{"id":1599,"date":"2026-05-06T21:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:33:47","slug":"becoming-emotionally-mature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/becoming-emotionally-mature\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Emotionally Mature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, argues that the entire self-help industry has been selling ephemeral highs: affirmations, visualizations, the relentless pursuit of feeling good. The research doesn&#8217;t support it, and more importantly, neither does lived experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Swxy4tUE3s?si=zsR-zAni9wMucAMR\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Becoming Emotionally Mature\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8Swxy4tUE3s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/8Swxy4tUE3s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also: <a title=\"Becoming Emotionally Mature\" href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/series\/full-interview\/true-happiness-maturity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/series\/full-interview\/true-happiness-maturity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most people are trying to solve the wrong problem, optimizing for happiness when happiness isn&#8217;t actually a goal, it&#8217;s a byproduct.&#8221; &#8211; Mark Manson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, argues that the entire self-help industry has been selling ephemeral highs: affirmations, visualizations, the relentless pursuit of feeling good. The research doesn&#8217;t support it, and more importantly, neither does lived experience. Source: https:\/\/youtu.be\/8Swxy4tUE3s Also: https:\/\/bigthink.com\/series\/full-interview\/true-happiness-maturity\/ &#8220;Most people are trying to solve the wrong\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/becoming-emotionally-mature\/\">Read More: Becoming Emotionally Mature &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,239],"tags":[250,30,251],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-research","tag-emotionally-mature","tag-happiness","tag-mark-manson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}