550: How to Make Your Own Luck - Part 1 by Mark Manson

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🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Mark Manson was a full-time professional dating coach for men from 2008 until 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 550: How to Make Your Own Luck - Part 1 by Mark Manson (Developing Habits & Personal Growth). The original post is located here: https://markmanson.net/how-to-make-your-own-luck 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	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 550, how to make your own luck.
0:05.0	Part 1 by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net and I'm just a malloc, your personal narrator,
0:10.1	reading to you every day just like an audiobook, free of charge if you want, and now up to 550
0:15.6	straight days.
0:17.0	Really hope it's been helpful for you.
0:18.6	Today I'm reading the first half of an article from Mark Manson.
0:21.8	It's a bit on the longer side so I'll wrap it up tomorrow for you.
0:25.4	So with that let's hear part 1 of this post as we optimize your life.
0:29.5	How to Make Your Own Luck Part 1 by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net
0:38.8	We've all had the feeling at some point in our lives where it seems other people catch
0:42.1	all the lucky breaks while we seem to be screwing everything up.
0:45.6	It's a common perceptual bias.
0:48.2	In other people we focus on the successful result, not the toil and struggle they endure
0:52.4	to reach it or the missed opportunities and gross experiences they suffered through.
0:57.6	While in ourselves, all we're aware of is the toil and struggle we endure and not
1:02.0	the success that is readily apparent to others.
1:04.0	It's a kind of blind man's bluff that we're all doomed to continue playing throughout
1:08.4	our lives.
1:09.8	The concept of luck stems from this perceptual bias, the belief that some people's existence
1:14.8	defies mathematical probability, that because they have it and we don't, they're violating
1:19.5	the universe's probabilities.
1:22.0	The truth is, across the spectrum of a lifetime, we all receive both opportunity and injustice
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