Modern Wisdom - Chris Williamson

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Treat Your Life As An Experiment - James Altucher - #138 Jan 30, 2020

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James Altucher is a chess master, writer, entrepreneur, investor, podcaster and comedian.

Overcoming our life's natural inertia is hard. We overplan, overthink and hold off starting a plan because we're not ready. Today James takes us through his approach for experimenting with life and jumping into new things feet-first.

This is the second in a two-part episode with James, they can be enjoyed separately or together. I figured I'd try experimenting with ideas too!

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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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How To Improve Every Day & Harness The Power Of Ideas - James Altucher - #137 Jan 27, 2020

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James Altucher is a chess master, writer, entrepreneur, investor, podcaster and comedian.

Everyone talks about compound improvements being the key to progress, but how can you systematise that into your life so you're growing every day?

And how can you harness the power of idea generation to build your mental muscles & create opportunities in your life? James explains how he experiments in his life by playing around with new ideas all the time.

This is the first in a two-part episode with James, they can be enjoyed separately or together. I figured I'd try experimenting with ideas too!

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Buy Choose Yourself - https://amzn.to/2GlYDYd

Check out James' Website - https://jamesaltucher.com/

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Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast

Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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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Personal Growth, Dating & Psychedelics - Tucker Max - #136 Jan 23, 2020

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Tucker Max is an author, speaker and the Co-Founder of Scribe.

How do you go from being a professional asshole to a dad? From beer bongs to boardrooms and drunken nights to ayahuasca retreats?

There's a transition we all have to go through from the person we were to the person we want to be. Many of us go through this multiple times. But how do we know when it's time to change, and how can we let go of the people we used to be?

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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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How Loving Yourself Can Save Your Life - Kamal Ravikant - #135 Jan 20, 2020

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Kamal Ravikant is an investor and writer.

Do you love yourself? Do you even like yourself?

The body and mind you inhabit is the only one you're going to get in this life. That means there is no greater priority than learning to love yourself and work collaboratively, instead of adversarially with your inner being.

This is one of the most open and raw episodes I've recorded, thank you to Kamal for being a part of it.

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Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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

Get in touch.

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How Much Does Google Know About Me? - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - #134 Jan 16, 2020

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former Data Scientist at Google and a writer.

There are things which you write into Google which you have never told another person. Our search history is a window into the deepest recesses of our mind which has never before been available.

Time for the big data analysts like Seth to step in and look at what we can discover from these information. Why do people commit suicide? How many Americans are racist? What is the most popular type of pornography in India? And what is the biggest determining factor in a child's development?

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Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast

Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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

Get in touch.

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Lessons From Afghanistan & Capturing Somali Pirates - Roderic Yapp - #133 Jan 13, 2020

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Roderic Yapp is a business coach and former Royal Marines Officer.

What was it really like to be on the front lines in Afghanistan? How do you recapture a ship which has been taken hostage by Somali pirates? What are the universalities we can learn about our own nature from seeing these cultures at war?

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Leadership Forces - https://www.leadershipforces.com/

Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast

Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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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Do I Need Therapy? - Charlotte Fox Weber - #132 Jan 09, 2020

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Charlotte Fox Weber is the Head of Psychotherapy at The School Of Life.

Therapy is a term that comes with a lot of baggage. It's seen as a last ditch measure, a solution that is only needed by someone in a dire situation to "fix" a problem.

But what even is therapy and what does it do? Should it only be used by the people who are at the end of their tether? Who is it for? And why is it so stigmatised?

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My Starting Therapy Video - https://youtu.be/jK-mw8rXziY

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Freud - On Transience - https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Transience.pdf

Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast

Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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

Get in touch.

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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What I Would Tell My 18 Year Old Self - #131 Jan 06, 2020

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Jonny & Yusef join me for the first episode of the new year as we ask each other what would we tell ourselves 10 years ago.

If you were given a 30 second phone call to yourself 10 years ago, what would you say? Buy Bitcoin? Learn to meditate? End that relationship? Do not dye your hair blonde?

Today you get to hear us crack under the pressure of an imaginary phone call to our younger selves and then reflect on everything we've learned.

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Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast

Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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

Get in touch.

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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The Contact Paradox: Where Are All The Aliens? - Keith Cooper - #130 Dec 30, 2019

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Keith Cooper is the Editor of Astronomy Now and an author.

Why is searching for aliens so hard? How would they contact us? How would we decode a message? What are the potential dangers of responding? Should the general public be told if we find them? Should we be freely sending messages out into space?

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The End Of The World Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/the-end-of-the-world-with-josh-clark/id1437682381

Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast

Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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

Get in touch.

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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Hacks, Fails & Lessons From 2019 - Christmas Special - #129 Dec 23, 2019

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Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for a special Christmas edition end of year recap.

In 2019 what did we love, what did we hate, what did we discover, what did we leave behind and when did we fall completely flat on our faces?

Extra long, extra girthy and extra festive, thank you for all your support this year - merry Christmas everybody!

Extra Stuff:

Check out Propane Fitness - https://propanefitness.com/

Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast

Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/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

Get in touch.

Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast

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