5 Ways to Hack Your Mind For Success

The way you think about the world and your place in it can have a huge impact on your life. And yet, when it comes to evaluating the way we think, we’re rarely able to smell our own bullshit. So today, Drew and I break down five different mindsets you can adopt to live a more examined, successful life. This requires you to reject many of the mindless beliefs you’ve been force fed your entire life. Let’s do it. CHAPTERS Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: The Success Hack Problem 00:01:22 Find the Pain You Enjoy 00:04:14 Ass Power and the Dogs That Don't Quit 00:05:57 Mark's Cross Country Disaster: An Obliviousness Advantage 00:09:16 Focus on What You Can Control and Ignore What You Can't 00:14:09 Media Consumption, Bad Netflix Shows, and Personal Responsibility 00:16:13 Can You Choose Who You Love? 00:20:21 Turn Off the Autopilot 00:24:21 The Costanza Theorem: Do the Opposite 00:26:42 Adopt a 10X Mindset 00:30:20 10X in Relationships: Don't Run Your Love Life Like a Business 00:34:35 Focus on Fewer Things for Longer Periods of Time 00:42:31 Wrap-Up: Still Not Successful ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: ⁠⁠⁠⁨https://markmanson.net/breakthrough⁩⁠⁠⁠ ⇨ Get clarity on what actually matters. Try Purpose, Mark's AI mentor app that learns your patterns, challenges your blind spots, and helps you take action. Get started at ⁠⁠⁠⁨https://bit.ly/4w46FMH⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW MARK Mark's IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/markmanson⁠ Solved IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/solvedpodcast/⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://x.com/markmanson⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmanson/⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@IAmMarkManson