The One Gift You Don’t Need

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Two festive rules for you to think about

The first rule of dealing with drama: don’t hang around people who are constantly creating drama.

The second rule: never forget the first one.

Two things for you to ask yourself

Apply the 80/20 rule. Who in your family generates most of the drama? How can you spend less time with them this week?

One thing for you to try this week

Give yourself permission to skip one thing that drains you this holiday. A conversation. A meal. An expectation you never asked for. Let me know how it goes.

This month’s breakthroughs

As you know, I launched my AI coaching app Purpose this month and I can’t seem to stop yammering on about it. As this week’s breakthroughs, I wanted to share what some of the users are experiencing. Because, it is pretty nutty how well this thing works.

Purpose gave Melissa hope:

No idea if responding to this gets you or someone on your team. But I had to share this.

This year has been a cluster. Every time I get a foothold, something else hits me and I get knocked down. I have a therapist which is helping, but it is still a daily struggle.

And then this showed up. Let me start by saying I was a ‘Purpose Coach’ for 20 plus years. I have studied it, practiced it, and it was always an art form mixed with science that was never ‘perfect.’ But I know the drill well.

As any good coach knows, don’t try to coach yourself. So I was intrigued with what you created. I was hesitant—I tried AI as a coach and it wasn’t all that useful. But a free trial was tempting.

I spent maybe 15 minutes so far with it. I am sitting here in tears, finally feeling a glimmer of hope. How is that possible? What magic is this?

You have something REALLY special here. Not a gimmick, not a try it for five minutes and forget about it. And you have made it affordable. I am blown away.

Deep down, I do think this is what you were meant to do (hey, I was a purpose coach, I know these things). I always believed that each of us had a purpose to share with this world and that it wasn’t just ‘nice,’ it was necessary, not only for the individual, but for the planet.

So a deep felt Thank You for putting your talent, energy and passion into this. It truly is great!

Rob is combining 24/7 support from Purpose with my Solved podcast and our community:

Mark—

I truly hope you see this email. I needed to reach out and tell you that I’ve been using Purpose, and I’m honestly blown away by how effective it’s been. I’ve gained more insight and support from the AI in this short time than I have through many in-person therapy sessions over the years.

I’m also working through the Solved podcasts alongside the Solved Community, and together with Purpose, it’s been incredibly grounding and eye-opening. I often forget I’m even interacting with an AI—its responses feel that natural and supportive. The more I open up, the more helpful it becomes.

I keep thinking how different my life might have been if I’d had something like this 30 years ago.

Thank you for everything you’re doing and for using technology in such a meaningful, positive way. It truly matters.

Finally, many Purpose users love it so much they’ve been gifting it to their loved ones. Here’s Bridget:

HOLY CRAP this was an experience! I’m older (60), not tech savvy and AI makes me hesitate but man did the first chat wow me! I was skeptical, but the in-depth observations were uncomfortably and accurately spot on in the test I did for myself.

I am offering this to my kids and their significant others as Christmas gifts, I was so impressed.

Thank you for continuing to push boundaries to help us help ourselves, keep up the good (and relevant) work!

If, like Bridget, you’d like to give Purpose as a meaningful gift to someone who could use a little more clarity and support by their side, you can do so by signing into your account on the web (or creating one here) and selecting the gifting option.

Thank you for reading, and Merry Christmas.

As always, send your breakthroughs by simply replying to this email. Let me know if you’d prefer to remain anonymous.

Until next week,

Mark Manson

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