Bonus Q&A: Facing Regrets, Hustle Culture, Living with ADHD, and More

It’s bonus episode time! Today, I’m doing a Q&A with questions you’ve all submitted. We dive into how I’ve changed my mind, bad habits, regrets, dead dreams, advice to young people, meditation, and a whole lot more.

00:29 What have you changed your mind about lately?
02:34 Quitting bad habits
05:30 How do you deal with so many followers/subscribers?
05:57 What are your biggest regrets?
07:47 A word salad question about positive expectations
10:54 The impact of emotionally immature parents
12:12 Any changes to relationship advice you've given?
15:01 Would you change anything in your books?
16:25 Do you still want to be a rockstar?
17:09 Fake it 'til you make it?
17:16 What's your favorite ego state?
17:23 What about free will?
18:10 Thoughts on David Goggins?
18:57 How do you measure success after gaining financial security?
20:39 Go to school or make money from home?
20:48 What's with your hair?
21:43 Getting over the loss of a loved one
23:32 Where did the universe come from?
26:40 Do men need lots of sexual partners?
28:05 How do you know you're ready for marriage?
29:12 How do you play the long game of life?
29:50 Advice to teens?
30:45 How to be more emotionally resilient
33:32 When feeling good/happy upsets others
33:51 How do you perform brilliantly every day?
34:05 Moving on after a divorce
35:17 What's with the BetterHelp ads?
38:03 Your thoughts on meditation?
38:49 Have you ever practiced Christianity?
39:01 Advice on business and money
40:10 Thoughts on hustle culture
42:08 When did you realize you were happy?
42:26 What to do if I don't like being around people?
43:08 Advice on ADHD
47:00 Are you an Edgelord?

[Kate-rvkx]

Mark, you are my sudoku. I listen to podcasts while I work so my mind doesn't wander.

[stephtonneson]

Dude. The amount of work you put into your content is insane. I’m a small creator on IG, and I look up to you as a creator, especially because we share a lot of the same personality traits. Thank you for leading by example. ❤

[rehaansh]

26:00 Mark really needed to show he still got that author in him thats why he wrote this essay 😂(btw its beautifully written)

[vandalpaulius]

The ending as always is peak!
Also ADHD advice is so on point. Don't have diagnosed but tendencies towards it. If I need to get stuff done, some hardcore edm or heavy metal on high volume does the trick to drown out all the voices in my head

[marialourdescruz]

I can listen to you all day, Mark! More vids and podcast please ❤

[GR_BackingTracks]

The ADHD suggestion of "Doing two things at once" is a hack that creates my most productive days.... It's even better if i have a third thing that's entirely low-load.

[ireneelisabethhitchcock]

The greatest outro of all time!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[michelle_cen]

Love all your Q&A’s! Would love even more! Thank you ❤❤❤🎉

[cofeeval]

Marc's answer of the origin of the universe is the best thing I have seen. 🤣 'Get the fuck over yourself, dude'

[hammbaby]

love this, used to be a part of your Q&As when you used to do live monthly them on your site 😂😂

[omeralikhan]

Love you Mark! Keep blessing us with these hard hitting videos!

[whitenbald]

You're really good with words dude, you should be an author or something

[vedantsonje]

The first thing I thought by seeing the thumbnail was a podcast between Mark and Andrew Huberman

[miriamguevara]

Thanks for this! I have adhd and I have to do another thing like see YouTube and work also, thanks I always feel like I was Wrong. ❤

[ioavlivneh]

Love the ADHD tips Mark. I'm gonna go out to buy some sudokus and crosswords now.

[BlueBEAZY]

The Free Will thing has always fascinated me. Especially growing up Christian and picking apart the theology around free will itself. If God is truly all knowing and all seeing then he should already know whether we’re destined for heaven or hell. So if that’s true then what was the point of granting us free will? Even then is it real or just an illusion?

[etut]

Great follow-up to your previous Q&A. I greatly appreciate your response to the divorced individual coping with the end of a long long-term relationship.

I have one question: where did Drew find those sleek bookshelves lining the back of your pod set?

I think they're great. Love the content, keep up the great work, team!

[Stacey-sm]

I don't have ADHD but the bit about doing two activities simultaneously is not ridiculous to me. I myself engage in two low mentally loaded activities and sometimes even one high mentally loaded and low mentally loaded.

[cecilmonk]

Man, it give me a strange feeling looking at those vertical black and brown lines at the back, no idea why!

[SputnikExperiment]

Mark Manson explaining evolution?!? Damn! This is as good as South Park Satan explaining dopamine. This is awesome!