435 - Mark Manson: How to Stop Caring About Things That Don’t Matter

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Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Best-selling writer Mark Manson has a fresh, irreverent perspective to share in the conversation about what brings true happiness and fulfillment in life. No matter how great your life is, you’re always going to encounter pain and struggle—the question is, how are you going to react to it?

The key to living a good life isn't getting rid of struggle, it's finding good struggles.

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0:00.0	Stress got you spinning. Look, I get it. With everything going on in the world, plus all the daily
0:07.4	demands of living, it can feel overwhelming, which is why I want to share with you a free five-minute
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0:22.4	This is a powerful little ritual that'll melt away your toxic stress fast.
0:28.0	So go to marie loves you.com slash stress log and get it now.
0:35.6	Mark Manson is a New York Times bestselling author, blogger, and entrepreneur. Mark is known for his
0:42.3	unique brand of life advice, or as he puts it, personal development that doesn't suck. His writing
0:48.0	has been featured on Forbes, Time, and CNN, among others, and his website, markmanson.net,
0:56.4	boasts over 2 million readers a month.
1:02.4	His bestselling book is called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, a Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, where he talks about how the key to living a better life isn't
1:07.4	caring about more, but rather focusing on less.
1:13.6	Mark, thank you so much for being on the show. Thanks for having me.
1:14.6	So I'm really curious. I want you to take me back to the blog post that inspired all of this
1:20.6	goodness.
1:22.6	Yeah.
1:23.6	What inspired you to write the original blog post that inspired the book?
1:26.6	I had the idea for the title for years.
1:30.3	And the way I work with my articles is I don't plan them.
1:35.3	I just kind of, I brainstorm a bunch of different ideas.
1:38.3	And then when it comes time to write something, I just look at it and pick whatever feels good. So this title
1:46.0	sat on my little sheet for like two, three years and it's such a good title that I was like,
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