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In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we've been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let's be honest,

August 9, 1969: the hills of Los Angeles were so quiet, as one of the killers would later say, “You could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers” in the famed canyon houses. Those killers, disciples of cult leader Charles Manson, would soon be famous for committing a series of grisly murders at his behest. While Manson’s goal was to sow race riots was intentional, his victims were random: a young actress and her friends;