Mark Manson

“When they try to control your reaction to them, it is like inherently off-putting. I think we generally respect people who are, we generally respect people who respect our agency, right? So if I come in here and I just start saying all the things you want to h…”

“Both money and happiness are They're like oxygen. When you don't have any, they solve everything, but when you have some, it solves nothing, right? So yeah, if you're broke, go get some money. Like, that's definitely gonna solve your problems, and if you're re…”

“Chase after that ten-year goal. Hopefully you achieve it. That's great, but just understand that, like, once you get on the other side of achieving it, you're still gonna be the same stressed, anxious person who Has problems and gets in fights with his mother,…”

“If I had a sixteen-year-old in front of me and my job was to optimize them to have the most healthy and successful life possible, I would actually start with social skills because it's on the psychological side, like pretty much all of the research around happ…”

“Confidence isn't about believing you're gonna achieve success. It, it's a comfort with failure. It's knowing that you're gonna be okay if it doesn't turn out okay. Like, that's actually what makes you confident in a situation.”

“Like, I'm, I don't, but it's funny because I think it's, ultimately, we're not the target market. Like, it's, if you think about somebody who's, like, Extremely depressed. Extremely lonely. Like, hasn't gotten out much. Has kind of lost touch with most of the …”

“But it's, I mean, it's like anything though, right? Like, I mean, it's, you, you've, you climb that ladder with money too, right? Like, it's like the first time you have a five figure deal, you're sweating bullets. You know, now it's like, You don't even, prob…”

“It's not about Not giving a fuck what other people think. It's about finding something that is more important than what other people think. Because if you don't have anything more important going on in your life than what other people think about you, then wha…”

“When you frame things as a rule, it's like, hey, this is just a rule I have in my life. I just don't do this thing, and it's just to take care of my own health and my own sanity or whatever. People respect it. And then if they don't, it actually, it makes it v…”

“As soon as you adopt a label as an identity, like, the way our minds work is, is whatever I've defined my, myself as part of my identity, I'm gonna defend it, and I'm gonna become emotionally attached to it.”

“This is why you often see, like, founders and entrepreneurs are delusionally optimistic and overestimate themselves consistently because it's actually very useful in a certain context.”

“It's very easy to Unconsciously change how you see yourself based on the financial opportunities that show up. It's very tempting to do that. And I did that, and it, like, I ended up paying the consequences.”

“For people who care right now or in a phase of their life that they care very deeply about success, productivity, achievement, all those things, you have to view your emotions as another system to be managed.”

“In terms of tactically, I, you know, I think journaling is like, by far, probably the easiest lift, like the highest leverage activity for people who haven't thought about this stuff a whole lot.”

“All, like, there's, I think there's over 3000 hours worth of therapy transcripts, like, in the foundational model.”

“Here's the funny thing that we've actually noticed with a lot of our early users as well is that like people are way more honest with an AI than they are with a therapist.”

“After working very, very closely directly with an LLM for over a year now, I've actually My estimation of what they're capable of has dropped considerably. Like, they are, they're, like, brilliant idiots.”

“I personally think marrying well is, like, the single highest leveraged decision of your entire life. And also not marrying well is also a very high leverage decision. Like, it just, it is just the force multiplier on all of your outcomes across life, and it's…”

“My favorite first date question that I recommend everybody ask is, ask the person you're on a date with what did you learn from your last relationship? And the red flag is if the person starts going off about how horrible their ex was, and how shitty they were…”

“The question is, is like, what pain do you want? Like, what are you willing to give up? What struggles are you actually kind of okay having? Like what challenges do you seem to do better with than most people? Like those are, that's actually where you get into…”

“If you look at the best-selling nonfiction authors, James Clear, Mark Manson, whatever, they are a 10th of the best-selling fiction writers. The IP value is astronomically different, you know.”

“I think I probably have more, more social media followers than both of them, but they sell more books than I do, and I think it's because of the way that they have set up their being more newsletter focused and having just fantastic content”

“If I was to make a list of like the five most impactful books that I've ever read in my life, those two would be on the list for sure.”

“I can't believe I spent 10,000 dollars in two years of my life studying all this shit.”

“There, there's a weird thing that happens at a lot of these industries, which is the concepts and frame frameworks that sell well are often counterproductive.”

“Watching the rise of Tate, because he just, he's like a copy and paste of half the guys that were in that industry. You know, it's like, all the shit he says, I'm like, oh yeah, I remember, you know, this guy used to say that. Oh yeah, that guy used to say tha…”

“Most people, if they go write a hundred blog posts and try to make each one better, By the 100th one, they don't need the advice anymore. They know what they're doing wrong. They know what they need to get better at.”

“I already make a 100,000 a year.”

“The funny thing is, is that it actually, this intro did not perform very well.”

“I think what we've learned from this one is that The new approach needs to be, we just need to start like mid challenge... In hindsight, it's like, we should have just opened up with that, and then explain the format later.”

“The book did so well that I do have fuck you money, so I don't really care. Like, this is, this YouTube project's losing money, and it's probably gonna lose money for a year or two, and I'm fine with that.”

“The economics of the creator economy are fundamentally better. The distribution is miles better. You have, like, complete ownership. There's complete creative freedom. Like, I just don't see how this doesn't end up ahead in 10 years.”

“I think today you can still make a living off a blog. It's just, you've got to have your niche figured out. You got to like really be tuned into them and you're probably never going to scale an audience past like Low six figures.”

“Whereas 10 years ago, I mean, I think at my peak, I was getting like two, two and a half million visitors a month.”

“He is exactly like the Fresh Prince. Like that is, I spent the, I remember spending one day with him and then I went back to the hotel and called my wife and I was like, he did not act on that show. Like they literally just put him in a room. And then put acto…”

“Like the women in his life are his Achilles heel. Like that's, if you want to get to him, like that's the route. Like you can talk shit about him all day, all night. He's going to sit there and laugh. You find whatever it's like, You go after his mom, his daug…”

“To give Mark credit though, Mark doesn't hit the lottery. I mean, Mark was an online copywriter and marketer and had a platform for a decade before he writes a book, right?”

“We had over 600, we had folks like Gary Vee, Mark Manson, James Altucher, big name guys, as well as anyone who can contribute open contribution.”