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SOLVED with Mark Manson

Solved, Highlights: How to Find Your Values

SOLVED with Mark Manson

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever felt stuck, or like you’re doing all the right things but something still feels off, there’s a good chance it’s a values problem. Not a discipline problem, not a productivity problem. A values problem. Most people have never actually sat down and figured out what they care about. Not really anyway. This clip is from our episode How to Find and Live By Your Values, which came out back in May 2025 and is honestly one of the episodes I’m most proud of. Drew and I go through a bunch of exercises to help you actually figure out what you value, not what you think you’re supposed to value.  We cover things like: How to identify your core values with a simple hypothetical scenario. How to clearly define what you want your legacy to be Ways to prioritize your values by making tough decisions. How to turn frustrations into your deepest values. Why the hierarchy of your values is more critical than any single one of them. And why your willingness to sacrifice for something says a lot more about you than just what you think you want in life. • Listen to the full Values episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pdYVl60TqKLNAwKgFdk0C?si=0aa34991b49f4fcc • Get your FREE five-day mini course: https://www.solvedpodcast.com/values-mini-course • Get clarity on what actually matters. Try Purpose, Mark's AI mentor app that learns your patterns, challenges your blind spots, and helps you take action. Get 7 days free at ⁠⁠purpose.app/solved⁠ Follow Mark Mark’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/markmanson Solved IG: https://www.instagram.com/solvedpodcast/ Twitter: https://x.com/markmanson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmanson/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IAmMarkManson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, Mark here. If you've ever felt stuck or like you're doing all the right things,

0:04.4

but something still feels off, there's a good chance it's a values problem. Not a discipline

0:08.7

problem and not a productivity problem, but a values problem. Most people have never sat down

0:13.5

and figured out what they actually give a fuck about. This clip is from our episode, How to Find

0:18.5

and Live By Your Values, which came out way back in May of

0:21.7

2025 and is honestly one of the episodes that I am most proud of. Drew and I go through a bunch

0:26.8

of exercises to help you actually figure out what you value, not what you think you're supposed

0:31.8

to value. We cover things like how to identify your core values with a simple hypothetical

0:36.7

scenario. How to clearly define what you want your legacy to be, ways to identify your core values with a simple hypothetical scenario? How to clearly define what you want your legacy to be.

0:40.3

Ways to prioritize your values by making tough decisions.

0:43.3

How to turn frustrations into your deepest values.

0:46.3

Why the hierarchy of your values is more critical than any single one of them.

0:50.3

And why your willingness to sacrifice for something

0:52.3

says a lot more about you than just

0:54.8

what you think you want in life. If you want the full episode, it's in your feed. And if you want to

1:00.3

take this further, I built a free five-day values mini course. Over five days, you'll learn what

1:04.7

values actually are, how they shape every decision you make, how they change over time, and how to

1:09.5

figure out whether yours are serving you or holding you back. It's free, it's change over time, and how to figure out whether yours are serving

1:11.0

you or holding you back. It's free. It's only five days, and it might be one of the most

1:15.7

useful things that you do this month. So go to solvepodcast.com slash values slash mini dash course

1:21.8

or grab the link in the show notes. We're going to start with something called the Desert

1:25.0

Island visualization. One of the things that I find is really clarifying for people is that a lot of people,

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