Screw Shwetabh Gangwar. Screw your role models.
If above lines offend or hurt you, there is a significantly high chance that you are in dire need of the “The Rudest Book Ever”. Screw your heroes. Do not follow anyone.
A book that perfectly resonated with and reflected me after a long time.
The book is a collection of perspectives and ideas on freeing your mind from all bullshit. Truth of life you would rarely hear from parents, friends, society or internet. Shwetabh has opinions as everyone in the world tends to have. An rightfully so. Every piece of information available now are just the product of someone’s ideas and thoughts. You can have your own opinions and ideas about everything you can come up with.
Summary of the book along with my own perspectives and ideas.
- You, yourself and doing what you think is the best matters most than anything else. Everything else is secondary.
- The world doesn’t give a flying fuck about you. You are 100% on your own. Never expect a miracle or a magic pill to fix any of your problems.
- Nobody cares. Nobody really cares unless they have a motive to do so. Nobody thinks about you when almost everyone is self-absorbed within themselves. A person’s mild toothache might be much important to the person than a disaster that is killing millions of people. Sounds extreme but that’s how humans are.
- Listen to actions. People are superheros in their own stories entangled with lies and bullshit. People say a lot of shit to sound amazing. Don’t give a fuck to what they say or how they think everything should be. Listen to their actions.
- Logic leads to consistency. Emotions are utterly unreliable tool for decision making.
- Forget inborn talent. Specialness is always and always earned. You should feel it when you achieve something.
- Rejections are normal. Do not do anything in life just to show someone or have a revenge. If anything, do it to increase your self worth.
- People are weird complex beings. It’s not your sole job to find out why people behaved the way they did.
- You are a nation. Under any circumstances, do not let the invasion of your own sovereign country.
- Never seek love or companionship for completeness. Completeness must always come from within.
- Screw happiness. Happiness is a shitty goal. Aim for self-satisfaction. People who argue that they do not want to be rich or famous and only to be happy are complete assholes. Look around people who revolve their entire life around relaxation, happiness and entertainment. Enjoying as much as you can is a worthless goal at the cost of the world that will never remember you ever existed.
- Screw pleasing people. Do not do anything in your life just for seeking someone’s validation or social approval. Self esteem and self respect comes from yourself.
- Admire your heroes. Respect their heroic acts. Execute their good aspects as they deemed right in your life. But never ever blindly follow anyone. In fact just admire them, never follow. Every blind follower regards himself as an exception while he is the epitome of the rule.
- Lastly, learn how to think. If you ever encounter a problem, issue, interest, thought or anything you want to know about, think on your own. Every piece of information available in any form came from someone’s mind. If you do not know, you too have a mind. Use it to your fullest. You will know the answers to many of the questions or at least come up with an idea. Later compare your thinking with others via books, internet, podcast or any sources available. But firstly you are on your own. Always remember you, yourself and doing what you think is the best matters most than anything else. Everything else is secondary.
There are also some of the things that I didn’t liked about the book. You do not have to always use swear words to make a powerful impact. Sometimes that sounds very artificial. People might wish for little more depth in some of the issues in which brevity wasn’t desired. There might be many other issues and promises where Shwetabh have failed to deliver but certainly not on this one.
Read. Work. Shine…h
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