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"Five minutes each week that might change your life." 47 people had a breakthrough last week. Read this newsletter on MarkManson.net. TWO THINGS FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT Your body is a lagging indicator of the food you eat. Your knowledge is a lagging indicator of the information you consume. Your happiness is a lagging indicator of the people you care about. Share this: “The information you consume is the soil from which your future thoughts grow.” – James Clear Share this: Reflect: Then consider sharing this thought with others. ONE THING FOR YOU TO ASK YOURSELF What choices are shaping your future self? Recommended: Use these as journaling prompts for the week. THREE THINGS FOR YOU TO TRY THIS WEEK Unfollow one source of information that’s not worth your attention. Stop eating one food that’s not worth your health. Stop talking to one person who is not worth your happiness. Remember: Small changes lead to lasting breakthroughs. Reply to this email and let me know how it went. You Are What You Read Sponsored by 1440 Online, the takes that spread fastest are the ones that make you angriest, whether or not they're true. Read enough of them and you end up with a head full of hot takes and very few interesting thoughts. That's why I get my news from 1440's daily digest, a daily email put together by actual humans. They go through over a hundred sources and boil it all down to a 5-minute read covering politics, sports, and everything in between. It's unbiased, fact-driven, and they trust you to connect the dots yourself. Five minutes and I know what's going on in the world, minus the blood-pressure spike. Turns out you really are what you read. Join me and four million others who read 1440 instead of doomscrolling by signing up below… for free. Sign up free for the only news you need LAST WEEK'S BREAKTHROUGHS In last week’s newsletter, I asked you to have a conversation with someone who pushes you to be better, even when you don’t want to hear it. A mother confronted her son: “Last week I finally confronted my son about my confusion over the disrespect and unkind things he says or sends to me. I was looking for something huge or wrong… but it was such a wee thing. I went through weeks of pain, hurt, anger, depression… for nothing. Now that we are on the same page, I feel he reaches out more to me than I could hope for. Your suggestion helped. Thank you.” A son will listen to his mother: “The one person who pushes me a lot is my mom and sometimes I feel like I’m not doing enough to accomplish what she expects from me. I make up excuses on why things have not been done or move the conversation into topics where I do have completed tasks. I’m going to have a conversation this week with her and really listen to what she has to say on where I’m at in life and what I have been doing. I know she will help me find a way to start small and make changes for a better future.” Finally, a reader learned who to push themselves for: “I've worked for the same woman for twelve years. In those twelve years I've come to understand that while she may be a decent person, she has significant room to grow as a leader and is by far the most difficult aspect of my job. When thinking about who holds me back, and who pushes me forward, I've realized both roles are filled by her. She has both incredibly low expectations of me and, in other ways, incredibly high expectations. Her need to micro-manage and rearrange processes that are otherwise running smoothly, coupled with constant random tracking of productivity in a remote work environment often makes me feel like she's waiting for me to make a mistake and doesn't trust me to do the job I've done successfully—despite twelve years of glowing performance reviews, peer praise and positive feedback from her. Her inability to communicate her wants clearly often forces me to rework creative projects entirely, just to achieve a favorable response. She recently assigned me a creati