STRONG LANGUAGE WARNING

Hello, everyone! Shorty Scorch here, introducing both my first solo post and a new series I’ll be in charge of: Media Recommendations!

Well, minus video games, that’s Kendra’s gig. But I doubt we’ll be hitting those up any time soon for recommendation purposes. My recommendations will be for various reasons, and I’ll explain what each of them is for when I introduce a new one.

Now, not all of these are going to be family-friendly recommendations. That’s alright, I’m an adult and therefore can watch, read, or listen to all of these with full approval!

Anyway, all of that aside, on to today’s recommendation! Today, I’m going to start with my personal favorite book: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson. (Note: My personal favorite, not Kendra’s. Kendra’s is Terrier: A Beka Cooper Story by Tamora Pierce.)

Why do I like this book? Well, it’s not because of the language, to nip that in the bud. The language in this book is explicit and colorful, which is fine by me: I swear like a sailor in my every day life. However, the language is inherent to this book’s style. But, I warn you, that means this book is not for the faint of heart!

The Subtle Art is a great guide to… Well, not giving a fuck. That doesn’t mean caring about nothing, though. As Mark explains very well, it means choosing important things to give a fuck about, and not wasting your energy on the unimportant things in life.

The book goes on to explain the subtleties of happiness, true happiness that is, and success. You’ll learn how to better measure and choose what you value, and how to take a closer look at yourself and your behaviors.

This isn’t a self-help book. It’s a “Wake the fuck up, moron, and smell the steaming pile of shit the world’s heaped in front of you, just like it does for everyone else” book.

Mark isn’t afraid to point out, again and again, how life is never going to be a lovely place, and you will always have problems. However, he will, help you learn how you can sway things toward problems you enjoy rather than problems you don’t.

20/10 everyone needs to read this book and take this into your heart. Learn from it, grow from it, drink it in.

I recommend both the physical book and the audio book. I just finished listening to the audio book again on Audible, and it’s still good.

Check it out! Let me know in the comments if you do, and what you think of it! Do you have any recommendations of your own, book, music, or tv/movie that you think are great for one reason or another and I should check out? Let me know, and I’ll get to it, and it might appear in a future Shorty’s Media Corner!