Self-Help Junkies, Stupid Experts, and the Worst Life Advice I've Ever Heard

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Are you addicted to self-improvement? Are experts really any better than the rest of us at knowing how to make positive changes in our lives? What are some common pieces of life advice that just don't seem to work?

Drew and I tackle all of these questions today in our brand new, updated format for the pod. Find out why self-help can turn into pseudo-religion (and why we should bring back exorcisms), whether or not a huge mega-study by a bunch of fancy experts can tell us anything about behavioral change, and some common self-improvement tropes that just don't do it for us.

Here's the study we discuss: Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science

Let us know what you think of the new show format in the comments below.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back everybody to the subtle art of not giving it a fuck podcast. I'm your host Mark
0:04.4	Manson. I'm here with Drew Bernie. This is a special episode because we are doing a little bit of a refresh of the
0:11.1	show. We're about 10 months in, not quite a year in. We've tried a bunch of things,
0:15.3	we've had a bunch of different conversations, Drew and I have done episodes together,
0:18.8	we've had a bunch of different types of guests. Some have gone well, some have not gone so well, some have been
0:25.9	huge audience favorites, some have not been audience favorites. It's been very educating and
0:31.0	interesting like what has resonated with people and what hasn't.
0:34.4	We've decided to, as any good creative does, double down on what's working and forget what's not.
0:41.9	And so we're introducing a little bit more of a consistent
0:45.2	talk show format every week Drew and I are going to go through three different
0:49.6	segments first one is what we're giving a fuck about, what we're worrying about, anything
0:54.4	that's going on in the world that is causing us to stress or lose a little bit of sleep.
0:59.3	The second segment is brilliant or bullshit where we will talk about studies, trends,
1:04.4	interventions, practices, things going viral online
1:08.2	and talk about whether it's brilliant or whether it's bullshit.
1:11.9	And then finally we will be answering audience questions.
1:15.6	We will not always have guests,
1:17.9	we will occasionally have guests,
1:19.3	and when we have guests, we're not gonna interview them
1:22.2	because we don't give a fuck. We're going to make them do the format
1:25.2	with us. We're going to make them share what they give too many fucks about. We're going to make them tell
1:30.5	us if they think it's brilliant or bullshit and we're going to have them help us answer your question.
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