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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. 1d ago ·  Video

    How Napoleon Manufactured His Own Luck

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 Napoleon was the poorest, smallest, most bullied kid at his academy, and he became maybe the most statistically improbable commander in history. I read the whole biography this year and could not stop thinking about him. In this one I get into how he manufactured his own luck: obsessing over high-leverage skills before anyone else did, crossing the Alps when every strategist said it was impossible, and eating dinner with his foot soldiers. It looks like luck from the outside. It wasn't. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: The Bullied Boy Who Became Emperor 00:01:43 The Early Signs of Genius: Artillery and Strategic Positioning 00:02:49 The Voracious Reader: Building Compounded Knowledge 00:03:51 Revolutionary Advantage: Understanding Both Sides of History 00:04:56 Spotting High Leverage Opportunities: The Pattern of Success 00:06:24 Crossing the Alps: The Impossible Made Possible 00:08:00 Manufacturing Luck Through Earth Luck Mastery 00:08:46 The Campfire General: Building Loyalty Through Connection 00:10:38 The Statistical Impossibility: Napoleon's Battle Record 00:12:30 Are You Lucky? The Question Behind the Question ⇨ 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 #Leadership #Discipline #Success #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  2. 3d ago ·  Video

    Confidence Comes From Evidence, Not Your Thoughts

    Watch the full Confidence episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/confidence Confidence is built, not felt. Mark and Drew unpack Bandura's famous snake-phobia experiment, how "guided mastery" cured lifelong fears in a single afternoon, and why that same principle proves confidence is domain-specific and built from real evidence. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 The Classic Snake Phobia Experiment 00:00:47 The Severity of Real Phobias 00:01:27 Guided Mastery: The Simple Intervention 00:02:30 The Birth of Exposure Therapy 00:02:51 The Unexpected Confidence Transfer 00:03:45 Act First, Believe Second 00:04:57 Domain-Specific Confidence 00:05:57 Self-Determination Theory and Competence 00:06:40 The Peel Paradox: Getting the Wrong Lesson 00:07:36 Self-Efficacy: The Three Key Features 00:09:16 Building Confidence from Adolescence Forward ⇨ 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 #SelfEfficacy #Bandura #Psychology #SelfImprovement #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  3. 6d ago ·  Video

    The Career Bet That Pays 1000x More

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 Some games are rigged in your favor before you play a single hand. A lucky dentist is barely better off than an unlucky one. A lucky musician is a millionaire. In this clip Drew and I break down power laws and why the game you choose, the industry, the career, the city, matters more than how hard you grind inside it. I use my own book as the case study, because the numbers there genuinely messed with my head. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Earth Luck and the Poker Table Analogy 00:00:54 Power Laws: Why Some Tables Have Bigger Pots 00:01:22 The Dentist vs The Entrepreneur: Flat Success Curves 00:02:25 Asymmetric Returns: When 1% Better Means 100x More 00:03:10 The Publishing Power Law: 20,000x Returns on 2x Quality 00:04:02 The Music Industry Game: 999 Fail, 1 Wins Big 00:04:45 Lucky Musicians vs Lucky Dentists: Context Matters 00:05:34 Napoleon's Strategy: Positioning for Power Law Moments 00:06:53 Historical Power Law Windows: Computing and Social Media 00:07:50 Zuckerberg's Repeated Bets: Building Until One Hits 00:08:55 Surfing the Waves: AI and the Next Big Opportunity 00:09:46 Asymmetric Bets: Minimal Downside, Massive Upside ⇨ 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 #CareerAdvice #Entrepreneurship #Luck #Mindset #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  4. Aug 25 ·  Video

    You Can't Change Your Luck. Do This Instead

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 Drew grew up in a small town in the middle of nowhere and spent years convincedheI got dealt a bad hand. He was wrong, and it took him a long time to see it. In this one we get into why the internet quietly makes almost everyone feel less fortunate than they are, how gratitude is really about widening your frame of reference, and the mental traps that keep you from reading your own luck straight. Including the guy who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: The Small Town Luck Paradox 00:01:18 Frame of Reference: The Hidden Cost of the Internet 00:02:26 The Depression Era Lesson: We Didn't Know We Were Poor 00:02:46 Why We Can't Interpret Heaven Luck Correctly 00:03:08 Actor-Observer Bias: Why You're Unlucky But They're Irresponsible 00:05:11 Gratitude as Frame Expansion: The Cosmic Lottery 00:09:12 The Attentional Scope Effect: How Gratitude Creates Luck 00:11:31 Two Ways to Screw Up Heaven Luck 00:13:00 The Moral Duty of Fortune: Buffett and Compassion 00:15:33 The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Perceived Luck ⇨ 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 #Mindset #Perspective #SelfImprovement #Psychology #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  5. Aug 23 ·  Video

    Your Life Is A Game Of Poker. Here's How To Win

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 People burn a lot of energy fighting over whether success is luck or skill. Wrong fight. In this one I break down the framework that reorganized how I think about all of it: San Sai, an ancient Chinese model that splits luck into three kinds. The luck you're born with, the environment you put yourself in, and the way you play your hand. Two of the three you can actually work on. If life is poker, this is the difference between the cards, the table, and how you play them. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Luck Is Perception: The Newspaper Experiment 00:01:15 The Coffee Shop Test: Money and Connections 00:01:47 Luck as a Learnable Skill 00:02:15 Why Poker Matters: Risk and Decision-Making 00:02:57 Seeing Yourself Lucky Creates Lucky Outcomes 00:03:43 The Resistance to Thinking About Luck 00:04:24 Effort, Output, and the Fairness Instinct 00:04:58 The Birth Lottery and Social Justice 00:05:49 The Self-Worth Problem: Why Am I Unlucky? 00:06:47 The Just World Hypothesis ⇨ 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 #Success #Mindset #Psychology #SelfImprovement #MarkManson #SolvedPodcast

  6. Aug 20 ·  Video

    How Lucky Are You Really?

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 Two babies are born on the same day, one in Norway, one in Sierra Leone, and one of them will live 21 years longer. Neither picked a thing. This is the luck everyone fixates on, and it's also the luck you're worst at interpreting. In this clip I run the actual numbers, get into the philosopher's thought experiment that reframes the whole thing (the veil of ignorance), and tell the story of a pastor in Sierra Leone who stumbled onto a $10 million diamond. Because luck is always relative. Lucky compared to what? Good luck, bad luck, who knows? Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 The Birth Lottery: Norway vs Sierra Leone 00:01:44 What Do We Do With This Information? 00:02:25 The Veil of Ignorance: John Rawls' Thought Experiment 00:03:44 The Pastor and the Diamond: When Luck Defies Circumstances 00:04:35 Luck Is Always Relative 00:05:42 The Chinese Farmer and the Horse: A Timeless Fable 00:07:34 Choosing Your Frame of Reference ⇨ 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/⁠ #Philosophy #Perspective #Mindset

  7. Aug 18 ·  Video

    Why Lucky People Find More Money

    Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 Why do two people walk into the same coffee shop and one spots the cash on the floor while the other walks right past it? Richard Wiseman ran the studies, and the results are wild. Lucky people literally see more of what's in front of them. In this clip Drew and I get into how luck behaves like a skill you can train, and why we get so squirmy the second someone suggests our success came down to luck instead of genius. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 Introduction: Why the West Struggles with Luck 00:01:06 Ancient Greece and Rome: Luck as Fickle Fortune 00:01:30 Boethius and the Wheel of Fortune 00:02:06 Medieval Christianity: Everything as God's Will 00:02:35 Machiavelli's River: The Renaissance Breakthrough 00:03:14 The Enlightenment: Probability and Risk Assessment 00:04:13 The Tension Between Fate and Agency 00:04:52 Sansai: The Ancient Chinese Framework for Luck 00:05:34 Heaven Luck: The Birth Lottery You Cannot Control 00:06:08 Earth Luck: The Systems and Environments You Choose 00:07:39 Human Luck: Your Decisions and Adaptability 00:07:58 The Poker Analogy: Cards, Tables, and Skill 00:08:29 The Most Important Decision: Choosing Your Table ⇨ 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/⁠

  8. Aug 16 ·  Video

    Myers-Briggs Is a Horoscope for Smart People

    Watch the full Change episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/change You've probably taken the Myers-Briggs test, put your type in a LinkedIn bio, or had a boss organize your team around it. In this clip, Drew and I get into why that four-letter label is closer to a horoscope than a science. I tell the real story of where MBTI came from: not a lab, but a mother-daughter pair working from a dining room table during World War II, building on Jung's ideas even though Jung himself warned against boxing people into types. We get into the numbers that should give you pause, like the fact that a third to half of people get a different result when they retake the test weeks later, and why it predicts almost none of the things the Big Five actually predicts. Then we get to the part that matters: why slapping a label on yourself isn't harmless fun. Labels become self-fulfilling, they turn into a responsibility shield, and an inaccurate one can have you fighting your own nature for years. Chapters Chapters 00:00:00 The Paradox of Self-Awareness 00:02:45 The Origins of Myers-Briggs 00:06:11 How MBTI Became a Corporate Phenomenon 00:09:34 The Scientific Problems with MBTI 00:12:15 Why We're So Drawn to Personality Tests 00:13:07 The Barnum Effect and Confirmation Bias 00:14:43 Why Inaccurate Labels Are Dangerous 00:16:43 The False Sense of Certainty 00:17:48 When Labels Can Be Useful 00:19:34 Traits vs Adaptations: The Crucial Distinction ⇨ 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/⁠ #MyersBriggs #MBTI #PersonalityTest #Psychology #Pseudoscience #SelfAwareness #PersonalityTypes #BarnumEffect #Astrology #SelfImprovement #MarkManson #SOLVEDPodcast

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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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    Mark Manson
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
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