Moment 48 - 3 Core Principles For A Better Life: Mark Manson
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
FlightStory
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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Mark Manson has sold over 13 million books, and is the genius behind ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck’ and ‘Everything is F*cked’. His advice here is so simple, yet so moving and easily applicable to our everyday lives. For Mark, becoming a better person requires these three principles.
Dealing with responsibility, making choices and managing expectations are at the core of our personal development and all interlink. If there’s no personal responsibility for our choices, nothing else is ever going to work or improve. Accepting responsibility, will allow us to move away from the danger of disempowering ourselves to progress. In turn, if we can make those better choices, and take responsibility, our expectations will naturally align.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the other things that I really loved when I was reading all of your work is this |
| 0:06.6 | undercurrent of personal responsibility that runs through everything. |
| 0:10.5 | And in our society, for whatever reason, people don't like that. |
| 0:14.6 | Some people really don't like that idea of personal responsibility that you might be |
| 0:20.1 | more so than you believe responsible for the circumstances of your life because for some |
| 0:23.6 | people, that shines, that turns the mirror on them and says, you've got no one to blame. |
| 0:28.0 | It's not the government, it's not this, that, this, your uncle, whatever. |
| 0:31.9 | It's the decisions you've made. |
| 0:33.7 | And for some people that's a motivating thing, it's liberation. |
| 0:35.9 | It's, oh, I'm in control. |
| 0:36.8 | Okay, did it? |
| 0:37.9 | But it feels like some people would rather there be a puppet master to point to. |
| 0:42.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.1 | So what's your beliefs and thoughts on personal responsibility, the importance of it? |
| 0:47.2 | And if you can as well, like why some people hate it? |
| 0:51.6 | I think to me, responsibility is kind of like the core. |
| 1:02.5 | If there's no personal responsibility, nothing else is ever going to work or improve. |
| 1:07.5 | You know, to improve anything, you have to believe you have some sort of power influence on it. |
| 1:13.3 | And if you have some sort of power influence, you're responsible for that power and influence. |
| 1:17.4 | So if you, if you just reject the idea that you're responsible for an area of your life, like if it's like, |
| 1:22.7 | I'm not responsible for my shitty relationships, it's all their fault. |
| 1:27.6 | You're basically disempowering yourself from ever improving them, because you're, |
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