3198: [Part 2] Why You Should Care About Many Things by Mark Manson on Personal Growth

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3198: Mark Manson delivers compelling insights on the risks of over-identifying with one aspect of our lives, whether it be career, relationships, or hobbies. Drawing from personal anecdotes and tragic tales of famed individuals, he argues for the importance of cultivating a diversified identity to enhance emotional resilience and overall life satisfaction. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://markmanson.net/why-you-should-care-about-many-things Quotes to ponder: "Once you begin valuing yourself only for one aspect of your identity, your self-worth becomes dangerously fragile." "If you invest all of your identity in one basket, then you put your self-esteem and emotional well-being at risk." "What do you really care about? Invest yourself in a wide range of areas." Episode references: Blow: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221027/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 3198.
0:04.0	Why You Should Care About Many Things Part 2
0:07.2	by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net
0:09.8	and I'm Justin Molick.
0:11.6	Welcome to the old podcast, The OLD Podcast Optimal Living Daily, where I read to you like a big
0:17.8	ongoing audio book but from many different authors.
0:21.3	And today is a continuation from yesterday. So I'd recommend listening to
0:24.3	yesterday's episode first. But if you're all caught up, let's get right to part two and continue
0:29.9	optimizing your life. Why you should care about many things, part two, by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.
0:41.0	dot net. Some of us experienced emotional traumas early on and therefore many of us get fixated on certain aspects of our identity more than others. Social pressures can also force us into over identifying
0:55.8	with a certain aspect of our identity, which then drowns out other areas of our lives.
1:01.7	For instance, the movie Blow is a true story about drug smuggler
1:06.1	George Young. Young grew up in a poor family with a father who had trouble paying
1:11.1	the bills. As a result, Young grew up identifying disproportionately
1:16.4	with earning money and being rich and doing it in whatever way he could. Once he began smuggling drugs, the social pressures of those around
1:26.0	him, the drug cartels and the lifestyle he lived, continued to reinforce his choice to receive
1:32.3	validation from money and wealth.
1:35.0	Even if you haven't seen the movie, it's fairly obvious that eventually his life unraveled
1:40.4	along with all of the relationships which mattered to him.
1:45.0	In my own life, I over-identified with my s-life and the validation I received from women.
1:51.7	This led to me becoming depressed and living on a couch with no job. Later on, when
1:57.1	I was building my business and often working 14 to 16 hour days, simply to make a rent payment, a simple refund request or two to three days with no new
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