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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

806: How Do You Measure Your Life - Part 1 by Mark Manson

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

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

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Mark Manson shares a better way to measure your life. This is Part 1 of 2. Episode 806: How Do You Measure Your Life - Part 1 by Mark Manson (Measuring Success and Happiness & Meaning). 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. Check out his book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F--- on his site or Amazon. The original post is located here: https://markmanson.net/measure-your-life Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 806.

0:03.3

How do you measure your life?

0:04.8

Part 1 by Mark Manson of MarkManson.net.

0:08.1

And I'm Justin Malik, a very own personal narrator.

0:10.6

Welcome to Optimal Living Daily, OLD for short.

0:13.6

Old for shorter, where I narrate the best blogs I can get permission from.

0:17.2

Covering personal development, minimalism, productivity, all that kind of stuff.

0:22.0

So today's post comes from Mark Manson, the author of a super popular,

0:26.0

pretty new book called The Settle Art of Not Giving a F.

0:30.2

I saw it in the Dallas Airport, and then Joss from Optimal Relationships Daily found it in Amsterdam,

0:35.8

so he's all over the place.

0:37.7

But it's been a while since I've narrated his stuff, so I'm excited to bring more to you.

0:41.7

This one's a bit longer than usual, so I'll read the first half today and the rest tomorrow.

0:46.5

So with that, let's get right to part 1 and start optimizing your life.

0:50.8

How do you measure your life?

0:56.4

Part 1 by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net.

1:00.7

In the early 1980s, a talented young guitarist was kicked out of his band.

1:05.7

The band had just been signed for their first record contract, and they were preparing

1:09.4

to record their first album.

1:11.0

A week before recording began, they fired at the guitarist.

1:15.2

There was no warning, no discussion.

1:17.6

The guitarist woke up one day and he was handed a bus ticket home.

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