#816 - 2.25M Q&A - The Manosphere, Mike Israetel & Overcoming Insecurities

During the period of time where I've achieved a greater success than I've ever had, there's been things that I've been missing, and it's reminded me, I think it's recentered me, on what it is that I want, which is not just success and growth at any cost; it's to enjoy the process.

I would struggle to think of a time when worrying more lead to better results.

The purpose of 'monk mode' is to do a focus period—isolation, introspection, improvement—so that you then become a functional, more functional, more competent member of society, not so you just do monk mode to be better at monk mode.

I think typically the way that it seems is that most podcasts around about episode 150 start making money—and you can get through 3 a week in a year, or you can get through 1 a week in 3 years.