Success is often the first step toward disaster. The idea of progress is often the enemy of actual progress.| Mark Manson
The peak of my writing career, in terms of productivity, likely occurred in the summer of 2012. I don’t remember the reasoning, but I wrote four different 20-25 page PDF guides in a single week. For you college kids out there, that’s like four different 5000-word term papers all in the same week. About a month later, I wrote my (now-retired) long-term travel course (about 200 pages) in three weeks flat. I was a machine. The topics were: Happiness, Courage, Wealth, and Dating. Much of the ...| Mark Manson
No clue what you want to do with your life? Here are some crazy and thought-provoking questions to help you out.| Mark Manson
Constantly striving for happiness in the face of life's challenges can be just as bad as being miserable all the time.| Mark Manson
In the 1920s, women didn’t smoke. Or if they did, they were severely judged for it. It was taboo. Like graduating from college or getting elected to Congress, people believed women should leave the smoking to men. Honey, you might hurt yourself. Or burn your beautiful hair.| Mark Manson
Just like with financial diversification, you should also invest in several different areas of your identity. Here's how.| Mark Manson
Learn how to understand and manage your emotions: from happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame to—the most elusive of all—love.| Mark Manson
What are your most important personal values? Do you actually value what you say you do, or are you lying to yourself? And just who the hell are you anyway?| Mark Manson
Comparing yourself to others is an innate part of our nature and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. What we can change is the basis of that comparison.| Mark Manson
Three ways you can start being happier, right now, without deluding yourself with a bunch of "positive thinking."| Mark Manson
Five incredible success stories revealing five mindsets that create success.| Mark Manson
If you have to try to be cool, you will never be cool. If you have to try to be happy, then you will never be happy.| Mark Manson
Mark Manson - Author. Thinker. Life enthusiast. Author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck.| Mark Manson