Mark Manson on Important Lessons in Life

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Stressed by Holiday Expectations?

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In this free live event, Eric will teach a Spiritual Habit that will allow you to release these types of stress and touch into a deeper feeling of wholeness, peace, steadiness, and presence. Register Now!

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Mark Manson is an author and personal development consultant. His writing is a different take on the self-help genre that he calls self-help from a first-person perspective. Mark has been published and quoted on CNN, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Yahoo! News, The Sydney Morning Herald, and a variety of other publications. He is also the CEO and Founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC.

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Mark Manson and I Discuss Important Lessons in Life and …

Opportunity costs and being aware of the sacrifices
His most popular article, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*&
The misconception of confidence
The friendship test in romantic relationships
How he applies logic in his writing
Positive thinking and his issue with “The Secret”
How inspiration often comes from taking action
His “Do Something” principle
Mistaking happiness for pleasure
How true happiness comes from the meaning of our experiences
Our need to always be challenged in life
How our pursuits change as we get older
His article on Ken Wilbur, an American philosopher

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0:00.0	Oh boy, it's holiday time again. You know how that brings up all sorts of negative feelings for me.
0:06.2	Well, you're not alone in that. Lots of people have negative feelings around the holiday,
0:10.8	which is why we are doing a one-you-feed community event that we are
0:14.7	titling stressed by holiday expectations, how to feel peace instead this season.
0:20.4	Everybody is burdened by expectations during the holidays, whether that's other people's
0:24.8	expectations of you or your expectations of the holidays, it's a struggle for all of us. So we
0:30.4	are going to get together as a community and I'm going to teach a spiritual habit that will
0:34.7	allow you to release these types of expectations and touch into a deeper feeling of
0:39.2	wholeness, peace, steadiness, and presence. Ground yourself through a dose of genuine
0:44.3	nourishing connection with others in this wonderfully supportive community. Go to one-you-feed.net-slash-holiday
0:51.5	to sign up for this free community event. That's one-you-feed.net-slash-holiday.
0:56.8	In case you're just recently joining us or however long you've been a listener of the show,
1:01.6	you may not realize that we have over seven years of incredible episodes in our archive.
1:06.9	We've had so many wonderful guests that we've decided to hand pick one of our favorites that
1:11.7	may be new to you, but if not, it definitely is worth another lesson. We hope you'll enjoy this
1:17.4	episode with Mark Manson. It's far more pleasurable to sit on the couch and eat cheetos and watch
1:24.0	Baywatch reruns, but running a marathon brings far more happiness and fulfillment.
1:36.4	Welcome to the one-you-feed. Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of
1:41.6	the thoughts we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true,
1:48.6	and yet for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. We tend toward negativity,
1:54.6	self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have instead of what we do. We think things that
2:01.3	hold us back and dampen our spirit. But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes
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