Mark Manson

Today, we're going to talk about a bunch of things that are perennial and urgent interest to me, like how to be more confident, how to spend less time comparing yourself to other people, and how selectively and wisely... to give fewer fucks.

My guest today is Mark Manson, author of several books, including the thunderously popular The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, one of the great book titles of all time.

Fun fact, Mark's books have sold over 20 million copies, but he's not just a writer.

He also has a great YouTube page where he makes these really high quality and very, very interesting videos.

And he's got a podcast called Solved with Mark Manson.

Mark Madsen, thanks for coming on the show.

It's my pleasure.

Thank you for having me.

A passion is born, not in a day, not by thinking about it, but by doing.

Author Mark Manson has a great way to put it.

Passion is the result of action, not the cause of it.

You don't wake up one day and.

A lot of the most popular podcasters today are themselves quite wealthy and their content is aimed at an already successful follower base.

People like Tim Ferriss, Shane Parrish, Ryan Holiday, Mark Manson and James Clear would all fall into this category, along with some of the Joe Rogan motivational clips that you can find here on YouTube.

There are many interesting themes that I found that run through the advice given in these podcasts such as to set a work schedule to focus on the difficult things first to write down lists of goals and affirmations to focus on the things you can control and accept the things that you can't and to be radically honest with both yourself and the people that you deal with I'd love to hear what interesting or inspiring podcasts or YouTube channels you guys enjoy as well, so do let me know in the comment section.

Some of the advice related to people going full circle.

Oh, well, let's have him come out and speak.

And all of a sudden, you can talk to him or these other people, Mark Manson, Casey Neistat.

We have them out to speak at the conference.

So I would say we do the outbound on a much higher level.

or maybe the least, which is yourself.

I'm the three-time number one New York Times bestselling author, Mark Manson, and this is Drew Birney, my co-host, producer, lead researcher, and a man who thinks massages are weird, but could really go for a belly rub right now.

Where do these come from?

It's true.

So like in Western culture, we have almost this like pure idea of that we should be fully authentic with ourselves.

We should be honest at all times.

I think it was when we did the ego episode, maybe six or eight months ago, we talked about how this idea that there is a monolithic identity, like there's a single Mark Manson and I should be Mark Manson in every context.

The way I behave with you on camera should be the same way I behave with my mother at Thanksgiving and the same way I behave with my wife on a Tuesday night.