Mark Manson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So you're like, oh, I can do this.
I've been through worse, right?
And I think the other piece is just that once you've seen yourself...
be a fucking idiot literally your whole life.
Like, you just kind of start assuming, like, I'm probably an idiot now, too.
And everybody else around me is an idiot, too.
It's idiots all the way down.
All the way down.
But here's the rub, right?
This is where everybody gets stuck.
Let's say you can name your pattern in real time.
You can watch yourself doing it.
You can understand exactly where it came from, what childhood trauma caused it, what, you know, that time that your mom, you know, didn't hug you after she picked you up from school, whatever it is, yet you still can't stop doing it.
We've all been through this.
It's the classic, like, I know I shouldn't do it.
Why can't I stop doing it?
In many ways, insight is just one adaptation talking about another adaptation.