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Remember this About Emotional Painful Things! | Mark Manson

1 Aug 2024 · 0 min

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Mark Manson argues that emotional pain is simple: it's just a feeling you have to endure. Overthinking breakups or creating elaborate strategies doesn't reduce the hurt. The realistic approach is accepting that it will hurt and sitting with it.

When something is emotionally difficult, we tend to assume it must be complicated, right? It's like it's emotionally difficult to break up with somebody. So there's got to be like a 17-step procedure that I can learn and rehearse. You know, it's like, no, you just break up with them. Right, right, right. It just really hurts. Like, that's- It's painful. You got to experience it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Very simple, extremely, extremely painful.