Mark Manson

Mark Manson (born March 9, 1984) is an American self-help author, blogger and entrepreneur. He is the author of the website MarkManson.net and two books, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living the Good Life, and Models: Attract Women through Honesty. He is also the CEO and founder of Infinity Squared Media LLC. 2Background Mark Manson is from Austin, Texas in the United States. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts to study and graduated from Boston University with a degree in finance in 2007. Mark Manson started his first blog in 2009 as a marketing channel for his dating advice business and later shifted to blogging full-time as a digital nomad. 2Career as a Blogger Mark Manson's website, markmanson.net, hosts a popular blog written by Manson that garnered 400,000 monthly visitors in 2014 and had grown to 2 million monthly visitors by 2016. He writes about topics related to culture, dating and relationships, life choices, and psychology, and states that he writes 'personal development advice that doesn't suck.' Mark Manson's articles have been published and quoted in CNN, BBC News, Business Insider, Yahoo! News and The Sydney Morning Herald, Time, Vox, The Huffington Post, and others. In her book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, author Elizabeth Gilbert cites Mark Manson's blog, stating, "I recently read a fabulous blog by a writer named Mark Manson, who said that the secret to finding your purpose in life is to answer this question in total honesty: 'What's your favorite flavor of shit sandwich?'" 2Books 3Models Mark Manson's first book, Models: Attract Women through Honesty, was self-published in 2011 and by 2014 it had sold over 15,000 copies. The book teaches men how to attract women through honest communication and creating a lifestyle that's in line with one's values, standing in contrast to many popular ideas in the pickup artist community that have been labeled as deceptive and dishones