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Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

By Mark Manson

Hope is necessary illusion.

5/5

TL;DR

Hope drives human behavior, Meaning comes from struggle

Review

Its more of a philosophical follow-up to _The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fu*_k. While the earlier book focused on values and priorities, this one shifts to a deeper question: what keeps humans psychologically stable in a chaotic world? the answer is simple “Hope”.

In this book Mark argues about the human is primarily driven by emotions and not logic and our sense of meaning is determined by our underlying “hope structure” (belief that things would improve) but the morden lifestyle and environment is destabilizing this structure.

The is a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche in this which goes like

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

And this book introduced me to one of greatest philosopher Nietzsche