Infinite Loops

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• “The things that are going to happen, are going to happen. There is nothing unsovereign about allowing nature to take you forward.”– Chris Williamson
  • Embrace your weirdness, release the tiller, love yourself unconditionally, and life will take you to the right place
  • Many of the things you value about yourself, you didn’t choose. Take advantage of what you do have!
  • In business, if you do what everyone else is doing, you guarantee average results
  • Understand the difference between good ideas/policies andconceptual inertia
• Modern Wisdom Takeaways:
  • “The persona is incapable of receiving love, it can only receive praise”–Aubrey Marcus
    • Don’t let your value be dependent on your role
  • Let the good shit stick – Idea from Tim Ferriss
    • You never know what idea or conversation is going to turn into a profound experience
• People on Twitter are very prematurely certain and quickly bind an idea to their sense of self, and will aggressively defend themselves due to lack of ‘skin in the game’ and direct social costs
  • People like Sam Harris and Joe Rogan are great examples of having high social costs for supporting their own opinion
  • Our institutions are continuously losing public trust by not respecting the responsibility associated with the social costs of their information distribution & communication
• On the internet, if you sell your integrity, you can’t buy it back
  • The internet’s grift radar is so fine-tuned, your own audience will come after you

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Chris Williamson is the host of the Modern Wisdom podcast, a YouTuber, TEDx Speaker, and an ex-professional Party Boy! We have a wide ranging discussion with Chris in this episode of Infinite Loops, including topics like:

• The need to explore different ideas
• Impact of The Great Reshuffle
• Genetic Behaviorism
• Cultural difference in US vs UK
• Getting good at 'Networking'
• And a LOT more!

Follow Chris on his Twitter here: https://twitter.com/ChrisWillx and listen to his podcast on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaH-gZIVC432YRjNVvnyCA