{"id":8737,"date":"2014-09-20T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=8737"},"modified":"2025-03-13T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T08:53:27","slug":"my-answers-to-mark-mansons-life-purpose-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2014\/09\/20\/my-answers-to-mark-mansons-life-purpose-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"My Answers To Mark Manson’s Life Purpose Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/markmanson.net\/life-purpose<\/a><\/p>\n

1: What is your favorite flavor of shit sandwich and does it come with an olive? (What pain do you want in your life?)<\/h3>\n

I love writing. I love words. I love ideas. I love expression. I can imagine spending the rest of my life being obsessed about words. I can imagine having written thousands of essays, of which maybe 10 might be any good. I like the idea of that.<\/p>\n

2: What is true about you today that would make 8-year-old you cry?<\/h3>\n

8 years old? I was in Primary 2. What was I doing then? I was playing video games. I was getting into Red Alert, Galaga, Starcraft. I was very into computers then. I was about to start learning HTML. I was about to build my own website. I’m still kinda doing all of that.<\/p>\n

Oh. Oh. I used to read books. I used to read them intensely. 8-year-old me would cry to see that I didn’t make time for books anymore.<\/p>\n

3: What makes you forget to eat and poop?<\/h3>\n
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  • Video games<\/li>\n
  • Reading<\/li>\n
  • Writing<\/li>\n
  • Social Media<\/li>\n
  • Arguing on the Internet<\/li>\n
  • Giving useful, constructive feedback to people<\/li>\n
  • Great conversations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    4: How can you better embarrass yourself?<\/h3>\n

    I think there are a bunch of things that I ought to write about that I haven’t written because I’m nervous or scared. I guess I ought to just throw things together and ship them without thinking so much.<\/p>\n

    5. How are you going to save the world?<\/h3>\n

    I used to have grand plans for this. On hindsight I think the grand planning was a sort of escapism. But here’s what I want to do now\u2013 I want to find kids out there who are suffering from what I suffered from, and I want to help\u00a0them do better than I did. I’m going to write to them, write for them, talk to them, think with them, and then ultimately help them help each other. All the good stuff will spillover from that.<\/p>\n

    6: Gun to your head, if you had to leave the house all day every day, what would you do?<\/h3>\n

    I was going to say “go to a coffeeshop” but he ruled that out. That bastard. No useless websites, so no Tumblr, no Twitter, all of that stuff.<\/p>\n

      \n
    • Well, I’d do word vomits. I’d wake up in the morning and write a thousand words.<\/li>\n
    • Then I’d go for a run.<\/li>\n
    • I’d learn to cook and I’d keep track of whatever it was that I was cooking. I have this irrational fear of cooking and a generally unhealthy relationship with food, I would try to fix that.<\/li>\n
    • I would feed myself better, I would start lifting weights again.<\/li>\n
    • I would spend a couple of hours a day just reading books, and that itself will go a long way in informing what else I’d do.<\/li>\n
    • I’d write book reviews. I’d watch movies and do movie reviews.<\/li>\n
    • I’d write, write, write, write,write.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      7:\u00a0If you knew you were going to die one year from today, what would you do and how would you want to be remembered?<\/h3>\n
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      1. The first thing I would do is sit down and externalize all my thoughts about what I do at work so that my colleagues can go on to create great work without me.<\/li>\n
      2. I would reach out to all the smart, thoughtful people I know and try to help them get unstuck on whatever they might be stuck on, try to provoke and motivate and inspire them to do the great work that I know that they’re capable of.<\/li>\n
      3. I would travel. I would go to New York and San Francisco to experience modern life. I would check out Soviet architecture in Russia. I would try to make it to every continent, or at least one or two others, to get a real feel for what life is like elsewhere in the world.<\/li>\n
      4. I would try to tie up all the loose ends in my writing and leave behind some sort of legacy that allows others to climb up and above me, like a ladder. I want to be a ladder for others.<\/li>\n
      5. I would try to connect people with other people who might be interesting and useful to them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        I should be doing all of those things right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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