Quotes by Mark Manson - Page 2

Ultimately, I think, as humans, we all care deeply about our life's legacy, and contemplating our own mortality is the only real way to approach that question of legacy honestly.
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Approach
Care
Contemplating
Honestly
Humans
Legacy
Mortality
Real
Deeply
Question
Ultimately
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One of the beautiful things about Tyler Durden in 'Fight Club' is that he seems to understand the implicit vanity and self-absorption that comes with the desire to improve oneself.
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Beautiful Things
Implicit
Oneself
Fight Club
Tyler
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True love - that is, deep, abiding love that is impervious to emotional whims or fancy - is a choice. It's a constant commitment to a person regardless of the present circumstances.
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True Love
Circumstances
Commitment
Constant
Emotional
Fancy
Impervious
Person
Love True Love True
Abide
True
Choice
Deep
Present
Regardless
Whims
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What's interesting about emotions is that the more you try to control them or to bottle them up, the stronger they get. So, the more I try to stop being sad, the sadder I'm going to get.
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Bottle
Sadder
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Writing/reading is like visiting another person's brain. And a short book or article is like a short stay. You come in, have a coffee, talk about the weather or sports, and then move on.
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Sports
Book
Brain
Coffee
Visiting
Weather
Talk
Article
Stay
Short
Move On
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I think my approach to a creative career was very entrepreneurial. Even though I'm a writer, I've always viewed my work much in the same way as a startup or marketer might view their work.
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Approach
Creative
Entrepreneurial
Writer
Work Always View
Work View Way
Career
Work Way Always
Startup
View
Though
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I'm constantly obsessing about brand. I think of my books in terms of brand. I think of my blog articles in terms of branding. How does it fit my branding? I think in terms of demographics.
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Articles
Demographics
Blog
Brand
Constantly
Terms
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We all have great aspirations for ourselves, but if you expect yourself to change the world tomorrow, then you're going to just drown yourself in anxiety and constant feelings of inadequacy.
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Constant
Inadequacy
Tomorrow
Change Great World
Aspirations
Change The World
Drown
Expect
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The fear of failure never goes away. In many ways, you could argue that success multiplies the opportunities for failure. It's just more of an argument for becoming more comfortable with it.
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Failure
Becoming
Comfortable
Success Failure Fear
Argue
Away
Could
Goes
Opportunities
Ways
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My belief is that we all already care about something important. We all already know what is important and meaningful for ourselves. The problem is just that many of us have lost touch with it.
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Meaningful
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The motivation to do anything - like change your entire life around - doesn't just come from some magical, mystical place within you. Action is both the effect of motivation and the cause of it.
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Mystical
Life Change Your
Entire Life
Magical
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When the standard of success becomes merely acting - when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite - we propel ourselves ahead.
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Acting
Inspiration
Ahead
Becomes
Seen
Merely
Standard
Prerequisite
Propel
Regarded
Result
Reward
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We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we're getting on Facebook or what our mother will think of our new house plant. These are bad values that turn us into frivolous people.
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Caring
Frivolous
Likes
Plant
Facebook
Tv Show
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If I ask you, 'What do you want out of life?' and you say something like, 'I want to be happy and have a great family and a job I like,' it's so ubiquitous that it doesn't even mean anything. Everyone wants that.
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Great Family
Ask
Life Family Great
Job
Be Happy
Ubiquitous
Wants
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In a strange way, I feel like we need to cultivate more boredom in our lives: like, boredom needs to be okay again. It needs to be seen as a good thing, and I think it's definitely a good thing for relationships.
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Boredom
Okay
Our Lives
Strange
Good Feel Way
Cultivate
Good Way Feel
Good Thing
Relationships
Strange Way
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Whether you're from Egypt or Argentina or Singapore or Canada, you have a need to feel important, a need to feel secure, and a need to feel loved. The culture and economics just determine how those needs are expressed.
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Argentina
Canada
Determine
Economics
Egypt
Secure
Singapore
Expressed
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I started my blog back in 2009 because every Internet business and marketing seminar I watched at the time told me I had to. I had been trying to get a business started selling dating and life advice and was struggling.
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Dating
Advice
Internet
Marketing
Selling
Life Time Business
Blog
Watched
Struggling
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Here's a pro-tip: there's no such thing as a 'gym person.' There are just people who go to the gym. Similarly, there's no such thing as a 'productive person.' There are just people who do productive things fairly often.
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Gym
Fairly
People Person Things
Similarly
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Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.
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Care
Determine
Don't Care
Moral
Moral Philosophy
Our Lives
Philosophy
Decisions
Actions
Beliefs
Therefore
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At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This confines us and stifles us.
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Failure
Avoid
Confines
Fail
Instinctively
Placed
Reach
Stick
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The first step in making better choices is to simply be brutally honest about your own behavior to yourself. What are the choices you are making? How are you spending your time? What are you neglecting that you shouldn't?
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Time Yourself Your
Time Yourself Step
Brutally
Time Better Yourself
First Step
Neglecting
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At the core of all human behavior, the good feelings we all want are more or less the same. Therefore, what we get out of life is not determined by the good feelings we desire but by what bad feelings we're willing to sustain.
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Behavior
Core
Desire
Determined
Human Behavior
Willing
Life Good Bad
Less
More Or Less
Sustain
Therefore
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Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite.
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Euphoric
Liberating
Painful
Self Help
Be Happy
Sees
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Life is a big and complex game. It's the largest open world game known to date. We all begin with different starting stats, and we're placed into a wide range of environments that can either give us advantages or disadvantages.
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Different
Disadvantages
Range
Starting
Wide
Begin
Advantages
Game
Open
Date
Complex
Either
Environments
Give
Life Game World
Largest
Life Is A
Placed
Wide Range
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If someone is better than you at something, then it's likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it's likely because he hasn't been through all of the painful learning experiences you have.
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Learning
Painful
Through
Failed
Experiences
Likely
She
Worse
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People complain not because something sucks. People complain because they're looking for empathy and to feel connected with those around them. Unfortunately, complaining is maybe the least useful way to connect with other human beings.
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Complaining
Empathy
Human Beings
Looking
People Feel Way
Empathy People Feel
Useful
Sucks
Beings
Complain
Connect
Unfortunately
Least
Maybe
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The American Dream is simple: it's the unwavering belief that anybody - you, me, your friends, your neighbors, grandma Verna - can become exceedingly successful, and all it takes is the right amount of work, ingenuity, and determination.
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American Dream
Determination
Grandma
Ingenuity
Unwavering
Work Your Me
Work Determination Me
Exceedingly
Neighbors
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We don't know what change is because we don't know what the hell we are. If I wake up tomorrow and do the exact opposite of everything I do today, am I a changed person? Or am I simply the same person who decided to try something different?
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Decided
Tomorrow
Wake Up
Opposite
Exact
Exact Opposite
Wake
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Self-publishing provides more freedom and control, but it also provides more risk. Publishing provides more credibility and promotion, but your vision can also get lost in the bureaucratic machinery of the business. It's a tough decision to make.
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Credibility
Decision
Lost
Machinery
Promotion
Publishing
Risk
Tough
Vision
Bureaucratic
Provides
Tough Decision
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I think people who become compulsive about fitness or eating right, a lot of the time it's out of fear that they're going to lose control or that they're not good enough, so I think anything done out of fear or motivated by fear is often unhealthy.
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Fitness
Motivated
Not Good Enough
Unhealthy
Time Good Fear
Compulsive
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One thing that I think most people don't notice is that if you're sitting around telling yourself, 'I want to be happier,' there's a kind of subconscious message that you're also telling yourself at the same time, which is, 'What I have is not enough.'
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Subconscious
Time Yourself People
Happier
Notice
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That first morning that I woke up self-employed, terror quickly consumed me. I found myself sitting with my laptop and realized, for the first time, that I was entirely responsible for all of my own decisions, as well as the consequences of those decisions.
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Consumed
First Time
My Own
Sitting
Terror
Time Morning Myself
Decisions
Consequences
Entirely
Laptop
Quickly
Realized
Woke
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Many people come to self-help material because they feel like something is wrong with them or the way they are. The problem is that anything that tells you how to improve your life is also implying that there is something inherently wrong with you the way you are.
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Implying
Self Help
Life People Way
Inherently
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It's possible to fall in love with somebody who doesn't treat us well, who makes us feel worse about ourselves, who doesn't hold the same respect for us as we do for them, or who has such a dysfunctional life themselves that they threaten to bring us down with them.
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Life Love Respect
Dysfunctional
Threaten
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One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.
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Age
Society
Care
Caring
Clear
Distraction
Focus
Important
Modern Society
Noise
Could
Ever
One Of The Problems
Problems
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Obviously, we all want to feel pleasure. It can't be one of our highest priorities because, simply put, anything worthwhile in life is going to be un-pleasurable at times. Pleasure is the type of thing that if you get the other stuff right, pleasure will happen on its own.
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Pleasure
Priorities
Type
Worthwhile
Simply
Obviously
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Death is important for a couple reasons. The first is that death creates scarcity in our life, which therefore gives our decisions meaning and value. From a practical point of view, it therefore makes sense that we keep our own deaths in mind when deciding how to use our time.
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Death
Couple
Important
Mind
Our Time
Point Of View
Scarcity
Use
Life Time Death
Life Time Mind
Decisions
Own
Life Death Time
First
Creates
Deaths
Deciding
How
Gives
Makes
Meaning
Point
Practical
Reasons
Sense
View
Therefore
Value
Which
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Aside from birthing me my first grey hairs and keeping me up at night more times than I'd like to count, 'The Subtle Art' taught me a lot about the nature of work. And a lot of that had to do with how my perception of the work itself evolved over the course of writing the book.
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Grey
Perception
Subtle
Nature Art Work
Aside
Count
Nature Work Art
Hairs
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Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional - you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.
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Conditional
One Way
Toxic
Love Relationship Hate
Compensate
Partner
Ticket
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When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.
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Change
Friends
Romantic
Focus
Location
New Friends
New Job
Prospects
Reality
Stuff
Way
Most
Job
Life Change Focus
External
Changing
Often
Set
See
Starts
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In 2008, after holding down a day job for all of six weeks, I gave up on the whole job thing to pursue an online business. At the time, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing, but I figured if I was going to be broke and miserable, I might as well be while working on my own terms.
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Broke
Clue
Miserable
Pursue
Time Business Day
Day Job
Figured
Holding
No Clue
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People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.
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Business
Entrepreneur
Hours
Independent
Insane
No Idea
Risk
Successful
Uncertainty
Want
Way
Own
Become
Idea
Working
Failures
Financially
Repeated
Something
Start
To Love
Unless
Whether
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I was a big party guy in my twenties, and kind of a playboy as well. I adopted a lot of values and goals that were fairly superficial and, in many cases, self-destructive. They looked cool and sounded sexy on the surface, but underneath, there was no real meaning going on, just a lot of escapism.
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Cool
Adopted
Cases
Escapism
Guy
Party
Playboy
Real
Self Destructive
Sexy
Superficial
Surface
Twenties
Fairly
Looked
Meaning
Well
Real Meaning
Underneath
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I had to decide that, you know what, I don't know who the hell I am or what I'm doing, but I do know that historically and scientifically and anecdotally, and anyone who is not an idiot knows, that waking up early and starting the day off with a nice, simple routine is a healthy and productive way to live one's life.
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Healthy
Routine
Simple
Waking
Early
Historically
Scientifically
Waking Up
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Whereas a lot of Buddhism concerns itself with stages of enlightenment, various precepts and moral codes, and even power structures and hierarchies, Zen is just like, 'Shut up, sit down, and observe your thoughts - oh, and by the way, what you perceive as you' doesn't actually exist.' I loved the minimalist approach of it.
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Approach
Buddhism
Enlightenment
Minimalist
Moral
Perceive
Shut Up
Actually
Oh
Loved
Codes
Itself
Concerns
Exist
Hierarchies
Observe
Precepts
Thoughts
Shut
Sit
Stages
Structures
Whereas
Zen
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We usually think of improving our life by adding stuff - like more things, more success, more friends. I think the starting place should be removing stuff - try a month without Instagram; try a week without looking at fashion pictures. See how that affects your life, your friendships, and your ability to focus on other things.
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Improving
Instagram
Life Success Focus
Adding
Affects
Month
Friendships
Removing
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In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all of life's problems. Our movies and our stories and our history all celebrate it as life's ultimate goal, the final solution for all of our pain and struggle. And because we idealize love, we overestimate it. As a result, our relationships pay a price.
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Celebrate
Lofty
Overestimate
Pain
Pay
Stories
Struggle
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Life Love History
Idealize
Price
Relationships
Result
Solution
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Self Help is a notoriously crowded market, but I believe that I've successfully differentiated myself in a few ways. For one, most demographic data shows that millennials think/act/see the world differently, and I don't think there's much personal development stuff out there that caters to millennial attitudes and experiences very well.
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Crowded
Millennials
Myself Believe World
Myself Believe I Believe
Attitudes
Demographic
Differentiated
Myself World Believe
Successfully
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How do I control my emotions? How do I stop getting angry so often, or how do I stop being sad? And I think there's a really important distinction to understand is that you can't completely control your emotions. What you control is your reaction to your own emotions. And a lot of people don't ever make that separation for what goes on with them.
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Sad
Angry
Distinction
Separation
Understand
Often
Getting
Emotions
Goes
Reaction
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