Mark Manson

and I'm only 32 years old, so what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

and I'm only 32 years old, so what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

and I'm only 32 years old, so what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

and I'm only 32 years old, so what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

So what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

So what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

So what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

So what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

So what the hell am I supposed to do next? And I actually struggled with that for a number of years.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold... 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold... 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold... 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold... 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

I struggled with that for sure. Because it felt, I don't know, in a lot of industries, publishing being one of them, the marginal improvement of a product that's 10% better is 10 times the result, right? There are plenty of books that were 95% as good as mine, but they sold... 1% as many copies. And that's just the way that creative industries work.

It's like the very, very top 0.1% do 99% of the sales. And I think that's just a hard concept for us to wrap our heads around to begin with. But certainly at the time, it was very difficult for me to wrap my head around. So it very much felt like, did I do this? What the hell did I do?