This is Water

Finding Your Life Path, Solved

SOLVED with Mark Manson, 2 September 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 17 min in.

Mark Manson says he loves this David Foster Wallace speech and has posted it many times. He credits it as the source of his own phrase 'the default state'—the mindless autopilot mode people fall into when unstimulated—which he says Wallace describes perfectly and which drives the constant craving for new stimulation that underlies the aesthetic life.

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