Modern Wisdom

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October 10, 2024 Is Our Food Supply Making Us Sick? - Calley Means - #849
Calley Means is an entrepreneur, health & wellness advocate and an author.
Why is America struggling with all time highs of obesity and illness? Healthcare has never been more advanced and yet levels of healthiness have never been worse. What's going on? And is there a way to make America healthy again?
Expect to learn why modern health is so broken, the healthcare system's biggest issues, which health problems are unique to Americans, what is wrong with American food compared to the rest of the world, the most harmful environmental toxins to avoid, what politicians are not doing from a regulatory standpoint to help Americans and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Why is Modern Health So Broken?
(04:28) The Corrupt Hospital System
(07:57) What’s the Motive for the Corruption?
(21:01) Biggest Current Issues in Healthcare
(25:06) What is Chronic Disease?
(35:00) America’s Challenges Vs Europe’s
(42:41) The General Diet of Low-Income Households
(51:10) How American Ingredients Impact the Gut
(55:11) Can We Trust Our Water & Air?
(01:01:35) Study Says We’re Exercising Too Much
(01:07:02) Calley’s Thoughts on Ozempic
(01:21:15) The Infertility Industry
(01:29:17) What is Truemed?
(01:35:33) President Trump & RFK Jr’s Partnership
(01:40:51) The Next 50 Years
(01:44:26) Similarities With the Climate Debate
(01:52:42) Where Should People Go for Health Information?
(02:02:40) Where to Find Calley
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 21 min
October 07, 2024 Male Body Dysmorphia, Fat Loss & Insane Challenges - Will Tennyson - #848
Will Tennyson is a YouTuber and an athlete.
Taking a journey from fat to fit is a massive achievement in itself. Will then went on to become one of the best creators of positive fitness and mindset content on the internet and today we get to discover some of his best lessons from a decade of self-improvement.
Expect to learn why Will decided to become morbidly obese for a day and what he learned, which diet allowed him to lose the most weight, his thoughts on the state of male body dysmorphia, what Will thinks of Nikocado Avocado’s insane transformation, what Will's mental health journey looks like and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Becoming Fat For a Day
(04:02) Will’s Relationship With Food
(08:42) Strategies for Simplifying Weight Loss
(10:58) Male Body Image in Modern Society
(14:30) What Will Wished He Knew When He Was Younger
(19:05) The Lonely Chapter
(25:09) Becoming Aware of Your Ageing
(29:04) The Importance of Being More Playful
(31:41) Nikocado Avocado’s Transformation
(36:17) The Hardest Challenge Will Has Done
(39:34) What Will’s Life is Like as a YouTuber
(52:47) Will’s Thoughts on Bryan Johnson
(59:00) The New World of Hybrid Training
(01:02:35) Being Overwhelmed By Fitness Information
(01:06:48) If Will Could Only Keep 10 Exercises
(01:12:30) How Will’s Mental Health is Today
(01:24:26) What’s Next for Will
(01:24:50) Where to Find Will
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 26 min
October 05, 2024 The Unstoppable Power Of Reframing Your Experiences - Derek Sivers - #847
Derek Sivers is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker.
Things are not what they are, things are what we think they are. The power of reframing and changing your perspective is a kind of alchemy, and today we get to hear some of Derek's best principles for altering the way you see everything.
Expect to learn how you can reframe your perspective for the better, what the term ‘Useful Not True’ means, why your thoughts cannot be trusted, why people don’t bond over facts but rather perspectives, how to not become discouraged if you are thrown off course, how to make better decisions and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Useful But Not True
(06:41) Why is Reframing Important?
(13:08) Derek’s Car Accident
(23:11) We Bond Over Our Perspectives
(28:29) Is it Right to Sometimes Break the Rules?
(36:35) Your Own Thoughts Are Untrue
(47:28) Evaluating Beliefs Fuelled By Emotion
(55:39) Judge the Content & Not the Box
(01:06:05) The Value of Diverse Worldviews
(01:17:30) How to Better Reframe Your Experiences
(01:32:22) Are These Tools Universally Useful?
(01:41:46) Our Desire to Be Perfect Immediately
(01:48:25) You Are What You Pretend to Be
(02:01:37) Where to Find Derek
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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2 hr 3 min
October 03, 2024 How Will The 2024 Election Play Out? - Nate Silver - #846
Nate Silver is a statistician, writer of Silver Bulletin, and Founder of FiveThirtyEight.
No one truly knows who will win an election, but if anyone does, it's Nate. He is the man behind the most accurate, sophisticated polling data assessments in America and has an insight into modern culture like no one else.
Expect to learn why this election cycle differs from other ones, just how complex election prediction models are, what the most important topics of this election are, whether there is ever a chance for a 3rd party option to become president, the role of the media in determining who wins and much more…
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Timestamps:
(00:00) How Nate Mastered Sports Betting
(04:01) Models Used to Predict Elections
(08:03) The Way People Vote Today
(11:02) Why Kamala Harris Isn’t Appearing on Podcasts
(14:54) Do Debates Change People’s Minds?
(17:22) The Impact of Running Mates
(23:53) Have the Assassination Attempts Impacted the Election?
(30:16) The States That Decide the Election
(32:50) Likelihood of a Third-Party Candidate Being Elected
(37:39) The Power of ‘the Village & the River’
(44:48) Nate’s Experiences With Sam Bankman-Fried
(49:24) Why Crypto Investors Are More Likely to Be Scammed
(56:29) Psychology of High Risk-Takers
(01:01:54) The Price You Pay to Be Nate Silver
(01:04:30) Nate’s Core Values
(01:10:13) Where to Find Nate
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 11 min
September 30, 2024 Has America Completely Lost Its Mind? - Ben Shapiro - #845
Ben Shapiro is a political commentator, Co-Founder of the Daily Wire, an author and a podcaster.
Election years are always chaotic, but this one feels particularly spicy. Why is the world at fever pitch and how much is actually going to stop after November?
Expect to learn if the 2024 election is going to be a typical one, why Ben hasn't had Donald Trump on his show, Ben's experience with childhood bullying and how it changed him, what Ben wished more men realised about masculinity, his thoughts on Elon Musk, how to deal with public criticism and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Why This Election is Particularly Wild
(04:38) Why Ben Hasn’t Had Trump on His Show
(12:43) What if Trump Runs Again in 2028?
(16:47) Can America Ever Be United?
(19:33) Are Forces Conspiring Against Trump?
(28:16) The Media’s Response to Assassination Attempts on Trump
(41:50) Ben’s Experience in School
(52:42) Advice to People Who Don’t Fit in
(58:40) Being a Father & Public Figure
(01:04:06) Sympathy for the Insecure Overachiever
(01:10:57) How to Pick the Right Partner
(01:22:28) What Ben Wishes More Men Knew
(01:30:51) The Risk of Becoming a Caricature of Yourself
(01:35:17) Does Ben Regret Doing a Daily Show?
(01:39:48) Dealing With Intense Public Criticism
(01:46:08) Why Scientific American Endorsed Kamala Harris
(01:50:22) Keeping Your Sanity During the Election
(01:55:05) Elon Musk’s Rise to Prominence
(02:01:23) Have We Passed Peak Woke?
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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2 hr 8 min
September 28, 2024 Why Do Humans Actually Have Emotions? - Dr Laith Al-Shawaf - #844
Dr Laith Al-Shawaf is an emotions researcher and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at UCCS.
Humans have a wide range of emotions. But why do we feel anything at all? Why do we have a felt sense of emotions and how did they evolve?
Expect to learn the evolutionary story of why humans feel stuff, whether some emotions are more basic than others, evolutionary explanations for joy, anger, disgust, envy, awe, happiness and much more…
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Why Do We Have Emotions?
(06:37) How Our Emotions Advocate For Us
(14:02) Emotions From an Evolutionary Perspective
(20:54) Are Some Emotions More Basic Than Others?
(25:02) Why We Experience Fear & Surprise
(28:34) How Shame is Adaptive
(36:47) Why Anxiety is So Prevalent in Modern Society
(44:59) Explaining the Trait of Need for Cognition
(54:14) Feeling Emotions About Emotions
(01:03:49) The Difference Between Envy & Jealousy
(01:08:33) Emotions That Aren’t Really Adaptive
(01:16:26) How Laith Applies His Work to Daily Life
(01:32:55) Where to Find Laith
Extra Stuff:
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 35 min
September 26, 2024 Why Can No One Agree On Evolution, Race & Religion? - Richard Dawkins - #843
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, author, and emeritus fellow at the University of Oxford.
I spoke to Richard on stage in Austin Texas as a part of his final ever live tour. The next day we got to sit down and discuss all the things we didn't have time to talk about the night before.
Expect to learn what Richard thinks about the recent rise of cultural Christianity, whether religion was an influential factor on the evolution of humans, what Richard meant by “Race Is A Spectrum, Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary”, where people without a religious worldview should get their meaning from, Richard's explanation for evolution for those who don’t believe in it and much more...
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Timestamps:
(0:00) The Rise of Cultural Christianity
(02:44) Dealing With a Shattered Worldview
(05:13) Why Religion Arises in Every Culture
(10:47) Biological Sex is an Obvious Binary
(18:01) Race From an Evolutionary Perspective
(25:43) Is Social Justice a Replacement for Religion?
(28:04) Darwin’s Marriage Wish List
(33:50) Richard’s Message to Evolution Sceptics
(40:56) The Link Between Primates & Humans
(45:49) Biology’s View of Consciousness
(51:42) Why Behavioural Genetics is Still Controversial
(54:16) The Ethics of Embryo Selection & Manipulation
(01:04:37) What’s Next for Richard
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Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59
#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf
#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp
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1 hr 6 min
September 23, 2024 Exercise Scientist’s Masterclass On Recovery & Stress Management - Dr Mike Israetel - #842
Dr Mike Israetel is a Professor of Exercise and Sport Science at Lehman College and the Co-Founder of Renaissance Periodization.
Muscle building and fat loss are often the main focuses of bodybuilding. But what about recovery? What are the most effective ways to recover quicker, reduce stress and get more jacked?
Expect to learn what it means to actually recover from fatigue, how recovery is measured if you're not a professional athlete, Dr Mike's thoughts on regular weed usage, science's most effective ways to reduce fatigue, the biggest mistakes people make when trying to recover well, what evidence there is for supplements, saunas & cold plunges and much more…
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Timestamps:
(00:00) How to Understand Recovery
(06:01) Stress & Fatigue’s Impact on Recovery
(22:48) Can You Measure Recovery?
(25:23) Why Mike Used Weed
(33:49) Tools for Recovery Tracking
(43:28) Two Types of Fatigue
(50:25) Biggest Inputs That Reduce Fatigue
(55:06) Most Common Sleep Errors
(01:02:03) What People Get Wrong About Rest
(01:18:04) Biggest Food Mistakes People Make
(01:23:37) What is Stress Management?
(01:29:45) Advice for People in a High Stress Situation
(01:33:38) Does Cardio Work for Recovery?
(01:48:35) Heart Rate & Stretching for Recovery
(01:53:31) The Science of Hot & Cold Therapy
(01:59:28) Mike’s Main Recovery Takeaways
(02:09:31) Where to Find Mike
Extra Stuff:
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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2 hr 11 min
September 21, 2024 How To Be More Hopeful In A Cynical World - Dr Jamil Zaki - #841
Dr Jamil Zaki is a psychologist, professor at Stanford University, and an author.
In a world filled with fake news, bad news and doom, it’s easy to become cynical. But what does science say about whether cynicism helps or harm us? Why is it so seductive, and how can we all learn to become more hopeful?
Expect to learn why people are so tempted by cynicism, how skepticism is different, if cynical people are more or less happy, health, intelligent and successful, whether there is a reason to feel more hopeful, the role of optimism in your life, how to cultivate more positivity and much more…
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Why is Cynicism So Alluring?
(06:10) The Cynicism Safety Blanket
(15:11) How to Spot a Cynical Person
(22:05) Is Cynicism Contagious?
(26:58) Can Someone Be Universally Cynical?
(30:51) How Cynicism Has Grown Over Time
(37:09) Does Childhood Impact Cynicism?
(41:28) Tools to Combat Cynicism
(56:05) Why This Was Personal for Jamil
(01:03:48) Advice for People Who Want to Take More Risks
(01:07:27) Where to Find Jamil
Extra Stuff:
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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-Huberman⁠⁠
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1 hr 9 min
September 19, 2024 8 Unexpected Lessons To Be Less Hard On Yourself - Oliver Burkeman - #840
Oliver Burkeman is a journalist, a writer for The Guardian and an author.
Does trying harder to be extra productive actually work? Does it net more success or just more misery? For the Type-A people in the world, how can we learn to be less tough on ourselves and learn to have more fun in the process?
Expect to learn what imperfectionism is, how to overcome decision paralysis & dealing with distractions better, whether or not there is an easy solution to imposter syndrome, the unexpected solution to fixing procrastination, the most effective ways to curb self-criticism, and much more…
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Timestamps:
(00:00) What is Imperfectionism?
(04:20) Stop Trying to Fully Control Your Life
(13:24) Why Everyone Should Have a Productivity Phase
(17:09) Defining Insecure Overachievers
(25:25) Can You Rehabilitate an Insecure Overachiever?
(32:41) How to Not Be Your Worst Enemy
(37:18) Confronting Painful Truths
(41:20) Overcomplicating the Art of Reading
(52:27) You Can’t Care About Everything
(56:16) Let the Future Be the Future
(01:03:15) The Magic of Finishing Things
(01:07:45) Removing Obsession From Consistency
(01:11:38) How to Find Focus in Chaos
(01:18:45) The Key to Enjoying Life
(01:22:43) Where to Find Oliver
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The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠
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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…