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Mark Manson 4 Episodes Aug 23, 2026

Solved Clips showcases the best moments, key insights, and sharpest segments from SOLVED, the show featuring bestselling author Mark Manson. The podcast addresses life's biggest questions using research-backed, practical frameworks. Each episode distills the most valuable takeaways from the main show into concise clips.

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Your Life Is A Game Of Poker. Here's How To Win Aug 23, 2026 488 Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 People burn a lot of energy fighting over whether success is luck or skill. Wrong fight. In this one I break down the framework that reorganized how I think about all of it: San Sai, an ancient Chinese model that splits luck into three kinds. The luck you're born with, the environment you put yourself in, and the way you

How Lucky Are You Really? Aug 20, 2026 500 Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 Two babies are born on the same day, one in Norway, one in Sierra Leone, and one of them will live 21 years longer. Neither picked a thing. This is the luck everyone fixates on, and it's also the luck you're worst at interpreting. In this clip I run the actual numbers, get into the philosopher's thought experiment that r

Why Lucky People Find More Money Aug 18, 2026 562 Watch the full Luck episode on the Solved podcast: go.markmanson.net/h0g98i67 Why do two people walk into the same coffee shop and one spots the cash on the floor while the other walks right past it? Richard Wiseman ran the studies, and the results are wild. Lucky people literally see more of what's in front of them. In this clip Drew and I get into how luck behaves like a skill you can train, and

Myers-Briggs Is a Horoscope for Smart People Aug 16, 2026 1253 Watch the full Change episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/change You've probably taken the Myers-Briggs test, put your type in a LinkedIn bio, or had a boss organize your team around it. In this clip, Drew and I get into why that four-letter label is closer to a horoscope than a science. I tell the real story of where MBTI came from: not a lab, but a mother-daughter pair working from a

Why Positive Thinking Ruins Your Life Aug 13, 2026 1108 Watch the full Confidence episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/confidence Do affirmations actually work? Mark and Drew go through the research on affirmations, vision boards, and power posing, why most of it failed to replicate, and how affirmations can actually make people with low self-esteem feel worse. Plus the WOOP method that makes visualization genuinely useful. Chapters ⇨ Sig

The Anxious Preacher Who Invented Modern Confidence Aug 12, 2026 953 Watch the full Confidence episode on the Solved podcast:https://mrk.mn/confidence Nearly every piece of confidence advice we have inherited traces back to one anxious 1940s preacher, Norman Vincent Peale, and his book The Power of Positive Thinking. Mark and Drew break down the "feel fallacy," the mistaken belief that you have to feel confident before you can perform, and the surprising fact that

How to Actually Change Your Life Aug 9, 2026 671 Watch the full Change episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/change Most people who try to change themselves are working on the wrong layer, and that's why they keep failing. In this clip, Drew and I lay out the framework that runs through the entire Change episode: the self operates on three layers at once. Your personality traits are the base, your natural set point, and they barely move.

Can You Really Change Who You Are? Aug 8, 2026 818 Watch the full Change episode on the Solved podcast: https://mrk.mn/change Everyone's taken a Big Five personality test at some point, but almost nobody knows what the results actually mean, or whether they're stuck with them for life. In this clip, Drew and I break down the single most replicated finding in all of psychology: the Big Five (OCEAN) traits, what each one actually predicts about you

Social Media: The Global Shame Machine Sep 26, 2025 604 What happens when technology turns the entire planet into your tribe? Social media has essentially scaled shame to infinity — transforming our ancient survival instincts into a 24/7 shame machine. From cancel culture mobs to shameless trolls, the internet has distorted the way we relate to one another, fueling anxiety, outrage, and paranoia. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/0M9b8bi6Ap

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