Mark Manson

"had just read Tim Ferrris's 4-hour work week"

"Look right here. I got four whiskey sours in MyFitnessPal. So, all I got to do is skip breakfast and I hit my calories."

"I do yoga too which is another you know it's a Hindu tradition that I do that I'm not there's no spiritual... more for me. It's actually meditative too for me as well. There's there's a silent yoga I go to sometimes that's very meditative."

"I brought a sudoku from the college newspaper and I did the sudoku and I realized that I stayed awake the entire lecture and I took great notes"

"I actually use his planner though, his notebook. I think I mentioned this in the procrastination episode, but I use his planner, which is very much centered around time boxing."

"I used to use this writing software called Scrivener, which was designed for authors writing books. And it sets up you can set all these benchmarks for yourself of like how many words do you want to write a day?"

"So I went down to a coffee shop and I just had to work on my little 13-inch MacBook Pro. And I got a lot done."

"This is why I time box though. That's what I figured out. That's one of the lessons I learned from all this. I'm like, 'Oh, this is actually what time boxing is doing for me.' Is it gives me a very clear like this is what I'm working on."

"Open up the Google doc and let's just let's just write the intro."

"I honestly like the the the only online dating experiences I had was a website, little old website called plentyofish.com."

"I got addicted to the game Overwatch back like 10 years ago. I got addicted so hard, dude. I had practice regimens. I had like a daily warm-up routine. I found a team that I was playing with."

"The most productive people you admire are not necessarily doing more than you. They're doing less, but they're doing it more strategically."

"Positive visualization around the process of getting to where you want is actually what's the most important part."

"The most useful one I've ever come across is Cal Newport's Deep Work, his framework around that. Great book. If you haven't read it, go out and read it."

"I got to give a shout out to good friend of mine, Nir Eyal. He wrote his book. He's got a book called Indistractable that's very much about this."

"She calls it the three loves framework and she what what she has found in her research is that humans tend to experience what we call love, the single word for love. It's actually three different experiences"

"He kind of came up with this framework that he calls bids for affection. And it is really much about this responsiveness like the Gottman's argue that it's the hallmark of happy couples"

"The Gottmans have been probably the preeminent researchers on marriage stability and satisfaction for 40 years now. And their primary method of researching is that they literally just film married couples."

"A great exercise that comes from Warren Buffett is write down all of the things that you care about, all of your priorities, all the things that seem important to you. Then order them from most important to least important. Then you go and you cross off everything except for the top three things."

"There's a thing called an Eisenhower matrix, which is basically you take all of the tasks or things you want to do and you divide it into four quadrants."