Mark Manson

"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."

"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."

"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"

"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."

"Write the worst case scenario down. This is often called negative visualization. Think about what can go wrong."

"You just get a good night's rest and maybe clarify some of your thoughts and writing a journal that day."

"The domino mindset is realizing that most of your life is not changed by huge dramatic overhauls. It's changed by one small habit or behavioral change that quietly knocks over everything else."

"the best thing you can do is therapy. Honestly, it's it's if anything just because it is going to allow you to work that muscle of talking about yourself"

"Emotional maturity is actually what you're left with when things screw up. Do they try to understand you? Do you try to understand them? Are you communicative? Are you forgiving?"

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