459 Quotes by Mark Manson

What determines your success isn’t, “What do you want to enjoy?” the relevant question is, “What pain do you want to sustain?

Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems.

As Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

This is the fundamental problem of hope – not an educated Thinking Brain, but an uneducated Feeling Brain, a Feeling Brain that has adopted and accepted poor value judgments about itself and the world.

Psychologists sometimes refer to this concept as the ‘hedonic treadmill’: the idea that we’re always working hard to change our life situation, but we actually never feel very different.

We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred agent for inspiring change. We have evolved to always live with a certain degree of dissatisfaction and insecurity, because it’s the mildly dissatisfied and insecure creature that’s going to do the most work to innovate and survive.

That’s simply reality: if it feels like it’s you versus the world, chances are it’s really just you versus yourself.

When the standard of success becomes merely acting – when any result is regarded as progress and important, when inspiration is seen as a reward rather than a prerequisite – we propel ourselves ahead. We feel free to fail, and that failure moves us forward. The.

An obsession and over-investment in emotions fails us for the simple reason that emotions never last.