Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life is an unashamedly sweary, populist, and refreshingly healthy corrective to the corporate tones and exhortations to personal pneumaticism infecting much Positive Psychology and Self Help literature - the ‘go bigger’, ‘go harder’, ‘go faster’, ‘get-it-all-and-more’ approach to life that risks leaving individuals perpetually burned out and dissatisfied. Manson argues convincingly that we can benefit from going slower, learning from failure and rejection, setting limits and taking responsibility.