I've worked in a corporate environment for 15 years.

I'm very good at it, was promoted frequently and was very successful, but I will not engage in conference calls. You've got six or eight people on the line introducing themselves for the first five minutes.

She stopped watching season two of True Detective after the first episode. And by stopping giving a fuck about these things, she realised she had more time, energy and money (her working definition of a ‘fuck’) to dedicate to the things and people in life that she did care about.

There was a period of eight or nine years between the time I got married and the time I really started advancing in my career and then last summer, after eight years of consideration, I decided to leave my corporate career, which was 15 years in the making.

I realised that it's a lot easier to start with inanimate objects, then the workplace and then move your way to friends and then family, which is a lot harder. For me, I was so concerned with what other people thought to the detriment of what I wanted and I think that we as people just put way too much stock in other people's opinions.

As I say in the book, you can't control what someone else thinks of you.

The fucks that I gave in regards to planning my wedding were very much family oriented and the fucks that I gave in regards to my career were very much work orientated.

That's how I came up with my four categories of fuck giving.

She didn’t give a fuck about how much money she was leaving on the table, or what people thought of her decision.

She didn’t want to spend 90 minutes a day on a sweaty subway. In her pajamas, eating whatever she damn well pleased.

A holiday spent with 16 of those folks can get a little irritating so this year, there was a five day holiday proposed and we just flew in for two days of it. So I recommend, when it comes to RSVPing to events or taking on work on a particular deadline or hanging out with people you don't like, is consider the consequences for yourself before you say yes and then if you say no in a timely fashion, nobody has anything to be upset with you about. It's about not getting sucked into what I call the 'Likeability Vortex', which is where you are more concerned with being liked than you are with being worthy of respect.

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