We all want to get better in life, but what if trying to get better actually makes us feel worse?

The topic of today's episode is an interesting one, and it's actually brought up by you, the listeners.

We sourced questions from you all and we picked up a few

that all fell under a similar theme.

What do you do when trying to improve your life

makes you feel worse?

In the past, I've written about this concept and I call it the

self-improvement paradox and it shows up in all sorts of different situations. Our first

reader question is going to ask about situations where we feel try hard or where the harder we try to do something the worse at it we seem to get.

The next question dives into how people use goal setting as a way to maybe avoid their problems rather than actually solve their problems.

And the last question comes at me a little bit and challenges my take on self-esteem and

how I present it in the subtle art of not giving a

fuck and I hate to say it Drew but I think this reader has a point I think I

might have been wrong about something I know that's never happened before in the

history of my career, but today might be the first time.

Reminder to you all, if you want to submit questions, go to Mark Manson.net

slash questions, send in an audio or short video of your question and if

it's good enough if Drew deems it worthy of my attention we might just answer it on a

podcast so let's get into it.

Wait, are you allowed to say fuck in your podcast intro?

Oh, fuck, I just did.

This is the subtle art of not giving a fuck podcast with your host Mark Manson.

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