Ignore Everything You’ve Read About Success (Except This)

Toss out the paint-by-numbers systems and follow these five steps instead

Mark Manson
Forge
Published in
9 min readAug 7, 2020

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Look, I know you want to be that big badass with the sweet-ass house and all the fancy letters after your name, but let’s be honest for a second: There’s no formula for getting that. Here’s what I can offer you instead.

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Mark Manson
Forge
Writer for

Author of #1 NYTimes Bestseller ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck’. OG Blogger. Psychology Nerd. I enjoy cats and whiskey. But not at the same time.