Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason

de Philipo. Our feelings control us. The thinking brain and the feeling brain, seemingly forever

at odds with one another. Rationality used to be the highest of human virtues. Now it

seems, the pendulum is swung perhaps too far in the other direction. Many of us seem

to be convinced that our feelings are all that matter. This thought trap lodges us firmly

into a quagmire where we get stuck in one identity, unable to see past our own values and impulses.

The problem is that we puny humans actually need that conflict of values to derive meaning.

I know it might be too early for all this philosophical BS, I get it. So let me rephrase

this. We're all starting to become way too friggin soft and we're running headlong into

a crisis of meaning because of that. In this episode, my friend and one of the best selling

authors of the decade in order of importance, Mark Manson joins me to discuss the research

behind this phenomenon and as always, what we can do about it to correct course. Despite

the subject matter or perhaps because of it, this is a fun conversation with a good friend

of mine and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. If you want to know how I managed to

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to do that for free. No upsell, change in life stuff. This is what it is. The biggest thing

that's ever changed my life, these networking skills go grab the course, Jordan Harbinger.com

slash courses where that's at. In the meantime, here's Mark Manson. One thing that's great

is you're good at writing like people think like that in dialogue. Is that something

you do that on purpose, obviously? Yeah. I try to write the way I think, you know,

in the way I talk, which is kind of like just a dude in the bar. So I think people resonate

with that. That's very like writer guy with a typewriter of you.

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