10 Feel-Good Matt Haig Quotes from Notes On A Nervous Planet

In the book, Notes on a Nervous Planet, critically acclaimed author, Matt Haig, explains to us how in this world of information overload, we are encouraged to worry about everything, from World Politics to our BMI, from climate change to some deliberately manufactured news whose sole purpose is to distract.

The news channels, social media platforms, and marketing agencies are well aware that the most effective method to keep us clicking, sharing, and consuming is to keep us connected by flooding us with a stream of cautiously fabricated information whose sole aim is to keep us on board.

So they invest a huge chunk of their budget to prepare their mostly useless content in a way that it not only appears relevant but also invokes in us a desire to consume more of it.

The game of clicks has reached such levels that the authenticity of the information being served no longer matters. This is because authentic news rarely creates sensationalism and hence is neither good for the business nor the government. They, in fact, use sensationalism as a tool to distract the masses from the core issues.

In this book Matt has identified the severe effects, consumerism and easy access to incitingly irrelevant information is having on our Mental Health.

Having experienced years of depression and Panic attacks, Matt is someone who can really be helpful in making us less nervous in this world inundated with redundant information.

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For anyone feeling low, Matt’s books can prove to be a great source of Hope.

To reinforce in you a perennial kind of hope, here we’ve compiled some of the best words from Matt’s Notes on a Nervous Planet that are enough to make you less nervous.

#1:

Reading isn’t important because it helps to get you a job. It’s important because it gives you room to exist beyond the reality you’re given. It is how humans merge. How minds connect. Dreams. Empathy. Understanding. Escape. Reading is love in action.

Reading is Love in Action.

#2:

Find a good book. And sit down and read it. There will be times in your life when you’ll feel lost and confused. The way back to yourself is through reading. I want you to remember that. The more you read, the more you will know how to find your way through those difficult times.

Reading helps us navigate through difficult times.

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#3:

Remember no one really cares what you look like. They care what they look like. You are the only person in the world to have worried about your face.

No one really cares..

#4:

The problem is not that the world is a mess, but that we expect it to be otherwise.

#5:

When anger trawls the internet, Looking for a hook; It’s time to disconnect, And go and read a book.

It’s time to disconnect and read a book.

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#6:

The craving for the thing is rarely met by the satisfaction of getting it. And so we crave more. And the cycle repeats. We are encouraged to want what will only make us want more. We are, in short, encouraged to be addicts.

#7:

Don’t be a perfectionist. Humans are imperfect. Human work is imperfect. Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.

Evolution happens through Mistakes.

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#8:

There is a permanent gap between the signifier and the thing signified. An online profile of your best friend is not your best friend. A status update about a day in the park is not a day in the park. And the desire to tell the world about how happy you are is not how happy you are.

#9:

There is no finishing line. It’s not about being perfect. In fact, punishing yourself for not being perfect is part of the whole problem. So, accepting where I am— improved and imperfect—is an ongoing task, but a massively rewarding one.