Mark Manson

Confidence is really just the ability to unapologetically like yourself.

Most of your stress doesn’t come from having too much to do—it comes from not doing the things that actually matter to you. ㅤ The weight you carry isn’t the work itself, but the meaninglessness of it.

What a time to be alive

If you’re not failing, you’re not learning. If you’re not learning, you’re not growing. If you’re not growing, you’re not living. Living without failing is failing to live.

No one knows how much shit you’ve been through to simply make it where you are today. ㅤ Be proud.

The worst blame others because they want to feel better. ㅤ The best blame themselves because they want to be better.

We are all choosing what to give a fuck about, whether we realize it or not. ㅤ If you’re not asking yourself the important questions of what to care about, the forces around you will decide your values for you.

At some point, preparation becomes its own form of procrastination. ㅤ Just do the thing.

It will always take longer than you want it to… even when you account for the fact that it will always take longer than you want it to.

The people who wait until they're “ready” never are. ㅤ The people who just start realize they could have been “ready” any time they wanted.

Some of you don’t want to hear this. ㅤ But it’s impossible to heal a relationship as long as you are still pretending.

@arielmichaeli Very cool to see this.

📖 The author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck made an app. It's pulling $95K a month from fewer than 5,000 downloads. Purpose is an AI mentor, 7 months old. Running Apple Ads on over 1,000 keywords across 4 countries. TikTok creators with 5M+ plays. App Store only. Self-help's next format isn't a book. It's a subscription to something that talks back.

You’ll be shocked how much your life suddenly gets better once you understand that most of your health issues, relationship issues, and career issues, are really, at their core, just accountability issues.

When we assess risk, we tend to totally miss the value of the lessons we’ll learn by acting. ㅤ So many people are afraid to pull the trigger because they think, “Oh, I’ll lose money!” or “Oh, people will laugh at me!” not realizing that the information they gain by trying is likely more valuable than the success itself.

A general rule of life: the more afraid you are to talk about something, the better you’ll probably feel after talking about it.