Mark Manson
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And we just kind of went down the line and it was just horror show after horror show after horror show.
Told me pretty point blank.
He was like, look, your current trajectory, like you're likely to have a heart attack by your mid fifties.
If you keep on the same path.
And that scared the shit out of me.
I was like, no, not doing that.
And that was what changed it.
If you think about it, if your identity is really just a story, it's probably a good story because you've held on to it for a long time.
So the only way you're actually going to sustainably replace that original story is if you have an equally good or better story to tell yourself.
Getting married.
I have so many friends who...
became parents and then immediately got their shit together.
It's interesting that like ultimately impacting others might be a stronger lever for changing yourself than trying to impact yourself.
I would agree with that wholeheartedly.