807: How Do You Measure Your Life - Part 2 by Mark Manson

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

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🗓️ 25 February 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Mark Manson shares a better way to measure your life. This is Part 2 of 2. Episode 807: How Do You Measure Your Life - Part 2 by Mark Manson (Life's Purpose & Perspective). 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 807.
0:03.4	How to You Measure Your Life Part 2 by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net
0:08.6	and I'm Justin Malik.
0:09.9	Happy Sunday and welcome back or welcome for the first time if you're new here.
0:13.6	This is where I simply read to you every single day of the year including weekends and holidays.
0:18.6	Today's article is a continuation from yesterday so if you're new here,
0:22.2	I would recommend listening to yesterday's episode first but if you're all caught up,
0:26.2	let's get right to part 2 and continue optimizing your life.
0:34.1	How to You Measure Your Life Part 2 by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net
0:40.5	How will you measure your life?
0:42.8	So this raises the question, how will you measure your life?
0:46.0	Which metrics for success will you choose for yourself?
0:49.6	This is not an easy question to answer.
0:52.0	Back in my dating coach days,
0:53.9	I worked with a lot of men who had poor metrics for success in their dating lives.
0:57.9	They wanted to judge their quote-unquote success based on how many women they slapped with,
1:02.7	how attractive the women they dated were, often utilizing a 10 scale to do so,
1:07.2	how many women they could date at once, how young of a woman they could date, and so on.
1:12.0	There's no coincidence that men with these metrics of success are the same ones who struggle with
1:15.9	relationships. These metrics of success are problematic because they make harmful and unattractive
1:21.4	behaviors appear economical and rational. For instance, if one's metric for success is to date
1:27.9	someone who is rich or popular, then lying or faking one's identity may become a rational
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