I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“not having problems in the first place. To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action;… — Mark Manson First place Copy Share Image
“ALL OF THIS “EVERY PERSON CAN BE EXTRAORDINARY AND ACHIEVE GREATNESS” STUFF IS BASICALLY JUST JERKING OFF YOUR EGO. IT’S A MESSAGE… — Mark Manson Achieve greatness Copy Share Image
My belief is that we all already care about something important. We all already know what is important and meaningful for ourselves.… — Mark Manson Belief Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the pervasiveness of technology and mass marketing is screwing up a lot of people’s expectations for themselves. The… — Mark Manson Technology Copy Share Image
The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the… — Mark Manson Behavior Copy Share Image
“If your metric for the value “success by worldly standards” is “Buy a house and a nice car,” and you spend twenty… — Mark Manson Success Copy Share Image
“Entitlement closes in upon itself in a kind of narcissistic bubble, distorting anything and everything in such a way as to reinforce… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“There’s a difference between blaming someone else for your situation and that person’s actually being responsible for your situation. Nobody else is… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Just as we look back in horror at the lives of people five hundred years ago, I imagine people five hundred years… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“The truth is that there’s no such thing as a personal problem. If you’ve got a problem, chances are millions of other… — Mark Manson Psychology Copy Share Image
“All day, every day, we are flooded with the truly extraordinary. The best of the best. The worst of the worst. The… — Mark Manson Addiction Copy Share Image
“We’re all, for the most part, pretty average people. But it’s the extremes that get all of the publicity. We kind of… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“We feel bad about feeling bad. We feel guilty for feeling guilty. We get angry about getting angry. We get anxious about… — Mark Manson Feeling bad Copy Share Image
“But there are also problems that we aren’t at fault for, yet we are still responsible for them. For example, if you… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“I came to the startling realization that if there really is no reason to do anything, then there is also no reason… — Mark Manson Death Copy Share Image
I started my blog back in 2009 because every Internet business and marketing seminar I watched at the time told me I… — Mark Manson Blog Copy Share Image
One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we… — Mark Manson Age Copy Share Image
“And as a result, I soon took to chasing women the same way a cocaine addict takes to a snowman made out… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Failure itself is a relative concept. If my metric had been to become an anarcho-communist revolutionary, then my complete failure to make… — Mark Manson Failure Copy Share Image
Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can… — Mark Manson Business Copy Share Image
How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And… — Mark Manson Control Copy Share Image
“When we force ourselves to stay positive at all times, we deny the existence of our life’s problems. And when we deny… — Mark Manson Happiness Copy Share Image
We don't know what change is because we don't know what the hell we are. If I wake up tomorrow and do… — Mark Manson Change Copy Share Image
We all have great aspirations for ourselves, but if you expect yourself to change the world tomorrow, then you're going to just… — Mark Manson Aspirations Copy Share Image
“Outrage is like a lot of other things that feel good but over time devour us from the inside out. And it’s… — Mark Manson Outrage Copy Share Image
“Now I live in New York. I have a house and furniture and an electric bill and a wife. None of it… — Mark Manson Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we're getting on Facebook or what our… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Aside from birthing me my first grey hairs and keeping me up at night more times than I'd like to count, 'The… — Mark Manson Art Copy Share Image
“the philosopher Alan Watts used to refer to as “the backwards law”—the idea that the more you pursue feeling better all the… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“When the standard of success becomes merely acting—when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a… — Mark Manson Inspiration Copy Share Image
“Travel is a fantastic self-development tool, because it extricates you from the values of your culture and shows you that another society… — Mark Manson Culture Copy Share Image
“This, in a nutshell, is what “self-improvement” is really about: prioritizing better values, choosing better things to give a fuck about. Because… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Commitment makes decision-making easier and removes any fear of missing out; knowing that what you already have is good enough, why would… — Mark Manson Commitment Copy Share Image
“When viewed from this perspective, personal growth can actually be quite scientific. Our values are our hypotheses: this behavior is good and… — Mark Manson Growth Copy Share Image
“If we follow the “do something” principle, failure feels unimportant. When the standard of success becomes merely acting—when any result is regarded… — Mark Manson Failure Copy Share Image
“Life is about not knowing and then doing something anyway. All of life is like this. It never changes. Even when you’re… — Mark Manson Fairy dust Copy Share Image
“What determines your success isn’t, “What do you want to enjoy?” The relevant question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?”… — Mark Manson Happiness Copy Share Image
“conventional life advice—all the positive and happy self-help stuff we hear all the time—is actually fixating on what you lack. It lasers… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty is the root of all progress and all growth. As the old adage goes, the man who believes he knows everything… — Mark Manson Doubt Copy Share Image
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