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. Mark Manson Read Quote
The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us. Mark Manson Read Quote
I think humility – which I think is a very good value to adopt – is basically an extension of understanding your own ignorance. Mark Manson Read Quote
I believe productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we feel most effective. Mark Manson Read Quote
The reason we fall in love with certain music and writing is we connect with it on a very personal level. Mark Manson Read Quote
For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, ‘Infinite Jest’ became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was ‘cool’ for all the Gen Xers to read. Mark Manson Read Quote
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. Mark Manson Read Quote
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. Mark Manson Read Quote
Life is a never-ending stream of problems that must be confronted, surmounted, and/or solved. Mark Manson Read Quote
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. Mark Manson Read Quote
