Mark Manson

About Mark Manson

Mark Manson is an American self-help author and blogger.

Occupation: blogger, entrepreneur, writer, author
Citizenship: United States
Born: March 9, 1984
Website: https://markmanson.net/

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Mark Manson (born March 9, 1984) is an American self-help author and blogger.

As of 2026, he has authored or co-authored four books, three of which, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, Everything Is Fucked: A Book About Hope, and Will, were New York Times bestsellers.

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Personal life

Mark Manson was raised in Austin, Texas, in the United States, where he attended St. Andrews Episcopal School after his parents got a divorce. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, to study international relations, and graduated from Boston University in 2007.

Blogs

Manson started his first blog about dating advice in 2008.

In 2010, he started a new blog called post masculine (now defunct) which provided general life advice for men. Manson moved his blog to markmanson.net in 2013.

In 2015, Manson published a blog article, "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck", which would form the basis of his second book by the same name.

Notable quotes

“The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”
— Chapter 1, “Don’t Try” (p. 9)
“Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems.”
— Chapter 3, “You Are Not Special” (p. 60)
“For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness. Racists do racist things because they’re certain about their genetic superiority. Religious fanatics blow themselves up and murder dozens of people because they’re certain of their place in heaven as martyrs.”
— Chapter 6, “You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)” (p. 133)
“I try to live with few rules, but one that I’ve adopted over the years is this: if it’s down to me being screwed up, or everybody else being screwed up, it is far, far, far more likely that I’m the one who’s screwed up.”
— Chapter 6, “You’re Wrong About Everything (But So Am I)” (pp. 145-146)

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