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Jonny & Yusef join me again for another Life Hacks episode as we detail our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficient life.

What’s our best product for beginning a journalling habit? How can you dispense with every USB plug in your bedroom? What’s the most efficient way to pack for a holiday? And how much would we have to be paid to put someone else’s poo in our bums?

Below you will find links to everything we reference, including as many referral & discount codes as we could find! Enjoy.

Resources:

Throw One Thing Away Every Day

Pull-Up Bar - http://amzn.eu/d/jeAOVL1

Anker USB Hub - http://amzn.eu/d/2w3ge0R

Get A Monthly Massage

Shoehorn - http://amzn.eu/d/6x2JGPM

Tell Your Friends You Miss Them

Be The Person Who Organises Things For Your Friends

Self Monetise As A Side Project

Alarmed - Reminders + Timers by Yoctoville - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/alarmed-reminders-timers/id371886784?mt=8

Pregnancy Pillow - http://amzn.eu/d/aMrQ6JP

Give Up Coffee For A Month

Automate Fuel Filling By Wedging The Cap Under The Handle

Plan Your Holiday Outfits In Advance

Spend Time By Yourself

Try Grounding (stand on grass or ground in bare feet)

Pocket Article App - https://getpocket.com/

The 6 Minute Diary - http://amzn.eu/d/fPoCZuj

NeilMed Sinus Rinse - http://amzn.eu/d/aDVFlxA

Skyr Yoghurt

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This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

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Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, author, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University.

Our decisions may feel like our own choice, but how much do our primitive brains play a part in determining the hidden motives of our everyday actions? Quite a lot according to Professor Hanson.

This is a fantastic introduction to evolutionary psychology as we uncover the hidden motives behind gossip, laughter, charity, cheating, social norms, body language and an awful lot more.

Resources:

Elephant In The Brain The Book: http://amzn.eu/d/eOMBylr

Robin's Blog: http://www.overcomingbias.com/

Robin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinhanson

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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I recently sat down with Sonny Webster, Zack George and Leon & John from The Lean Machines for a special edition super podcast before the Battle Cancer Fitness Competition in London.

Lots of listeners had submitted questions in advance via Instagram and I posed as many as I could to the boys before Sonny have to rush off to some swanky event with the Queen.

Expect to learn why the boys believe Competitive Bodybuilding to be an unhealthy lifestyle, what sport they would all be focussed on if they were not lifting weights, how to make your moustache join in the middle and why Sonny sucks so bad at Double Unders.

Other Things:

Check out Battle Cancer: https://www.battle-cancer.co.uk

Follow Zack: https://www.instagram.com/zackgeorge

Follow Sonny: https://www.instagram.com/sonnywebstergb

Follow The Lean Machines: https://www.instagram.com/theleanmachinesofficial

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Relationships 101 landed in the Top 50 Chart Worldwide on Apple Podcasts, and now it's time for the sequel.

Jonny & Yusef join me today as we use our successes & tragedies in dating to establish some principles & strategies to optimise relationships, maximise happiness and avoid heartbreak (where possible).

Expect to learn why "seeing" someone is a no man's land of emotional turmoil, why we all believe that the truth is a super power and why the first 6 weeks of a relationship are the most crucial.

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Welcome to the dark side of Life Hacks.

Jonny & Yusef join me today as we begin to document all of the times we've tried to optimise our lives and fallen flat on our faces. Enjoy as we face-palm our way through a full hour of embarrassing stories.

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Jonny & Yusef join me again as we relive our best & worst moments at university. Discover how you can complete a degree without going bankrupt, getting a police record or having a mental breakdown.

If you've never been to university, then you might enjoy hearing that it's not quite the doss around of Netflix and chronic masturbation that you hear in the news. And if you HAVE been to university, then reminisce fondly or cringe your way through your memories.

Expect to learn why you should go to Hadrian's Wall and wear a condom while you're there, what you can do to avoid becoming a basic bitch and how Evernote will safe your life.

Further Reading:

Evernote (with referral gains): https://www.evernote.com/referral/Registration.action?sig=a51c13796a1906976e4d676cbcc756e7836bf4767d9d76e822ed017352c3df86&uid=62953055

Anton Kreil on School Teachers: https://youtu.be/hzFl0uDwAQY

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Carl Cederstrom is an Associate Professor at Stockholm Business School, an author of several books and a writer for The Guardian, The New York Times and Harvard Business Review. 

Carl dedicated a full year of his life to immersing himself in the Human Optimisation Movement. This is the equivalent of going completely dick & balls on a 12 months of back to back Life Hacks episodes and Carl's experience is both hilarious and insightful.

We also discuss his new book The Happiness Fantasy which analyses society's obsession with becoming happy and offers a fascinating alternative view to what we should be aiming for in our lives.

Expect to learn why optimising masturbation is a difficult process, how you can write an entire book in a single month, what he found to be the single most effective optimisation strategy and why happiness might be a redundant word.

Further Reading:

Follow Carl on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cederstromcarl

The Happiness Fantasy Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Happiness-Fantasy-Carl-Cederstr%C3%B6m/dp/1509523812/

Desperately Seeking Self Improvement: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Desperately-Seeking-Self-Improvement-Optimization-Movement/dp/1944869395

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Jeff Warren is a Meditation Teacher and Writer, he is the co-author of Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics, and author of The Head Trip.

Today we learn why introspective work should be taken as seriously as personal hygiene, how you can double the span of your life experience, what benefits occur when consistently practising meditation, and just why exploring our own consciousness is so difficult, yet rewarding.

There are more connections in a single square centimetre of human brain tissue than there are stars in our galaxy; our inner universe is infinitely more vast than we will ever notice, and yet our unexamined daily experience of life offers very little to suggest that this is the case. Join me and Jeff as we discover why, and how to work around it...

Further Reading:

Jeff's Book with Dan Harris - Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics: http://amzn.eu/d/5zmmsEz

Jeff's Website: http://www.jeffwarren.org/

Consciousness Explorer's Club: http://www.cecmeditate.com

Cory Allen's Basics of Meditation Practise on Modern Wisdom: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549?mt=2&i=1000410359630

Sam Harris on The Meaning Of Life: https://youtu.be/srxDtefn740

Shinzen Young's - The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works: http://amzn.eu/d/hbZ9Nbj

Sam Harris - Waking Up - Searching for Spirituality Without Religion: http://amzn.eu/d/gUdGubV

What 10,000 Hours of Meditation Does to Your Brain: https://www.projectmonkeymind.com/2016/11/ph-d-happiness-10000-hours-meditation/

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for another episode detailing our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficient life.

Expect to learn; How can you run a business working an hour a day? What is the most efficient sleeping posture? Is Philips Hue any good? Why does a Muslim upbringing give you an obsessional level of toilet hygiene? Why should you eat a kilo of broccoli every day? And an awful lot more.

Below you will find links to everything we reference, including as many referral & discount codes as we could find! Enjoy.

Resources:

The 6 Minute Diary: http://amzn.eu/d/cZiqMGT

Shattaf Bidet - http://amzn.eu/d/iJGQqSY

A kilo of broccoli - www.propanefitness.com/poo

Soreen - https://www.soreen.com/

WorkingMemory.txt - http://calnewport.com/blog/2015/10/27/deep-habits-workingmemory-txt-the-most-important-productivity-tool-youve-never-heard-of/

Living With A Seal - http://amzn.eu/d/4bk613I

JRE #1127 Jesse Itzler - https://youtu.be/b0GIO4lYFls

Swipe right on Spotify Mobile to add to Play Queue.

MicroBags - http://amzn.eu/d/g75NcbQ (couldn’t find the Yemeni version)

Drip Coffee Filter - http://amzn.eu/d/2H34ZXv

Stop saying gay, start saying lame.

Digital is not always better. Forget smart lights.

Newer books rarely beat classics, they’re called classics for a reason.

Derren Brown - Happy - http://amzn.eu/d/1WN9aj4

Do I Need To Go And Get Lex? - https://youtu.be/oXno18pOHgo

Dropbox - https://db.tt/SVdwk2o9 (free signup with free extra storage)

Be Focussed Pro - https://xwavesoft.com/be-focused-pro-for-iphone-ipad-mac-os-x.html

Focus Matrix - https://xwavesoft.com/focus-matrix-for-iphone-ipad-mac.html

Dr Euan Lawson Podcast - https://youtu.be/-sdGBZcmY2s

The Red Queen Effect - https://fs.blog/2012/10/the-red-queen-effect/

The Art Of Less Doing - http://amzn.eu/d/6ItlwTz

The Push-Away Handshake.

Blading for moving through a crowd.

Remembering things that have happened during a night to determine drunkness.

YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts - https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/u-m-google-170816/accessibility/google-keyboard-shortcuts---youtube

Kelly Starrett Neck Shoulders & Pillow - https://youtu.be/xnlDTyMRRGg

Kelly Starrett Sleeping Position - https://youtu.be/cq64hxZMJbc

Kelly Starrett Lower Body Sleeping Support - https://youtu.be/yd3HeEoqfa4

Pregnancy Pillow - http://amzn.eu/d/82sajV0

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Professor Adam Frank is an Astrophysicist at the University of Rochester, Author and a Founder of the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture.

Get ready to blast your brain off into interstellar space as this badboy is my absolute favourite episode so far. Discover the likelihood of other alien civilisations in the universe, how we could colonise the galaxy in 700,000 years, where the future descendants of the human race are heading, the implications of global warming and an awful lot more.

If you love this episode, share it with a friend! It would make me very happy.

Further Reading:

Adam's Website: http://www.adamfrankscience.com/

Adam's new book: Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth: http://amzn.eu/d/5J3oyly

NPR Cosmos & Culture Blog: https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/ 

Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberma

Get in touch. 

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast

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