#961 - Mark Manson - 19 Raw Lessons To Not Mess Up Your Life

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Mark Manson is a writer, entrepreneur, and a New York Times best-selling author. Mark is one of my favorite thinkers. His blog, books, and X account are packed with timeless lessons I come back to again and again. Today, we get to go through some of his best lessons on life, love, and everything that makes us human. Expect to learn how to actually stand up for yourself, what the real process of personal growth looks like, what it takes to actually cultivate confidence, why it’s impossible for someone who destroys your mental health to be the love of your life, why feeling like you have no idea what you’re doing is the price of entry to achieving your dreams, why you should learn to trust people more, and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get up to $350 off the Pod 5 at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular Flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom Timestamps: (00:00) People Would Need Less Therapy If They Set Better Boundaries (11:29) The More You Cultivate Yourself, The More You Have To Give (18:13) Personal Growth Is Learning To Lie To Ourselves Less (30:05) Confidence & Fear Both Require Something That Hasn't Happened Yet (40:07) It's Better To Be Loved For Who You Are Than Who You Pretend To Be (51:01) It's Hard To Love Someone Who Breaks Your Mental Health (58:46) Having No Idea Of What You're Doing Is The Price Of Receiving Your Dream (1:13:24) Emotion Is The Most Important Productivity System (1:27:33) The Happiest People Don't Question Their Choices (1:39:41) Trust People. Distrusting Everyone Is A Lot Worse (1:46:52) He Who Has The Smallest Ego Wins (2:00:49) People Adopt Values For What They Get Validated For (2:10:56) Find Out More About Mark Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	what you're laughing at mom your business idea it was just incredible thank you i'm still thinking
0:10.1	about it it's i'm unable to speak about my million billion dollar idea yeah yes is that because
0:16.5	you don't want anybody to steal it or because you would never be allowed to speak again. It's a combination of both.
0:21.9	Okay.
0:22.2	But look.
0:24.3	The world will wait.
0:25.4	The world is going to have to wait.
0:26.7	But when it happens, it's going to know about it.
0:28.4	And Andrew Hume is as well.
0:29.6	Yes.
0:30.7	For sure.
0:31.3	All right.
0:33.1	Controversial opinion.
0:34.2	Okay.
0:35.2	People would need less therapy if they tolerated fewer assholes.
0:40.0	Yeah, I think...
0:44.3	So I hear problems from a lot of people.
0:48.5	I get a lot of emails, and I have for almost 20 years now.
0:52.5	And it's amazing to me how often people will email me or
1:00.1	message me about some issue that's going on in their life. And really, it just comes down to,
1:03.8	like, somebody in your life is a dick. And yet, instead of just being like, you know what,
1:09.7	I'm not going to hang out with a dick anymore,
	...

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