Mark Manson: ‘My industry is rife with hucksters, charlatans, fake gurus. It drives me crazy’

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck author on quitting drinking, the best advice he’s ever received and why you should delete TikTok

‘Chris Hemsworth did a big post on Instagram talking about how much he loved it and I was like, “What the hell is going on?”’: Mark Manson, who is bringing his The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck tour to Australia and New Zealand‘Chris Hemsworth did a big post on Instagram talking about how much he loved it and I was like, “What the hell is going on?”’: Mark Manson, who is bringing his The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck tour to Australia and New...

I sent him a signed book and a note thanking him and saying a bunch of nice stuff, but I never heard back. Such is life.Very early in my career, I wrote a piece that I was very, very proud of. This is back when I was an obscure blogger and a very prominent person basically ripped off the idea, rewrote it as his own and got a lot of attention and accolades. I was very depressed about this. I was talking to my dad about it and he told me, “Mark, there are two types of people in the world.

I do. My industry is rife with hucksters, charlatans, fake gurus, people making obscene promises, pretending to be things that they’re not. And it drives me crazy because, ultimately, everybody just wants some simple advice to get through their lives a little bit easier. It’s easy to seduce people with grand visions and false promises, but it’s unethical and I don’t like that.I quit drinking a couple years ago. I always drank quite a bit but I never would have considered myself an alcoholic.

If you could get people around the world to delete one app from their phones, which app would you choose?

 

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