Why I Love That Mark Manson Is Quitting Self Help

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“The standard roadmap for self-help authors when they produce a hit book is to spend the next 20–30 years regurgitating the same ideas over and over again in various formats…. To me that sounds about as interesting as sticking my dick in a light socket.”

-Mark Manson

Mark Manson threw the fucking gauntlet down the other day.

He announced he was quitting self-help in this article (linked below).

Why I'm Ready to Quit Self-Help

I have enormous respect for his decision. As the author of several best-selling self-help books, and the owner of a ginormously popular blog, Mark is basically a writing God.

But he’s quitting writing about his bread and butter — self-help. Why?

I’ll break the reasons down right now, which might hold a lot of wisdom for a lot of people.

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