CHAPTER 6 OUT NOW: https://youtu.be/nGv2qm2g77I Start your 14 day free trial of Waking Up at https://www.wakingup.com/solved There is one category of change that is faster, deeper, and more permanent than anything else in psychology. It can happen in a single moment. It rewrites who you are. And it's almost always set off by something most people would never choose to go through. In this chapter, Mark tells the story of losing his closest friend at 19 and the overnight transformation that followed, William James and the "sick souls" who only change under unbearable weight, and the four-step pattern researchers have found behind nearly every case of quantum change. Get the free PDF episode guide: https://solvedpodcast.com/change/ This is chapter 5 of our episode on change. New chapters drop every few days. Watch the full episode NOW on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/mvn4m2jk ⇨ Sign up for my newsletter, Your Next Breakthrough. It will help make you a less awful person: https://go.markmanson.net/cdi1xzha ⇨ 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/217i5ys5 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 #changeyourlife #change #transformation #quantumchange