The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k: The bestselling book everyone is talking about

Sarah Knight

Dec 2015 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

The word-of-mouth bestseller * Published in more than 30 countries * 3 million copies sold worldwide

Are you stressed out, overbooked and underwhelmed by life? Fed up with pleasing everyone else before you please yourself? Finding it hard working from home? Then it's time to stop giving a f**k, and care less to get more.

This irreverent and practical book 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. From family dramas to having a bikini body, the simple 'NotSorry Method' for mental decluttering will help you unleash the power of not giving a f**k and will free you to spend your time, energy and money on the things that really matter.

'The anti-guru' Observer

'Absolutely blinding. Read it. Do it.' Mail on Sunday

'Genius' Cosmopolitan

'I love Knight's book even before I start reading . . . Works a charm' Sunday Times Magazine

'Life-affirming . . . The key practice she advocates is devising for yourself a "fuck budget" . . . It's a beautiful way of streamlining your psyche' Lucy Mangan, Guardian



ALSO AVAILABLE FROM SARAH KNIGHT:

YOU DO YOU: how to be who you are and use what you've got to get what you want

AND

Get Your Sh*t Together - the New York Times bestseller helping you organise the f**ks you want and need to give

Ratings and reviews

Like someone else mentioned here, don't expect any deep insights from this book. I expected to learn something new about mental decluttering and freeing yourself from giving a **** about things you shouldn't, but I found myself repeatedly thinking, "yeah, I know that. Yeah, that's obvious. Yeah, I'm already doing that." Don't expect to read this and find anything enlightening or have any significant personal revelations. There's a lot of unnecessary waffle and metaphors used to explain core mindfulness concepts, no doubt in an attempt to increase the wordcount of an already short book. There's only so many ways you can explain how to stop giving a ****. It's good book for some light, funny reading, but don't expect anything deep! One star for how unremarkable and underwhelming the content of this book was, but an extra star for the entertainment value. At least it's funny!

This book came along just when I needed it most! Always been a people pleaser, giving my all and stressing myself out being overworked, under appreciated and having an impossible work/life balance. Reading this gave me that little push to practice saying, "no" - and it feels great! 😀😉

If you want clarity on your present-day perspective, this short read is instantly actionable, and the realisation that no one is thinking of us anywhere near as much as we'd otherwise believe. Funny and straight-shooting.

About the author

Sarah Knight's first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck, has been published in more than twenty languages, and her TEDx talk, "The Magic of Not Giving a Fuck," has more than four million views. All of the books in her No Fucks Given Guides series have been international bestsellers, including Get Your Shit Together, which was on the New York Times bestseller list for sixteen weeks. Her writing has also appeared in Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Red, Refinery29, and elsewhere. After quitting her corporate job to pursue a freelance life, she moved from Brooklyn, New York, to the Dominican Republic, where she currently resides with her husband, two feral rescue cats, and a shitload of lizards.

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