Table Of ContentTHE RUDEST BOOK EVER
Shwetabh Gangwar is a novelist, public speaker, professional problem-
solver, and has over two million followers on YouTube. He dedicatedly
solves people’s problems sent to him on his Instagram, and makes videos
on as many as he can. He defines it as the purpose of his life and what
truly brings him meaning.
First published by Westland Publications Private Limited, in 2019
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Copyright © Shwetabh Gangwar, 2019
ISBN: 9789388754439
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I dedicate this book to the two people I admire the most in my life
—my mom and my wifey. I thank my mom for her indomitable
strength that protected the child I was. That protection allowed
me to shape the individual in me. I thank my wife for her strong
determination and values in life, which influence that individual
to become better.
CONTENTS
A SMALL YET IMPORTANT INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE YOU ARE A PRODUCT
CHAPTER TWO YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO BE SPECIAL
CHAPTER THREE WHAT REJECTIONS DO TO US
CHAPTER FOUR PEOPLE ARE WEIRD
CHAPTER FIVE DO FAILURES MESS YOU UP?
CHAPTER SIX FINDING LOVE CAN BE A PAIN IN THE ASS
CHAPTER SEVEN HOW YOUR SELF DIES
CHAPTER EIGHT SCREW HAPPINESS
CHAPTER NINE CHOOSE SATISFACTION, NOT HAPPINESS
CHAPTER TEN SCREW PLEASING PEOPLE
CHAPTER ELEVEN YOU ARE A NATION
CHAPTER TWELVE SCREW YOUR HEROES
CHAPTER THIRTEEN ADMIRE, NEVER FOLLOW
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE PIECES OF SHIT ONLINE
CHAPTER FIFTEEN DON’T SUCK-UP IN A RELATIONSHIP
CHAPTER SIXTEEN LEARNING HOW TO THINK
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A FEW SIMPLE THINGS TO NEVER
FORGET
A SMALL YET IMPORTANT INTRODUCTION
This book is a collection of perspectives. It’s not about one fucking
thing.
This book does not mean to teach. It is written to make you think,
which is why the charged language, the book title, and the harsh
approach. Although the book does preach a whole lot, all I want from
you is to think about it.
Essentially, this book is about freeing your mind from all the bullshit
you have unknowingly attached yourself to and are suffering from—
ranging from ideas of happiness to people in your life. It will rip into
everything.
Because this book is about freeing you, it talks about a lot of things
from your life.
Whenever you disagree with something, write down in detail why,
what is your reasoning behind it, and pray to God while reading your
reasoning that it doesn’t sound like, I disagree because my feelings
don’t like it.
CHAPTER ONE
YOU ARE A PRODUCT
Hey, buddy, how are you doing? Aren’t you glad that you bought this
book! Well, we are going to go on a journey together. And as long as you
are reading this book, I will be your friend. The only case in which this
doesn’t apply is if you illegally downloaded this book, in which case,
fuck you.
This book is about insanely practical ideas to free you from all
bullshit. Let me start by saying this: a lot of this was supposed to be your
parents’ job. I am not gonna say anything bad about your parents. All I
am saying is: if people were products, then what we see around us are
really shitty ones. So, clearly, parents are royally fucking up their jobs.
Let me give you an introduction of the world you have been
brought into:
The world doesn’t give a flying fuck about you. This world is a
place full of people that will come in the form of friends, lovers and
well-wishers; in the form of emotional adhesives, neatly packaged
dreams and aspirational lollipops; in the form of saviours, fixers and
salespersons. We are gonna talk about them all.
Anyway, when the time comes, a lot of them will take complete
advantage of you, rid you of your emotional innocence and turn your
world upside down. It will most definitely happen, history tells you that,
no matter who you are or what you do—rich, talented, genius, pretty,
strong, powerful, polite, kind, or careful.
So, do you feel prepared?
Let’s start with you. You are a product. You are a product with hope
attached to it. What does that mean? It means that, one day, you are
meant to become this awesome, functional unit capable of choosing
jobs, careers, relationships, environments and economies on your own
volition—that’s the hope. The better the choices, the better the product
you are—that’s the simple law on the basis of which the world judges
you.
So, here are a few things about you:
A person is not born ready.
A person has to be made ready.
The person is emotional in nature.
The person does not know how to learn in the beginning; it knows
how to absorb, which means it learns whatever it absorbs from its
surroundings. I am talking about when you were a kid.
The person has to learn how to learn.
The person can think, but does not know how to think, which is
why it cannot learn how to learn. This may be confusing, but it
will become clear later in the book.
A person’s emotional responses to different experiences create
interpretations of those experiences, which the person assumes
to be true. Therefore, emotional responses become one of the
earliest teachers of the person.
‘Emotional responses’ is a garbage teacher, because as a kid, the
emotional intelligence is underdeveloped.
Because the person learns by absorption, the parents and
surroundings become the other teachers. Instead of teaching the
person how to think, parents and surroundings teach what to think
—thereby becoming terrible teachers themselves.
Teaching what to think stops the product from learning how to
think and since the person doesn’t learn how to think, it grows up
to be confused and clueless regarding how to deal with this world.
