A tongue-in-cheek guide to recognizing the ridiculous in everyday approaches to happiness and staying positive reveals how to harness negativity to make actual improvements, explaining how everyday feelings of poor self-esteem, regret and shame can become tools for a life on ones own terms. By the author of Unspirational Texts from Your Ex. 50,000 first printing. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity. I am addicted to positivity.I care more about feeling great than being great.I am NOT THAT GREAT.The self-help industry tells you that if youre positive, if you put your best foot forward and if you just believe in yourself that you will find happiness. Lets be real, you can read all the inspirational quotes you want. You can spend your days giving yourself affirmations in your heart-shaped mirror and trying to learn to love yourself. You can say your mantra over and over again while sitting cross-legged on a yoga mat in a Whole Foods parking lot. But the truth is, youre not a badass and you still dont have the life you want. Thats where Youre Not That Great (but neither is anyone else) comes in. This book teaches you how to harness all the negativity in the world and use it to improve your life, taking everyday feelings like self-loathing, regret and shame and making them work for you. Positive thinking is for assholes. Negative thinking is for winners.