Our beliefs can put healthy boundaries on questionable behavior. But limiting beliefs hold us back from what we want in life.| Mark Manson
Men who idolize women have just as many problems with them as those who hate women. Here's how both perspectives can ruin your dating life.| Mark Manson
All advice is not created equal. Here's how to give advice without looking like such a jerk.| Mark Manson
Here's how I finally broke the cycle of crippling FOMO.| Mark Manson
Lust, passion, and commitment are all part of romantic love, but not all of them are experienced equally. Find out how each can make or break a relationship.| Mark Manson
Learning a foreign language can be daunting at first. Here are some tips to get you started.| Mark Manson
Friendship comes in different flavors. Here's what real friends look like.| Mark Manson
How to be patient in a world full of distractions. And reap the rewards.| Mark Manson
Download best-selling author Mark Manson's Personal Values ebook and finally figure that shit out.| Mark Manson
Why anyone and everyone can benefit from meditation. What meditation is and how to do it.| Mark Manson
Download best-selling author Mark Manson's Life Purpose ebook and find out.| Mark Manson
Self-esteem isn't the silver bullet some people think it is, but it's still important. It just depends on how and where you're getting your self-esteem.| Mark Manson
An eye-opening guide to developing healthy relationships, one component at a time.| Mark Manson
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Enter your email address below to sign up for my free newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. Each week, you’ll receive a few prompts and exercises designed to create your next breakthrough. No fluff, no filler, no BS. Just five minutes each week that might change your life.| Mark Manson
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Welcome, Player One, to a strategy guide for the game known as Life.| Mark Manson
Doing "more work" doesn't necessarily mean you'll be more productive, and sometimes, it actually makes you less so.| Mark Manson
Everything you need to know about how habits work, how to stick to healthy habits and break bad ones, and which habits will change your life| Mark Manson
Setting goals points us in the right direction and helps us clarify our values. But hanging on to goals when they no longer serve us is a recipe for misery.| Mark Manson
Stability or change, freedom or commitment, individuality or conformity... how to be content in this paradoxical life?| Mark Manson
There are a lot of books out there giving crappy advice about anxiety and depression. Here's my shortlist of books that actually help.| Mark Manson
Join thousands who have taken Mark's online courses to learn life’s most important skills—from relationships to emotional management, finding purpose, and more.| Mark Manson
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
Learn how to leverage your frustration help you quit smoking.| 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
Distractions have become so pervasive in the digital age that we've come to accept them as normal. Here's how we can escape their grip and free our minds a little.| Mark Manson
Motivation is not just a feeling. It is a habit, a practice that we need to cultivate in our daily lives. Here's how.| Mark Manson
Step 1: Slap yourself in the face. Hard, preferably.| Mark Manson
Making better decisions in life is a skill you can practice and develop. Here are seven steps to follow when making any big life decision.| Mark Manson
Read and listen to "This Is Water", David Foster Wallace's famous commencement speech about education and finding meaning in everyday life.| 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
"We're all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing."| Mark Manson
Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.| Mark Manson
How are you supposed to be confident about something when you have nothing to feel confident about?| Mark Manson
Nearly every culture around the world encourages sacrifice today for a better tomorrow. So why is delayed gratification so hard?| Mark Manson
Meta-awesomeness is a term I invented for when someone recognizes that something about themselves is uncool, which then ironically makes them cool.| Mark Manson
Relationship problems come in a few different varieties. Here's a choose-your-own-adventure style guide to solving a conflict in your life.| Mark Manson
We sit silently. My friend stares deeply into her empty glass, occasionally shuffling the ice around with her straw. "Wow," she says. I sit and wait for her to say something else. What started out as a festive night somehow became a long, deep discussion about love, what it consists of, and how rare it actually is.| Mark Manson
Learning how to grow up and be more mature starts with knowing what you truly value. Being an adult means sticking to your values, even when it's not popular or doesn't benefit you.| Mark Manson
Download best-selling author Mark Manson's 54-page guide on building healthier, more satisfying relationships in your life.| Mark Manson
An in-depth look into why dating is so difficult in this day and age.| Mark Manson
Why our assumption that our parents are so responsible for how we turn out may actually be false...| Mark Manson
A difficult lesson in life is learning how to let go of broken relationships, our pasts, and even parts of ourselves. This is how I've learned to deal with loss in my life.| Mark Manson
How romantic love came to be a cultural centerpiece in western societies and why it kind of screws us all up.| Mark Manson
Learn how your attachment style affects your relationships.| Mark Manson
How to tell if you or someone else is an emotional vampire and what to do about it if so.| Mark Manson
A quick, practical guide to managing your mental health.| Mark Manson
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Constantly striving for happiness in the face of life's challenges can be just as bad as being miserable all the time.| Mark Manson
It’s cliche at this point to say that the most important things you learn in life aren't learned in school… But what if they were?| Mark Manson
Social media is blamed for many of today's social ills, but this only serves to shield us from the harsh reality that it is us who are at fault.| Mark Manson
An honest look at the unspoken lessons of growing up and how they change the way we see ourselves.| 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
We all judge and measure each other by our own standards. Accepting this goes a long ways in understanding others.| 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
Learn the most common reasons why you fail to achieve your goals and dreams.| Mark Manson
What I learned from 15 years of playing guitar and my adolescent dreams of making it as a rock star.| Mark Manson
Most people can't just sit with uncertainty, with not knowing what will happen. And this fear of the unknown makes us do some strange things.| Mark Manson
There's a short and simple answer to your dating problems, and you might not like the sound of it at first. But trust me: this is for your own good.| Mark Manson
Learn how traits that don’t fit our traditional narrative for what love is and what love should be are actually necessary ingredients for lasting relationship success.| Mark Manson
You don't overcome your demons by fighting them or avoiding them or numbing yourself to them. Instead, you have to learn to love your demons. Here's how.| Mark Manson
It’s the new year and let’s pretend for a moment that you have decided that you want to become rich. Maybe you’re sick of your student loan debt. Maybe you’re sick of eating frozen waffles for dinner every night. Maybe you recently became overwhelmingly inspired by your favorite rapper, 50 Cent, and like him, you also want to ‘Get Rich or Die Trying’ and then go bankrupt a few years later.| Mark Manson
A sarcastic look at what makes one miserable and how to be better at it.| Mark Manson
Why the idea that we can get everything we want out of life is flawed, and how we should deal with it...| Mark Manson
I hate The Secret. There, I said it. I know I’m a self-development blogger and I’m supposed to keep everything light and airy and full of poop jokes, but fuck it — I hate it. It’s an awful book. And it needs to be said.| Mark Manson
My 20s certainly were dramatic. Here are some of the things I learned.| Mark Manson
The ultimate goal of self-improvement can be paradoxically self-defeating. This is what healthy self-improvement looks like.| Mark Manson
Sometimes our dreams aren't really what we think they are. And sometimes we're better off not following them.| Mark Manson
Over 600 people, age 40 and older, weigh in on what they wish they knew when they were 30. A few of them might surprise you.| Mark Manson
It only takes a few seconds to realize that your mind is split in two almost all the time. Here's how to rein in all the clutter.| 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
Eight reasons why you can’t trust yourself, as demonstrated by psychology.| Mark Manson
What therapy is, what it can do for you, and how you should go about finding a good therapist.| Mark Manson
Each time a significant event happens, a cycle of outrage ensues. Let's take a minute and understand which wave of outrage we're riding.| Mark Manson
It's possible to be self-aware to some degree and still be unhappy and unfulfilled. And while self-awareness has many benefits, it is, by itself, not the point. This is how you can cultivate and develop healthy self-awareness in your own life.| Mark Manson
Our emotions often paralyze us when we face the most important decisions of our lives. Learn how to break free.| 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
The perfect career comes at the intersection of three things. Here's what they are.| Mark Manson
We're all victims of our own cognitive biases. Some of them just make us more awful human beings than others.| Mark Manson
Our ability to focus attention on what we need is core to living a happy, healthy life. But smartphones are polluting our attention.| Mark Manson
Porn is messing up your relationships in more ways than you think. Here's a few of them.| Mark Manson
Traveling the world gives one unique perspectives and lessons. Here are mine.| Mark Manson
Many of us allow ourselves to be defined by how much money we have or don't have. But the real value of money is something else entirely.| Mark Manson
There is one belief from which all other self-development flows. Learn what it is.| Mark Manson
Just because something is not your fault, does not mean it's not still your responsibility. Fault and responsibility are different.| Mark Manson
I've read over 1,000 nonfiction books in my life, and these 33 are the most powerful of them all. I can honestly say they changed my life, who's to say they won't change yours too? Don't just take my word for it though. Read on for my summary of all 33 books and see for yourself how your next read might just change your life. https://youtu.be/7kwqWgXzHvc 1. Atomic Habits by James Clear This might be the most practical book ever written on simple behavioral change. Atomic Habits has three big ...| Mark Manson
Welcome to the realm of uncomfortable truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question everything you've ever believed in. Buckle up, buttercup. Let's dive into the rabbit hole of reality. https://youtu.be/ueDus1n3t0A Truth #1: You're Wrong About (Almost) Everything One day, everything you believe today will be proven to be completely and utterly wrong or incomplete. Remember the past you? The one with embarrassing beliefs and naïve ideas? Well, guess what, future you will look back at p...| Mark Manson
We're living in an era where anxiety seems to be omnipresent, and everyone is struggling with it to some degree. It's important to remember that the reasons behind our anxiety may not be as crucial as our reactions to it. In this guide, let's explore five comprehensive ways to help you deal with anxiety, along with one slower, long-term approach. https://youtu.be/m6rcjY8YHJc Emotions & Physiology: The Undeniable Connection Our emotions are deeply intertwined with our physiological state. When...| Mark Manson
Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as something that we are not. For example, I've longed to be a surfer for years. The idea fascinated me so much that I even booked several weeks of surf lessons in Costa Rica. Surfing can be incredibly meditative. It compels you to surrender control and simply respond to the unpredictability of the ocean. The nature of surfing is such that you can't control the waves. All you can do is react to th...| Mark Manson
Inspired by my chat with Dr. Jordan Peterson on his podcast, I came up with my three rules for life. Let's dive in.| Mark Manson
The only way to make real progress in your life is to admit that you're always wrong. Find out why this is a good thing.| Mark Manson
Cheating sucks. But here’s the reason why people do it anyway…| Mark Manson
Find out what vulnerability really is—and what it can and can't do for you.| Mark Manson
Most people think regret is a universally bad thing. But if you look a little closer, regret actually serves a very useful purpose in our lives.| Mark Manson
There are a lot of good reasons to get married. There are also a lot of absolutely terrible reasons to get married. Here are some of both.| Mark Manson
Pain Is Inevitable. Suffering Is Optional Learn how to create unshakable resilience for those times when life throws you a fat ball of shit Sign Up Now Or read on below to learn more. How You Can Take On Tougher Challenges, Fight Through the Roadblocks, and Live Life With Tenacity and Purpose Look, it doesn't matter how smart or talented you are if you can't handle all the shit life throws at you. And life will always throw shit at you. The Resilience Course shows you how to break through the...| Mark Manson
A Sense of Purpose Isn’t Found Under a Rock Somewhere. It’s Created and Cultivated. Here’s How No clue what you’re doing with your life? Wandering around aimlessly trying to figure out "what it all means"? Then listen up… Sign Up Now Or read on below to learn more. You Can Finally Go After What You Really Want in Life My course, Finding Purpose, is a deep dive into how to do just that. Here's what you'll learn: Why you need to stop trying to "find" your purpose And what to do instea...| Mark Manson
