Mark Manson || Podcast Improv Jam
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome three-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Manson. Before becoming an author, he was a blogger. His blog started in 2007 and within a few years it was being read by more than a million people each month. Today, his site is read by more than 15 million people each year. Mark’s books have sold over 14 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 65 languages. According to Amazon Charts, his book The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck was the most-read non-fiction book worldwide in 2017.
For this episode, we did something a little different. Mark Manson and I had an unstructured chat about issues that we both care deeply about. We tackled all sorts of questions like: What makes social media so polarizing? Why are self-help quotes so cheesy? Are all pick-up artists narcissists? Does free will exist? We hope you enjoy the conversation about relationships, politics, self-esteem, and neurodiversity as much as we did.
Website: markmanson.net
Twitter: @IAmMarkManson
Topics
02:03 Mark and Scott as adolescents
04:30 Online discourse in a hyper-connected world
11:36 Troll behavior and non-verbal cues
17:18 Extreme curiosity and criticism of politics
25:00 Mark hates Tiny Buddha?
29:59 The self-help industry
33:24 Neurodiversity and empathy
39:30 Are all traits double-edged swords?
46:26 Co-dependency of grandiose and vulnerable narcissists
54:48 Scott’s unique value proposition
57:08 The bachelor life vs the married life
1:04:22 Co-writing Will Smith’s biography
1:08:53 Free will, law and punishment
1:12:53 Overrated or underrated: meditation
1:15:49 Overrated or underrated: twin studies
1:18:31 Overrated or underrated: self-esteem
1:21:22 Overrated or underrated: social media
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| 0:00.0 | I think I've really evolved to a place now where my understanding of what self-help actually is, |
| 0:06.1 | or what a good life actually is, is it's not becoming whoever you want to be. |
| 0:15.2 | Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. Today I'm really excited to introduce you to this |
| 0:20.3 | podcast in Prove Jam. This is an idea that Mark Manson and I had at a party a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:27.9 | We're like, you know what? We should just sit down and have a chat and whatever comes up comes up. |
| 0:33.0 | We have so many mutual interests so we'd assume that a lot of interesting things would come up. |
| 0:37.5 | And a lot of interesting things did. In this episode I talked to best-selling author and badass self-help |
| 0:43.9 | guru Mark Manson about things such as what makes social media so polarizing. Why are self-help |
| 0:50.2 | quote so cheesy? Are all pickup artists narcissists? And does free will exist? We also cover topics |
| 0:56.5 | such as relationships, politics, self-esteem, and neurodiversity. This was a really broad and rich |
| 1:03.2 | chat with mother fucker Mark Manson who uses the word fuck in almost all of his books. So anyway, |
| 1:09.7 | I really hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did. We had a blast. So let's get right into it. |
| 1:19.2 | How are you, man? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I got this new shirt just for this |
| 1:24.9 | occasion. Oh shit. I'm putting the top one. Hope that people can handle this. Oh my god. We're |
| 1:32.7 | getting serious. We sure are. We sure are. Let me give some context to people. This is an |
| 1:39.5 | unplanned, unscripted, well I mean it was planned but it's unscripted chat about whatever comes up |
| 1:47.6 | even though I made a little bit of a list of some topics. I put together some items too. |
| 1:53.0 | We should add that the only rule is that we're not allowed to talk about either of our books. |
| 1:58.6 | That's right. That's right. Yeah. Thank you for thank you for writing that clarification. |
| 2:02.8 | So Mark, actually I was wondering what were you like as a child? When I was particularly young, |
| 2:08.0 | I was pretty happy to go lucky and then my family life started to go south. I think around |
| 2:15.7 | age 9 or 10 and then I became quite rebellious and a little bit of a shithead starting around then. |
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