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April 01, 2023 How To Understand Psychological Incentives - Uri Gneezy - #609
Uri Gneezy is a behavioural economist, a professor at the University of California and an author who's research focuses on human incentives.
Incentives encourage humans to do things. But they're not as straight forward as you might think. They often have unintended and disastrous consequences for our personal lives, businesses and societies. Basically, a bad incentive is worse than no incentive at all.
Expect to learn why paying citizens 10p for a rat tail is a bad idea, how fining parents for taking their kids on holiday results in more kids missing school, why the Toyota Prius won because of its strange design, how reframing discounts can rapidly change behaviour, why Peloton's sales went up when they increased the price, why Coke machines have an outdoors thermometer on them and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:25) Explaining Incentives
(03:55) Social Dynamics of Signalling
(12:15) The Problem with Mixed Signals
(17:34) Uber’s Driver Incentive Program
(21:02) The Right Way to Encourage Innovation & Punish Failure
(28:06) How Peloton Sold More With a Higher Price
(32:50) The Mixed Signal of Long-Term Goals & Short-Term Results
(38:31) How Incentives Are Helping Prevent Female Genital Mutilation
(46:24) Why Fines Are So Bad at Incentivising Behaviour
(52:41) How an LA Car Company Used Incentives to Drive Sales
(1:02:18) Using Incentives to Find Problems
(1:08:14) What Most People Get Wrong About Negotiation
(1:13:30) Where to Find Uri
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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 15 min
March 30, 2023 How Does The Human Mind Work? - Paul Bloom - #608
Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University and an author.
The human mind is a mystery. If it wasn't for the fact that we experience it, the universe would give us absolutely no indication that consciousness existed. After an entire career studying psychology, Professor Bloom has some answers to the psychology questions we've all asked ourselves.
Expect to learn whether you actually remember everything that you've ever experienced, whether we know why consciousness evolved at all, why we should remember Sigmund Freud, why babies are way smarter than you think, whether attachment theory is rubbish, if psychology can tell us how to live a good life and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:25) What Do We Know About Human Consciousness?
(07:42) The Usefulness of the Human Memory System
(15:47) Does Our Tribal Nature Make Us Racist?
(21:22) How to Improve Attention
(25:57) Should Freud Be Taken Seriously in 2023?
(35:51) How to Find a Balance Between Thoughts & Body
(39:00) Why Behaviourism Theory Has Become So Unpopular
(47:26) How Much Do Babies & Dogs Actually Know?
(51:56) Relationship Between Language & Thought
(57:10) Biggest Differences Between Male & Female Psychology
(1:02:34) Is Attachment Theory Nonsense?
(1:12:55) The Need to Reform Education Around Heritability
(1:19:37) Can Psychology Help Us Understand How to Live a Good Life?
(1:25:35) What Will Psychology Unravel Next?
(1:27:42) Where to Find Paul
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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
March 27, 2023 Why Are Young Men Feeling So Lost? - Mike Thurston - #607
Mike Thurston is a podcaster, YouTuber and a fitness model.
Me and Mike went to university together 15 years ago. Even though we were odd, awkward creatures, there was no pressure to get our life together. In 2023, it seems like there is much more pressure on both men and women to sort it out. What's changed, and why is life more confusing than ever before?
Expect to learn why Mike wants Derek from More Plates More Dates to test him for steroids, why going to university wasn't a waste of time, why Mike stopped drinking alcohol, what he thinks about Greg Doucette's Youtube Channel, why women are just as lost as men, the problems of masculinity in the modern world and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:30) How Mike Created a Platform Without the Drama
(06:20) Would Mike Get Tested by Derek MPMD?
(12:50) Will Jesse James Will Burn Out?
(19:20) Advice for YouTube Beginners
(23:14) Why Are Men Feeling Lost?
(33:56) The Essence of True Masculinity
(38:00) Spending Time with Andrew Tate
(44:17) The Lack of Female Role Models
(51:41) Mike’s Relationship with Alcohol
(1:01:35) Developing New Skills
(1:07:14) Why Logan & Jake Paul Seem Indestructible
(1:13:41) What Mike is Doing Next
(1:19:01) Where to Find Mike
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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

Get in touch.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
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1 hr 20 min
March 25, 2023 The Rise And Fall Of The Girlboss Meme - Katherine Dee - #606
Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist and internet historian.
There are lots of male subcultures. Incels, RedPill, Pickup Artists, Soy Boys. But what are women getting up to? Trends like Hot Girls Have IBS. Hot Girls Eat Fish. And most well known, the girlboss meme. Katherine is here to explain just what is happening in the oestrogen-fuelled underbelly of the internet.
Expect to learn why the girlboss meme came about, why there is a coming wave of sex-negativity, whether it really is possible to be hot while you have IBS, Katherine's biggest red flags when choosing a partner, whether it should be legal to pay to drug women so you can have sex with their lifeless bodies, why predictable is good when dating and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(02:06) Katherine’s Prediction of Sex Negativity
(06:43) TikTok Rips off Tumblr’s Originality
(10:09) The Death of the Girlboss Archetype
(19:44) Looking to the Future of Female Trends
(29:40) Young Guys are Taking Relationship Examples from the Internet
(36:50) Why Women Get Paranoid When They Like a Man
(39:38) Red Flags to Look For in a Man
(40:22) Beware of Convoluted Dating Advice
(41:38) Be Direct, Not Desperate
(43:05) Don’t Be Too Available for Sex
(45:40) Why Predictability is Good for Relationships
(48:17) Relationships Should Always Have Forward Momentum
(49:45) You Can’t Manipulate Your Way into Relationship with Sex
(51:23) Learn from People Through Their Jokes
(53:11) Don’t Look for People Similar to Your Ex
(53:41) Be the Less Invested Partner
(54:46) If You’re Composing a Reply on Apple Notes, It’s Time to Break Up
(55:35) Don’t Date Someone if You Wouldn’t Be Comfortable Marrying Them
(57:56) Why You Shouldn’t Date Down
(1:01:40) Does Body Count Matter?
(1:03:17) Durable Relationships Come From Shared Values
(1:05:22) The Problem with the ‘I Love You’ Text 6 Months Later
(1:06:32) Incels are Right About ‘Emotional Tampons’
(1:07:31) If You’re Drinking & Smoking to Have Sex, You Don’t Like it
(1:12:05) People Giving Advice are Speaking to Themselves
(1:13:08) Katherine’s Next Projects
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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

Get in touch.
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1 hr 15 min
March 23, 2023 What Science Actually Says About How To Lose Body Fat - Ben Carpenter - #605
Ben Carpenter is a personal trainer, researcher, international speaker, fitness model and diet expert.
There are a million diets out there. All of them claim to work. Many of us have tried many of them, and many failed. So which diet is the best? What are the principles of fat loss that science agrees on as the most effective? How do we all get a 6-pack?
Expect to learn whether calories are a total lie, why the weight loss industry is filled with so much conflicting advice, the 4 key components to any good diet, how there can be so many approaches to the same end goal, whether diet or training is more important, how to improve your willpower, the single most important contributor to fat loss and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:30) Our Identity Lags Behind Our Reality
(09:27) Ben’s Health & Fitness Background
(13:17) Why Can’t the Fitness Industry Agree on a Way to Lose Fat?
(23:15) What We Misunderstand About Fat Loss
(33:48) Finding the Right Balance for Taking Responsibility
(41:12) Fundamentals of Fat Loss
(47:13) The Science of Food Texture
(54:10) Do Calories Actually Matter?
(1:05:46) How to Navigate the Countless Diets Available
(1:12:03) Can I Lose Fat Without Exercise?
(1:15:40) How to Improve Willpower
(1:25:13) Making Boring Exercise Enjoyable
(1:32:25) Where to Find Ben
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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

Get in touch.
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1 hr 33 min
March 20, 2023 The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship - Robin Dunbar - #604
Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford and an author.
Most animals need friends to survive. But no other animal has as layered and complex a social life as humans. The last 2 million years from trees to plains to apartments has caused huge changes to the setup of our social groups, and it's a fascinating story.
Expect to learn why any group size over 90 ends up with more people being killed than being born, why men don't have a best friend forever but women do, the link between human brain size and social groups, how male and female friendships differ, why the modern world has the most loneliness ever, what the single largest impact on your health is and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:18) Why Humans, Monkeys & Apes Have Huge Brains
(05:18) How Human Social Groups Evolved
(13:39) How Group Dynamics Impact Fertility
(28:30) Why Living in a Big City is an Evolutionary Mismatch
(45:08) How Did We Get From Small Tribes to Larger Settlements?
(52:58) The Evolutionary Struggles of Growing Groups
(1:02:01) Differences Between Male & Female Friendships
(1:17:41) Why Men Think Women Are Attracted to Them
(1:22:47) Where to Find Robin
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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

Get in touch.
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1 hr 26 min
March 18, 2023 How To Make Life's Biggest Decisions - Abby Davisson - #603
Abby Davisson is an author, social innovation leader and career development expert whose research focuses on decision making in money management and romance.
There are some big decisions we all need to make. What job to take, what city to live in, whether to get married or divorced or have kids. Having a prescriptive formula for this might seem impossible, but Abby helped run the most popular course at Stanford on exactly this topic, and today we get to find out what she's discovered.
Expect to learn what the most common biggest single mistake that Abby has discovered in her research, how to use logic in romantic decisions without killing the romance, how to speak to your parents about care as they get older, the biggest mistakes that all people make when it comes to major decisions, if you should get a prenup agreement and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:48) What’s Wrong with our Decision Making?
(05:02) Making Decisions on Limited Information
(09:52) Principles for Effective Communication
(15:16) The Financial Aspect of Finding a Partner
(23:17) Romantic Decisions in a World of Unlimited Options
(35:11) Advice for Couples who Struggle to Communicate
(39:20) Most Common Life Decision Regrets
(43:47) How to Know if a Relationship Should End
(49:45) Choosing Where to Live
(53:29) Considering Elderly Care
(1:01:01) Where to Find Abby
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

Get in touch.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
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Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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1 hr 2 min
March 16, 2023 14 Shocking Lessons About Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal - #602
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.
Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites.
Expect to learn why asking questions is the most selfish thing you can do, why people create hatred in an attempt to feel love, the real danger of censorship, why it's more important to avoid being wrong than try to be right, what postjournalism is and why you need to understand it, how to win every debate even if you lose, why you should never take an internet insult personally and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:57) Social Media is Making People Less Sincere
(08:18) Instead of Trying to Be Right, Be Less Wrong
(13:18) People are More Interested in Criticising than Helping
(17:15) Never Take Information at Face Value
(20:29) Becoming Trapped in a Purity Spiral
(30:47) It Isn’t Coordination, It’s Cowardice
(45:53) Media is Now ‘Post-Journalism’
(52:51) The Majority of Evil People Had Good Intentions
(59:34) Why It’s Easier to Debate Geniuses than Idiots
(1:09:16) Don’t Take Social Media Attacks Seriously
(1:25:28) Are People Really Judging Us?
(1:32:30) The Configuration of Dominant Ideologies
(1:47:50) Where to Find Gurwinder
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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

Get in touch.
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1 hr 51 min
March 13, 2023 Evolution's Secrets To Understanding Relationships - Dr Andrew Thomas - #601
Dr Andrew Thomas is a senior lecturer of psychology at Swansea University whose research focuses on sex differences and relationship preferences from an evolutionary perspective.
Evolution explains a large portion of why we like the things we like. Who we're attracted to, why we fall into and out of love, how our mental state affects our mating strategies. Therefore, if you are a human who ever intends on being in a relationship, this might be useful.
Expect to learn the 5 evolutionary theories which explain much of human mating, whether ChatGPT can correctly predict what traits men and women like most in each other, how many previous sexual partners people say they want their current partner to have had, how open men & women in the West are to polyamorous relationships, how sexual arousal can ruin a faithful relationship and much more...
Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(01:20) Evolutionary Mismatch
(10:18) Evolving Towards Making Small Errors Instead of Big Ones
(17:33) Are Men as Picky as Women?
(21:55) Is Promiscuity Heritable?
(27:32) Humans Engage in Multiple Types of Sexual Strategies
(36:49) The Different Levels of Sexual Harassment
(46:55) Is Sexlessness in Young Men Caused by Poor Social Skills?
(52:56) Attitudes in the West to Having Multiple Sexual Partners
(1:04:21) How Many Previous Sexual Partners is Too Much?
(1:14:52) What ChatGPT Gets Wrong About Mate Preferences
(1:34:31) Where to Find Dr Thomas
Extra Stuff:
Follow Andrew on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DrThomasAG
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

Get in touch.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast
Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

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1 hr 36 min
March 11, 2023 16 Lessons From 600 Episodes - Andrew Schulz, Douglas Murray & Alex Hormozi - #600
To celebrate 600 episodes on Modern Wisdom, I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last hundred episodes.
Expect to learn how to have unlimited charisma, why this might be the best your life ever gets, how to work out if the entire world is a coordinated conspiracy, what Douglas Murray taught me about not having an opinion, why stupid people are more dangerous than evil people, why female self-improvement is patronising, how to gauge the honesty of anyone in your life, the danger of clickbait and much more...
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Intro
(00:48) It Isn’t Coordination, It’s Cowardice
(04:49) Original Thinkers Are Rare
(09:30) The Problem of Presence
(11:58) These Are the Golden Years
(21:38) Your Life Should be Led by Design, Not by Default
(26:42) Mastering First Impressions
(32:26) If You Can’t Live Without Caffeine, is Really Helping You?
(35:24) Difference Between Male & Female Self-Improvement
(42:30) Gauging the Honesty of Creators
(48:22) Loneliness Comes With a Higher Complexity of Mind
(50:20) How Audience Capture Has Distorted Media
(53:43) Be Clear About What You Want
(56:30) The Trap of Defensiveness Being Proof of Guilt
Extra Stuff:
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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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…