959: Being Special Isn't So Special by Mark Manson

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

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🗓️ 27 July 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Mark Manson shares why being special isn't so special. Episode 959: Being Special Isn't So Special by Mark Manson (Dealing with Mental Illness Status Anxiety Disorder & Narcissism). 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/being-special 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 959, being special isn't so special,
0:06.3	by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:10.3	Happy Friday if you're listening in real time and welcome back or welcome for the first time
0:14.3	if you're new here. This is where I simply narrate blogs for you, usually sometimes books,
0:19.0	all with permission from the websites. Today's author being Mark Manson, the author of the
0:23.6	popular book, The Settle Art of Not Giving A F. It sounds like it right to the post,
0:28.7	as we optimize your life.
0:34.7	Being special isn't so special, by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net.
0:40.7	There's a paradox that is stumping psychologists right now and it's this. Over the past 50 years,
0:46.4	despite the standard of living rising dramatically in the Western world,
0:50.2	happiness has stayed level while mental illnesses, anxiety disorders, narcissism and depression
0:56.8	have all gone up. When you study marketing, the first thing you learn is that fear sells.
1:03.2	If you make a person feel inadequate or inferior, they will shut up and buy something in order to
1:08.4	feel better. A capitalist system markets to everyone constantly, therefore it promotes a society where
1:14.2	people constantly feel inadequate and inferior. It's funny, a lot of people who travel to the third
1:19.6	world claim that people are happier there. They often follow it up with some banal statement about
1:24.4	materialism and how we'd all be so much happier if we knew how to live with less.
1:29.3	This is completely wrong. Poor people and developing societies aren't happier,
1:34.4	they're simply less anxious and less stressed. People in developing world don't care how many
1:39.7	friends you have or if you bought the latest DVD box set or not. They're much more family and
1:45.2	community oriented. They're also more socially accepting and less socially anxious,
1:50.1	simply because they have to be. It's how they survive. When you take hyper individualistic
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