Mark Manson

"The lesson here is that the behaviors have to come first, your feelings second."

"There's this concept in psychology called halo effect. Basically, the more good-looking you are, man or woman, the more other people assume positive things about you."

"You can feel sad and not spiral into a week-long Netflix coma."

"There's a concept from Alan Watts called the backwards law. And once I learned it, it completely changed my life."

"That observation is usually the first accurate observation that meditation produces for people. That is meditation."

"Sending a Snapchat is easier. Staying home is safer."

"Things like Waking Up or Sam Harris's Waking Up and then Dan Harris's 10% Happier. Both of those apps have much more of a philosophical psychological focus in their content."

"The two biggest ones most people have heard of, Calm and Headspace, and Calm and Headspace very much went after the casual user, right? It's like five minutes in the morning, de-stress a little bit, help you relax."

"Dan Harris is an interesting case study here. So, for people who don't know, he was a ABC News anchor. He had a very public panic attack back in like the early 2000s I think or something like that and that's what led him to meditation."

"The two biggest ones most people have heard of, Calm and Headspace, and Calm and Headspace very much went after the casual user, right? It's like five minutes in the morning, de-stress a little bit, help you relax."

"attachment theory basically found that children need two things. They need to explore the world and then they need a safe place to return to when they feel threatened or scared or overwhelmed"

"There's this guy William Dodson back in 2016. He came up with this framework for an ADHD brain. The PINCH acronym stands for passion, interest, novelty, competition, or a hurry."

"He co-developed a framework called motivational interviewing, one of the most effective techniques for helping people alter their habits."

"I was recently listening to a podcast with Matthew Walker, the guy who wrote Why We Sleep, a big sleep researcher."

"I think it's like a little animal or something that takes over the screen and it's knitting. If you interrupt it then the knitting little animal gets sad and you don't get your sweater finished."

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"There's a fantastic book about depression called The Noonday Demon and the author talks about medieval Christian monks going back 800 years ago and how they wrote extensively about a concept called acedia."

"I can't believe I haven't mentioned yet video games. I'm a huge gamer. Like video games are completely optimized to generate flow state in people. Like that is pretty much entirely how they're engineered is to generate as much flow state as possible."

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"David Foster Wallace had an absolutely brilliant book called Infinite Jest that I think everybody tries to read at some point and nobody can get through because it requires too much focus."