Mark Manson: Money, Dating, & The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Episode 489: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks with 3x #1 NYTimes Bestselling Author Mark Manson (https://twitter.com/IAmMarkManson) about the pitfalls of relying on pickup lines and cheesy routines, and the importance of embracing authenticity and natural approaches. He also delves into his approach to YouTube — turning the Mr.Beast model on it’s head and creating Youtube challenges that are story driven in a world of quick dopamine hits. Join us as we dive deep into Mark's story, exploring the impact of self-help content and the future of media and entertainment Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter - https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ — Show Notes: 0:00) Intro (2:00) Did you show signs as a kid (3:10) Why didn’t you become a professional poker player? (5:15) How The Game changed Mark’s life (12:45) Mark’s realization about picking up women (21:45) Thoughts on Andrew Tate (25:30) How Mark learned to write (33:20) Mark’s Youtube strategy (45:30) Youtube learnings (54:20) Why Mark’s bullish on Youtube (57:20) Mark’s process for writing viral titles (1:03:20) Is blogging dead? (1:05:00) What’s Will Smith like? — Links: • Mark’s Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@iammarkmanson • The Consequences of Caring - https://tinyurl.com/38us6hjr • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	Undertate is what men with no self esteem think high self esteem looks like compact that a little bit
0:05.0	So it's funny like watching the rise of tape because he's like a copy and paste of
0:10.4	20 million plus copy sold the champion the no-fuck champion official title
0:15.5	I think mark ranson welcome
0:17.0	Thank you to the pot when subtle art came out and it blew up and it was like at the top
0:21.2	All the bestseller list and stuff like everybody in the publishing industry were like oh you're like the new
0:25.6	Venom debuted author overnight success. I was I'm like overnight success
0:29.8	I've been grinding on a blog for 10 years like what do you mean overnight success?
0:35.2	We good at the beginning or did you stop?
0:37.6	No dude, I was a fucking disaster
0:41.7	I was a total disaster
0:44.4	You obviously become a great writer but I want to talk about what you're doing now
0:46.7	Hmm, which is the YouTube video or the YouTube channel and is that like the main thing?
0:50.0	When I saw Mr. Beast a light bulb went off
0:52.1	I was like I love Mr. Beast and like I've been watching his shit for a long time
0:55.7	But one of my frustrations with him is that it's all very
1:13.2	Intro to the camera here we got
1:16.1	Three-time New York Times bestseller I believe yeah, we have a
1:21.0	20 million plus copy sold the champion the no-fucks champion
1:26.8	official title I think
1:29.0	Mark Manson welcome
1:32.7	Been a fan for a while
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