By Padma Dolma
New York times and International best selling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fu*k, Mark Manson.
Title: Everything is Fu*ked. Author: Mark Manson published: 14 May 2019. Genre: Self help book. Publisher : Harper One
The hope is described as Nihilism in the book he writes that telling yourself important is a lie. Acknowledging and appreciating our existence must create the hope.
“Hope cares only about the problems that still need to be solved. Because the better the world gets, the more we have to lose. And the more we have to lose, the less we feel we have the hope for.”
To create hope in our self the either thinks we must have these three things
- Sense of control (feeling like we’re in control of our lives)
- Belief in the value of something (something worth striving for)
- Community (being part of a community valuing what we also value)
Without these three Mark writes that to understand why we are suffering through such crisis of hope today, we need to understand the mechanics of hope, how to generate it and how to maintain it.
Than comes the ‘Sense of Control’, the author writes that the self control is an illusion.The war between the two brains, you must be thinking brain fight means IQ tests, but in the book Everything is fu*ked tells us the research of many physiologist, scientists on the behaviour of our brain. He describes the two brains ,feeling and thinking brain must act together to make the person as living as possible if either one is shut down the other one would overwhelmed the human actions and can isolate him from the rest of the world and he’d loss the importance of others presence in his life.
Our values the second necessary thing to generate hope. Author describes the values with the example of Issac Newton being a social freak and an absentminded kid who had stayed his entire life searching answers for his curiosities and never once understood the importance of being surrounded by loved ones he died as a loner and his discoveries remain hidden to the world, collecting dust.
The third necessary thing community. He has explained this necessity in the fourth chapter of the book where he writes about religion as a leverage to people who think they had failed their lives and living their lives wrongly without making their dreams come true. He writes that God’s value slowly shifts and becomes the preservation of the religion itself: not to lose what it has gained. And there the corruption starts. To maintain the status the people toss aside the movement, the revolution and the values that defined the religion, that becomes organizational level narcissism. He believes that the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true.
He writes about Nietzsche who believes both beliefs of ardent nationalists and anti – Semites to be stupid and offensive and he strictly believed in the value of a person’s deeds, nothing else no system, no race, no nationality.
The book mostly talks about the hope being generated automatically by our feeling brain but making it look like that we think it’s the only support system to live your life but that’s a lie you tell yourself. Also tells the unbreakable desire of human being to be more happy to be more lively, all we need is to have inner peace and he tried to analyse this desire by giving examples.
This is a philosophical book to every reasons that has crushed your hopes and dreams and believes.
Gyann Loaded 