Mark Manson

And when things are actually f***ed up, as they are right now, you don't have to go searching for a crisis. You don't have to go searching for problems. The problem's right there in front of you. So in a weird way, crises are almost psychologically easier for us to bear because we know exactly what to hope for.

And when things are actually f***ed up, as they are right now, you don't have to go searching for a crisis. You don't have to go searching for problems. The problem's right there in front of you. So in a weird way, crises are almost psychologically easier for us to bear because we know exactly what to hope for.

And when things are actually f***ed up, as they are right now, you don't have to go searching for a crisis. You don't have to go searching for problems. The problem's right there in front of you. So in a weird way, crises are almost psychologically easier for us to bear because we know exactly what to hope for.

And when things are actually f***ed up, as they are right now, you don't have to go searching for a crisis. You don't have to go searching for problems. The problem's right there in front of you. So in a weird way, crises are almost psychologically easier for us to bear because we know exactly what to hope for.

Whereas you look out the window and everything's great and job market's best it's been in 50 years and economy's doing great and all the metrics in terms of life expectancy and health and education are all-time highs. Meanwhile, you go on Twitter and you would think that the apocalypse was happening. The book was... very much written to address that.

Whereas you look out the window and everything's great and job market's best it's been in 50 years and economy's doing great and all the metrics in terms of life expectancy and health and education are all-time highs. Meanwhile, you go on Twitter and you would think that the apocalypse was happening. The book was... very much written to address that.

Whereas you look out the window and everything's great and job market's best it's been in 50 years and economy's doing great and all the metrics in terms of life expectancy and health and education are all-time highs. Meanwhile, you go on Twitter and you would think that the apocalypse was happening. The book was... very much written to address that.

Whereas you look out the window and everything's great and job market's best it's been in 50 years and economy's doing great and all the metrics in terms of life expectancy and health and education are all-time highs. Meanwhile, you go on Twitter and you would think that the apocalypse was happening. The book was... very much written to address that.

Whereas you look out the window and everything's great and job market's best it's been in 50 years and economy's doing great and all the metrics in terms of life expectancy and health and education are all-time highs. Meanwhile, you go on Twitter and you would think that the apocalypse was happening. The book was... very much written to address that.

What is it about not just our culture today, but our generation that we get so worked up about things and trying to put those things in perspective.

What is it about not just our culture today, but our generation that we get so worked up about things and trying to put those things in perspective.

What is it about not just our culture today, but our generation that we get so worked up about things and trying to put those things in perspective.

What is it about not just our culture today, but our generation that we get so worked up about things and trying to put those things in perspective.

What is it about not just our culture today, but our generation that we get so worked up about things and trying to put those things in perspective.

I define hope as some sort of vision of the future that we believe will be better. There are a couple of things that are interesting about, I guess, that definition of hope. One is just simply that if we don't have some vision of our future that is better, that's when we fall into depression or despair.

I define hope as some sort of vision of the future that we believe will be better. There are a couple of things that are interesting about, I guess, that definition of hope. One is just simply that if we don't have some vision of our future that is better, that's when we fall into depression or despair.

I define hope as some sort of vision of the future that we believe will be better. There are a couple of things that are interesting about, I guess, that definition of hope. One is just simply that if we don't have some vision of our future that is better, that's when we fall into depression or despair.

I define hope as some sort of vision of the future that we believe will be better. There are a couple of things that are interesting about, I guess, that definition of hope. One is just simply that if we don't have some vision of our future that is better, that's when we fall into depression or despair.

I define hope as some sort of vision of the future that we believe will be better. There are a couple of things that are interesting about, I guess, that definition of hope. One is just simply that if we don't have some vision of our future that is better, that's when we fall into depression or despair.

And it's ironic because one of the things that I talked about in the book is that there's a little bit of a paradox where when things are great, you kind of have to make up problems to be upset about because it's by being upset about things that you give your life a sense of meaning or a sense of hope.