Negative emotions generally have some sort of benefit.

Anxiety is an incredible motivator.

It can also be a great way to get you to make decisions or crystallize what you want in your life.

It's very hard because our natural instinct is to always avoid unpleasant feelings or avoid negative emotions.

But, you know, kind of the practice I come back to over and over in my creative life is just, it's how can I use whatever I'm going through at this moment, how can I use it? Hello, friends out there on the internet. Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis live show. It's Chase and I am here with a very exciting guest. Now, the guest, he is a very well-known author, number one, New York Times bestseller.

And he's got a curse word in his book. So if there are little people around, give him some earmuffs

real quick, Mark is the author of that book you've heard of or probably have read yourself

called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Now, it's not what it sounds like. The irony is that

Mark cares a lot, which is one of the reasons if you're right now saying,

wait a minute, haven't you had Mark on the show before?

Indeed, this is a replay.

We had this show aired early on in the pandemic.

So you will hear that in today's show.

But I was re-listening to this show about four or six weeks ago,

and I was like, wait a minute, there's so much stuff that is, it's sort of, it is maybe even

more relevant now than it was when we originally aired it. So I was inspired by the show. I wanted

to re-air it so that you could get the value that I feel like I got from it.

And if you're not familiar with Mark's work beyond the book, the subtle art, he is a

brilliant writer.

He writes about life and what he calls life advice that is science-based, pragmatic, and non-bullshitty,

a.k.a. life advice that does not suck.

Again, it turns out that Mark is a really sophisticated thinker, and he's very clearly

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