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SOLVED with Mark Manson

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New episodes every month. Life advice that doesn’t suck by a 3x #1 NYT bestselling author. I’ve spent two decades calling out everything wrong with the self-help world: the bad science, the guru nonsense, and the advice that preys on people's insecurities. This podcast is my no-BS, research-backed answer to all of it.Copyright 2026 Infinity Squared Media Desarrollo Personal Éxito Personal
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  • How to Get Lucky, Solved
    Aug 5 2026
    Ask most successful people how they got where they are, and the answer is usually some version of "good timing." Everyone else swears they earned it. We're terrible at seeing our own luck clearly, and even worse at realizing how much of it we could create. In this episode, Drew and I get into why: the psychology that makes us deny luck even exists, and what changes the moment you stop pretending everything is earned. We start with Warren Buffett - why a man worth tens of billions says the single most important thing that ever happened to him was where and when he was born. Then there's Napoleon, who picked his generals by skipping the résumé and asking one question: "Is he lucky?" And we brought in Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion who’s spent more than a decade studying decision-making, to explain why we keep confusing good decisions with lucky outcomes. There's also a stretch on survivorship bias that'll make you rethink every success story you've ever heard. Luck comes in three layers. And the research shows you have far more say over two of them than anyone ever told you. If you want to take the hand you were dealt and play it better, this episode is for you. Get your free episode guide: https://solvedpodcast.com/luck/ CHAPTERS: Chapters 00:00:00 Will Smith's Dad and the Luck Paradox: When Success Meets Fortune 00:02:23 Why We Avoid Thinking About Luck: The Uncomfortable Truth 00:16:13 The West's Struggle With Luck: From Greek Goddesses to Probability 00:21:05 The Three Types of Luck: Introducing the Sansai Framework 00:36:18 Heaven Luck: The Birth Lottery You Can't Control 00:40:56 The Norway vs Sierra Leone Thought Experiment: Luck Is Always Relative 00:46:20 The Farmer and the Horse: Good Luck, Bad Luck, Who Knows? 00:54:01 Gratitude as Expanding Your Frame of Reference 01:00:48 The Two Ways to Screw Up Heaven Luck 01:07:23 Napoleon: The Bullied Boy Who Mastered Earth Luck 01:09:32 Spotting High-Leverage Opportunities: Artillery and Knowledge 01:13:55 Acting Ferociously on Openings: Crossing the Alps 01:23:30 Richard Wiseman's Four Principles of Luck 01:25:26 Maximizing Opportunities and Surface Area 01:47:35 The Environment Matters More Than Personality 01:59:47 Power Laws and Game Selection: Why the Table You Choose Matters Most 02:05:19 Power Law Moments in History: Catching the Wave 02:12:50 Meet Annie Duke: Poker Champion Turned Decision Scientist 02:13:42 Why Every Decision Is Actually a Bet 02:20:15 The Marriage Bet: Choosing Under Uncertainty 02:22:08 No Decision Is Ever 100 Percent or 0 Percent 02:32:31 Resulting: Why Good Decisions Can Have Bad Outcomes 02:41:38 The Self-Serving Bias: Protecting Present You vs Future You 02:44:25 Loss Aversion: Why We're Afraid to Quit Bad Jobs 02:53:34 Making Decisions Explicit: Pre-Mortems and Forecasting 03:09:56 The Volume Approach: Why More Reps Equal Less Volatility 03:16:45 Annie's Bad Decision That Worked Out: The King-Queen Bluff 03:42:43 The Luck Paradox: Full Control Forward, Honest Reflection Backward 03:43:39 Four Practical Ways to Get Luckier Starting Today 03:47:36 Closing: When Opportunity Meets Preparation CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS ⏹ Simple: Join the 21 million people who’ve started already. Go take the quiz at simple.life/solved and use the code SOLVED at checkout for 85% off your plan. ⏹ Quo: Always say hello with QUO. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to https://www.quo.com/solved ⏹ Factor: Factor: Let’s eat real. Head to https://www.factormeals.com/solved202650off and use code SOLVED202650OFF to get 50% off and 1 free breakfast item per box for 1 year, while supplies last. See website for more details. ⏹ Shopify: The best businesses aren’t built in boardrooms. They’re built by people who just started. Free trial at shopify.com/solved ⏹ Purpose App: 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://solved.deals/purpose ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: ⁠⁠⁠⁨https://markmanson.net/breakthrough⁩⁠⁠⁠ 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/⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@IAmMarkManson
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  • How to Build Confidence, Solved
    Jul 1 2026
    Confidence isn't something you build. It's what's left over. You've done the pose. Hands on hips, chest out, an affirmation on a sticky note stuck to the mirror. And then you walked into the room feeling exactly the same, or worse. Here's what nobody tells you: the entire concept of confidence you've been sold was invented by an anxious preacher in the 1940s who mistook his own coping mechanism for a universal law. The research is even uglier. Affirmations reliably make insecure people feel less secure. Visualizing success decreases motivation. The most famous confidence technique in history was built on a study of 42 people that the lead author eventually had to abandon. In this episode we trace where it all went wrong, from Norman Vincent Peale to power poses to the self-esteem movement that quietly failed a whole generation. Then we get into what actually works: a discovery made in a room full of snakes, a 2,000-year-old framework that turns out to be empirically correct, and why the sequence runs exactly backwards from everything you've been taught. Get your free PDF guide: https://solvedpodcast.com/confidence. CHAPTERS: (00:00) CHAPTER 1: Why Confidence Advice Is Backwards (07:46) Norman Vincent Peale and positive thinking (10:44) The Peale Fallacy (16:09) When confidence was a sin (27:41) Do affirmations work? (31:19) Does visualization work? (47:01) CHAPTER 2: How Confidence Is Actually Built (53:59) Why confidence generalizes to the rest of your life (01:03:04) Self-efficacy and its four sources (01:09:35) The "Do Something" Principle (01:18:56) Mark's coaching story: lower the stakes (01:32:28) The case for a little delusion (01:40:25) CHAPTER 3: Confidence vs. Competence (01:46:09) Calibration and the Dunning-Kruger effect (01:51:46) Imposter Syndrome and the high-performer trap (02:02:05) The Spotlight Effect (02:04:04) Narcissism: why it gets mistaken for confidence (02:11:20) How to actually tell confidence from narcissism (02:26:56) CHAPTER 4: What the Self-Esteem Movement Got Wrong (02:30:26) Where self-esteem came from (William James) (02:44:49) Why the self-esteem movement backfired (02:54:10) How you actually build generalized confidence (03:06:52) Meta self-efficacy (03:16:20) CHAPTER 5: Is Confidence Even the Point? (03:17:02) When confidence was an insult (03:29:04) Courage over confidence (03:36:20) Facing fear: the driving-lessons experiment (03:40:23) Why pursuing confidence is the wrong goal (03:45:13) The takeaway: competence first, confidence follows (03:50:41) The 80/20 of Confidence CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS ⏹ Get 100 blades for free with the purchase of a razor. That’s over a 2 year supply! Head to https://www.hensonshaving.com/solved and use code SOLVED at checkout ⏹ Always say hello with QUO. Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to https://www.quo.com/solved ⏹ Start eating better: Head to https://www.factormeals.com/solved202650off and use code SOLVED202650OFFto get 50% off and free daily greens per box ⏹ Stop waiting for permission to build something. Your next revenue stream starts free at https://www.shopify.com/solved ⏹ Get a new operating system for your mind. Go to https://www.wakingup.com/solved to start today and get 14 days free. ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: ⁠⁠⁠⁨https://markmanson.net/breakthrough⁩⁠⁠⁠ ⇨ 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://bit.ly/4w46FMH⁠⁠⁠ 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/⁠ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@IAmMarkManson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • How to Change Your Life, Solved
    Jun 3 2026
    If you've ever tried to change something about yourself, failed, tried again, and concluded you must just be broken, here's some good news: you're probably not broken. You've just been aiming at the wrong target for years. Who you are is actually a layered system. Most people fail at change because they treat behaviors like permanent traits and traits like behaviors they can flip overnight, spending years aiming at the wrong layer. In this episode, Drew and I map out the full system. This is the longest and most personal episode we've ever done. Get the free PDF episode guide: https://solvedpodcast.com/change/ CHAPTERS CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS ⏹ Shopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at: ⁠https://www.shopify.com/solved⁠ ⏹ Factor: Head to⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.factormeals.com/solved202650off⁠ and use code solved202650off to get 50% off and free daily greens per box, with new subscription only ⏹ Wealthfront: Wealthfront’s high-yield cash account: ⁠http://cash.wealthfront.com/solved⁠ See full offer details below. ⏹ Quo: Try QUO for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to ⁠https://www.quo.com/solved⁠ ⏹ Brain.fm⁠: Get 30 days free of unlimited access at ⁠https://www.brain.fm/solved⁠ ⏹ Waking Up: Start your 14 day free trial at ⁠https://www.wakingup.com/solved ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: ⁠⁠⁨https://markmanson.net/breakthrough⁩⁠⁠ ⇨ 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://bit.ly/4w46FMH⁠⁠ FOLLOW MARK Mark's IG: https://www.instagram.com/markmanson Twitter: https://x.com/markmanson LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmanson/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IAmMarkManson Wealthfront Details and Disclosure: This experience may not be representative of other Wealthfront clients, and there is no guarantee of future performance or success. Experiences will vary. Mark Manson receives cash compensation from Wealthfront Brokerage for paid endorsement in his podcast, creating a conflict of interest. The Cash Account, which is not a deposit account, is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. The base APY is 3.30% on cash deposits as of January 30, 2026, is representative, subject to change, and requires no minimum. If eligible for the overall boosted rate of 4.05% offered in connection with this promo, your boosted rate is also subject to change if the base rate decreases during the 3 month promo period. Additional terms and conditions apply, which can be found on wealthfront.com/solved. Funds in the Cash Account are swept to program banks, where it earns the variable APY. Same-day withdrawal or instant payment transfers may be limited by destination institutions, daily transaction caps, and by participating entities such as Wells Fargo, the RTP® Network, and FedNow® Service. New Cash Account deposits are subject to a 2-4 day holding period before becoming available for transfer. Investment advisory services are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser. Securities investments: not bank deposits, bank-guaranteed or FDIC-insured, and may lose value.
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They cut through the unhelpful self-help bs, and challenge you with harsh truths that everyone needs to hear to ACTUALLY make a positive change in your life and move the needle.

Finally something actually helpful and not just self-help fluff.

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So glad that this guy finally has a podcast! It's just as good as I hoped, nice to have more from this author!

Finally!

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take some time out of your day, while driving or whatnot, and listen to this podcast. i feel that you will benefit as much as I benefited.

worth your time

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Mark is great at simple answers to life’s issues. He often reminds me to not over think stuff.

No nonsense wisdom

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It's like getting advice from that old drunk guy that never leaves the bar but somehow knows absolutely everything about everything! And, still calls ya a cocksuc!er every once in a while. Great stuff!

Richest Man in the Trailer Park!

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