Das Leben ist zu kurz für diesen Scheiss

No more self-optimization! Less makes you happier. The new anti-guide from the author of the bestseller "Do it like the seagull, who cares!". For everyone who wants to improve their life - without much effort, motivation, or discipline. Following the motto: Lazy living is simply more satisfying.

Eat healthier? Take the stairs more often? Only use green energy and give up flying? Lea Blumenthal has many good intentions, but unfortunately, she never follows through. She is far from living the life of a "That Girl."

That Girl: People, mostly young women, who wake up at 5 a.m., meditate, exercise, eat healthily, and implement all their good intentions before January 1st. With the help of her psychologist friend Tina, who is currently training for a half marathon, Lea explores what goes on in her mind and in the minds of many others. She tries out various motivational tricks from the coaching toolbox and even manages to consistently implement some of the things she sets out to do.

For a while, she eats healthier, wakes up earlier, takes the stairs, and regularly keeps a gratitude journal mindfully. Until one day she realizes: Self-optimizing for a lifetime simply cannot be the key to happiness. Interestingly, lazy people often reach their goals just as well.

So, this is how your life improves when you stop constantly trying to better yourself. Lea Blumenthal has attempted to optimize herself so you don’t have to. With "Life is too short for this crap," she has written a humorous anti-guide filled with many biographical anecdotes and easily understandable psychological insights. The perfect self-help book for opponents of constant self-optimization, showing that life is better with more ease!.