Mark Manson

Once people have developed the thought pattern to constantly construe what happens around them as self-aggrandizing, it’s extremely hard to break them out of it.

Instead of looking to be right all the time, we should be looking for how we’re wrong all the time. Because we are.

Don’t trust your conception of positive/negative experiences. All that we know for certain is what hurts in the moment and what doesn’t

The problem here is that not only is certainty unattainable, but the pursuit of certainty often breeds more (and worse) insecurity

the more you try to be certain about something, the more uncertain and insecure you will feel

the more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don’t know

e cannot learn anything without first not knowing something. The more we admit we do not know, the more opportunities we gain to learn

there is little that is unique or special about your problems

The narrower and rarer the identity you choose for yourself, the more everything will seem to threaten you

It’s worth remembering that for any change to happen in your life, you must be wrong about something