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Mark Rober

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And then normalizing, I acclimated to losing.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And it was like, oh, wait, I'm back to loving this.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And I don't attach these negative feelings to it because I won because I lost 10 times.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Have you looked at rejection therapy?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Uh, no, but it's basically this thing, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

But like going back to just like making stuff, like I would imagine we've evolved to be digging in the dirt and to be building and to be working with our hands, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And I do feel like there's probably some part of that, you know, this is me being an armchair expert here, but like the record levels of depression may have to do with just like all these inputs that are so attractive that just let us sitting in a chair as opposed to like โ€“

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And it's also like,

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

It's crazy how hard it is to not think thoughts.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Like, you know, in meditation, I've dabbled in a little bit.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

My partner's like really big in it and I've been doing it more, but it's amazing how much I suck at it.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You know, just like going to the gym for the first time.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

It's like, wow, I am not conditioned to do this.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

It's wild how hard it is to not think and to clear your mind.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Right.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And just like focus on the breathing.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I find it.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I mean, there's something about like hitting flow state, especially for writing.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I still write all my own videos.