9 Top Lessons From the Book “Everything is F*cked”
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1⃣ The Opposite Of Happiness Is Not Anger
❕ The opposite of happiness is hopelessness. A place where the everything-is-fucked mindset is the default state
🗯️ When we lose hope, we surrender ourselves to the world and nothing matters for us. It’s depression and melancholy on steroids.
2⃣ You Have Two Brains: The Feeling Brain and the Thinking Brain
🔴 Thinking Brain represents your conscious thoughts, your ability to make logical decisions.
🟢 Your Feeling Brain represents your emotions, impulses, intuition, your constant desire for more food and more fun
3⃣ Why don’t We Do The Things We Know We Should Do?
👉 In short, because we don’t feel like it.
🤠 In order to find inner peace and joy, you need to start suggesting new actions to your Feeling Brain that feel good and that will eventually lead to a brighter future.
4⃣ There Is No Such Thing As Change Without Pain
Every time you knock down one kind of pain, another one pops up. And the faster you whack them, the faster they come back.
👉 The pain may get better, it may change shape, But it will always be there. It’s part of us. It is us.
5⃣ The World Runs on One Thing: Feelings
People spend good money on things that make them feel good.
Unfortunately, instead of focusing on upgrading pain, most new companies concentrate on avoidance.
👉 But you can do the opposite thing and help people improve.
6⃣ Love People Without Expecting Anything in Return
😊 To grow as an individual you must act unconditionally.
❗️ You must respect someone without expecting anything in return; otherwise you don’t truly respect him.
7⃣ Focus on nontransactional things
The most important things in life are nontransactional, things you can’t buy with money.
You can’t buy happiness even though you can buy a huge house and a new car.
👉 What you need to focus on is emotional happiness.
8⃣ Embrace pain
❗️ Avoiding pain won’t let you grow up and will additionally make you fragile and incapable of handling what life throws at you.
👉 Learn to adore pain because only pain will help you grow up and grow stronger.
9⃣ Improve yourself to improve the world
🤓 In reality, though, improving the world is quite easy. The trick is that we all need to be heavily involved.
It’s basically making good long-term decisions that have a healthy impact on others, daily.