Mark Manson Audio Articles

Like a muscle, forgiveness needs to be exercised consistently over a period of time. And just as our physical muscles keep our bodies healthy and strong, learning how to forgive can keep our emotional lives healthy and strong.

Most people think regret is a universally bad thing. But if you look a little closer, regret actually serves a very useful purpose in our lives.

The news is often heralded as a vital component of a thriving democracy. But here I argue that, in its current form, the news is doing more harm than good.

The 2010s were a decade of tumultuous change, growing pains, and incredible advancement for the world. Here are 10 lessons we learned.

Life is contradictory in many ways. Here are three paradoxes we all must face.

We all have demons, but overcoming them isn't really the goal you should be looking to accomplish.

Self-esteem isn't the silver bullet some people think it is, but it's still important. It just depends on how and where you're getting your self-esteem.

There’s a dark side to our constant stimulation. All of these low-value distractions in our lives have conditioned us to think that patience is for suckers; that we must “move fast and break things;” that if we’re not up-to-date on everything, all the time, we’re going to get left in the dust. This couldn't be further from the truth.

"Negative Self-Help" — an approach to personal growth based not on what feels good, but rather on what feels bad. Because getting good at feeling bad is what allows us to feel good.

No, You Can't Make a Person Change by Mark Manson

Distractions have become so pervasive in the digital age that we've come to accept them as normal. Here's how we can escape their grip and free our minds a little.

Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you more a emotionally intelligent person.

What are your most important personal values? Do you actually value what you say you do, or are you lying to yourself? And just who the hell are you anyway?

Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There's a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.

Most of us are pretty terrible at making decisions that affect our lives. We have to learn how to deal with the emotional realities of these decisions and see things a little differently. Here are 5 principles I use to evaluate big decisions in my life.