512: 20 Paradoxes That Are True by Mark Manson

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🗓️ 6 May 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Mark Manson was a full-time professional dating coach for men from 2008 until 2011. Sick of the industry, he wrote his first book, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, and changed the name and focus of his business to address broader self-development topics for men. The book took off, selling tens of thousands of copies. As he branched out into deeper issues of masculinity, self-worth, and the changing cultural landscape, the site grew. By 2013, he had begun writing about larger cultural issues — gender relations, happiness, ambition, life purpose, and cultural perspectives he had gathered while living in various countries around the world. Despite the fact that the business was still directed at men, thousands of women began reading and asking for advice as well. That same year, he made the leap to his own site and domain, broadening the demographics of his audience. The site exploded, garnering millions of views each month. Episode 512: 20 Paradoxes That Are True by Mark Manson (Personal Growth & Happiness). The original post is located here: https://markmanson.net/paradoxes-that-are-true Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Take my demographic survey to enter into bonus raffles: http://OLDPodcast.com/survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 512, 20 paradoxes that are true.
0:05.4	By Mark Manson of MarkManson.net and I'm Justin Mollick.
0:08.7	How's it going old friend? Happy Saturday and welcome to the podcast where I narrate the
0:12.8	best blogs for you so you don't have to find time looking for them yourself.
0:16.8	You can listen on the go while you're walking or driving,
0:19.6	wherever. And I'm back today with a post from Mark Manson. He narrated his own content for us
0:24.8	exactly seven days ago for that special week of the 500th episode.
0:28.7	So you're welcome to check that out if you want to hear his voice,
0:31.2	that's episode 505. And I mentioned this quite a while ago so you might not have heard it.
0:35.9	I'm trying to get a good feel for the demographics of this show. It helps shape the content that you
0:40.4	hear. It's really short like five or six really easy questions. And if you enter your email
0:45.6	address there, I'm picking random people from there to give books to. To take that short survey,
0:50.7	just go to oldpodcast.com slash survey. I'll give you a reminder at the end of the show. So for now,
0:56.9	let's get right to today's post as we optimize your life.
1:04.5	20 paradoxes that are true by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.
1:10.1	Some of the most important truths in life are contradictory on the surface.
1:13.8	They seem like impossibilities yet experience prusum to be obvious over and over again.
1:19.2	It isn't until you look a bit deeper beneath the surface contradictions that the real
1:23.3	grains of wisdom emerge. Here are 20 paradoxes I've come across which are paradoxically still true.
1:30.5	Number one, the more you hate a trait in someone else, the more likely you are avoiding it in
1:35.3	yourself. Carl Young believed that characteristics and others that bother us are reflections of the
1:40.6	parts of ourselves that we deny. Freud referred to it as projection. Most people call it being a
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