Moment 92 - How To Find Out EXACTLY What You Want To Do In Life: Mark Manson

Uh You um W I was watching your conversation with with Tom Billier and I found it really Really interesting and important because one of the things you talk about when we're talking about, you know, deciding what you want to do with your life, whether it's a business or you want to be a pickup artist or whatever it is, is this the importance of asking the question why? And in the society and culture we live in, especially one that's so driven by comparison, where your values are almost being handed to you by Instagram.

And the Kardashians, like this is how this is what you should value. Like I almost I've almost felt I I remember one day a kid came up to me after I did this like big talk on stage and he said, I want to be a public speaker and he was like seventeen. And you're thinking, but you've got nothing like what are you gonna talk about? And really what he's saying is like he doesn't want to be a public speaker, he wants the admiration he thinks public speakers get. Probably because he's insecure. Yeah. And I'm

So many kids, including myself as a young kid. We don't actually know what we want. We have no fucking clue. But what we probably want is not to be insecure and get laid. Like at the heart of it. And the pursuit of that, as you've described. takes us down a dark alley to the wrong place, usually a dead end as well. So how do I figure out What what I actually want. In my life. Without it being Kardashian noise or Instagram. Like what does what what what do I want and how do I find out?

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