Everything Is F*cked

A Book About Hope

By: Mark Manson

Narrated by: Mark Manson

Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

From the author of the international mega-best-seller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a counterintuitive guide to the problems of hope.

We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been - we are freer, healthier, and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked - the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to technology, education, and communication our ancestors couldn’t even dream of, so many of us come back to an overriding feeling of hopelessness.

What’s going on? If anyone can put a name to our current malaise and help fix it, it’s Mark Manson. In 2016, Manson published The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck, a book that brilliantly gave shape to the ever-present, low-level hum of anxiety that permeates modern living. He showed us that technology had made it too easy to care about the wrong things, that our culture had convinced us that the world owed us something when it didn’t - and worst of all, that our modern and maddening urge to always find happiness only served to make us unhappier. Instead, the “subtle art” of that title turned out to be a bold challenge: to choose your struggle; to narrow and focus and find the pain you want to sustain. The result was a book that became an international phenomenon, selling millions of copies worldwide while becoming the number-one best seller in 13 different countries.

Now, in Everthing Is F*cked, Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at our relationships with money, entertainment, and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat us alive. He openly defies our definitions of faith, happiness, freedom - and even of hope itself.

With his usual mix of erudition and where-the-f*ck-did-that-come-from humor, Manson takes us by the collar and challenges us to be more honest with ourselves and connected with the world in ways we probably haven’t considered before. It’s another counterintuitive romp through the pain in our hearts and the stress of our soul. One of the great modern writers has produced another book that will set the agenda for years to come.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Mark Manson (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers

Is it possible to rate six stars?

I would like to use my golden ticket review to give this book six stars! Thank you Mark for your courage, discipline, honesty and integrity in writting EiF. So many insights in so few pages... I cant even imagine the hard work beyond writting this book! I am almost certainly that this is going to be the book I will read more times in my lifetime. No review can make justice to the quality of this book. Just buy the f#•King book and start reading it or...

Recommended for anyone with an open mind... who’s brain is still in there

Really messed with a few world views of mine, but dare I say for the better. Could be a tough pill to swallow for some. Overall though I enjoyed the authors take on key topics and issues and for the most part agree with him. Not what I was expecting yet still enjoyable.

Black Mirror episode turned optimistic

Mark Manson's latest book is both thought provoking and healthily skeptical of many traditional ways of thinking. He echos some of the same concepts as his previous writing, in that he extols the importance of choosing the best forms of suffering to endure. I was not expecting the book to end the way it did, and the best way I could describe it is that he believes the next phase for humanity will result in a convergence of Artificial Intelligence, and a shared virtual conciousness / experience. His descriptions are reminiscent of several Black Mirror episodes - but his take is ultimately much more positive, uplifting and hopeful - and paints a utopia provided by benevolent AI overlords rather than a distopia.

Everything fucked up?

While digging my own grave with a glass of whiskey at the side of the pot hole, I found this book with a lot of good qualities to rescue, not only those of we are animals and there ain’t nothing more for us, but actual hope not for a better future, but for a better me, some lessons already known “be disciplined, be humble, don’t do this, don’t do that” but others unknown, like the theories of Kant and Nietsche, overall a great book to open the horizons of your own self

A book that slaps you in the face

Mark Manson leaves us with the reality we all live in by the end of the book. He also sets the lens for the reader understand and see the world for what it is. Hint it is not fire, but it is not sunshine and flowers; mainly because we won't allow it. If you want someone to challenge your point of view on life then Mark Manson will do exactly that in this book.

Moment of Truth

For as many people as there are out here preaching what’s going on, this is a factual boot to the face that most people need to hear. Mark hits it again just as he did in his last book, but this time I think it makes it clear to what we as people need to do and what we NEED to give a fuck about. It’s people, it’s humanitarianism, it’s embracing the suck and shitty hands were presented.

In short, Just be better.

The adverse affects of hope

Manson’s first book was life changing for me; so I had some expectations. They were met. First it was great to hear the book in the authors own words. Second it was a complete history of philosophy broken down to modern day digestible bites. The final chapter on the future of Mankind is my shit.

Subtle Art is great...This is awesome!!

Sometime you just find the right book at the right time. I read subtle art when I was ready for personal change and growth. Now I am looking for higher meaning (not religion). And this book delivered! I am already ordering copies to distribute!

if you only read one book

if you only read one book in your lifetime the you should make it this one!

Thought Provoking

The first half was ON POINT! The back half started to lose me a bit, but it was tolerable and still interesting. Not a “here’s how you regain hope” book, but rather a “here’s how/why you stop wasting your time hoping for shit that the modern world has convinced you is important” book.