Redefine Success and Break Free from Societal Expectations | Mark Manson

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  Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

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  I did some mental jujitsu and I was asking myself, what's more valuable to the world?

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  Is writing a book that affects a million people a little bit or 10,000 very profoundly?

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  Deeply.

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  You know?

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  Who's to say which one of those two things is better or more important, more valuable?

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  Sure, selling a million copies is sexier, you know,

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  it gets you more attention, you do more interviews,

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  but there's a strong argument that affecting 10,000 people very deeply is arguably more valuable contribution to the world.

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  And so I started thinking of things in that way.

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  It took me a long time to kind of detach myself from that.

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  When you're starting out as a writer,

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  and this is why I chew with podcasts and everything, it's like,

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  you love seeing the numbers go up you know it's like every year the number is higher than the year before and it it feels good it motivates you you feel inspired you're like hell yeah i'm growing i'm getting better and at some point

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  though like once that number gets high enough you got to let go of it you just,

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  you gotta let go of it because it's not sustainable once it's that high, you know?

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  And it's, you're gonna run out of oxygen.

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  And so it was a difficult process to kind of get back to like, step one, write a book I love.

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  I started out, I was like, all right, you know, I gotta keep the train going, you know?

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  And so I like started trying to write stuff that,

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