Moment 92 - How To Find Out EXACTLY What You Want To Do In Life: Mark Manson
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I was watching your conversation with Tom Billion. I found it really, really interesting |
| 0:09.7 | and important because one of the things you talk about when we're talking about deciding |
| 0:14.4 | what you want to do with your life, whether it's a business or you want to be a pick-up |
| 0:16.6 | artist or whatever it is, is the importance of asking the question, why? And in the society |
| 0:21.2 | and culture we live in, especially one that's so driven by comparison, where your values |
| 0:24.9 | are almost being handed to you by Instagram and the Kardashians. This is how, this is what |
| 0:29.0 | you should value. I almost felt, I remember one day a kid came up to me after I did this |
| 0:34.0 | big talk on stage and he said, I want to be a public speaker. And he was like 17. And |
| 0:39.6 | you're thinking, but you've got nothing like, yeah, what are you, the talking about? |
| 0:44.3 | And really what he's saying is, he doesn't want to be a public speaker. He wants the admiration. |
| 0:48.9 | He thinks public speakers get probably because he's insecure. And so many kids, including |
| 0:55.9 | myself as a young kid, we don't actually know what we want. We have no fucking clue. |
| 1:01.0 | But what we probably want is not to be insecure and get laid. Like at the heart of it. |
| 1:04.4 | And the pursuit of that, as you've described, takes us down a dark alley to the wrong place, |
| 1:09.2 | usually a dead end as well. So how do I figure out what I actually want in my life without |
| 1:14.9 | it being Kardashian noise or Instagram? Like what does, what do I want? And how do I find |
| 1:19.3 | out? I think so it's a tricky thing, right? Because again, I think you could, you know, |
| 1:25.8 | you kind of have to get it wrong. It's like the relationships. You need to get a couple |
| 1:29.6 | wrong before you know how to get it right. And I think it's the same in pursuing a career |
| 1:34.6 | or finding a purpose in life. Like you need to get it wrong a couple times because |
| 1:40.3 | we're experts at tricking ourselves. You know, it's like that kid, he wants admiration, right? |
| 1:47.4 | But if you ask them in his head, he's like, no, no, I'm just really passionate about |
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