In an ever-changing world knowing who you are is becoming a super-power. We are infinitely affected and connected to the environment around us. We are biased to fit in, there's always this pressure not to peak out of the ordinary. It has been beneficial at some point in the evolution, perhaps, when we were in a smaller group of people and those were the only people we knew. Any embarrassment there would mean, that we wouldn't spread our genes into future generations, therefore standing out was not selected for. That's the root of social status bias.

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00:00 Who is Chris Williamson and what does he do? 

02:00 What did Chris love to do as a Child? 

06:40 What questions did Chris ask before starting Modern Wisdom? 

10:00 How to rediscover yourself? 

15:30 Embracing weirdness 

21:55 How do you integrate information into our own life 

27:45 The Good sh*t sticks 

41:15 Non-religious spirituality and evolutionary psychology 

42:15 Have a Red Pill: Free Will - So What?

45:00 Sam Harrises' experience of no free will 

49:00 "Just enjoy the fu*king ride man" 

50:00 Meaning and transcendence 

53:00 Humans as an Inherently transcending creatures 

56:00 Richness of our subjective experience "Just how insane it is to exist" 

1:00:00 Evolutionary Psychology, insight, and mindfulness 

1:04:00 Mindfulness gap 

1:05:30 Favourite mental model: Never Multiply by zero 

1:11:45 What's the most essential thing with mental models - Go into dirt 

1:14:00 Red Pill 

1:18:30 Dating Pareto Rule 

1:22:20 Chris´s daily routines