Mark Manson

And then you go look at an early part of it and you're like, wow, I can't publish that. That is awful. It just flattens you. And I think... Writing has its emotional struggles that a lot of people just don't. I seem to be constituted for it. I like being alone. I like working by myself. I don't mind rewriting something like eight different times.

And then you go look at an early part of it and you're like, wow, I can't publish that. That is awful. It just flattens you. And I think... Writing has its emotional struggles that a lot of people just don't. I seem to be constituted for it. I like being alone. I like working by myself. I don't mind rewriting something like eight different times.

And then you go look at an early part of it and you're like, wow, I can't publish that. That is awful. It just flattens you. And I think... Writing has its emotional struggles that a lot of people just don't. I seem to be constituted for it. I like being alone. I like working by myself. I don't mind rewriting something like eight different times.

And then you go look at an early part of it and you're like, wow, I can't publish that. That is awful. It just flattens you. And I think... Writing has its emotional struggles that a lot of people just don't. I seem to be constituted for it. I like being alone. I like working by myself. I don't mind rewriting something like eight different times.

Well, I stay inside. That's one way I suffer for the right reasons. I think there are a few fronts. One, I think the most obvious example is just my career. So it's writing is... I mean, it's fun a lot of times, but a lot of times it's suffering.

Well, I stay inside. That's one way I suffer for the right reasons. I think there are a few fronts. One, I think the most obvious example is just my career. So it's writing is... I mean, it's fun a lot of times, but a lot of times it's suffering.

Well, I stay inside. That's one way I suffer for the right reasons. I think there are a few fronts. One, I think the most obvious example is just my career. So it's writing is... I mean, it's fun a lot of times, but a lot of times it's suffering.

Well, I stay inside. That's one way I suffer for the right reasons. I think there are a few fronts. One, I think the most obvious example is just my career. So it's writing is... I mean, it's fun a lot of times, but a lot of times it's suffering.

Well, I stay inside. That's one way I suffer for the right reasons. I think there are a few fronts. One, I think the most obvious example is just my career. So it's writing is... I mean, it's fun a lot of times, but a lot of times it's suffering.

I'm finishing up another book right now and I went back to revise a chapter that I hadn't looked at in a few months and I just looked at it and I'm like, this is terrible. This is absolutely terrible. And it's almost heartbreaking. I had to take the rest of the afternoon off because to have something that you've been working on for over a year and you think you're almost done...

I'm finishing up another book right now and I went back to revise a chapter that I hadn't looked at in a few months and I just looked at it and I'm like, this is terrible. This is absolutely terrible. And it's almost heartbreaking. I had to take the rest of the afternoon off because to have something that you've been working on for over a year and you think you're almost done...

I'm finishing up another book right now and I went back to revise a chapter that I hadn't looked at in a few months and I just looked at it and I'm like, this is terrible. This is absolutely terrible. And it's almost heartbreaking. I had to take the rest of the afternoon off because to have something that you've been working on for over a year and you think you're almost done...

I'm finishing up another book right now and I went back to revise a chapter that I hadn't looked at in a few months and I just looked at it and I'm like, this is terrible. This is absolutely terrible. And it's almost heartbreaking. I had to take the rest of the afternoon off because to have something that you've been working on for over a year and you think you're almost done...

I'm finishing up another book right now and I went back to revise a chapter that I hadn't looked at in a few months and I just looked at it and I'm like, this is terrible. This is absolutely terrible. And it's almost heartbreaking. I had to take the rest of the afternoon off because to have something that you've been working on for over a year and you think you're almost done...

And so that's a form of suffering that I'm well adapted to and that I even get a little bit of a sick pleasure out of. And so that's kind of why it's become my life is, you know, one thing I always say in my talks is that it's not being good at something that's not because you enjoy it necessarily. Being good at something is you enjoy the sacrifices that are involved in it.

And so that's a form of suffering that I'm well adapted to and that I even get a little bit of a sick pleasure out of. And so that's kind of why it's become my life is, you know, one thing I always say in my talks is that it's not being good at something that's not because you enjoy it necessarily. Being good at something is you enjoy the sacrifices that are involved in it.

And so that's a form of suffering that I'm well adapted to and that I even get a little bit of a sick pleasure out of. And so that's kind of why it's become my life is, you know, one thing I always say in my talks is that it's not being good at something that's not because you enjoy it necessarily. Being good at something is you enjoy the sacrifices that are involved in it.

And so that's a form of suffering that I'm well adapted to and that I even get a little bit of a sick pleasure out of. And so that's kind of why it's become my life is, you know, one thing I always say in my talks is that it's not being good at something that's not because you enjoy it necessarily. Being good at something is you enjoy the sacrifices that are involved in it.

And so that's a form of suffering that I'm well adapted to and that I even get a little bit of a sick pleasure out of. And so that's kind of why it's become my life is, you know, one thing I always say in my talks is that it's not being good at something that's not because you enjoy it necessarily. Being good at something is you enjoy the sacrifices that are involved in it.

And then you go look at an early part of it and you're like, wow, I can't publish that. That is awful. It just flattens you. And I think... Writing has its emotional struggles that a lot of people just don't. I seem to be constituted for it. I like being alone. I like working by myself. I don't mind rewriting something like eight different times.