Mark Manson

"After their ship was crushed in Antarctic ice, Ernest Shackleton left 22 men stranded on Elephant Island under Frank Wild's command while he sailed for help."

"The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders or the DSM is the Bible of psychiatry. It's the book that defines what counts as a mental illness and what does not."

"Most of us today, we think of Romeo and Juliet as the ultimate love story. People don't realize that contemporaries of Shakespeare at the time saw it as a cautionary tale of don't let your teenager fall in love with somebody because this is what's going to happen to you."

"I remember in high school I read Jane Eyre and I thought it was the most boring book in the world. What I realized at the time it was so transgressive. This idea that you would marry for love was completely transgressive at the time."

"Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina, arguably like the best romance novel ever written, one of the most famous books ever written. And his marriage with his wife was like so contentious, so toxic."

"She edited and rewrote War and Peace for him."

"The Gottmans have been probably the preeminent researchers on marriage stability and satisfaction for 40 years now. They literally just film married couples and track those married couples longitudinally."

"Helen Fischer and her colleagues put people who self-reported being intensely in love into an fMRI machine and showed them photos of the people that they were obsessed about."

"So life, it turns out, is kind of like this Rubik's cube. Nobody really knows what the fuck they're doing."

"It's always the ex's fault, your boss's fault, the market's fault, your childhood's fault, your parents' fault, Bitcoin's fault."

"Rosalie would then publish her own book aptly titled How to Attract Men and Money."

"Think and Grow Rich is one of the bestselling books of all time. It's been credited by Tony Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Don Johnson, Larry Ellison, Steve Harvey, and hundreds of others as a book that changed their lives."

"It leans on identity based habits, that you tend to act in the ways that you see yourself."

"Even Brené Brown herself, who's kind of like the queen of vulnerability, in this space, you know, she wrote a there's a whole section, I think, in Daring Greatly about how men are harshly judged."

"It's called Thursday because they only let you message and match on Thursdays. And then it's shut off."

"It's a turquoise silicon ring that you can wear that signals that you are single. So instead of like a wedding band, it's the opposite."

"In their defense, I do think improv comedy and it's a great skill, don't get me wrong. There's a lot of great social and verbal skills that come with it."

"The old advice around that back in the day was comedy classes and improv classes."

"we were looking at our Google Analytics of the website and there was all of this traffic from OkCupid and thousands and thousands of people coming from OkCupid and we were like that's so weird"

"my friend Derek Sivers wrote a small blog post about an idea he called hell yeah or no. And he wrote it in the context of business, right? So, it's like if you have an investment opportunity or a work opportunity"

"Darwin really broached this subject in his 1871 book The Descent of Man. It's not the Origin of Species, this one came later"

"So in the Origin of Species, Darwin posited his theory of natural selection which is basically survival of the fittest"

"we enter flow when the challenge is just right above our current skill level"

"You can go get IVs with NAD+ and all sorts of peptides and shit to make yourself a better person."

"Lose 20 pounds, listen to Andrew Huberman twice, never drink again, live happily ever after."

"He drinks a bunch of it, listening to his new Marilyn Manson album, has a near spiritual experience"

"You can macro dose your creatine and micro dose your ashwagandha and wake up and stare at the sun at 5:30 in the morning."

"You can macro dose your creatine and micro dose your ashwagandha and wake up and stare at the sun at 5:30 in the morning."

"He spent his free time compulsively playing Candy Crush on his iPad for hours and hours, every single day. At one point, he bragged to the reporter that he had one of the highest scores in the world."

"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"

"Get off YouTube. That's right. Turn it off. I'm waiting."

"playing a little bit too much Counter Strike. Go to bed."

"there was a huge book for women called The Rules. And I think first of all I think rules are stupid because they don't account for just the individuality of each person that you meet"

"There used to be a thing called Mystery Method. It was like the main pickup artist framework for like eight years"

"ChatGPT kind of sucks as a therapist or coach. It constantly validates you. It doesn't challenge you. It makes up crazy facts about you."

"They have Nano Banana Pro for images and Cling 3.0 for video."

"They have Nano Banana Pro for images and Cling 3.0 for video."