Chris discusses the truth about what happens to some when they show too much vulnerability.

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I'm back on my old couch in Newcastle with Jonny, Yusef & George to catch up on what they've learned, their best hacks and new year's resolutions for 2025.

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00:00 Ninja CREAMi Hacks

06:25 A Trigger for Gratitude

08:39 Uber Black XL for a Special Occasion

13:31 The Kale Algorithm

20:25 Audible to Send You to Sleep

24:39 Use What You Already Have Better

28:05 Secure Your Curtains in Hotel Rooms

31:36 The Best On-the-Road Work Setup

35:00 Walking Pad With a Standing Desk

40:48 Only Do Voice Notes When You’re Walking

42:00 Chris’s Favourite Music & Deodorant

43:55 How to Learn Anything From LLMs

48:01 The Pain of Growing a Business

53:48 Stop Moving the Goalposts

1:01:03 Outcomes Matter Most From Inputs

1:06:46 Turning Bullshit Into Reality

1:10:18 The Problem With 75 Hard

1:14:13 A Framework for Achieving Your Goals

1:18:26 Chris’s Most Impactful Resolutions

1:23:22 How to Actually Succeed In Your Resolutions

1:27:45 The Happiness of Progress

1:33:08 Stated Vs Revealed Goals

1:36:40 The Socratic Method & Doom Loops

1:41:52 Merry Christmas

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It’s the end of 2024 and to celebrate I thought I’d run through some of the best lessons I’ve picked up over the last 12 months.

This year has had over 10,000 minutes of episodes produced so there was a lot to choose from but I ended up settling on 16 insights from some of my favourite conversations both inside and outside of the podcast.

Expect to learn what the insecure overachiever mindset is, whether success has to be painful, why men aren’t seen as having problems, how come so many people in shape have an issue with Ozempic users, whether you can be good if you can’t be evil, Elon Musk’s reflections on being a CEO, what to do if you don’t believe in yourself and much more…

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00:00 The Insecure Overachiever Mindset

06:27 There Are No Solutions, Only Trade-Offs

09:18 Men Are Seen as the Problem

15:49 The Backlash to Ozempic

24:04 Don’t Be Ashamed of Your Effort

26:14 An Unexpected Sign of Success

27:39 Don’t Aim for Mediocre

31:39 The Quiet Work Behind the Achievements

34:00 What It’s Really Like to Be a CEO

37:59 The World Belongs to Optimists

44:09 Does Belief or Action Come First?

50:53 How Much Should You Care About Things?

54:50 Being Mean Doesn’t Change People’s Minds

56:58 Men Have to Earn the Right to Talk About Their Emotions

1:00:19 The Real Reason Behind Divorce

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Chris and David Senra discuss the inner work high achievers do to succeed.

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I went back to the motherland.

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Chris and Marc Andreesseen discuss the United Health Care CEO shooting.

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Chris and Dry Creek Dewayne discuss how to build unbreakable self-esteem. How do you learn to like yourself? How do you treat yourself better both mentally and physically?

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Michael Morris is a professor of cultural psychology at Columbia University and an author.

Why are humans so tribal? Despite our capacity for empathy and inclusion, why do we always gravitate toward groups of similar individuals? And is there such a thing as good tribalism?

Expect to learn why tribalism exists and how it evolved in humans, why we can hate people outside of our group and why we become hostile, if the modern world has worsened tribal instincts, whether tribalism is actually a good thing for our society, why so many people identify as not the opposition instead of as for their own group and much more…

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00:00 Why Does Tribalism Exist?

07:45 Is Tribalism An ‘Us’ or ‘Them’ Thing?

12:00 How the Modern World Encourages Tribalism

20:10 Tribalism Vs Polarisation

25:01 What People Become Tribal About

33:05 The Origin of Hero Instinct

42:36 The Role of Our Inner Conscience

57:44 Why We Care About Our Ancestors

1:08:26 What Causes Tribes to Change?

1:15:02 The Psychology of Cults

1:19:14 Tribes in Times of Threat & Peace

1:34:34 Where to Find Michael

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Chris and Dry Creek Dewayne discuss the positives and negatives of hustle culture. What does Dewayne think of Hustle culture? What are Dewyane's thoughts on David Goggins? What advice does Dewayne have for young men who are overworking themselves?

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Lionel Page is a professor at the University of Queensland and an author.

Lionel is one of my favourite writers so I had to bring him on to uncover the invisible psychology which drives our happiness. How can we optimise for wellbeing in a world full of distractions and pressures? Why does persistent happiness remain so elusive, and what shifts can help us build a healthier, more sustainable relationship with it?

Expect to learn what everyone gets wrong when thinking about happiness, the most important mechanisms that drive our wellbeing, how the role of comparison on social media contributes to overall happiness, why evolution didn’t design us with the ability to simply feel greater and greater satisfaction, the role of a meaningful life, why we overestimate the importance of our future success and much more…

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00:00 The Issue With How We View Happiness

05:35 We Always Compare Ourselves to Others

15:36 Why We Think We Are Worse Off Than Our Forebears

25:23 How Goal-Setting Impacts Happiness

38:22 The Difference Between Happiness & Relief

46:19 The Ideal Income for Happiness

52:52 The Role of Habituation in Happiness

1:03:55 Why Status is Less Subject to Habituation

1:07:28 Relationship Between Happiness & Meaning

1:20:32 Myths About the Meaning of Life

1:26:42 Where to Find Lionel

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