Manson: Achieving major goals will not cure your stress and personal anxiety
Mark Manson · The Confidence Expert: How To Build UNSHAKEABLE Self Confidence | Mark Manson · Dec 4, 2025 · at 10:22
Mark Manson discusses the psychology of achievement and why people must choose struggles that feel inherently meaningful.
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“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, and like, it's like, it's all the, you're gonna be the same person with the same shit going on. So you need to, like, ultimately find something that's worth that's worth the struggle.”
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