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episode 205: Mark Manson: Finding Hope When Everything is F*cked
On July 4th of this year, I was finally hitting my stride. After a year of visa troubles, I had secured a three-year visa. I was finally back in the writing rhythm I had been in before my visa troubles started.
Things had been fucked, and they had become unfucked. Little did I know, everything was about to get even more fucked than it was before.
One thing that got me through the fuckedness that ensued – you’ll hear about it in this conversation – was that I had read Everything is F*cked, by Mark Manson (@iammarkmanson).
In this conversation, you’ll learn:
- How can a book called Everything is F*cked possibly be, as the subtitle promises, A Book About Hope? Everything being fucked doesn’t require hope. Hope requires everything to be fucked.
- I’ve talked before on the show about living an “antifragile” life. Learn how to avoid having what Mark calls “fragile values."
- Mark says “if there’s no reason to live, then there’s no reason to not live.” How can what Mark calls “the uncomfortable truth,” be liberating, instead of deflating?
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