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Self-improvement and success often occur together. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they're the same thing.
MARK MANSON
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The Feedback Loop From Hell
- We feel bad about feeling bad. We feel guilty about feeling guilty. We feel angry about feeling angry. We feel anxious about feeling anxious.
- We can hack this Feedback Loop From Hell by not giving a f*ck.
- For example, you say to yourself, "I feel like shit, but who gives a f*ck." and you stop hating yourself for feeling so bad.
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The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience.
ALAN WATTS
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Happiness Comes From Solving Problems
- Most of us, when faced with a problem, either deny its existence or blame someone else for it.
- It makes us feel good in the short term but end up making us even more miserable in the future.
- The solution to happiness lies in solving problems.
- Life is not short of problems. You solve one problem, and ten new ones arise out of it.
- If you do not have any problems to solve, there will be no purpose to your life.
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The Tyranny of Exceptionalism
- Thanks to technology, we are bombarded with so much information all the time.
- Mass media promotes exceptionalism to get your eyeballs.
- The truth is that no one is exceptional at everything.
- Brilliant businessmen are not often good at relationships.
- We have gotten limited time in this life, it is not possible for us to be exceptional at more than one thing.
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The internet has not just open-sourced information; it has also open-sourced insecurity, self-doubt, and shame.
MARK MANSON
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The Self-Awareness Onion
- Mark Manson compares the layers of self-awareness with the layers of onion.
- Your first layer of self-awareness onion is the simple understanding of emotions - what makes you feel happy or angry.
- The next layer is to ask "why". Why do you feel happy or angry with something?
- This is not where it ends. There is even a deeper layer. This layer is about the assessment of your values.
- Why do you consider one thing as a success and another as a failure? By what standards do you hold yourself?
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While there is something to be said for "staying on the sunny side of life," the truth is, sometimes, life sucks, and the healthiest thing you can do is admit it.
MARK MANSON
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The Responsibility/Fault Fallacy
- According to this book, a fault is past tense, and responsibility is present tense.
- A fault is the result of choices that were made in the past. Responsibility is about the choices that you are making now.
- You can blame someone else for your situation but by no means are they responsible for your situation.
- You are the only one responsible for how you feel now because that's how you choose to see the problem.
- Take responsibility for your problems rather than blaming everyone else.
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The more we choose to accept responsibility in our life, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.
MARK MANSON
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The Dangers Of Pure Certainty
- Certainty is a hindrance to growth.
- If you think you know everything, you cannot learn anything new.
- Uncertainty opens us to endless possibilities and relieves us of our judgments.
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The Failure/Success Paradox
- Failure is often frowned upon in society. It is also the way forward.
- The logic is simple - if someone is better than you at something, it means they have failed at it more than you have.
- As we grow older, we avoid failure because of how failure is looked upon in society.
- This confines us from truly being successful.
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Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you have failed at something.
MARK MANSON
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Boundaries
- Take any relationship; healthy boundaries are a must.
- In a romantic relationship, both partners must take responsibility for their problems instead of expecting the other to solve them.
- Similarly, it would be best if you worked on creating healthy boundaries with your parents and friends.
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The Sunny Side Of D*ath
- D*ath is the only thing we know with certainty.
- Meditating upon it makes us ask meaningful questions, like, "What is your legacy?"
- Do not forget you are already great because every single day, you wake up and decide what to give a f*ck about.
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We're all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by life's trivialities; we are eaten up by nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
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