Modern Wisdom

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March 09 How Love Turns You Insane - Dr Max Butterfield - #1069
Dr. Max Butterfield is an experimental psychologist and professor who studies relationships and decision-making.
Why does love make us do crazy things? Rom-coms make relationships look easy, but real love is far more complicated. So what actually makes a relationship work—and why does love make us act irrationally?
Expect to learn what science says about what people should do to recover from a breakup, if the Norwegian skier who confessed to cheating on his girlfriend was doing more harm than good to his relationship, what Dr Max wished more men and women knew about how to signal interest, why we ruminate so much and how to ruminate less, what healthy communication actually looks like and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) Did This Declaration of Love Backfire?
(7:37) Why Grand Gestures are a Bad Idea in Dating
(14:03) The Psychology of Breakups: How to Recover Faster
(18:58) Is a Breakup Really Like Losing Someone?
(20:31) Why Do We Ruminate So Much?
(31:01) Does Rejection Actually Shape Us?
(32:32) How to Signal Romantic Interest
(37:52) Why Women Signal Beauty Through Clothing
(44:30) Is She Actually Out of His League?
(47:02) Relationship Red Flags You Shouldn’t Ignore
(50:32) The Fascinating Evolutionary Approach to Relationships
(56:36) Green Flags: What to Look for in a Healthy Relationship
(01:03:51) The Power of a Psychological Reset
(01:11:18) Does Direct Communication Improve Relationships?
(01:16:27) The Hidden Role of Indirect Aggression
(01:21:36) Why Intrasexual Competition is So Controversial
(01:27:12) The Power of Healthy Communication in Relationships
(01:38:33) What’s Next For Ben
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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
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1 hr 40 min
March 07 How Narcissists Hijack Your Brain - Dr Peter Salerno - #1068
Dr Peter Salerno is a social psychologist, professor, and researcher.
Why are narcissists so manipulative? At some point in your life, you’ve probably encountered a narcissist. They can take control of a situation so subtly that before you realize it, you’re caught under their influence. So how can you spot a narcissist early, and what can you do to protect yourself from their manipulation?
Expect to learn why people repeatedly tend to hurt others deliberately, which parts of the brain are actually involved in empathy and self-control, why the idea that “hurt people hurt people” is so attractive, why narcissists often pull someone close and then suddenly push them away, how to spot when flirting or drama turn into manipulation, if someone can be genuinely in emotional pain and still choose to hurt others and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) How Peter Discovered His Niche in Psychology
(3:31) Which Personality Types Cause the Most Conflict?
(10:05) What Causes Cluster B Personality Disorders?
(12:54) Is Antagonistic Behaviour Genetic?
(17:42) How Cluster B Traits Evolved Over Time
(21:54) The Neuroscience Behind Personality Disorders
(31:06) Do Narcissists Devalue Everything?
(39:48) Are Personality Disorders a Choice?
(43:48) What Are The Other Cluster Disorders?
(46:50) Why “Hurt People Hurt People” Is So Compelling
(53:30) What Narcissism Really Is
(01:02:00) Narcissists vs Psychopaths: Who Is More Dangerous?
(01:04:55) Which Personality Disorders Commonly Occur Together?
(01:09:21) The Hardest Personality Disorder to Treat
(01:12:38) How Real Change Happens in Personality Disorders
(01:18:58) Who Get Stuck in Toxic Relationships?
(01:24:11) How Sexuality is Utilised in Personality Disorders
(01:28:26) Things Cluster B Personalities Rarely Do
(01:32:43) How Cluster B Personality Traits Develop
(01:38:15) How Likely Are We to Be Histrionic?
(01:40:16) The Biggest Sex Differences in Personality Disorders
(01:44:53) Where to Find Peter
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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
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1 hr 46 min
March 05 The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back) - Cal Newport - #1067
Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University, a productivity expert and an author.
Has AI “workslop” damaged our ability to focus? When AI entered the workplace, many thought it would replace knowledge workers. Instead, we’re flooded with AI-generated noise that feels productive but often isn’t. In this new era, is the real competitive advantage simply the ability to focus?
Expect to learn what the future of work will be with major advancements in AI, what most people’s relationship with productivity is like at the moment, why your ability to focus is becoming increasingly more important, how people should deal with a lot of work messages, if new AI tools actually have been as transformative as they have claimed to be, if AI in the workplace has been a huge disappointment so far and why and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) Did Cal Predict the Attention Crisis?
(3:57) Why Distraction Is Exploding Right Now
(9:56) Can You Actually Retrain Your Attention Span?
(14:30) Cal’s Top Focus Strategies
(22:56) Should We Have Shorter Work Weeks?
(33:29) Is Workslop Destroying Productivity in the Workplace?
(48:53) Can AI Reliance Create More Opportunities For Us?
(01:00:31) Why AI Should Push Us Toward Hard Thinking
(01:03:33) You Need to Work Smarter, Not Harder
(01:13:27) Why Organisations Obsess Over Busyness (and How to Stop It)
(01:27:53) Is Quantum Computing Actually Useful in AI?
(01:32:46) Why Reading is More Important Than Ever
(01:44:08) Where to Find Cal
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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 46 min
March 02 The Genetics of Evil: Are People Born Bad? - Dr Kathryn Paige Harden - #1066
Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden is a psychologist and behavioural geneticist, Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and an author.
Are people born evil, or does evil emerge from circumstance? While we tend to blame genetics for humanity’s darkest behaviors, science and psychology suggest a far more complicated picture. If biology, environment, and experience all shape behavior, how should society judge, or punish, those who may never have had full control over who they became?
Expect to learn what Kathryn learned from her first 4 million-person study, what the evolutionary roots of aggression, dominance, and impulsivity are, if there is a heritability of antisocial behaviour, why punishment is a useful tool for responding to harm, what Kathryn makes of the looksmaxxing movement, and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) Why Kathryn’s Last Book Was So Controversial
(5:28) What Drives Risk-Taking Behaviour?
(9:21) What Drew Kathryn to the World of Antisocial Behaviour?
(11:59) How Humans Have Evolved to Become Deviant
(20:48) Should You Wait Until 30 To Try Drugs?
(25:02) Is Punishment More About Circumstance Than Crime?
(31:02) How Genetic is Deviance?
(35:14) Why Bad Behaviour in Kids Makes Us So Uncomfortable
(43:01) When Do You Become Responsible For Your Actions?
(47:43) Is Addiction Genetic?
(53:47) Are Men More Prone to Antisocial Traits?
(1:03:24) If Behaviour is Genetic, How Do We Justify Punishment?
(1:11:09) Should Genetic Behaviour Affect Criminal Sentencing?
(1:26:52) Why Do We Crave Retribution?
(1:32:05) Do We Enjoy Judging Others?
(1:43:15) Does Prison Actually Work?
(1:51:49) We Need to Question Our Own Moral Instincts
(1:58:14) The Top Reasons Epigenetic Inheritance So Controversial
(2:04:50) Does Environment During Pregnancy Shape a Child’s Genes?
(2:10:11) How Much of Motherhood is Just Luck?
(2:13:46) Kathryn’s Ethical Stance on Embryo Selection
(2:29:37) Can Embryo Selection Prevent a Crumbling Genome?
(2:36:45) Is It Fair to Suppress Genetic Behaviour in Men?
(2:49:25) Is Looksmaxxing Damaging Our Genetics?
(2:59:55) Where to Find Kathryn
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Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠
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3 hr 1 min
February 28 The Insane Biological Cost of Living on Mars - Scott Solomon - #1065
Scott Solomon is an evolutionary biologist, professor, and author.
Since the earliest days of science fiction, we’ve wondered what it would mean to live on Mars. Today, that question is no longer hypothetical. As humanity moves closer to becoming an interplanetary species, a new question emerges: what happens when humans are born and raised on another world? How would Mars change our bodies, our minds, and the future of evolution?
Expect to learn if it is possible for humans to live on Mars, how humans who were born on Mars will evolve with their new environment, if there have ever been any astronauts who have had sex in space, what being on Mars could do to morph the human brain, and how living in space will change our Biology and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) Could We Really Live on Mars?
(3:44) Is Space Exploration Part of Human Evolution?
(13:17) What Space Travel Really Does to the Body
(21:46) The Dangers of Space Radiation
(25:14) What Living on Mars Would Do To Your Body
(30:52) Will Mars Accelerate Genetic Mutations?
(33:39) Would Humans Face a Genetic Bottleneck on Mars?
(38:15) The Personality Traits Needed to Survive on Mars
(42:59) Who Should Be in Charge of a Mars Colony?
(46:37) The Psychological Effects of Isolation in Space
(56:26) Can Humans Reproduce in Space?
(01:06:44) How Long Until Humans Evolve on Mars?
(01:15:00) The Ethical Problems of Living on Mars
(01:21:51) Where to Find Scott
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Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 23 min
February 26 The Brutal Tactics of Female Sexual Competition - Dr Dani Sulikowski - #1064
Dr Dani Sulikowski is an evolutionary psychologist, professor, and researcher.
Female intrasexual competition is more ruthless than most people realize. Just when we think we understand how women compete with one another, the rules shift—and the limits move. So how intense is female intrasexual competition really, and what has social media done to amplify it?
Expect to learn what female intrasexual competition is trying to achieve and how it differs from males, why Vogue Magazine said having a boyfriend is cringe now and Dr Sulikowski’s response to that, if reproductive suppression works against men, what some of the more under recognised methods of intrasexual competition that women engage in are, if there are any societal shifts that people are pinning on men that you think are more due to female intrasexual competition and much more…
Timestamp:
(0:00) Do All Women Compete With Each Other?
(8:14) Why Women Judge Each Other’s Looks So Harshly
(12:23) Male vs Female Competition: What's the Difference?
(21:36) Why Is Female Competition So Taboo?
(24:54) The Dating Advice War: What Are Women Saying?
(35:53) Is Having a Boyfriend Cringe Now?
(49:12) Do Reproductive Suppression Strategies Work Against Men?
(55:37) Why Evolution Hasn’t Saved Us From Falling Birth Rates
(01:00:30) Why Declining Birth Rates Are So Controversial
(01:04:33) Is the Modern Workplace Reducing Reproductive Rates?
(01:13:10) Are Single Women Less Happy?
(01:14:51) How Toxic Masculinity is Shaping Female Competition
(01:26:00) Why Modern Men Are Pulling Back From Dating
(01:31:45) Has Gender Politics Broken Dating?
(01:49:33) Where to Find Dr Dani
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Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
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1 hr 51 min
February 23 How to Survive the Death of Your Old Self - Charlie Houpert - #1063
Charlie Houpert is an entrepreneur and YouTuber.
Why does life tend to teach its hardest lessons just as we think we’ve arrived? We chase the goals, build the lifestyle, tick the boxes, only to discover that emptiness and insecurity still follow us. Ancient philosophers and writers wrestled with this long before we did, encoding the problem into myths that have endured for thousands of years. So what were they trying to show us? And how can those old stories help us reclaim a sense of identity when we feel most lost?
Expect to learn what Charlie’s personal growth journey has been over the past few years, why people feel so disconnected to success when they achieve it, how to balance societal and spiritual fulfillment, what the lessons of history and the power of mythology can teach us about modern problems, how charisma led Charlie to a spiritual breakthrough, what the future of Charisma on Command will look like and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) The Core Themes Behind Charlie’s Personal Growth
(4:49) Why Avoiding Mistakes Keeps You Stuck
(14:03) The Hard Truth About the Lonely Chapter
(24:47) Why Men Struggle With Emotional Control
(35:46) What You Gain From the Hero’s Journey
(41:50) The Dark Side of Chasing Success
(47:04) The Leap Most People Are Too Afraid to Take
(54:56) How to Navigate Life Transitions Without Losing Yourself
(01:11:30) Why Men Fear Their Feminine Side
(01:21:43) Where Does Success Lie For Chris?
(01:34:21) Why Sensitivity Feels So Hard in a Noisy World
(01:44:37) Can Mythology Help Modern Men Find Purpose?
(01:52:20) The Journey Behind Charlie’s Charisma
(01:56:46) What’s Next For Modern Wisdom?
(02:06:31) Is There Room For Emotion in the Manosphere?
(02:16:14) What’s Next For Charlie?
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Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠
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2 hr 18 min
February 21 It’s time to rethink your entire life plan - Dave Evans - #1062
Dave Evans is an entrepreneur, early Apple engineer, former Electronic Arts executive, Stanford lecturer, and author.
How does someone genuinely find meaning in their life? We’re often told that when things feel empty, uncertain, or painful, the answer is to “find more meaning”. But what does that actually mean? Is meaning something we discover, like a hidden truth waiting to be uncovered? Or is it something we construct through choice, responsibility, and attention?
Expect to learn what people actually mean when we’re talking about meaning, the problem people are actually trying to solve when they say they want meaning, how to engineer more meaning into your life, what the difference between the problem-solving world and the meaning-making world is, what the red herrings are in terms of meaning, why so many people become objectively successful and subjectively miserable and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) How to Figure Out What You Want in Life
(5:30) What Does Meaning Really Mean?
(15:34) Making Sense of Life’s Changes
(21:05) Reframing Fulfilment to Fully Enjoy Life
(22:43) Are We Confusing Meaning With Feeling Alive?
(28:41) Has Optimisation Killed the Magic of Meaning?
(39:31) The Hidden Power of Wonder
(42:52) The Best Ways to Inject Wonder into Life
(47:03) Does Coherence Create Purpose?
(50:46) Can You Be Balanced and Coherent?
(52:32) The Secret to Finding Your Flow State
(57:06) Is Multitasking Killing Your Flow?
(01:02:40) How to Engineer Flow into Your Life
(01:09:59) The Biggest Mistakes High Achievers Are Making
(01:19:25) How to Strive Without Missing Your Life
(01:25:43) Why Community is Essential
(01:33:18) The Signs It's Time to Redesign Your Life
(01:47:05) Where to Find Dave
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Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 49 min
February 19 Why You Can’t Stop Your Productivity Addiction - Oliver Burkeman - #1061
Oliver Burkeman is a journalist, a writer for The Guardian and an author.
How does the insecure overachiever evolve? You think success will quiet the doubt, then you hit 30, and it’s still there. More achievement, more stress. So how do you feel proud of what you’ve built without always fearing it’s not enough?
Expect to learn if it possible to be the best in the world and relaxed at the same time, how to deal with uncertainty more effectively, the biggest changes insecure overachievers will face as they age, the cost of constantly asking, “Am I living my best possible life?“, how to know when it’s a good time to settle and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) The Hidden Trap of Tying Your Worth to Success
(6:31) How to Accept You Can't Control Everything
(15:25) Why Nothing Going Your Way Might Be a Gift
(19:04) The Real Cost of Trying to Control Everything
(24:27) Why You Should Do It Anyway
(30:41) Can You Actually Design Fun?
(41:03) Is AI Just Another Control Fantasy?
(46:26) The Insecure Overachiever Paradox Explained
(55:14) Is Optimising Your Life Making You Miserable?
(58:41) Do High Performers Create Their Own Problems?
(01:05:19) How to Handle Criticism and Let Go of Control
(01:21:22) Does Settling Lead to a Better Life?
(01:26:12) What Is Oliver Working On Now?
(01:31:25) Where to Find Oliver
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February 16 The Case Against Condoms & Fake Friendship - Rick Glassman - #1060
Rick Glassman is a comedian, actor, and podcaster.
Why do humans act so complicated? We’re simple creatures — farts are funny, everyone does awkward stuff, yet we all pretend we don’t. Maybe life gets better when you lean into the weird instead of hiding it. So how do you embrace being different and find the fun instead of stressing about it?
Expect to learn how Rick’s brain works, what his favourite show and jokes are and how they shaped him, the top things that are difficult to look cool while doing, why using "condoms" with friends are useless, how to handle our people pleasing tendencies for good, why humans are so hard to interact with at times, the awkward feelings of becoming intimate with someone, the biggest message Rick Glassman wants to give out in the world and much more…
Timestamps:
(0:00) How to Set Boundaries
(11:01) Should We Ask More Questions?
(20:30) The Power of Being Honest About Who You Are
(32:50) Self-Love vs Self-Improvement: Finding the Balance
(44:40) Are People Pleasers Actually Being Selfish?
(53:55) Is Farting Actually Funny?
(01:06:06) Are You Honest About What You Really Want?
(01:15:21) The Right Way to Approach Someone New
(01:25:50) The Power of Reverse Charisma
(01:29:20) Breaking Through the Confines of the Game
(01:35:01) The Fastest Ways to Look Uncool
(01:39:01) The Hidden Rules of Conversation We Ignore
(01:49:01) How to Handle Flakiness
(02:03:02) Why Being Included Feels So Good
(02:13:26) How to Build a Top Podcast
(02:25:00) Where to Find Rick
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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠
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2 hr 29 min

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Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko…