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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

310: How to Give Advice Without Being a Condescending Ahole by Mark Manson

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Mark Manson was a full-time professional dating coach for men from 2008 until 2011. In 2011, sick of the industry, he wrote his first book, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, and changed the name and focus of his business to address broader self-development topics for men. The book took off, selling tens of thousands of copies. As he branched out into deeper issues of masculinity, self-worth, and the changing cultural landscape, the site grew. By 2013, he had begun writing about larger cultural issues — gender relations, happiness, ambition, life purpose, and cultural perspectives he had gathered while living in various countries around the world. Despite the fact that the business was still directed at men, thousands of women began reading and asking for advice as well. That same year, he made the leap to his own site and domain, broadening the demographics of his audience. The site exploded, garnering millions of views each month. Episode 310: How to Give Advice Without Being a Condescending Ahole by Mark Manson (Being Helpful & Compassionate). The original post is located here: https://markmanson.net/how-to-give-advice Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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ready to wind down and relax.

0:32.9

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 310, how to give advice without being a condescending

0:37.6

at full by Mark Manson of Markmanson.net and I'm Justin Mollick.

0:41.9

Welcome back to OLD where I read to you from some of the best personal development blogs

0:45.5

I can find with author permission of course.

0:48.6

And this episode hasn't been officially sponsored, but I did find out recently that there's

0:52.9

an amazing course on simplicity being offered by some of the best bloggers out there.

0:57.2

This has all teamed up to bring you a year-long course, but I'll tell you more about that

1:00.8

at the end of the episode so for now, let's hear today's post and start optimizing your

1:05.3

life.

1:10.2

How to give advice without being a condescending at full by Mark Manson of Markmanson.net

1:15.5

In the internet age, everyone in their dog is an expert on something.

1:19.4

The beauty and the curse of the internet is that everyone has an opinion and is going

1:22.7

to share it.

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