If You Haven’t Read Mark Manson’s Blogs, You Haven’t Read Anything!

Everyone gives life advice, but no one does it quite the way Mark Manson does. To take an excerpt from his blog, 3 Important Life Skills Nobody Ever Taught You, “An unfortunate side effect of our consciousness residing in our brains is that everything we experience in our lives involves us somehow. The car in traffic today cut you off. The cable news show you saw last night pissed you off. Your company’s massive growth this year gave you more money.

As a result, we tend to have an inherent bias towards assuming that pretty much everything that happens to us is actually about us.

But here’s a newsflash: Just because you experience something, just because something causes you to feel a certain way, just because you care about something, doesn’t mean it’s about you.”