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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

How to go from Boring to Extraordinary (ft. Codie Sanchez)

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In an era where “quiet quitting” and “self-care” obsessions seem to be all the rage, there’s a huge opportunity to set yourself apart from everyone else—and it’s not as hard as you might think.

Codie Sanchez set herself apart by buying “boring businesses” and turning her venture into a multi-million dollar enterprise.

But for Codie, it’s about so much more than the money. Her simple mantra is, “question everything”, and it has given her a unique perspective on life, relationships, and happiness, which we explore here in this week’s pod.

This was a fun interview, check it out.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In 1935, the acclaimed historian Will Durant and his wife Ariel set about one of the most auspicious undertakings in the history of, well, history.

0:09.6

They set out to write a series of books telling the complete story of human civilization from ancient Egypt all the way up to modern Europe.

0:18.0

The project would take them 40 years and in the end there are 11 volume series with span over 13,000 pages.

0:25.0

Now, towards the end of this project, the couple wrote a similar yet much smaller book.

0:29.0

The 100-page book was called The Lessons of History History and it chronicled the most interesting

0:33.7

patterns and takeaways that they had learned from spending their entire lives

0:37.2

studying the span of human civilization. Now that book is a treasure trove of

0:41.8

insights into humanity and the natural tendencies of human societies.

0:45.6

And one of those takeaways has stuck with me my entire life.

0:49.2

The Durant said something like this.

0:51.2

As technology advances, it promises greater equality but always

0:54.7

creates greater inequality and this is because it disproportionately rewards people of higher skill and

1:00.5

effort. Basically, the highest performers leverage the benefits of new technology

1:04.5

before everyone else, gaining most of the benefits. This has been true throughout the millennia

1:09.6

on every continent and every culture from the invention of the wheel all the way to the microprocessor.

1:15.1

Today we live in another age of insane technological advancement and as always the highly skilled

1:21.2

and most driven are being disproportionately rewarded.

1:24.0

But on top of everything else, I'd argue we also live in an age of lowered expectations.

1:30.0

Between quiet quitting, the burnout epidemic, work life balance, the record low employment

1:34.4

participation, great inflation in schools, and the lack of standardized testing, the trend

1:38.7

throughout society and pop culture is to work less, try less, push yourself less, and go ahead take that mental health day, blow a bunch of money at the spa. I mean it's self-care, right?

1:49.0

Ugh, go on, you deserve it.

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