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February 01, 2024 The Lifetime Problem With Being A “Nice Guy” - Dr Robert Glover - #739
Dr Robert Glover is a therapist, coach and an author.
Being nice is something many of us aspire to become. After all, who doesn't want to be nice? Well Nice Guy Syndrome has been ruining the lives of many men for decades, so perhaps we should aspire to be something else.
Expect to learn what is actually wrong with being a nice guy, why men become so afraid of putting their needs first, how to stop people pleasing, why nice guys end up resentful and bitter, whether nice guys attract or repel women and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) What’s Wrong With Being a Nice Guy?
(05:54) The Origin of Nice Guys
(15:06) Using Aggression as a Masculine Tool
(22:15) Are Nice Guys More Orderly?
(28:06) Why Nice Guys Keep Things Hidden
(38:54) The Solution is Not to Be a Bad Guy
(45:02) Alain de Botton on Nice Guys
(48:37) Why Women Aren’t Complaining About Nice Guys
(58:38) What Nice Guys Need to Know About Female Attraction
(1:05:23) The Role of Emotional Tension
(1:13:54) The Importance of Playfulness
(1:25:42) How to Rehabilitate a Nice Guy
(1:30:50) Your Most Formative Sexual Experience
(1:39:59) Best Practices to Help Nice Guys
(1:46:23) Where to Find Dr Glover
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Episodes You Might Enjoy:
#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life:
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 48 min
January 29, 2024 21 Brutally Honest Lessons About Life - Alex Hormozi - #738
Alex Hormozi is a founder, investor and an author.
Alex’s Twitter continually has been one of my favourite sources of great insights over the last few years. Today we get to go through some of my favourite lessons from him about life, human behaviour, psychology, business and resilience. Yet again this is so, so good.
Expect to learn why being called a control freak isn’t an insult, how to stop making the same mistakes over and over again, why being at the top will always require you becoming uncomfortable, Alex’s guide to surviving cancellation, how to get more comfortable telling the truth, why it's good to remember that all your critics are going to die and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Control Freak Or High Standards?
(14:48) How People Get Older Without Getting Better
(22:00) Don’t Be Worried About People Who Imitate Your Work
(26:58) The Cost of Being Exceptional
(42:39) Differences Between Fame & Respect
(50:12) The Key to Authenticity
(59:50) The Power of Imperfect Action
(1:09:23) Be Careful to Not Over-Optimise
(1:18:29) How to React When You’re Insulted
(1:31:09) Can People Actually Get Cancelled?
(1:38:41) The Price of Strong Character
(1:43:32) How to Know When to Quit
(1:50:48) Everything Worth Doing is Hard
(2:06:46) Don’t Expect People to Root for You
(2:16:25) How to Find Your Passion
(2:36:19) Admit You Suck, Then Improve
(2:43:41) Be in a Good Mood for No Reason
(3:00:19) It’s Normal to Not Know What You’re Doing
(3:12:59) What’s Next for Alex
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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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3 hr 16 min
January 27, 2024 Debunking The Internet’s Biggest Health Myths - Dr Karan Rajan - #737
Dr. Karan Rajan is a surgeon, clinical lecturer at The University of Sunderland and an author
A lot of health advice can be extremely difficult to verify. Does this actually make me healthier? Is it grounded in science, or whimsy? Thankfully there are actual doctors we can ask who can determine science fiction from medical fact.
Expect to learn why you shouldn’t hold in your farts, what Dr Karan wishes more people understood more about digestion, why the best probiotics aren't always found in the supplement section, what a day in the life of a surgeon is like, why IBS is on the rise, whether you can actually die from a broken heart and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Never Hold in a Fart
(04:10) What People Need to Know About Digestion
(10:34) A Day in the Life of a Surgeon
(15:46) Does Your Gut Control Your Mood?
(22:59) Debunking Sleep Myths
(31:50) How to Preserve & Improve Hearing
(34:40) Should You Pluck Your Nose Hairs?
(37:21) How to Deal With Pain Better
(42:45) Optimising for Eye Health
(48:23) The Best Tactics for Slowing Neurodegenerative Diseases
(54:48) Recognising Chronic Stress in Yourself
(1:02:47) Where to Find Dr Rajan
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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 4 min
January 25, 2024 How To Fix Your Negative Inner Thoughts - Dr Paul Conti - #736
Dr. Paul Conti is a Stanford and Harvard trained psychiatrist and author specialising in unconscious trauma.
If our mind was an iceberg, our conscious thoughts are the tip, and the huge mass below the surface are our unconscious thoughts. Dr Conti's research works on bringing the, forgotten, traumatic, painful and unseen into the light so you can heal and improve.
Expect to learn what people mean when they refer to the unconscious mind, what Paul wished people understood about how trauma works, whether ancestral trauma is something that can actually be passed down through genetics, what happens to your brain and body after experiencing trauma, what we can learn from the little voices in our head and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) What Actually is the Unconscious Mind?
(09:27) How to Bring the Unconscious Into Consciousness
(11:06) What Everyone Needs to Know About Trauma
(14:43) The Function of Shame & Guilt
(21:40) Different Categories of Trauma
(28:43) Doctors Need to Take Depression Seriously
(33:25) Can Emergency Workers Experience Vicarious Trauma?
(37:45) How Trauma Impacts the Brain & Body
(42:24) Correcting Our Inner Voices
(54:51) Is Ancestral Trauma Real?
(1:00:38) How to Increase Mental Resilience
(1:03:59) Practical Tips to Eradicate Unconscious Trauma
(1:14:23) Where to Find Dr Conti
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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 16 min
January 22, 2024 Hidden Psychology Of The World’s Best Advertising - Rory Sutherland - #735
Rory Sutherland is one of the world’s leading consumer behaviour experts, the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy Advertising and an author.
The advertising industry creates a unique intersection between psychology and creativity. By looking at what works in the world of ad campaigns, we can learn even more about the human mind and Rory might have the best insight on the planet for this.
Expect to learn how dating apps can improve by being more like property websites, why women actually wear engagement rings, Rory’s thoughts on Jordan Peterson, how you can become more creative every day, what Rory thinks of Twitters changing their name to X, how hotel rooms have residual sexism baked into the design, why rational people ruin creativity and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Comparison is the Enemy of Happiness
(03:27) Choice Architecture in Online Dating
(23:18) The Philosophy of Comedy
(30:57) The Biggest Problem With the Purity Spiral
(43:45) What Happened to the Welsh Identity?
(47:36) Why We Buy Engagement Rings
(51:38) How to Think Like Darwin
(59:45) The Convenience of Tribal Thinking
(1:08:27) Is David Ogilvy a Genius?
(1:21:49) Should HS2 Be Abandoned?
(1:30:20) Rory’s Advice to Cultivate Creativity
(1:35:11) Why Rory Didn’t Move to America
(1:41:58) Rebranding Twitter to X
(1:53:25) Being an Air-Fryer Pioneer
(1:56:03) Rory’s Opinion of Jordan Peterson
(1:58:50) Rory’s Current Obsessions
(2:09:30) What’s Next for Rory
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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 13 min
January 20, 2024 Just How Broken Is American Politics? - Dean Phillips - #734
Dean Phillips is a member of the U.S House of Representatives, presidential candidate and former owner of Talenti Gelato and Belvedere Vodka.
Whether it's stories in the press or scenes in House Of Cards, no one seems to have much faith in the American political system at the moment. Dean has had a front row seat to this world for a long time and is now running for president, so he should be able to give some insight on just how bad it's become.
Expect to learn whether congress or the business world has more backstabbing in it, the perverse incentives of donors and funding, Dean’s background building Belvedere Vodka, whether politicians are smarter than the average person, what Dean’s prediction for 2024 are and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Did Dean Found Belvedere Vodka?
(08:34) The Experiencing of Negotiating With Unilever
(12:14) Is Politics or Business More Cutthroat?
(17:36) Do Congressmen Actually Do Any Work?
(23:44) Quitting Dean’s Job & Running for President
(29:36) The Rise of RFK Jr
(32:20) How Easy Is it to Work Across the Aisle?
(40:55) Why Is it So Hard to Call Out Leftist Extreme Groups?
(50:37) What the Democratic Party is Getting Wrong
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
January 18, 2024 Is Cancel Culture Actually Getting Worse? - Rikki Schlott - #733
Rikki Schlott is a journalist, columnist, free speech activist, and author.
Saying "you can't say anything any more" is the internet's tagline. Cancel culture has been the hot topic over the last few years. But why has it taken over the discourse so much and just how much truth is there that it's getting worse than ever before?
Expect to learn what Rikki uncovered from a mass analysis of Twitter bans, whether the rates of people being cancelled are increasing, if the cancellers actually enjoy the cancelling of people, what drove the increase in cancellations, if free speech is really dead in America, whether apologising works and much more....
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Have Calls for Cancellation Increased?
(06:34) Stats About Self-Censorship in Academia
(10:50) The Motivations Behind Cancelers
(14:17) Researching Mass Twitter Bans
(18:16) Cancellation Enforcement Mechanisms
(24:51) The Subjects You Can’t Touch on Campuses
(34:40) Free Speech Law Vs Free Speech Culture
(40:03) Is Cancellation Just Accountability?
(47:29) Predicting the Future of Cancel Culture
(52:36) Potential Solutions for Cancel Culture
(57:29) Advice to People Threatened With Cancellation
(59:44) Where to Find Rikki
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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 1 min
January 15, 2024 Why You Shouldn’t Share Your Private Life Online - Mary Harrington - #732
Mary Harrington is writer, columnist and author.
Everyone has the temptation to share their life on the internet, but where does the line of sharing stop and oversharing begin? How has our performance for the crowd crept into our morals and changed the way we see the role of privacy around our personal lives?
Expect to learn what Digital Modesty is, why liberals would more likely date an Only Fans worker than an OnlyFans subscriber, if there is a crisis with both masculinity and femininity in our culture, Mary’s thoughts on the surrogacy industry, why women need to develop a strategy for not getting what they want and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) The Idea of Digital Modesty
(06:14) How Phones Have Created a Surveillance Society
(11:59) The Danger of Political Opinion on Social Media
(18:31) Why the Left Wouldn’t Date OnlyFans Subscribers
(21:17) The Message Behind the Barbie Movie
(24:30) Is Our Culture Anti-Family?
(29:33) The Crisis of Masculinity & Femininity
(40:28) Why The Trad Wife Movement Won’t Work
(47:39) How Divorce is a PsyOp
(52:33) Mary’s Thoughts on Surrogacy
(59:13) The Problem With Matt Walsh & the Right
(1:11:57) The Ambivalent Role of Right-Wing Women
(1:19:13) Where to Find Mary
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 20 min
January 13, 2024 Banned On Instagram, Britney Spears & Alex Jones - Danny Polishchuk - #731
Danny Polishchuk is a writer, YouTuber, comedian and a podcaster.
I was on tour in NYC so stopped in to see one half of The Boyscast and work out why hundreds of thousands of people were drunk and dressed as santa.
Expect to learn why Instagram banned Danny from their platform, what's happening with Britney Spears & Taylor Swift lately, whether Danny thinks getting a vasectomy to save the climate is a good idea, if we have gone too far with being too protective from germs and pathogens, what the future of comedy looks like and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Explaining Santa-Con
(01:30) Why Danny Got Deleted From Instagram
(08:24) Travelling Life of a Comedian
(11:56) The Britney Spears Saga
(14:49) Never Make Fun of Taylor Swift
(20:37) Getting a Vasectomy for the Climate
(28:04) Residual Trauma from Covid
(31:14) Cultural Differences in Asia
(34:30) The Most Popular Drug in Mexico
(40:46) Kim Jong Un Crying at Birth Rates
(50:58) PornHub Trying to Turn Kids Trans
(58:01) Rising Trend of Antisemitism
(1:00:02) Alex Jones’ Naked Biden Revelations
(1:06:25) Danny’s Opinion of Matt Rife
(1:13:35) The Future of Comedy
(1:16:56) Comedy Central’s Decline
(1:27:31) Where to Find Danny
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 29 min
January 11, 2024 The Harsh Reality Of Trying To Improve - Mike Thurston - #730
Mike Thurston is a podcaster, YouTuber and a fitness model.
Me and Mike went to university together 15 years ago. And yet in 2024 many of the problems we encountered back then have gotten even worse. Why is a lack of confidence, overly comparative mindsets and body dysmorphia so persistent and how do we go about fixing it?
Expect to learn why male body dysmorphia is on track to overtake female body dysmorphia, what Mike's relationship with social media looks like right now, where you actually gain confidence from, whether being super highly followed on the internet makes you more or less self-assured, how your priorities should change as you get older, Mike’s thoughts on Sam Sulek and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) The Rise of Male Body Dysmorphia
(5:39) Relationship With Social Media
(12:45) What Motivated Mike’s Decision to Train?
(19:45) Where Confidence Should Come From
(30:12) Chris’s First Live Tour
(38:09) Does Everyone Need Therapy?
(42:21) Mike’s Opinion of Sam Sulek
(50:47) The Price of Increasing Ambition
(1:04:29) Trajectory is Better Than Position
(1:13:52) What’s Next for 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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1 hr 18 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…