Key takeaways: 1. You need to give a fuck but you choose what to give a fuck to. 2. What you give a fuck to depends on your values. Overhyped but I guess you can still learn something from it. ( )

Eh. ( )

(2.25 Stars)

Meh... some really good advice mixed in with a lot of "do as I say, not as I've done" energy... The author really wants people to know that he is happily married now but used to bang a lot of chicks.

Seriously, the advice is good, but the book is just "ok" for me. ( )

This book for me was a disappointment. I heard how brilliant it was and wanted to read it and see what all the hype was about.

And I found it to be repetitive. And just a let down. Sure, there are some handy things in there. But it's just not what I was expecting. That could be saying more about my expectations than the book itself, but with the reviews I'd read I thought I'd really dig the book. People I know really enjoyed it and thought I would too, but I just couldn't get behind it.

An excellent message for this time. He loses a star for completely ignoring privilege. I often found myself asking, "How would someone who has been formed by historic oppression read this?" He may say, "Don't give a f*ck about it," but it's far too easy to say. Perhaps I need to read more of his blog.

That being said, he is right. It's not about caring about nothing, but about choosing what to care about and not giving those things that are not important your concern.

Rather than approaching life as moving from one ambition to the next, accepting mortality and that every choice brings its own series of problems helps centre us to live better in the world.

Sort of a spoiler-it's not really about not giving a f*ck. ( )