Mark Manson’s Your Next Breakthrough
by nyernyer🍦 · 15 things on Twos
- Most people wait until they are certain before they act. But you will never be certain of anything until you act.
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- Speak as if you know what you’re talking about. Listen as if you don’t.
Act as a way to find out.
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- What are you waiting around for certainty for before acting? Is that certainty ever realistically going to come without doing anything to find out?
- Growth is usually painful to some degree. That’s because growth requires loss—a loss of your old values, your old behaviors, your old loves, your old identity.
Therefore, growth often has a component of grief to it.
- What are you putting most of your energy and focus into? Is that the best place to put it? Is it moving you towards your desired life or away from it?
- Choosing what to pursue is more important than choosing how to pursue it. Make sure you’re facing the right direction before you start running.
- All the grit, persistence, and motivation in the world won’t do you any good if you’re working on the wrong thing. In fact, it will do the opposite.
- The person you marry is the person you fight with. The house you buy is the house you repair. The dream job you take is the job you stress over.
Everything comes with an inherent sacrifice—whatever makes us feel good will also inevitably make us feel bad.
- What pain do you want to sustain? What are you willing to struggle for?
- "Don't hope for a life without problems. There's no such thing. Instead, hope for a life of good problems." – Disappointment Panda
- Hope for the best.
Prepare for the worst.
Expect nothing.
Savor everything.
- Stop hoping for your problems to go away. Instead, try hoping for problems you enjoy. Then let me know how it goes.
- Cut the crap.
Literally, cut the unnecessary distractions out of your life—delete apps, unfriend and unfollow toxic people, stop committing to activities you don’t care about.
- What unnecessary distractions have you let take over your life? What can you do right now to stop?
- Cut out one distraction this week and spend the time on something worthwhile. Let me know how that feels.