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If Books Could Kill

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

If Books Could Kill

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri

Arts, Politics, Books, Society & Culture, News

4.68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

You stare, mouth agape, at the bookstore display. It’s a self-help book, but with curse words in the title?! This must be a revolutionary new framework, not simply the same dull, reactionary ideas repackaged as hip and new.

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0:00.0

I'm making coffee so it sounds like someone is peeing in the background.

0:04.0

Classic reassurance. You're going to hear someone peeing in the background that's actually coffee.

0:08.0

I'm actually hosting a piss party right now.

0:10.0

It's a golden shower party. You caught me.

0:12.0

I know that there is gay shit happening in the background.

0:16.0

Michael, you do not have to lie to me.

0:18.0

I have a singer for this one, Peter.

0:22.0

Are you recording? I am. I am. Let's do it. Michael. Peter. What do you know about the subtle art of not giving a fuck? This is the first time we've done a book where the title also describes my approach to making an

0:34.3

episode about the book. All right, the subtle art of not giving a fuck.

0:43.4

By the man,

0:44.4

and so on the The subtle art of not giving a fuck by Mark Manson.

0:55.0

Ooh, we're swearing, we're bad.

0:57.0

There is one nice thing that I will say about Mark Manson before we get going.

1:02.0

There are worse Manson's. I'd say he's the third worst

1:06.4

Manson. Surely there are better Manson though. I would assume there are nothing. We

1:11.6

often say that these self-help books should have been a blog post.

1:16.7

And this one actually was.

1:18.7

Mark Manson was like a rich kid with a business degree. He got quickly bored of his job in finance and he left to become a blogger and he starts off writing about dating.

1:31.2

Oh no. In 2011 he writes a dating advice book titled,

1:35.0

Models Attract women through honesty.

1:38.0

Oh, that's, I mean, new approach for us.

1:40.0

Yeah.

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