Mark Manson Tag Archive

Information warfare is ever more crucial in an Internet era

(Excerpt from Mindf*ck Monday #47: The endless pursuit of truth by Mark Manson) I attended a talk (on Zoom) a few months ago given by a former official from the US State Department and he said something that kind of...

September 17, 2020| Politics Read More

Getting benefits from a community requires some personal sacrifices

(Excerpt from Mindfuck Monday 17 Aug 2020 by Mark Manson) Basically: living in a community has benefits, but those benefits require that each individual makes sacrifices. Politics is then the discussion of these...

August 20, 2020| World Read More

Why the lottery makes people happy

(Excerpt from Motherfucking Monday by Mark Manson 2 Mar 2020) A new academic study published last week looked at why the lottery makes people happy, despite the fact they’re essentially setting their money...

March 3, 2020| Life, Self-serving Bias Read More

Is It Better to Overestimate or Underestimate Yourself?

(Excerpt from Motherfucking Monday on 20 Jan 20 by Mark Manson) We all have a tendency to overestimate ourselves and our abilities and this often causes a lot of unnecessary pain. A huge part of self-awareness is the...

January 23, 2020| Ego, Life, Yin Yang Read More

Smart people come up with more bullshit stories

(Excerot from Mark Manson’s Motherfucker Monday 13 Jan 2020) The smarter you are, the easier it is to come up with bullshit to avoid what makes you uncomfortable. Over the years, I’ve noticed the smartest people...

January 16, 2020| Ego, Overconfidence Bias Read More

Nuclear, flying and guns are safer than you think

(Excerpt from Motherf*ckin’ Monday 4 Nov 2019 edition by Mark Manson) Quite simply, nuclear power would save lives. For every nuclear power accident, hundreds of thousands of people die due to fossil fuel-related...

November 11, 2019| Availability Bias, Inversion, Nonlinearity Read More

Care about something greater than yourself

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Whether you’re listening to Aristotle or the psychologists at Harvard or Jesus Christ or the goddamn Beatles, they all say that happiness comes...

September 19, 2019| Life Read More

Immortality is about leaving a legacy

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) Becker called such efforts our “immortality projects,” projects that allow our conceptual self to live on way past the point of our physical...

September 19, 2019| Life Read More

Commitment is choice of focus

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) But while investing deeply in one person, one place, one job, one activity might deny us the breadth of experience we’d like, pursuing a breadth...

September 19, 2019| Focus, Life Read More

Unconditional love

(Extracted from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson) It’s not about giving a fuck about everything your partner gives a fuck about; it’s about giving a fuck about your partner regardless of the...

September 19, 2019| Life Read More

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