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January 08, 2024 Are People Becoming Less Moral? - Alex O'Connor - #729
Alex O’Connor is a YouTuber, writer and a podcaster.
Grappling with difficult moral questions is a part of human life, but in the age of Wikipedia and ChatGPT, are we now outsourcing our morality? Are people becoming less moral over time?
Expect to learn why Peter Hitchens really does not like Alex, whether ChatGPT can be convinced of the existence of God, what the non-identity problem is, if Nihilism will make a comeback, the impact of the debate around free will, how much we can trust the historical accuracy of the bible and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:18) The Peter Hitchens Incident
(08:11) Alex’s Experience Debating Ben Shapiro
(17:00) Has Philosophy Revealed Anything Impactful Recently?
(29:40) What Everyone Needs to Know About Ethics
(38:07) Making Nihilism Great Again
(47:38) Why People Hate Talking About Free Will
(54:34) The Sexy Paradox
(1:07:49) The Fine-Tuned Universe Argument
(1:12:36) Was Jesus’ Resurrection Historically Accurate?
(1:20:07) Why Philosophers Go Mad
(1:26:50) Is Society Experiencing Mass Cope?
(1:38:01) 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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1 hr 39 min
January 06, 2024 Is Social Status Determined By Your Genetics? - Gregory Clark - #728
Gregory Clark is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, researcher and an author.
Everyone has a dream of making a better life for their family. But fascinating new research suggests that your social status is heavily predetermined by your genetics, and that your descendants escaping the position they've always been in is very unlikely.
Expect to learn if social status is actually heritable, how much genetics really plays a role in social hierarchy, how researchers can tell where the next 10 generations of children will fall on the social ladder, how higher and lower social status can impact the birthrate, why more attractive people have more social status, the difficulties of publishing research like this and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Studying Social Status Inheritance
(10:56) How Gregory Defines Social Status
(18:16) Why Ideologues Hate Social Status Inheritance
(25:20) The Role of Marriage in Status
(32:31) How a Man’s Father May Be Considered By a Mate
(43:06) Do People Who Ascended Eventually Regress?
(49:08) Implications of Genetic Social Status
(53:59) How Declining Birth Rates Impacts Social Hierarchies
(1:04:29) Importance of Attractiveness to Social Mobility
(1:07:22) When Gregory Got Cancelled
(1:17:01) Do Our Successes Actually Belong To Us?
(1:23:58) Integrating Genetic Knowledge Into Our Lives
(1:26:29) Where to Find Gregory
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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 28 min
January 04, 2024 Do You Actually Need Passion To Be Successful? - James Smith - #727
James Smith is an author, podcaster, online trainer and not a life coach.
I just finished a full month of live shows with James. We didn't kill each other but did learn a lot, so today we're reflecting on a month on the road while digging into some of James' biggest realisations of finally becoming an adult.
Expect to learn what my first ever live tour experience was like, how to increase your luck in life, what James’ thoughts are on the Male Sedation Hypothesis, how to find true success, why you need to start celebrating your wins, what the future of the fitness industry looks like and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Touring Together
(10:38) All Wins Feel the Same
(17:53) The Risks of Doing Something You Love
(25:31) How Much of Success is Down to Work?
(31:20) What’s Obvious to You Isn’t to Everyone Else
(36:52) Dealing With a Multiplicity of Options
(46:31) Poor Excuses For Not Having Children
(53:19) The Male Sedation Hypothesis
(1:00:40) Are We Ruled By Midwits?
(1:11:39) What James Has Learned About Success
(1:24:54) The Future of the Fitness Industry
(1:41:43) Where to Find James
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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 46 min
January 01, 2024 How To Hack Your Sleep With These Habits - Shawn Stevenson - #726
Shawn Stevenson is an American nutritionist, bestselling author, and podcaster.
You spend more time asleep than any other activity, and yet no one teaches you how to do it properly. Thankfully there are some simple routines, hacks, foods and habits you can implement to improve your sleep and longevity immediately.
Expect to learn if poor circadian rhythm is responsible for the modern mental health crisis, the most important habits to improve your sleep routine, how to get the best sleep of your life, the number one determining factor of how to live longer, how to fall asleep faster and stay asleep longer, the best foods for sleep, the healthiest ways you should be storing your food and much more…
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Are Sleep Issues Causing the Mental Health Crisis?
(07:40) What is Causing Mass Sleep Problems?
(18:14) Cultural Shifts That Have Impacted Sleep
(26:51) How to Properly Get Ready for Bed
(37:47) The Ideal Gap Between Food & Sleep
(44:04) Balancing Good Sleep & Enjoyable Evenings
(50:56) Are Storybooks & Podcasts Good for Sleep?
(55:27) Dealing With Taking Ages to Get to Sleep
(1:05:25) Top Superfoods for Sleep
(1:09:16) Issues With the Health of General Americans
(1:18:46) Is it Harder to Not Be Fat Today?
(1:26:02) Healthier Ways to Store Food Prep
(1:32:31) Only Taking Health Advice From Big Platforms
(1:36:38) Making Health Normal Again
(1:47:36) Where to Find Shawn
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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Get in touch.
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1 hr 49 min
December 30, 2023 The Problem With Taking Therapy Advice From Instagram - Seerut Chawla - #725
Seerut Chawla is a licensed psychotherapist and founder of The Trenches, an organisation focusing on mental health and social media dynamics.
There is a trend of online influencers who can identify your trauma and diagnose your attachment problems over social media. Is this an important new frontier for discussing mental health? Or cod-psychology over the internet.
Expect to learn the biggest problems with coddling how it enables victimhood, the difference between pain and trauma, why being triggered is your responsibility, what everyone gets wrong about self worth, why we spend so much time obsessing over emotion in the West, the biggest problems with self-healing and much more…
Timestamps:
(00:00) Seerut’s Issue With Coddling
(03:27) Negatives of an Overprotective Society
(10:00) What We Get Wrong About Victimhood
(17:30) Lowering the Bar of What is Unacceptable
(26:19) Obsessing Over Our Own Emotions
(31:30) How Therapy Has Changed Our Culture
(40:14) Are People Actually Discussing Real Mental Health?
(46:00) Best Things to Rely On to Improve Mood
(54:21) Why the West is Self-Obsessed
(58:38) How People Misunderstand Self-Worth
(1:02:53) Looking to Sam Harris as an Example
(1:11:50) Where to Find Seerut
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 16 min
December 28, 2023 1.5M Q&A - Joe Dispenza, Daily Routine & Online Negativity - #724
I hit 1.5 million Subscribers on YouTube!!
To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, Twitter, Locals and Instagram, so here’s another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. As always there’s some great questions in here about whether I'll bring Dr Joe Dispenza on the show, if you can grow a podcast without going on Love Island and how I deal with negativity online.
Expect to learn what my plans are for the show in 2024, what I'll change for my next live shows, why we didn't do anything for 1m subscribers, why we choose to title episodes the way we do, if success has changed my self image, why I party vape, how many subscribers are because of my jawline and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:23) Negativity on the Internet
(02:37) Chris’s Book
(03:15) Time Management
(05:06) Next Live Shows
(06:22) 1 Million Subscribers
(07:33) Party Boy Chris
(08:57) Appreciating the Hard Times
(10:33) Lex Fridman
(11:24) Better Titles
(15:15) Daily Routine
(17:14) Bring Me The Horizon
(17:48) Deleting Comments
(20:26) Monk Mode
(23:09) Hosting People From Other Fields
(24:29) How Success Impacts Self Worth
(26:29) Disagreeing With Guests
(28:02) Drifting to the Political Right
(30:10) Chris’s New Drink
(32:09) Party Vaping
(33:05) Tim Dillon
(33:33) OnlyFans
(33:43) Depression
(34:48) What’s Next?
(37:58) New Year’s Resolutions
(38:14) Is Chris a CIA Plant?
(38:41) Running Nightclubs as an Only Child
(41:33) Fame Because of Chris’s Jawline
(43:01) Putting Nikes in the Washing Machine
(43:27) 1 Million to 1.5 Million
(43:40) Dating Advice
(45:33) Who Has the Most Insane Work Ethic?
(46:05) Neutonic
(46:39) Interviewing a Spirituality Expert
(47:45) More African-Americans on Modern Wisdom
(48:52) Naming a Son
(49:14) Different Channel for Clips
(50:28) Is Chris the Onnit Guy?
(51:18) What Chris Has Changed His Mind About
(52:30) Leaving the UK
(53:11) Building an Audience Without Fame
(54:23) Most Re-Read Books
(55:48) Most Uncomfortable Episodes to Release
(57:38) Passion Vs Emotional Pain
(59:52) Most Repeated Mantras
(1:00:30) The Road to 3 Million
(1:01:40) Neutonic in Sweden?
(1:02:25) Is the English Accent Fake?
(1:02:53) What is it All For?
(1:04:05) Importance of Cinema Episodes
(1:05:55) Importance of Appearing on Rogan
(1:07:18) Imposter Syndrome
(1:09:12) Will Chris Make More Products?
(1:11:35) Modern Wisdom Starter Pack
(1:12:49) Becoming More Curious
(1:13:47) Does Chris Use a Jaw Toner?
(1:14:36) False Beliefs of Productivity Gurus
(1:16:44) How Growth Impacts Personality
(1:19:05) Adapting Interviewing Style
(1:21:37) Pre-Show Rituals
(1:23:24) Friend Conversion Rate
(1:24:19) Layers of Paint
(1:24:34) Most Wanted Guest
(1:25:43) Dealing With Fast-Paced Growth
(1:27:08) Rogan Part 2?
(1:27:33) Nerves Before a Podcast
(1:28:11) Tipping in the U.S
Extra Stuff:
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
Buy my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom
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 30 min
December 23, 2023 Modern Wisdom Christmas Special - Reflecting On The Wildest Year - #723
2023 has been crazy. I'm back on my old couch in Newcastle with Jonny, Yusef & George to catch up on their favourite lessons from the past 12 months plus their best new hacks and plans for 2024.
Expect to learn why you need two duvets to improve your sleep when sharing a bed, the new productivity system that everyone now uses except me, what you can learn about using a fitness tracker without actually buying one, which app Yusef uses over 400 times a day, why all 5 of my top songs this year were from the same artist and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:19) Jonny’s Morning Protein Drink
(06:26) Pyrex Storage for Berries
(08:42) Text Your Friends
(13:48) Double Duvets
(19:49) The Origin of Life Hacks
(21:10) Importance of Sleep
(26:58) Business as a Vehicle for Self-Improvement
(32:07) Seeing Content as a Diet
(40:54) Progressing From Being a Midwit
(49:32) TickTick To-Do Lists
(56:36) Alfred Computer Software
(1:00:36) Hold Luggage is a PsyOp
(1:06:31) Track Your Mental Health
(1:11:31) 10-Year Checkpoints
(1:18:24) The Benefits of Therapy & Journalling
(1:25:29) These Are the Golden Years
(1:30:22) Asking What’s Not Going to Change?
(1:32:59) The Opal App
(1:35:35) Setting Multiple Alarms in the Day
(1:38:04) Sleep Token
(1:39:45) Using ChatGPT for Niche Knowledge
(1:44:18) Create Your Minimum To-Do List
(1:48:35) Fail Fast When Learning New Things
(1:52:54) The New Kindle Scribe
(1:55:33) Happiness Depends on Expectations
(1:59:26) Apple Alarm Tones
(2:01:12) Questions Are the Answers You Need
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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 6 min
December 21, 2023 15 Lessons From 2023 - Jordan Peterson, Alex Hormozi & Elon Musk - #722
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It’s the end of 2023 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 Toxic Compassion is, why Alex Hormozi needed to do damage control this spring, the reason you should just "be yourself", why getting what you want isn't actually a win, the reason you don't want to be Elon Musk, why trajectory is more important than position, how a terrible job can be a huge blessing and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:38) Why You Should Just Be Yourself
(04:45) Figure Out What You Want to Want
(07:45) Beware of Toxic Compassion
(15:26) Elon Musk: “My Mind is a Storm”
(18:32) The Untold Struggles of Fame
(21:56) Trajectory is More Important Than Position
(28:58) The Power of Succeeding in Something You Hate
(31:54) Shunted to the Side of Your Own Life
(33:33) The Happiness of Pursuit
(37:27) Do Not Outsource Your Sense of Self-Worth
(40:33) The 4 Levels of Saying ‘Fuck You’
(44:30) Why You Shouldn’t Fear Failure
(46:26) The Definition of Neediness
(50:37) Don’t Blame & Complain
(55:25) Conclusion
Extra Stuff:
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
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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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Get in touch.
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58 min
December 18, 2023 Why Can No One Think Rationally Anymore? - George Mack - #721
George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur.
Thinking for yourself is one of the most important skills you can develop. However it's hard. It's a difficult task to overcome the boring, negative, irrational trends around you. Which is why you need some new tools in your mental models box.
Expect to learn what the Keynsian Beauty Contest is, why memes are so influential in society today, which behaviours appear positive but actually harm you in disguise, what the forgetting paradox is, what the most useful emotional state is, why “ignorance is bliss” is a putdown in 2023 and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) The Ranked Levels of Social Interaction
(07:50) Introvert or Need Better Friends?
(12:27) The Importance of Memes
(18:58) Understanding the Power of Leverage
(27:18) Memes Compress Mass Emotion
(33:33) The Coming Cybercrime Crisis
(37:50) Hiring Chief Meme Officers
(43:19) Is Mainstream Media Still Prestigious?
(49:10) Why Everything is Wrong
(51:33) Avoid Trojan Horses of Content
(1:00:09) How to Craft Your Content Algorithm
(1:04:35) How Many Thoughts Can You Remember?
(1:15:37) Crazy Ideas That Will Become Norma
(1:22:01) Slow Success Strategy for Happiness
(1:27:20) The Most Useful Emotional State
(1:35:46) Guy Ritchie’s New Foot-Warmer
(1:37:38) What’s Next for George
Extra Stuff:
Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books
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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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Get In Touch:
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1 hr 42 min
December 16, 2023 What Is Wrong With Modern Women? - Whitney Cummings - #720
Whitney Cummings is a writer, actress, comedian and a podcaster.
Women aren't having a great time at the moment. They're maybe just as lost as men, the only difference is they get a little bit more sympathy. So just where did the trajectory of women go awry and how can they find a way to be happy again?
Expect to learn the social psychology behind the rise of Taylor Swift, Whitney’s thoughts on becoming a mother and the future of motherhood, whether women really can have it all, why more men are attracted to Whitney now that she’s pregnant, what we do about the future of sex robots and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:57) Did Pfizer Bring Travis Kelce & Taylor Swift Together?
(10:53) Having an Obligatory Opinion on Everything
(14:52) Jada Pinkett Smith’s Confusing Marriage
(21:53) Why Young Men Are Dating Older Girls
(27:36) Preparing for a Baby as a Woman
(32:42) Mistaking Charisma for a Romantic Spark
(44:00) Survival Mechanisms in Daily Life
(48:18) Benefits of the 12-Step Program
(53:52) The Beauty of Having a Child
(1:01:42) Being Intentional in Relationships
(1:09:16) Dating Someone Who Has an Online Persona
(1:21:16) Who to Seek Relationship Advice From
(1:25:06) Is There Power in Positively Changing for Your Partner?
(1:32:37) How to Take Material for Art From Life
(1:46:30) Taking a Life Hiatus for Childcare
(1:50:59) How to Survive on Tour
(2:02:30) Allowing Yourself to Feel Emotions
(2:06:58) Where to Find Whitney
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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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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…