Mark Manson's 2016 self-help book arguing that the pursuit of positivity is itself the problem — that a good life comes from choosing meaningful problems to struggle with rather than trying to eliminate struggle.
Reverses the standard self-help formula — instead of strategies for feeling better, proposes the acceptance of unavoidable suffering and the deliberate choice of which suffering is worth bearing — applying existentialist and Stoic insights in aggressively accessible language.
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