Mark Manson on Important Lessons in Life

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Mark Manson is an author and personal development consultant. His writing is a different take on the self-help genre that he calls self-help from a first-person perspective. Mark has been published and quoted on CNN, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, The Sydney Morning Herald, and a variety of other publications. He is also the CEO and Founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC.

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Mark Manson and I Discuss Important Lessons in Life and …

• Opportunity costs and being aware of the sacrifices
• His most popular article, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*&
• The misconception of confidence
• The friendship test in romantic relationships
• How he applies logic in his writing
• Positive thinking and his issue with “The Secret”
• How inspiration often comes from taking action
• His “Do Something” principle
• Mistaking happiness for pleasure
• How true happiness comes from the meaning of our experiences
• Our need to always be challenged in life
• How our pursuits change as we get older
• His article on Ken Wilbur, an American philosopher

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