BOOK REVIEW:- EVERYTHING IS FUCKED

Book Review:     "EVERYTHING IS FUCKED"

" Don't hope for better. Just be Better."

Everything is fucked a philosophical and self-help book. In simple, a Life-changing book. Mark Manson's book is so deep on philosophy, politics, and individual inner conflicts. Everything he explained with research material. It clarifies things for readers with full proof, facts and figures, and many examples from a common person's life. This book is changing the thinking of the reader, who read it deeply and ask themselves, giving a new way to experience the things and world that the reader never even thinks before.

When we start this book, it sounds like a philosophical and research thing, which might bore some readers. But the interesting thing about the book is that it has humor style as well, so if the reader stuck and read it carefully, he/she will enjoy the reading. Book is divided into two parts. A brief overview of them, as follows;

Part: One     HOPE  

Mark Manson in the first two chapters, opens our eyes that how we are living with uncomfortable truth and believing in our self-control, which is an illusion. He told us that there are two brains in us, Thinking Brain and Feeling Brain. If they are working together and agree on the same action then we said, we have self-control but in actual, it is an illusion to give hope to ourselves. He said feeling brain is sensitive and unreasonable, while thinking the brain is the opposite of it. Because, thinking brain is helping us with facts, data, and reasons. On the other hand, feeling brain judge the things on emotions and decide what we deserve and what not. If bad thing happens to us, feeling brain makes it that we deserve it and then things happen continuously wrong, so before deciding what is good and bad we have to think reasonably and with facts.

Further, Mark in the third chapter telling us about Newton's Laws of Emotion. He has research on it, so he tells the life and laws of Isaac Newton interestingly with related examples. Laws are like these;

1.       There is an equal and opposite emotional reaction for every action.

2.       Our worth decisions to complete the gap is result from the Sum of Our emotions.

3.       Our thinking/belief will be the same about things, until a new experience or strong emotions come against it.

In the fourth chapter, we explore how religion works. How blindly people go into the wrong direction in the name of religion thing. We believe in religion that is good, "We all must have faith in something. Without faith, there is no hope."  but we have to look after that. On what we believe is giving us strength or is it making us dreadful, giving us a fear of things, follow some myths, and controlling us?

 We find that Mark Manson humorously teaching us the step by step for how to make a religion of our own. He said religion is all about emotional attachment. Through this,  Mark is digging a pool of questions to ask from ourselves.

 Fifth chapter, Hope is Fucked is more philosophical and interesting, as in it, we read about Nietzsche and his painful life, how he was mostly ignored in his lifetime. In short, what Nietzsche presented with the concepts of Slave morality and Master morality and his ideas on God. Nietzsche believed that we must have to look beyond hope, we must evolve into something  "beyond good and evil". Hope with Nietzsche is hope for nothing. As we realize this how before we hope for happiness, less pain, to enrich our character, but this kind of hope is useless.

    From religion to science, and after Nietzsche, Mark with his best lines talk on Hope and explained to it how fucked hope is. He said that everything is forever fucked, but things become more fucked when we hope to sustain and overcome from world's fuckedness. Mark said; Everything is fucked and hope is both cause and effect of that fuckedness. 

 Like if we want hope then our hope should be for this. Hope for the suffering that comes with freedom, for pain that comes from a feeling of happiness. Because Mark believes hope wants something to be broken and it will work better for that. Book changes the life of the reader, who truly get what hope ought to be for us. More quotations and lines are in this chapter that makes it worth reading.

Part: Two      Everything is Fucked

This part is what we call life-changing. This Mark Manson's book is self-help just because of this so amazing part.

In the sixth chapter, Formula of Humanity, lights on how to grow or what maturity is. We come to know the value of adulthood means truly, how we learn to value and do what is right. After experiencing the childish and adolescent things and ways of making a decision. Kant is under focused, another philosopher. We learn that first we have to become mature, and know what is right for us. Then make big decisions.

In the seventh chapter, Pain is universal constant, Mark purifies and heal you by telling the value of pain and how worth it is. Albert Einstein, NgO Dino Diem whose example also there, so many other research things, facts, and figures. Mark said, Pain is a universal constant in life. And he makes us realize that it's meaningless to know the worth of anything, until you have experienced the courage to lose it. His lines;

"Pain is the currency of our values. Without the pain of loss (or potential loss), it becomes impossible to determine  the value of anything at all."

Mark tells us, how pain is making life meaningful, it also depends upon us what we choose. We read the research and views of Mark know how to enlighten yourself. Know who you are, how worth your life should be, how happy one can live with pain. Because to stop or not wanting pain in life is so dumb and ignoring all the true feelings, things, and experiences of the world. There should be the ability to feel the pain for a purpose. 

If we get it, our life is change then. Our way of thinking and living all by adapting and understanding how much pain is important in life. As best quote from the book; "Life is one never-ending stream of pain, and to grow is not to find out a way to avoid that stream but, rather, to dive into it and successfully navigate its depth."

In the eighth chapter, The Feelings Economy, following the previous one this is also about pain and gives the examples of Freud's views on feeling brain and what on Freud believe,  Plato prediction and Fake freedom and Real freedom. Then drag these views that what results will come if we upgrade the pain or avoid the pain. About feelings and many more. In simple words, the more we numb our pain, the worse that pain becomes. So let's enjoy and live that, don't try to numb pain or wish for less suffering.

Last chapter, The Final Religion, conclusion of the whole book. It summarizes that how bad algorithms we are. Final lesson for all of us, he motivates and suggests to us that," Don't hope for better. Just be Better." He continues that be something better. Be compassionate, more resilient, more humble, more disciplined. And  Be Better Human. 

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