Everything is Fucked

Finding Your Life Path, Solved

SOLVED with Mark Manson, 2 September 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 1 hr 31 min in.

Mark Manson describes his second book as wrestling with the Easterlin Paradox—why wealthier, freer people tend to be more anxious and depressed—without having yet read Kierkegaard. Looking back, he recognises the book was grappling with exactly the core Kierkegaardian idea that excess freedom and optionality generate despair.

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