Mark Manson | Tom Talks 19

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Mark Manson is a self-help author and blogger. He joins Tom Segura to discuss his books "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck," "Models: Attract Women Through Honesty," and "Everything Is Fucked." Mark talks about his approach to writing self-help for people that don't like self-help, how he dealt with feelings of despair after the success of "Subtle Art," his beliefs about social media, and what it's like working with Will Smith, whose memoir he's currently in the process of co-authoring.

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0:00.0	Mark, let me ask you something, why are you so wise and you're fucking young?
0:08.1	This is bullshit, man.
0:11.1	What the fuck?
0:12.1	You're like a, I feel like when I read your stuff, I'm like, this guy is in his 60s.
0:16.0	He's like, what the fuck is going on with you?
0:19.2	I mean, it's crazy to me.
0:21.6	I don't understand how you accumulated all this wisdom and you're, I mean, some of this
0:24.9	stuff is like that you wrote 10 years ago.
0:28.0	Well, you know, I think wisdom is accumulated via fuck ups and I got a pretty good head start
0:35.9	on fucking up.
0:37.2	So, you know, maybe that's, maybe that's what happened.
0:41.8	It's really kind of, it blew me away.
0:44.5	Like, you know, I like a lot of people learned about you from the subtle art of not giving
0:51.2	a fuck which became a worldwide phenomenon and still does crazy numbers.
0:57.8	I'm sure that experience in and of itself is insane to you or maybe, I don't know, maybe
1:03.0	not.
1:04.0	But, but, you know, in reading that, you're like, oh, this is like, it, it really was like
1:08.8	the way you were able to communicate like almost simple things, but in a, in a way that's
1:15.3	easier to digest and you find yourself nodding along like when you typically are speaking
1:22.9	to somebody that's older than you and wider than you and giving you kind of a life lesson,
1:29.2	you know.
1:30.2	Yeah.
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