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It’s January 2026—and with it, a familiar ritual. Welcome to our global tradition of going about bettering ourselves in some way.
If you have struggled with this in the past, you are in the right place.
My guest today is Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and host of the Solved podcast. The master of no-bullshit self-improvement advice—the anti-guru himself—is here to dispel self-help myths and set matters to rights when it comes to making real life change and sustaining it over time.
By dint of hosting this self-betterment themed podcast for over 13 years, plus navigating a series of personal life transformations myself, from alcoholism to middle-age malaise, I also happen to know a few things about change and how to agent it. So I think all of you are in good hands today.
This is Mark’s third turn on the podcast carousel, and we do things differently this time. No rehashing his backstory. We dive straight into a fishbowl of questions designed with one shared purpose: to set you up for success in the New Year.
“What most people think of as transformation is really just allowing themselves to be themselves.”
- MARK MANSON
Today, we discuss:
- Why Resolutions Fail by February
- Procrastination as Emotional Avoidance
- People-Pleasing & Outsourced Self-Worth
- Intuition vs. Impulse
- Choosing Your Struggle
I share my own shifting perspectives on positive thinking, on the dissolution of self, and why mood follows action more reliably than action follows mood.
The visually inclined can watch it all go down on YouTube. As always, the audio version streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
Consider this your New Year intervention. The liberation we’re all looking for might just come from stripping away—not adding more.
Peace + Plants,
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