The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck

How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do

By: Sarah Knight

Narrated by: Sarah Knight

Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

The "genius" national best seller on the art of caring less and getting more - from the author of Calm the F--k Down and F--k No (Cosmopolitan).

Are you stressed out, overbooked, and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? It's time to stop giving a f--k.

This brilliant, hilarious, and practical parody of Marie Kondo's best seller The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up explains how to rid yourself of unwanted obligations, shame, and guilt - and give your f--ks instead to people and things that make you happy. The easy-to-use, two-step not sorry method for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f--k about:

• Family drama
• Having a "bikini body"
• Iceland
• Co-workers' opinions, pets, and children
• And other bulls--t!

And it will free you to spend your time, energy, and money on the things that really matter. So what are you waiting for? Stop giving a f--k and start living your best life today!

Discover more of the magic of not giving a f--k with The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F--k Journal.

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

©2015 Sarah Knight (P)2015 Hachette Audio

I wanted to like it

What could Sarah Knight have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Get someone else to narrate it

Would you be willing to try another one of Sarah Knight’s performances?

No

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No

Any additional comments?

I really wanted to like this book, I mean come on, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a ****?. You gotta love it. But I had to stop after 30 minutes and here are the four reasons why.

1. The author, Sarah Knight, goes to great pains to explain how her book was inspired by Marie Kondo and her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and how her book was modeled after it. I am a great fan of Marie Kondo's book and this claim is one reason I decided to try Ms. Knight's book. I will just say, if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Ms. Kondo need not be flattered.

2. I found that I already don't give a ****. I mean, if this was a college course I would have passed with honors. In fact, I could have written the book, well if it wasn't for the words and the actual writing part, but I could have come up with the concept for it. She didn't impart anything to me that I didn't already know.

3. The narrator (also the author) has a serious case of "vocal fry". For those who don't know what vocal fry is think Britney Spears or the Kardashians. “Vocal fry” is that guttural growl at the back of the throat, as a Valley girl might sound if she had been shouting herself hoarse at a rave all night. The less charitable refer to it privately as painfully nasal, and to young women in conversation sounding like ducks quacking. “Vocal fry” has joined more traditional young-women voice mannerisms such as run-ons, breathiness and the dreaded question marks in sentences (known by linguists as uptalk). Anyway, I could probably have lived with it if the the information being imparted transcended the annoying voice mannerism, but it did not.

4. At some point about a half hour in the author gives some examples of what she gives a **** about and what she doesn't give a **** about. Three examples:

1 - Don't give a **** - A nuclear Iran. Give a **** - Climate Change
2 - Don't give a **** - College Football. Give a **** - Campus Rape
3 - Don't give a **** - The Pope. Give a **** - Reese Witherspoon's latest Instagram

It was at this point I decided I didn't give a **** and gave up.

Got the gist in 30 mins

I got the gist of the audiobook in 30 mins. I wish I had followed her advice to give less f*cks but I continued to listen for another 1 hour. There is no substance and it was unnecessarily drawn out. Oh the irony. #sorrynotsorry.

I don't get the hype

This book didn't really inspire me to embrace more happiness. I guess because I just graduated from college that it's harder for me to relate to. I'm not established enough to not give "a fuck" about meetings, doing work that is mundane or sleeping in, and I definitely won't be starting a family any time soon. The author also seems to hate pretty much everything. Maybe it's because she's in her 40s and I'm in my early 20s. Or maybe I just need to listen to the book again. But for right now, I view this book as a negative source of energy that almost encourages me not to get out of my comfort zone. Staying in one's comfort zone leads to a bland and painfully normal life.

Bold and somewhat useful but expected a lil more

I think the narrator was very fun and she sounds like somebody I would enioy to hang out with, but I don't think she would give a fuck! haha
I honestly think this book is useful for people with childless lives and who do not care or do not want to care about kids without feeling guilty about it. I guess everybody has their own opinion which is fine, but this is mine and idgaf if you disagree.
I have 1 daughter and one of the biggest struggles is getting some time alone with my husband. If everyone adhered to the suggestions given in this book, I would not have a break of having a friend of mine watching her for an hour because they do not "give a f ck" about taking care of other people's kids. I think it falls a little on the egotistic side of the argument, and honestly... if she had any kids, she would understand the struggle and how helpful it is to live with friends that can just watch her for the time of a disney movie, so mom and dad can reconnect without hurting their budgets and savings account as much.
Honestly she sounds like a person who has the comfort of having lots of money, which is a big limitation for most people I know, which can influence decision making most of the time.
But hey, if you have all the money to be comfortable, send nice gifts to people and not give a fuck about other people's lives then by all means, you do you.

But I guess I expected a little more from this one...

What this world needs!

Incredible. Give her every award ever! Recommend for any that breathes! Must read for anyone who experiences stress and or anxiety.

F*cking life changing, just as she stated!!

I was a workaholic, overspending my time, effort, and my budget on things that annoyed me!! Nothing I did brought me joy, and I had no time to even realize it. I found Sarah's TED talk, which led to the book, 2 weeks later, I'm well on the way to a much happier life!!

More shock value than substantive material

Would you try another book from Sarah Knight and/or Sarah Knight?

No, the writing just isn't very well thought out or organized. Instead of giving helpful advice that readers can apply to their own lives, she kind of goes on rants about personal dislikes to kind of fill space. This book isn't very long as it is and I suspect it's because she didn't really have much to say.

What was most disappointing about Sarah Knight’s story?

It relied too heavily on the shock factor of saying F%*# than it did on giving information on how putting your personal needs first is beneficial for your life and the people around you. It was also contradictory in the advice it provides. On the one hand she advocates for polite honesty when dealing with people and then in another chapter she gives "techniques" on how to be a verbal ninja which are just passive aggressive brush-offs.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Sarah Knight?

Anyone else, the narration is smarmy and the tone is sometimes condescending. It added to the overall feel that the author is just going on a personal rant. Her delivery of jokes was dry and annoying as well.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck?

Yikes, just a complete rewrite.

Any additional comments?

This may be interesting if you just want something kind of different or find humor in someone complaining.

Awesome- will read over and over!

No truer words have been spoken - enlightening! Loved the narrator as well - very perky words!

recommend!

Not only funny, but very wise! ...great for people pleasers in recovery (especially ones from the south that were taught they had to give ALL the F*&%'s) 😏

Listened to both her books.

I thought her first book was okay enough to attempt the second. After all, She seems like a funny and witty girl. She strays off point way too much attempting to make jokes that I'm guessing few can relate to. Especially in the second book. I couldn't finish it. When it got the point every second line was a pun or joke I pulled the plug. She was a great narrator and has the potential to be a great writer. She just needs to learn to be less descriptive about her personal life. For example she clearly does not like children. No judgement I just don't care,, I was looking for facts not her personal story.