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I love this chapter since it talks about our values in our relationship and how a healthy relationship is supposed to be. I compare it to my relationships with my mom, and friends. It's really satisfying the way Manson puts his little lessons.

Manson restates one of his important lessons after bringing up his travels across the world and what Russian society taught him about western culture. Mason points out that Western culture has much more economic opportunities and by this many are told to present themselves in a certain way rather than to be more brutally honest, as our Russian counterparts. Honesty is really the best policy.

In Chapter 6, Manson details thru examples in his own friends how, people are afraid to change, in other words, to do other actions that might not be within there image. And the fear of not doing our what we want makes us sour and bitter people.

Manson going on in chapter 6, makes a point that in order to have growth one must be able to fail. He supports this by saying the best experiences we have are the negative ones. And to most being uncertain of something is what hold us back to improve but asking is what makes us clear that certainty.

Manson explains that the way we take in emotions after a tragic event is dependent on ourselves, we can either at first dwell on those emotions which slow us down or use it as fuel. I can connect to this as for one whenever I'm upset I use my anger a source of fuel to make me better. Our values are a direct influence of our emotions, our values help us understand we what we find important.

Adding onto the previous update Manson goes to summarize how the way you look at life aka your metric. Restates examples of people changing there own metric in their life to make themselves happier, and states bad and good examples of metrics. So we are ourselves can be happier and more fulled at life.

On this section that I read, Manson critiques his own metric and others(metric is a way how people judge their actions and whether or not they are failures in life). Manson also adds this point which I liked, if you are unhappy in life then you need to focus on your self-awareness. Why you are unhappy and what goal to need to reach for.

In this part of "The subtle art of not giving a f*ck", Mark Manson goes onto to say how the media itself has given us a harmful effect, seeing only the extraordinary, news, and feats, causes the ordinary to be the failure. This sudden shift in ideals has been mainly blamed on the new generation as there the most visible generation.

In the same chapter, Mark goes on to talk about "Jimmy" as an example of what entitlement looks like and what high self-worth is supposed to look like. Jimmy is a businessman always going on some business venture says he's successful but in reality, he's been failing and leeching off of family and ex-girlfriends. Then Mark goes on to say a story about when he went to the principals office.