Failure, Solved
Fail fast. Fail forward. Fail better. As a society, we’ve turned failure into a slogan to celebrate, but somehow we’re more afraid of it tha...
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Mark Manson Audio Articles
A collection of audio versions of articles by author and blogger Mark Manson.
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20 of 107 episodes
Finding Your Life Path, Solved
You've been told your whole life to explore, keep your options open, try new things. And you've done exactly that. Moved cities, pivoted car...
How to Get Lucky, Solved
Ask most successful people how they got where they are, and the answer is usually some version of "good timing." Everyone else swears they e...
How to Build Confidence, Solved
Confidence isn't something you build. It's what's left over. You've done the pose. Hands on hips, chest out, an affirmation on a sticky note...
How to Change Your Life, Solved
If you've ever tried to change something about yourself, failed, tried again, and concluded you must just be broken, here's some good news:...
Why We Stay in Bad Relationships, Solved
Why do smart, emotionally aware people stay in relationships that are clearly destroying them? Drew and I dug into the Johnny Depp and Amber...
How to Overcome Anxiety, Solved
Here's the uncomfortable truth about anxiety: most of what people reach for to fix it was chosen because it feels easy, not because it works...
Your Questions On Manifestation, Confidence, and Getting Over Your Ex, Solved
It's been one year of SOLVED. 20 episodes, 20 million downloads, 3 million YouTube subscribers, and a truly unreasonable number of poop joke...
Passion, Solved: Is It Really Worth Pursuing?
Nearly 60% of American workers are checked out at their jobs. Meanwhile, every graduation speech in history tells you to follow your passion...
Solved, Highlights: What Actually Makes People Happy
So here's the thing about happiness: the harder you chase it, the faster it runs. That's not some bumper sticker wisdom. It's basically the...
Self-Help, Solved
We pulled over 2,600 studies and ranked 19 of the most common self-improvement techniques across three dimensions: research quality, consist...
The Biggest Self-Help Scam in History, Solved
This book has sold over a hundred million copies, billionaires swear by it. But what if it's a lie? Does the effectiveness of the book chang...
Meditation, Solved: Is It Actually Worth It?
Meditation has been sold to us as a magic pill for so long that the backlash is almost as overblown as the hype. I spent years deep in Buddh...
Solved, Highlights: How to Find Your Values
If you’ve ever felt stuck, or like you’re doing all the right things but something still feels off, there’s a good chance it’s a values prob...
Focus, Solved
Focus is one of those things everyone swears they need more of and almost no one is actually addressing correctly. In this episode, we dig i...
The Best Thing About You is Also the Worst Thing
A Hungarian doctor discovered that handwashing saves lives, and was destroyed for proving it. Michael Jordan’s competitiveness made him a le...
Romantic Love, Solved
We put love on trial — literally. Drew and I squared off in a full debate over whether romantic love is overrated. I made the case that love...
Solved, Highlights: The Real Reason You Procrastinate
This is a segment from the full episode on procrastination. Procrastination isn't a time management problem — it's an emotional regulation p...
Dating, Solved: Why Finding the Right Person Feels So Hard
Most people aren’t bad at dating, they’re just trying to solve the wrong problem. We treat dating like a personality test (“Am I attractive...
How to Quiet Your Ego (Without Losing Yourself), Solved
Most people think ego is either something you need to kill off entirely or inflate to take over the world. Both are wrong. In this episode,...