Mark Manson
Medellin, AT
Male, 28
I am a professional blogger, internet entrepreneur, and world traveler. I've been to over 40 countries and am currently working on my second book about long-term travel and how to work/live abroad. On my blog I write about self development and creating a unique lifestyle for yourself. Feel free to ask me anything.
Hunt around the blog-o-sphere, for every blog you're aware of, there are probably 2000 you're not. Click on people's blog rolls then click on all of those people's blog rolls and so on. You'll eventually find dozens of relatable blogs to yours. But also, starting on forums and comments is an easier place to start.
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I think they're growing. More and more companies and corporations are offering opportunities to work remotely. I also think that the information age promotes more creative freelance type work. There will always be those jobs that always require you to show up, but I think things are going to be more flexible in the near future. It's likely that in 10 years, this lifestyle won't be uncommon at all anymore.
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Yes, I do. One of the best pieces of advice I ever got related to this actually came from my high school math teacher. He was an old dude and had been teaching for 40 years or something. And he told us that he noticed that when kids were stumped on the test, if they started writing something, anything, their brains would naturally start to trial-and-error their way into the problem and come up with something. But if they just sat there and stared and thought, nothing ever came of it and they only got more and more frustrated. On my site, I refer to this as the "Do Something Principle" I apply the same concept to writer's block. When I have writer's block I force myself to just start writing, even if I think what I'm writing is total shit and silly and useless, I just keep going. And inevitably what happens is I find one or two things I like and want to keep and then expand on those, and then that gives me new ideas and I continue until I'm over it. But it often takes a number of attempts. What I've found is that some article ideas give me a lot of writer's block while others come out of me effortlessly. Not completely sure why.
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The first book is about dating and women. The site began years ago as a men's dating site. You can find it here: http://postmasculine.com/models
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It's penetrating further and further. I think it's inevitable, the social and economic changes happening, as well as the philosophies of the younger generations are converging on this type of lifestyle. It's kind of our version of the "free love" revolution I suppose. They are hard ideas to grapple with, but change always is. I think a decade from now people's attitudes towards this type of lifestyle will be quite different it will be considered a lot more mainstream.
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At the moment I don't really have any mentors, although I've had a few at various times in the past. These days, I'm more of looking at what the super-famous bloggers are doing (Tim Ferriss, Leo Babauta, etc.) and try to model or draw some sort of inspiration from them, since reaching that level seems to be the next step.
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Not sure what you mean. I have my own products and books that I sell through my blog. The blog itself makes very little money since I do little to no advertising. But yes, I have supported myself for about four years now.
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