The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

[Mark] Manson counsels us to embrace our losses, remind ourselves that — no matter what Instagram tells us — almost everybody feels like a failure and is struggling with something right now. Also, you're going to die soon anyway, so quit trying to impress people — and just do useful things instead .... a brisk, often very funny and always likeable trip through the key points of the book.

– Writer Graeme Tuckett, in a four and a half star review, Stuff, 9 January 2023

Making a lot of money might make you feel good, but it won't make your kids love you.

– Mark Manson

It would be a hell of a lot easier if I could just hit you with six easy steps to success to life's success, but to really get into this stuff you've gotta feel it. And to feel it, I guess I'm going to have to dig up some old, painful shit.

– Mark Manson

Watching a documentary about a self-help book was not big on my list of things to do this week. But, now that I have seen The Subtle Art, I am impressed — and I like Manson and his blunt assessment of how our minds actually work.

– Writer Graeme Tuckett in a four and a half star review, Stuff, 9 January 2023

A big goal of the book when I wrote it was that I wanted this to be a self-help book that scrambles and disrupts everything that people understand about a self-help book and creates something very new and unique out of it. We wanted to apply that same ethos to the film ... We wanted to play around and do some crazy things to make it funny and weird, and I feel like we did that...

– Mark Manson on turning his book into a movie, Forbes, 4 January 2023