The Secret to Success Is... Giving Up?

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A lot of people treat goals like some kind of sacred self-improvement law, where the most important thing you can do is set and achieve your goals.

But goals are simply tools we use to point us in the right direction. Your goals should serve you—and so you shouldn’t be a slave to some arbitrary goal you set when it’s no longer serving you. So how do you know when a goal is no longer pushing you in the right direction?

In this episode, I talk about why I gave up a pretty big goal I set at the beginning of the year. I discuss what I think are the criteria you should use when deciding whether to give up on a goal or stick it out.

We also discuss what we learned from the goals survey we did for podcast viewers and listeners. How many stuck with their goals and how many have moved on? What are the most effective tactics people used to stick to their goals? What are the most important lessons they learned about their goals and themselves?

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0:00.0	The podcast that's saving the world one fewer fuck at a time.
0:06.0	It's the subtle art of not giving a fuck podcast with your host Mark Manson.
0:12.0	So as... your host Mark Manson.
0:14.0	So as listeners and viewers probably,
0:16.9	remember, we started the year,
0:18.6	you and I talked about our goals for the year,
0:20.7	and then we asked the podcast audience to submit their goals for the year and we promised
0:26.0	that halfway through the year we were going to follow up ourselves and follow up with the audience
0:30.4	to determine how disciplined is the Mark Manson audience or how bad are we
0:35.3	fucking up and so this is what we're here to discover today we've sent out the
0:39.7	survey we've heard from the audience Drew and I have our goals. We know how far we've gotten with our goals or haven't gotten with our goals.
0:46.4	And so today's podcast episode is it's a return to goals and a discussion of when does it make sense to give up a goal
0:54.8	because there are many circumstances that it makes sense to give up a goal and
0:58.0	when you should just shut the fuck up and grit through it and we're going to try to
1:01.5	figure that out today so I don't know where
1:03.4	should we start let's start with our goals okay and then we can move on to
1:06.4	responses that we got from everybody we got some good responses we got a
1:09.2	lot of a big response from from the audience so let's start with ours then we'll get into that okay should
1:14.2	i go first let's let's hear yours what happened with the
1:16.8	marathon mark let's start with the failure
1:18.0	let's kick this off can make me look a lot better let's kick this off with an
1:22.3	abject failure.
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