Mark Manson is a blogger, entrepreneur, and author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life and his latest, Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope. ✍️ Full show notes and worksheet for this episode: https://jordanharbinger.com/198 Our feelings control us: the thinking brain and the feeling brain, seemingly forever at odds with one another. Rationality used to be the highest of human virtues; now it seems the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction. Many of us are convinced that our feelings are all that matter, and this thought trap lodges us firmly into a quagmire where we get stuck in one identity, unable to see past our own values and impulses. The problem is that we puny humans actually need this conflict of values to derive meaning -- and a lot of us have become too soft to cope with the dichotomy, which steers us directly toward a crisis of meaning. In this episode, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life and Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope author Mark Manson joins us to discuss the research behind this phenomenon and what we can do about it to correct course. What We Discuss with Mark Manson: 😃 How acknowledging the uncomfortable truth of human existence’s meaninglessness can ultimately serve as an argument against nihilism. 😃 What the paradox of purpose tells us about the stress that accompanies an overwhelming abundance of choice. 😃 How the feeling brain and the thinking brain might seem at odds, but they actually conspire to guide our values (for better or worse). 😃 Why your identity will stay your identity until a new experience acts against it, and how you can change your values to fit your current narrative instead of one that’s outdated. 😃 What the God value is and how it aligns your hierarchy of values by way of the feeling brain. 😃 And much more... 📖 Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson Buy on Amazon: https://geni.us/8Ama Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show here: http://www.jordanharbinger.com/subscribe/ Follow Jordan and The Jordan Harbinger Show _______________________________________________ Website: http://www.jordanharbinger.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thejordanharbingershow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanharbinger/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanharbinger/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jordanharbinger/ Subscribe: http://www.jordanharbinger.com/subscribe/