A Book About Hope

Have you ever wondered why it seems that the increased possibility of communication between people makes them more resentful? Have you ever wondered what makes people feel more anxious and unhappy even though their lives are getting easier?

Well, tighten your belts! Uncle Mark will take you on a new journey! Just as his book, The Art of Indifference, questioned our usual conventional wisdom about what makes us happy, Ruin: A Book of Hope calls into question all our assumptions about what makes life worth living.

We live in a remarkable time! In material terms, everything is better than ever—we are now freer and more affluent than any previous generation in human history. But everything seems, for some reason, to be inexorably bad. At this moment in history, when education, technology, and communication are within our reach that our ancestors could not have dreamed of, many of us return home and find ourselves under the weight of an overwhelming sense of hopelessness. What's the matter? That's what Mark Manson is trying to get us out of.