Mark Manson

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

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

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Mark Manson about making sacrifices

Mark Manson is an author and personal development consultant. His writing is a different take on the self help genre. He calls it self help from a first-person perspective.
He’s 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.

His blog is read over 2 million times a month.

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In This Interview Mark and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable
Being aware of what we think is important
Opportunity Cost
The fallacy of being able to do everything
The sacrifice inherent in doing anything great
The subtle art of not giving a F*!%
The best friend test for relationships, its not what you think
Mark's issue with The Secret
The dangers of positive thinking
How action can be the cause of motivation

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0:00.0	It's far more pleasurable to sit on the couch and eat cheetos and watch Baywatch reruns,
0:05.5	but running a marathon brings far more happiness and fulfillment.
0:17.0	Welcome to the one-you-feed.
0:19.0	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, quotes
0:23.7	like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true, and yet for many of us,
0:30.5	our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:33.4	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:38.1	We see what we don't have instead of what we do, we think things that hold us back and
0:42.7	dampen our spirit.
0:44.5	But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter.
0:47.9	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:52.8	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:57.1	how they feed their good wolf.
1:10.8	In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife, and the club's DJ would go on to make history.
1:17.5	Frankie made sure that you felt it in your soul.
1:20.8	Learn more about the rise of house music on the history of the world's greatest nightclubs,
1:26.1	a 12-part podcast about the iconic venues and people that revolutionized How We Party.
1:32.5	Listen to the history of the world's greatest nightclubs on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
1:37.5	or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:41.5	Thanks for joining us.
1:42.5	Our guest on this episode is Mark Manson, author and personal development consultant.
1:48.5	His writing is a different take on the self-help genre.
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