Initial Research

Name : Sabrina Ayu Wulandari

NIM : 2201419032

Mata kuliah: Literary Reading

Theme : Psychoanalysis

English Education’19

Universitas Negeri Semarang

2021
1.1 List and Summary of novels I found:

1. Title : The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson

Summary :
 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is a book about finding meaning in
important things in life and only having those values that an individual can
control. Whatever value (such as popularity) that is not under a person's control, is
a bad value to have and a person should strive to replace it with something more
controllable such as punctuality, honesty, or kindness. Manson further advises
avoiding claiming certainty about the knowledge that is out of one's grasp and not
worry about leaving a legacy for the posterity. Instead of worrying about building
a body of work as a legacy, one should seek to create joy in the moment for one's
self and those around

2. Title : Mindset the new psychology of success by Carol S. Dweck

Summary :

 Mindset => Definition & Approach to Success

How you define and approach success determines your results. People with a fixed
mindset believe their abilities are fixed, thus they prefer to stay in their comfort zone
and focus on validating and proving themselves. Those with a growth mindset focus on
learning and stretching themselves. There’s nothing wrong with building self-confidence
and belief. The danger comes when you feel you’re entitled to success because you’re
special, or when you define your self-worth by your achievements. When you do so,
you’ll start to fear losing this sense of specialness.

Mindset => Definition & Approach to Failure

When things go wrong, everyone feels bad to some degree. The difference is in how they
respond. People with a fixed mindset allows the failure to define them permanently (“I’m
a failure), give up, or try to protect their image by hiding their deficiencies, finding blame
 or excuses.  Those with a growth mindset may also feel upset, but they see the mistake as
an incident and a problem to be overcome (“I failed this time”). They try to identify their
shortfalls, confront the challenges, and seek alternative routes to success.

Mindset => Attitude toward Effort

People with a fixed mindset tend to resist putting in effort because (a) they believe the
need to work harder means they’re not “special” enough, and (b) they’re silently worried
that their best effort will turn out to be inadequate. People with a growth mindset are
driven by their passion for excellence, and end up winning as a result of their growth.

3. Title : Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Summary :
 In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a
groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way
we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more
deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities
and also the faults and biases of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence
of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion
and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will
make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and
at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the
stock market to planning the next vacation each of these can be understood only
by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and
decisions. Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think,
Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can
tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights
into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives and how
we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get
us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about
thinking.
4. Title : Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel
Goleman
Summary :
 Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but
until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant
report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new
insight into our "two minds" —the rational and the emotional — and how they
together shape our destiny. Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five
crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our
success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is
an entirely new way to talk about being smart. The best news is that "emotional
literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business
leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this
compelling vision of human possibility.

5. Title : What Happened To You ?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and

Healing by Bruce D. Perry
Summary :
 "Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and
ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and
relationships. It is, in other words, the key to reshaping our very lives." Oprah
Winfrey This book is going to change the way you see your life. Have you ever
wondered "Why did I do that?" Or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Others
may judge our reactions and think, "What's wrong with that person? “When
questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame in ourselves; holding
ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started
asking a different question. Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah
Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a ground
breaking and profound shift from asking “What's wrong with you?” to "What
happened to you?" Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and
What Happened to You? Provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into
 the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand. Here, Winfrey
shares stories from her own past, understanding through experience the
vulnerability that comes from facing trauma and adversity at a young age. Joining
forces with Dr. Perry, one of the world's leading experts on childhood and brain
development, Winfrey and Dr. Perry marry the power of storytelling with science
to better understand and overcome the effects of our pasts. In conversation
throughout the book, the two focus on understanding people, behavior, and
ourselves. It's a subtle but profound shift in our approach to trauma, and it's one
that allows us to understand our pasts in order to clear a path to our future opening
the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way

1.2 The novel that I chose

 Title : The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck by Mark Manson

 Summary :
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is a book about finding meaning in
important things in life and only having those values that an individual can
control. Whatever value (such as popularity) that is not under a person's control, is
a bad value to have and a person should strive to replace it with something more
controllable such as punctuality, honesty, or kindness. Manson further advises
avoiding claiming certainty about the knowledge that is out of one's grasp and not
worry about leaving a legacy for the posterity. Instead of worrying about building
a body of work as a legacy, one should seek to create joy in the moment for one's
self and those around
 Why?
Why I chose this book because it suffering moral value, we can control problems
based on how we choose to think about them. To change how we see problems,
change what we value and / or how you measure failure or success. Only choose
to have values we can control. Values we don't control are bad as they'll be a
constant source of unnecessary suffering in our life.
1. Good values are:
 Reality-based
  Socially constructive
 Immediate and controllable
2. Bad values are:
 Superstitious
 Socially destructive
 Not immediate or controllable
Examples of good values: honesty, innovation, on our ability, standing up for
oneself, standing up for others, self-respect, curiosity, charity, humility, and
creativity. Examples of bad values: dominance through manipulation or violence,
indiscriminate fucking, feeling good all the time, always being the center of
attention, not being alone, being liked by everybody, being rich for the sake of
being rich. When we have poor values, we essentially give fucks about things that
don't matter and make our lives worse. Self-improvement is all about prioritizing
better values and choosing better things to give a fuck about. When you give
better fucks, you get better problems. And when you get better problems, you get
a better life beneficial counterintuitive values that you can adopt:
1. Assuming responsibility for everything that occurs in your life
2. Acknowledging your own ignorance and constantly questioning your own
beliefs
3. The willingness to discover your own flaws and mistakes in order to improve
4. The ability to both says and hears no, thus clearly defining what you will and
will not accept in your life
5. The contemplation of one's own mortality