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Solved Clips brings you the standout moments, key insights, and sharpest segments from SOLVED, the show where 3x #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Manson answers life's biggest questions with research-backed, practical frameworks.

  1. 1 day ago ·  Video

    Why Your Brain Can't Handle Modern Dating

    Watch the full Commitment episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/tc7phn0t. Your brain was built for a world of scarcity, and it has no idea what to do with dating apps, endless scrolling, and infinite choice. Drew walks through the study where men rated their own relationships lower after seeing ten attractive faces for a few seconds, which is roughly thirty seconds online. We also get into additive bias, the reason your first move when you're unhappy is to add something new when what you actually need is to subtract. More options are quietly making you worse off. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: The Optionality Drug We Can't Refuse 00:00:15 The Evolutionary Mismatch: Scarcity Brain in an Abundance World 00:00:47 The Paleolithic Brain Problem: Small Tribes to Mega Cities 00:01:10 The Hijacking of Ancient Machinery: How Modern Stimuli Exploit Us 00:01:22 The Ten Faces Study: How Quickly Optionality Destroys Satisfaction 00:01:45 Internet, Porn, and Dating Apps: The Optionality Overload 00:02:23 The Enjoyable Hijack: Why We Can't Be Too Upset 00:02:42 Non-Regret Inducing Minutes: Rethinking Social Media Success 00:03:26 The Candy Hijack: Why We Binge and Regret It 00:04:35 The Additive Bias: Why We Always Try to Add Instead of Subtract 00:05:07 What Are You Missing? The Default to Addition Over Subtraction 00:05:32 Minimalism and Subtraction: Finding Happiness by Removing 00:05:46 The Friendship Experiment: Saying No to Everything We Don't Want 00:06:55 Quality Over Quantity: The Two to Ten Person Sweet Spot 00:07:17 Anticipated Regret: Why Knowing Our Options Makes Us Miserable 00:08:08 FOMO and the Condition of Our Age 00:08:26 Conclusion: Resources for Working on Commitment ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #MarkManson #Solved #Dating #Psychology #Optionality #Commitment #SelfImprovement

  2. 3 days ago ·  Video

    Stop Trying to Be Confident (Do This Instead)

    Watch the full Confidence episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/confidence Performance builds confidence far more than confidence builds performance. Mark shares the four sources of self-efficacy, the power of starting with the smallest possible action, and stories from his years as a dating coach, when clients paid thousands only to learn that all they needed to do was say hello. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 The Self-Esteem Movement Backfire 00:00:36 The Four Sources of Self-Efficacy 00:00:55 Mastery Experiences: The Foundation of Confidence 00:01:29 Learning from Others: The Relatability Factor 00:02:50 The Personal Growth Industry and Relatability 00:04:34 Verbal Persuasion and Credible Sources 00:07:04 The Action-First Loop: Reversing the Confidence Formula 00:07:59 Performance Shapes Confidence 3X Stronger 00:08:56 The Age Split: Kids vs Adults 00:09:50 Breaking the Catch-22: Minimum Viable Action 00:11:56 The Blogging Origin Story: Starting with Low Stakes 00:13:47 The Music School Counterexample 00:14:33 Just Beyond Your Comfort Zone 00:15:22 The Professional Wingman Era 00:16:35 Say Hello to Ten People: The Mall Exercise 00:18:48 You Have to Be Bad to Get Good ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #Confidence #SelfImprovement #Motivation #Psychology #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  3. 5 days ago ·  Video

    Why Chasing More Never Made Me Happy

    Watch the full Commitment episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/tc7phn0t. I spent years traveling the world, dating whoever I wanted, working from a laptop anywhere on earth. It slowly made me miserable, and I want to tell you exactly why. In this one I get honest about the ADHD, the avoidant attachment, and the diminishing returns of chasing novelty on every front at once. The thing that pulled me out wasn't another adventure. It was noticing I'd rather drink beers with my old friends than raft through Indonesia. Narrowing down saved me. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: The Aesthetic Life and Its Allure 00:00:31 The Wikipedia Rabbit Hole: High Openness to Experience 00:01:09 The Commitment Phobe Lifestyle: Building Around Avoidance 00:02:16 The Inflection Point: When Diminishing Returns Kicked In 00:05:06 The Three to Six Month Dip: Why Nomads Never Stay 00:05:26 The Women I Left Behind: Recognizing What Was Lost 00:05:56 The Promise That Changed Everything: Meeting His Wife 00:06:18 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: The Antidote to Aesthetic Hell 00:06:35 A Premonition of Our Culture: The 10th Anniversary Edition 00:09:19 The Soft Skills Nobody Teaches: Community, Roots, and Rituals 00:11:00 Conclusion: Resources for Working on Commitment ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #MarkManson #Solved #DigitalNomad #Commitment #SubtleArt #SelfImprovement #Relationships

  4. 17 Sept ·  Video

    Why Kierkegaard Said Anxiety Is Actually Freedom

    Watch the full Commitment episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/tc7phn0t. Your anxiety might not be fear. It might be freedom. Kierkegaard popularized the word anxiety, and his definition still hits harder than anything in a modern self help book: the dizziness of too much freedom. Every option you leave open is one you feel guilty for not taking. Drew and I unpack why standing at the edge feels worse than jumping, and why committing to something is a lot like diving into a cold pool. The dread is all before the leap. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Kierkegaard's Revolutionary Definition of Anxiety 00:00:51 The Cliff Metaphor: Standing on the Edge of Possibility 00:01:23 Anxiety as Spiritual Depth: The Connection Between Freedom and Potential 00:02:01 The Cold Pool Metaphor: Commitment as the Antidote to Anxiety 00:02:42 Anxiety vs Fear: Why There's No Object to Dread 00:04:13 The Digital Nomad Problem: When Optionality Becomes Torture 00:04:57 The Optionality Trap: Why More Choices Made Everything Worse 00:06:23 The Evolution of Digital Nomadism: From Radical to Fashionable to Backlash 00:07:52 Commitment as a Skill: Learning to Stick With Your Choices 00:08:35 Conclusion: Resources for Working on Commitment ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #MarkManson #Solved #Anxiety #Kierkegaard #Freedom #MentalHealth #Philosophy

  5. 15 Sept ·  Video

    Why Smart People Confuse Luck With Skill

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 If you want the entire luck framework in one place, this is the clip. I tie it all together: the three types of luck, the two traps that keep people stuck (thinking it's all luck, or thinking you earned every bit of it), and why the longer you live, the more your decisions outweigh whatever you were born into. Heaven luck, earth luck, human luck, all of it, clean and practical. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Why We Avoid Thinking About Luck 00:00:48 The Legibility Problem: How Much Control Do We Really Have? 00:01:21 The Just World Hypothesis and Two Dangerous Traps 00:02:07 The Sansai Framework: Heaven, Earth, and Human Luck 00:02:42 The Poker Analogy: Cards, Tables, and Choices 00:03:09 Heaven Luck: The Burden and Blessing of Circumstance 00:04:59 Gratitude as the Key to Heaven Luck 00:05:35 Earth Luck: High-Leverage Environmental Decisions 00:07:25 Skills That Expand Earth Luck: Social Intelligence and Open-Mindedness 00:08:21 Human Luck: Making Better Decisions Under Uncertainty 00:10:05 The Accountability System: Making Implicit Decisions Explicit ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #Luck #DecisionMaking #Mindset #SelfImprovement #Success #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  6. 15 Sept ·  Video

    Why Smart People Confuse Luck With Skill

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 If you want the entire luck framework in one place, this is the clip. I tie it all together: the three types of luck, the two traps that keep people stuck (thinking it's all luck, or thinking you earned every bit of it), and why the longer you live, the more your decisions outweigh whatever you were born into. Heaven luck, earth luck, human luck, all of it, clean and practical. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Why We Ignore Luck 00:00:48 The Legibility Problem: How Much Control Do We Really Have? 00:01:21 The Just World Hypothesis: Our Brain's Natural Bias 00:01:41 Two Traps: Fatalism vs Self-Serving Delusion 00:02:08 The Sansai Framework: Heaven, Earth, and Human Luck 00:02:42 The Poker Analogy: Cards, Tables, and Choices 00:03:09 Heaven Luck: The Guilt and Responsibility Paradox 00:04:59 Gratitude as the Solution to Heaven Luck 00:05:35 Earth Luck: Increasing Your Surface Area for Serendipity 00:07:25 Skills That Expand Earth Luck: Social Skills and Open-Mindedness 00:08:21 Human Luck: Making Better Probabilistic Decisions 00:09:40 Making Intuition Explicit: The Accountability Method ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #Luck #DecisionMaking #Mindset #SelfImprovement #Success #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  7. 13 Sept ·  Video

    The Philosopher Who Predicted Instagram in 1846

    Watch the full Commitment episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/tc7phn0t. A philosopher in 1846 predicted your Instagram feed. After a tabloid roasted him for months, Kierkegaard wrote some of the sharpest criticism of media ever put on paper. He named the thing that happens when everyone is connected to everyone: leveling, the quiet pressure to never stand out. Drew and I get into why the 19th century looked more like today than the 20th did, and why young people now barely dance, drink, or ask each other out. He called his shot 180 years early. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Kierkegaard's Battle with the Press 00:01:02 The Personal Attacks: When Intellectual Debate Turns Ugly 00:01:52 Turning Pain into Philosophy: The Present Age 00:02:26 The Accountability Problem: Anonymous Opinions Without Consequences 00:03:09 The Phantom of Public Opinion 00:03:56 The Journalist's Trick: Manufacturing Consensus 00:04:40 The Infamous Quote: Prostitute vs Journalist 00:05:09 Leveling: How Media Destroys Individuality 00:06:27 The Commitment Problem: All Talk, No Walk 00:07:08 Social Media: Kierkegaard's Nightmare on Steroids 00:08:18 The Internet's Broken Promise 00:09:25 The Death of Dancing: Modern Examples of Leveling 00:10:26 The Global Homogenization: When Everywhere Becomes Nowhere ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #MarkManson #Solved #Kierkegaard #SocialMedia #Philosophy #Culture #Commitment

  8. 10 Sept ·  Video

    Why Nobody Feels Like a Real Adult Anymore

    Watch the full Commitment episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/tc7phn0t. Why does nobody feel like a real adult anymore? For most of history, cultures had rites of passage that moved you from one identity into the next. We deleted the ritual but kept the awkward in-between phase, and now people get stuck there into their thirties. Drew and I walk through liminality, emerging adulthood, and Zygmunt Bauman's idea that commitment itself became an economic liability. By the end you'll understand why "30 is the new 20" is less of a joke than it sounds. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: The Lost Rituals of Adulthood 00:00:37 The Three Stages of Rites of Passage 00:01:41 The Liminal Phase: Stuck in Between 00:02:09 Extended Adolescence: The 20-Year Teenager 00:03:09 Emerging Adulthood: A New Life Stage 00:03:52 The Numbers Don't Lie: Marriage, College, and Childbirth 00:04:42 The Economic Side: Complexity Requires Time 00:05:26 The Paradox of Choice: Too Many Life Paths 00:05:58 Liquid Modernity: When Commitment Becomes a Liability 00:07:38 The Loss of Trust and the Portfolio Career ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/msub25ez ⇨ 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://go.markmanson.net/8owt1jc4 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/⁠ #MarkManson #Solved #Commitment #EmergingAdulthood #Adulthood #Psychology #Philosophy

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Solved Clips brings you the standout moments, key insights, and sharpest segments from SOLVED, the show where 3x #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Manson answers life's biggest questions with research-backed, practical frameworks.

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  • Creator
    Mark Manson
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    23
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    Explicit
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