No, You Can’t Make a Person Change

Mark Manson
9 min readNov 29, 2021

W e’ve all had that one person — that one person in our lives that we always find ourselves saying, “If only they would…” Month after month, year after year — we love them, we care about them, we worry for them, but when we turn off the light or hang up the phone, we think to ourselves, “If only they would…”

Maybe it’s a family member. Maybe they’re depressed. Heartbroken. Despondent. Maybe they don’t…

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Mark Manson

Author of #1 NYTimes Bestseller ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck’. OG Blogger. Psychology Nerd. I enjoy cats and whiskey. But not at the same time.