Modern Wisdom

By Chris Williamson

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... more

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March 09, 2023 15 Harsh Psychology Truths - Adam Lane Smith - #599
Adam Lane Smith is a psychotherapist and an author.
Adam has helped thousands of patients and couples to deal with problems from childhood, their relationships and their sex lives. He also writes amazing Twitter threads filled with insights from his time as a therapist and today we get to go through some of my favourites.
Expect to learn the common trend Adam saw in every couples' therapy session he conducted, the biggest differences between male and female communication styles, why so many young girls are on depression medication, why the female sex drive switches after 6 to 12 months into a relationship, what mistakes all women wish guys would stop making on the first 3 dates and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:52) Is Couple’s Therapy Pointless?
(09:59) The American School System Treats Boys Like Defective Girls
(12:46) People Take Comfort in Diagnosable Labels
(21:38) Why Men Skip Therapy
(30:10) Helping Men Detox from the Red Pill Community
(44:23) The Need to Understand the Female Sex Drive
(52:51) Most Struggling Couples Actually Have Attachment Issues
(58:57) The Problem of People Who Need Therapy but Refuse
(1:00:09) Women’s Need for Validation Over Solutions
(1:05:49) Dealing with Women’s Lowered Sex Drive in a Relationship
(1:09:29) Do You Need Sex Before Marriage?
(1:17:02) The Dumbest Mistakes Guys Make on the First Date
(1:29:09) Where to Find Adam
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Follow Adam on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheBrometheus
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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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1h 31min
March 06, 2023 The Wild Ethics Of Human Genetic Enhancement - Dr Jonathan Anomaly - #598
Dr Jonathan Anomaly is a philosopher who writes about the social implications of emerging biotechnologies, teaches classes in ethics and game theory, and helped design the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at Duke University.
The ability to select from potential embryos is already here. Soon, we will be able to select for height, intelligence, personality types, moral disposition, athletic ability and maybe even enhance traits which aren't present. This creates a vortex of complex ethics around one of the most contentious topics on the internet - genetics. So I decided to dive in.
Expect to learn just what the current technology of embryo selection can achieve right now, whether opting to not genetically enhance your child is an unethical practise, the dangers of creating massive societal inequality, why you are already a eugenicist, whether genetic interventions are morally different from environmental ones and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:40) What We Misunderstand About Eugenics
(08:58) The Difference Between Eugenics & Genetic Enhancement
(17:43) The Morals of IVF & Genetic Variants
(28:18) Societal Objections to Eugenics
(33:21) Are Genetic Interventions Morally Different to Environmental Interventions
(38:37) What Are Our Current Genetic Enhancement Capabilities?
(42:50) Are Human Males Redundant?
(54:54) The Most Desirable Characteristics to Enhance
(1:04:50) Will People Be Able to Select for Attractiveness?
(1:17:16) Possible Negative Impacts of Eugenics on Society
(1:28:43) Will Eugenics Create a Higher Class?
(1:35:35) The Reality of Behavioural Genetics & Heritability
(1:39:47) Is it Our Moral Obligation to Have Children?
(1:51:39) Where to Find Dr Anomaly
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Check out Dr Anomaly's website - https://jonathan-anomaly.com/
Read Dr Anomaly's papers - https://philpapers.org/
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/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-Huberman⁠⁠
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1h 53min
March 04, 2023 How To Defeat Your Self Doubt - Lewis Howes - #597
Lewis Howes is a former professional athlete, podcaster and an author.
Many people are wildly uncertain that they can achieve the things they want in life. If a lack of confidence killed more dreams than a lack of capability ever will, how can we get past this self-doubt and find a place of genuine, positive reassurance to start working from?
Expect to learn why your heroes aren't gods, where self doubt comes from, how to discover your mission in life, what you can learn about positivity from an army veteran who had his face blown off, how to stop negative self-talk, what to do if you don't have a support group around you, whether greatness begins with an action or a mindset first and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:37) What People Misunderstand about Greatness
(06:23) Learning Positivity from an Injured Veteran
(10:30) How to Find Your Personal Mission
(21:10) Discovering the Source of Your Self-Doubt
(33:38) Turn Fear of Failure into Action
(40:38) The Balance Between Feeling Enough & Staying Hungry
(43:57) The Need for a Strong Support Network
(1:00:03) Powerless Mindset Vs Greatness Mindset
(1:08:18) Finding The Thing that Fuels You
(1:18:36) Practical Tips to Build a Greatness Mindset
(1:21:20) Where to Find Lewis
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Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/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-Huberman⁠⁠
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1h 22min
March 02, 2023 Feminism Is No Longer Helping Women - Mary Harrington - #596
Mary Harrington is a contributing editor at UnHerd and an author.
Women have been subject to a lot of changes over the past 200 years. Liberated first from the land, then from the house, then from the womb, and finally even from their own nature. But has it actually helped? Has modern feminism been for the best or has it made women's lives more confusing than ever?
Expect to learn why feminism might not have delivered on the promises it made to the world, why there is a war on relationships between the sexes, Mary's guess on why there are so few families getting together, how women's liberation has only worked for a small number of women at the expense of many others, why abortion and birth control actually led to more single parent households and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:33) What Qualifies Mary to Critique Feminism?
(09:00) Hasn’t There Been Progress for Women Since the Industrial Revolution?
(21:28) Feminism After the 1800s
(25:50) When Men ‘White-Knight’ for Women
(30:20) The Impact of the Sexual Revolution
(39:02) What are the Motivations Behind Modern Feminist Progress?
(58:25) The Worrying Rise of 'Transhumanism'
(1:11:21) Society’s Need to Abolish ‘Big Romance’
(1:25:02) Is the Sexual Revolution Sidelining Men?
(1:32:16) The Feminist Case for Not Taking the Pill
(1:38:24) How People Can Help to Abolish ‘Big Romance’
(1:43:26) Where to Find Mary
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To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/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-Huberman⁠⁠
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Get in touch.
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1h 45min
February 27, 2023 700k Q&A - Negative Self-Talk, Upcoming Live Tour & Ray Dalio - #595
I hit 700k 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 Ray Dalio is coming on the podcast, how to overcome negative self talk and whether I'll be doing a live tour soon.
Expect to learn how I deal with nerves before big podcasts, my very simple memorisation tactic for the books I read, whether I class myself as anti-woke, if I think young men should leave the dating market all together right now, why I stopped working as a model, what t-shirts I always wear, whether I'm worried about EMFs from AirPods, my favourite chest day routine and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:10) Caring About What Others Think
(02:07) Getting Nervous Before Podcasts
(03:05) Concern About Burnout
(05:25) Chris’s Book List
(07:50) Why the Goggins Episode Had Ads
(09:59) Modern Wisdom Merchandise
(10:56) Cosmic Skeptic’s Meat Confession
(13:07) 1 Million Subscriber Episode
(13:44) Improving the Podcast
(14:50) Naval or Curtis Yarvin on the Podcast
(15:42) How to Ask Great Questions
(18:18) Is Chris Anti-Woke?
(20:02) Opinion on UK Tap Water
(21:43) Why Chris Quit Modelling
(22:47) Meditation for Beginners
(23:58) Opinion on Decoding The Gurus
(26:14) Staying Impartial as an Interviewer
(28:11) Outsourcing Your Self-Worth
(30:23) Modern Wisdom Live Shows
(31:58) Will Chris Play Cricket Again?
(32:11) The Podcast Intro Song
(33:16) Important Changes in the World
(34:01) Guesting on the Joe Rogan Podcast
(34:40) Is Dating Worth the Sacrifices?
(36:39) Tips to Increase Vocabulary
(38:09) Chris Needs More Subscribers
(38:17) Book-Writing in the Time of AI
(39:58) Keep Going
(40:08) Thank You Chris
(40:17) How Chris’s Parents Feel About His Success
(41:02) Does Chris Miss the UK?
(42:25) Chris’s Haircut
(42:49) Diary of a CEO
(43:09) Does Chris Keep All the Books He Reads?
(43:44) Ray Dalio on the Podcast
(44:05) Avoiding Negative Self-Talk
(46:03) What Would Chris Do Differently?
(46:38) Baccarat Rouge 540
(47:43) What Brand are Chris’s T-Shirts?
(48:25) Why Chris was Bullied at School
(50:01) Recording with Cameron Hanes
(50:55) Is the Mating Crisis That Bad?
(52:59) Meeting People Who Have Been Impacted by the Podcast
(54:47) Peter Attia on the Podcast
(55:20) Does Chris Only Wear Vans?
(56:32) Concern About EMFs
(57:29) Do Men Care About Female Pubes?
(58:26) Where Did 600K Subscribers Go?
(58:39) Chest Day at the Gym
(1:00:15) Life Advice
(1:02:18) Will the Podcast Always Be Fulfilling?
(1:04:55) Update on Stell Cem Treatment
(1:06:29) Chris’s Process for Scheduling Episodes
(1:08:17) Insights from Quitting Caffeine
(1:10:26) How to ‘Do The Thing’
(1:13:57) How Chris Remembers Quotes
(1:14:50) Should You Quit Soda or Booze?
(1:15:15) Advice for Aspiring Podcasters
(1:17:11) Over-Correcting Your Self-Improvement
(1:19:58) Important Lessons from the Last Year
(1:20:46) What Chris Looks for in a Podcast Guest
(1:22:45) Gratitude Practices
(1:24:07) Relationship Advice to 20-Year-Old
(1:26:46) Conclusion
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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1h 28min
February 25, 2023 The Incredible Evolution Of Human Violence - Dr Richard Wrangham - #594
Dr Richard Wrangham is an anthropologist and primatologist, a Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and an author whose research focuses on ape behaviour, human evolution, violence, and cooking.
Humans have the capacity for incredible benevolence and kindness, but also are able to be execute other members of our species with a uniquely effective ruthlessness. Why would evolution give us such differing capacities to chimps and apes and what can this tell us about our nature?
Expect to learn the fascinating evolutionary story of human aggression through the ages, how humans actually selectively bred ourselves to become less aggressive, how our capacity for violence informed the evolution of morality, the true reason for why humans might have a sense of right and wrong, what would have happened to a hyper aggressive male ancestrally and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:26) Are Humans an Aggressive Species?
(06:38) How Human Violence Evolved
(21:08) The Self-Domestication of Man
(24:33) Understanding Psychological Changes Through Bones
(27:47) Has Female Aggression Evolved?
(39:12) Did Violence Influence the Development of Morality?
(52:26) How Much of Mythology is Justification for a Male Bias?
(56:19) Evolution of Kin-to-Kin Aggression
(58:44) How Sex Ratios Impacted the Local Ecology
(1:06:03) Humanity’s Approach to Male Aggression in Today’s Society
(1:19:17) Where to Find Dr Wrangham
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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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1h 21min
February 23, 2023 Why Is No One Having Sex? - Alex DatePsych - #593
Alex DatePsych is a Neuroscience and Behavioural Science researcher whose work focuses on attractiveness and dating.
We are in a new age of sexlessness. It could be that right now, the human race is having less sex than ever before. Given the rise of dating apps, the sexual revolution and hormonal birth control, how is this happening?
Expect to learn what the science says about whether girls find it creepy to be approached, whether dating is harder for young men now than in the past, why women's sexual desire declines at twice the rate of mens' in marriages, why there is a PUA to Incel Pipeline, if it's true that women's standards have risen over the last few decades, whether inceldom is all about looks and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:31) How to Approach Women Without Feeling Creepy
(16:19) What is Causing the Rise in Sexless Men?
(22:32) The Rising Standards of Women
(27:34) Does Being Single for a Long Time Impact Happiness?
(31:42) What It’s Like to Be in the Top 20% of Men on Dating Apps
(36:40) Are Attractive Women Having More or Less Sex?
(46:44) What Guys Get Wrong About What Women Find Attractive
(58:12) The Origins of Inceldom
(1:08:09) Do Men Really Want to Cheat?
(1:16:03) Decline in Sexual Desire over Length of Relationship
(1:23:42) Why People Accuse Alex of Pro-Feminist Dating Views
(1:29:42) Where to Find Alex
Extra Stuff:
Check out Alex's website - https://datepsychology.com/
Follow Alex on Twitter - https://twitter.com/datepsych
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/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-Huberman⁠⁠
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Get in touch.
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1h 31min
February 20, 2023 8 Fascinating Psychological Biases - Richard Shotton - #592
Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, Founder of Astroten and an author.
This might not be news to you, but the human brain isn't designed to be rational. There are cheat codes to get the brain to believe strange things, do strange things and change in ways you might not anticipate. Richard has one of the best insights into this world of mental models, psychology, consumer behaviour, principles for advertising and social change.
Expect to learn the marketing secret about behaviour change that everyone forgets about, how to make habit formation absolutely seamless, why IKEA is so successful even though they don't make your furniture, a hack that any advertising campaign can use to make it stick in people's minds, how to fix the problem of choice paralysis and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:34) Why You Should Care About Behavioural Science
(05:55) Stated Vs Revealed Preferences in Human Behaviour
(09:48) Making Habit Formation Seamless
(16:12) Are Loyalty Schemes & Incentives a Scam?
(23:27) Using Ease to Change Behaviour
(33:50) Increasing the Perceived Value of Something
(49:29) The Generation Effect in Behavioural Science
(57:55) The Behavioural Science of YouTube Thumbnails
(1:04:10) Explaining the Keats Heuristic
(1:12:54) The Power of Concreteness
(1:17:30) Are Stories Better than Statistics?
(1:28:56) Psychology Behind Precise Pricing
(1:36:24) Where to Find Richard
Extra Stuff:
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Follow Richard on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rshotton
Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/
To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/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-Huberman⁠⁠
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Get in touch.
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1h 38min
February 18, 2023 Hollywood’s Message Is Dead - Critical Drinker - #591
Critical Drinker is a movie critic, an analyst of modern entertainment media and a YouTuber.
Cinema is no longer just about entertainment, it's now a platform for social and cultural ideologies to be pushed through. If you don't like what Hollywood's execs tell you to like? Too bad, that's your prejudice showing, you bigot.
Expect to learn why there are no more positive heroic role models in movies, the problem with Velma getting naked on a cartoon, why Rotten Tomatoes reviews are diverging more than ever before, why Matt Damon was always right, just how destroyed Rick & Morty is as a franchise and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:30) Critical Drinker’s Background
(03:04) The Gap Between Rotten Tomatoes Critic & Audience Reviews
(10:16) How Marvel is Patronising Women
(16:56) Why Does Hollywood Hate Men So Much?
(22:28) The Current Trend of Movie Remakes
(29:56) Why A Stoic Man Is a Toxic Man in Hollywood
(35:24) Explaining ‘Fan-baiting’
(38:46) Will the Market Show Hollywood that People Want Better Movies Again?
(44:42) Why Aren’t More Films Optimistic & Positive?
(51:09) Is House of the Dragon Redeeming the Game of Thrones Franchise?
(55:19) What Went Wrong with Jurassic World: Dominion
(58:30) The Story of Superman’s Lips
(1:06:45) Rick & Morty Co-Founder’s Downfall
(1:09:09) What is Critical Drinker Looking Forward To?
(1:14:28) Where to Find Critical Drinker
Extra Stuff:
Subscribe to Critical Drinker on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TheCriticalDrinker
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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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February 16, 2023 When Will You Learn To Grow Up? - Mark Manson - #590
Mark Manson is a best selling author, blogger and a movie star.
You're not supposed to just get older, you're supposed to mature as well. You're supposed to leave the juvenile patterns and beliefs and behaviours behind as you shed your past self like a wise awakened crab. So why do so many people get stuck in old habits, and how can they get out of them?
Expect to learn what most people don't understand about how relationships work, why so many men are enticed by Andrew Tate's message, what Mark thinks about the modern era of men's advice after being in the industry for over a decade, why he got depressed after a smash hit best selling book, how to deal with high standards for yourself and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:45) What People Don’t Understand About Success
(06:26) Methods to Ground Yourself
(11:21) Choosing Your Struggles
(15:57) Why Mark Got Depressed After His First Book
(22:06) Experience of Quitting Alcohol
(33:05) Why Gen-Z are Impressive
(45:15) Mark’s Hierarchy of Audience Capture
(49:31) Thoughts on the Modern Era of Men’s Advice
(1:04:13) How #MeToo Affected Dating Approaches
(1:12:15) What Men Need to Focus On After Their Twenties
(1:18:45) Where to Find Mark
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The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠
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