Mark Manson
Everything Mark personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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"People are even using ChatGPT to write their breakup texts to each other. He started using ChatGPT for financial advice and recipes, but during a divorce, he increasingly confided in the chatbot and it spiraled into a 300-hour multi-million word conversation where the bot convinced him that he had discovered a world-altering mathematical framework."
"you're probably staying up too late and having too many Red Bulls and monsters"
"you're probably staying up too late and having too many Red Bulls and monsters"
"I had the Economist Espresso app — it's just like four or five paragraphs of what's going on around the world. I'm thinking it's harmless. But it was wearing on me and so I was like, I want to stop doing that. I got rid of the app, I got rid of the service."
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"Uber rides cost less than the gas would. What?"
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"Well, in 2022, the writer Cory Doctorow gave this whole phenomenon a name with a famous viral article. He called it the enshittification of everything."
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"You can feel sad and not spiral into a week-long Netflix coma."
"Netflix used to be eight bucks and you could watch literally everything. Now there are three price tiers, six other streaming services you have to pay for, and of course, ads."
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"The neighbor becomes a daycare invoice. That's growth. The family dinner becomes DoorDash. That's growth."
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"They eventually kind of bundled up a lot of their experiments and they broadly called it prospect theory, and they would go on to win a Nobel Prize for it in 2002."
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"Probably the most interesting example of loss aversion that I found was there was a really interesting study done in 2011 on golfers. Great title of a paper. It's called Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse?"
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"The conference was called FailCon. Now, the founder, Cass Phillips, she had spent years in Silicon Valley, surrounded by startups that frequently failed."
"Personally, I think FailCon probably failed for a simple reason, which is it's actually the same reason a lot of conferences fail, which is that it was specifically targeted towards people who don't have money."
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"And this is Drew Birnie, my co-host, producer, lead researcher, and the man who ran a premortem failure analysis on this very podcast episode and concluded that I was its top risk."
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"App blockers, screen time limits, Pomodoro timers, lock-in bro influencers, dopamine detoxes, grayscaling your phone, cold showers at 5:00 a.m."
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"App blockers, screen time limits, Pomodoro timers, lock-in bro influencers, dopamine detoxes, grayscaling your phone, cold showers at 5:00 a.m., whatever Huberman is telling you to do this weekend. And I'll be honest, some of that stuff can work."
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"There was this one research in the late 2010s, Wilson found what they called the 85% rule. The optimum error rate is about 15%. So you're succeeding about 85% of the time but failing about 15% of the time."
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"Companies, they get to a certain level and then they just stop taking risks. There's actually a great book written about this called The Innovator's Dilemma. It's about all the examples throughout history of large companies that actually invented technology 10, 20 years before they became popular, but they didn't want to take the risk of investing in that new technology."
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"Kierkegaard's framework was written across two different books. There's Either/Or, which explains the difference between the aesthetic life and the ethical life."
"If you go back to Kierkegaard, there's a very similar idea in his book Either/Or."
"He talked about this in Either/Or — having spectacles with two lenses. Like for some reason, we are only able to see the upside of each additional option, whereas we're unable to see the downside of having to give up each additional option."
"He had three stages. These were explained in two of his books. One is Either/Or, which he talks about the first two stages, and then Fear and Trembling, which he talks about the third."
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"For people who are not familiar, SpaceX should have failed like half a dozen different times and it really survived purely on the sheer will and ingenuity of him and his core engineering team."
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"All of these journals and ideas and thoughts eventually became Sartre's philosophical magnum opus. It's called Being and Nothingness. It is maybe the single hardest book I have forced myself to get through. I didn't finish it. I got about 400 pages in and just threw in the towel."
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"He's written, you know, Stumbling on Happiness, his biggest book probably, and lots of other books and I've read all of his research."
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"Are you familiar with Seth Godin's The Dip concept? Seth Godin's The Dip, it actually applies to businesses like starting a new business or a new venture. It's this curve that initially goes up a decent amount and then it crashes and goes negative for a little while and that's the dip. And then you have to kind of sustain through that dip. And then if you sustain it, it shoots way up on the other side."
"Are you familiar with Seth Godin's The Dip concept? Seth Godin's The Dip — it actually applies to businesses like starting a new business or a new venture. It's this curve that initially goes up a decent amount and then it crashes and goes negative for a little while, and that's the dip, and then it shoots way up on the other side."
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"In his book Sickness Unto Death, Kierkegaard points out that this sort of despair — this kind of despair of optionality, of freedom, of indulgence — it is the most dangerous kind of despair because it largely goes unnoticed by the aesthete."
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"This is Barry Schwartz's work on the paradox of choice. He wrote the book on this, but he did a whole body of research around it, too. Basically showing that the more options you have, the less satisfied with any one of them you end up choosing."
"This is Barry Schwartz's work on the paradox of choice. He wrote the book on this, but he did a whole body of research around it too. Basically showing that the more options you have, the less satisfied with any one of them you end up choosing."
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"Several times mentioned Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone. That book came out in the '90s, like early '90s I think even too. And it was looking at data from the previous 50 years about how just Americans were spending less and less together and institutions were decaying and all of that."
"We've several times mentioned Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone. It came out in the '90s and it was looking at data from the previous 50 years about how just Americans were spending less and less time together, and institutions were decaying."
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