Summary: How Mark Manson’s Law of Avoidance taught me to stop caring about approval and start caring about what actually matters. The one concept that changed everything.
I was tired all the time without moving forward. Not physically exhausted — mentally drained. The kind of tired that comes from spending energy on opinions, explanations, and approval while the things that actually mattered got whatever scraps were left over. I’d explain my choices to people who didn’t ask. Defend my timeline to people who wouldn’t remember. Over-justify my decisions to people whose opinions changed nothing. And at the end of each day, I’d wonder why I had no energy left for the…