Your suffering is a compass. Here’s how to read it.
MARK MANSON: My name is Mark Manson. I am the author of the subtle art of not giving a fuck, as well as some other works. I’m a YouTuber, podcaster, and my work focuses primarily on the importance of values. This is Big Think, and today I’m going to be talking about how to grow into an emotionally mature adult. How to develop a healthy sense of hope. How to improve your life by changing your values. And how to find success through failure. Chapter 1. Becoming an emotionally healthy adult. One of my spicier arguments is that I think happiness is greatly overrated in today’s age. I think people focus on it way too much. I think they’re focused on it backfires pretty consistently. But worst of all, I think people have started confusing comforts and highs for the same thing as happiness. It’s interesting if you look at the ancient world, Aristotle actually argued that there are two versions of happiness. There’s hedonia, which is kind of pleasure, comforts, short-term satisfactions, and then there’s …









