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SOLVED with Mark Manson
SOLVED with Mark Manson

Meditation, Solved: Is It Actually Worth It?

1 tim 21 min18 mars 2026

Om avsnittet

Meditation has been sold to us as a magic pill for so long that the backlash is almost as overblown as the hype. I spent years deep in Buddhist practice, went on retreats, meditated daily — and then slowly discovered that half the gurus evangelizing it were alcoholics, abusers, or running Rolls-Royce-funded cults. Here's what the more careful research actually shows: there are three things meditation does reliably well, and they’re probably not what you've been promised. More importantly, almost everything you've been told about how to do it is wrong — starting with the idea that the goal is to quiet your mind. If your brain turns into a chaotic mess the moment you close your eyes, that's not a failure. That's the whole point.

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CHAPTERS

Chapters

  • 00:00:00 Introduction
  • 00:08:15 Skeptic Claim #1: Meditation Is Overhyped
  • 00:22:45 Skeptic Claim #2: "Meditation Isn't for Me"
  • 00:41:36 Meditation Isn't Safe or Helpful for Everyone
  • 00:48:33 Skeptic Claim #3: The New-Agey, "Woo-Woo" Crowd Turns Me Off
  • 01:01:01 A Secular, Grounded Alternative: Meditation Without Metaphysics
  • 01:07:40 Are We Losing Something by Secularizing Meditation?
  • 01:17:35 Conclusion: What Meditation Really Is

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