58.5	Budapest itself I mean hungry lost territory during during world war.
1:01.6	Hungry lost over a third of its territory okay during world. lost
1:03.0	over a third of its territory during World War I. Yeah. And two-thirds of its population. Oh, okay. And like 80% of its natural resources. That is pretty traumatic for a small country I would say. Yeah, right? So the reason I bring this up.
1:16.7	Where are you going with this? I was just in Europe. Okay, yeah. We just did two YouTube videos. We shot one in Hungary and we shot one in Portugal. The one in Hungary is,
1:26.3	Hungary is the most alcoholics in the world per capita. Okay, yeah.
1:29.9	22% of the adult population is clinically
1:32.7	wow diagnoseable as an alcoholic and hungry.
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