Back in July, I explained my idea of an “Attention Diet,” -- a regimented limitation of information to improve mental health and productivity. When I posted it, I announced my plan to implement the attention diet into my own life and invited readers to do the same and report back their results. Well, it’s been three months. How did things go? 1. Like a nutritional diet, the attention diet is not an all-or-nothing affair. You will have moments where you cave to your impulses, where you w...| Mark Manson
Technology is spreading our identities over an increasing number of times and places. Find out what the future might hold for the way we see our "selves".| Mark Manson
When I started blogging in 2007, I simply tried to write the same way I spoke. Honest. Clear. And with a lot of profanity. Here's why being vulgar sometimes is important.| Mark Manson
I spent three years helping Will Smith write his memoir. The man has lived an incredible life. Here are three lessons he passed onto me.| Mark Manson
What I learned from 15 years of playing guitar and my adolescent dreams of making it as a rock star.| Mark Manson
In 2009, I was living on my friend’s futon, my bank balance was overdrawn by about $200, and I was surviving on PB&J’s every day. I was 24 years old and had nothing to lose. A year prior, I had quit my job to start an online business. I was blogging on the side and after a brief spurt of early success, by that second summer, the opportunities had dried up. It was around this time that a viral video of Will Smith was getting passed around the blogosphere. The video was a loose edit of some...| Mark Manson
