Chapter 1 - Don't Try - All the positive and happy self-help stuff we hear all the time - is actually fixating on what you lack. It lasers in on what you perceive your personal shortcomings and failures to already be, and then emphasises them for you. The Feedback Loop From Hell - The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is a positive experience. Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - Not giving a fuck doesn't mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different - You can't be an important and life-changing presence for some people without also being a joke and an embarrassment to others. The point isn't to get...