Modern Wisdom &#8211; Chris Williamson

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Life Hacks 209 - #529 Sep 22, 2022

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Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for another Life Hacks episode.

Sit back & enjoy as we run through our favourite tools, apps, websites, strategies & resources for a productive and efficient life.

Expect to learn why I've become fully obsessed with my new desk bike, Jonny's solution for protein cereal, how to get free Amazon delivery within a couple of hours, the best tricks to get the most out of Spotify, why Yusef is obsessed with his new pressure cooker, Apple's fantastic new iPhone Background Sounds feature and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (01:31) Lumin Skincare (05:17) IKEA Custom Wardrobes (08:15) Bike Desks (16:53) Surreal Cereal (21:32) Appify Websites (23:30) Discounted Zoom (25:57) Rush Shipping (30:15) The Boardroom Exercise (35:03) Careful Flight Picking (39:06) Blue Blocking Glasses (44:22) Stop the Madness on Chrome (46:00) Spotify for Podcasts (54:16) Ambient Background Music (56:10) Get an Instant Pot (1:01:40) iPhone Built-in Background Sounds (1:04:49) Visualise Value on Chrome (1:07:20) Location-Based Reminders (1:09:29) Uber Hacks (1:14:16) Recommended Things to Watch (1:27:21) Where to Find Jonny & Yusef

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Can Women Have A Career And A Family? - Kristina Durante - #528 Sep 19, 2022

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Kristina Durante is a professor of marketing at Rutgers Business School and a social psychologist who studies the biology of decision-making and evolution of female psychology.

For the first time in history, many women have the opportunity to pursue a career as their primary life path. But does this prohibit them from also having a family? Do women actually want to be mothers or was it their only option? Do women actually want careers or is it just a shiny new opportunity?

Expect to learn if women have an impulse to actually have children or just to have sex, whether careers make women happy, whether the marriages of career women are more or less successful, whether women's ovulatory cycles change their preferences for badboy mates, what buying expensive bags and shoes signals and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:24) Serena Williams’ Vogue Article (09:05) Women Deny Being the Breadwinner (18:16) Is There a Female Impulse to Have a Child? (23:44) Behavioural Change during Ovulation Cycles (31:57) How Careers Disturb Partnerships (39:26) Why Women Chase Bad Boys (51:23) Female Consumer Behaviour (1:01:12) How Genetics Impact Womanhood (1:07:38) Capitalism’s Effects on Female Priorities (1:18:27) Taking the EvPsych Red Pill (1:23:20) Where to Find Kristina

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How To Biohack Your Sex Life - Ben Greenfield - #527 Sep 17, 2022

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Ben Greenfield is a Biohacker, Coach, Author, Speaker and Ironman Triathlete.

Boosting your performance in the bedroom is a goal many people want. Thankfully Ben experimented with pretty much every strategy there is from gas station pills to penis stem cell injections, soundwave treatment and red light therapy so we don't have to.

Expect to learn why turning your penis black and blue might not be a bad thing long term, why Zevia is as healthy of a soda drink as you can get, how my friend decided he's a 95th percentile semen producer, whether I should get injected with loads of stem cells in Colombia, the most important diet and training protocols everyone is missing and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (10:01) Ben’s Men’s Health Penis Experiments (26:22) Using Stem Cells (32:24) Maintaining Healthy Relationships (43:31) Importance of Reflective Activities (48:59) How to Exercise for Longevity (1:03:39) Consuming Water & Alcohol (1:12:27) Conclusion

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Are Incels A Threat To Society? - William Costello - #526 Sep 15, 2022

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William Costello is an evolutionary psychologist, writer and Ph.D. student at the University of Texas.

Men being hopeless with women is not a new phenomenon. But them self-identifying and creating a subculture around being "genetic dead ends" definitely is. William conducted some of the world's first research into the underlying psychological profile of incels to find out just what's going on.

Expect to learn why 45% of working age women will be single and childless by 2030, why many incels would rather bond over failure than over trying to improve, why women dating down is causing huge problems, whether Leonardo DiCaprio should date people his own age, whether incels are alt-right, why the claim that incels are all white men is superbly wrong and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:24) Intentionally Childless Women (10:04) Are There Female Incels? (16:18) Is Hypergamy in Decline? (28:43) Leonardo DiCaprio’s Girlfriends (35:25) The Power to Charm a Female (43:14) Common Traits of Incels (59:20) How Incels Become ‘Fakecels’ (1:08:27) The Impact of Social Media on Incels (1:17:59) Consequences of the Mating Crisis (1:25:10) Where to Find William

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500k Q&A - Casual Sex, Political Idiots & Dealing With Depression - #525 Sep 12, 2022

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I hit 500k 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 Andrew Tate should have been banned, whether I'm autistic and my views on casual sex.

Expect to learn how long I spend reading each day, how rarely I drink alcohol and caffeine, whether I think the Red Pill is positive for young men, how to avoid the gravitational pull of mediocrity, how I dealt with depression in my 20's, whether I'll be writing a book and doing live events, whether I'd bring Peter Thiel on the show and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (01:01) Chris’s Filming Stance (01:39) Recommended Books (02:29) Gary Vaynerchuk (02:55) How Much Does Chris Read? (04:27) Andrew Tate’s Cancellation (05:31) Meditation (06:58) Autism (08:28) Video on Spotify (10:02) Would Chris Like to Quit? (11:18) Different Formats of Interviews (13:03) The Cobble Wobble (14:13) Drinking Alcohol (16:25) How to Stay Positive (18:04) Productivity Software (20:39) Podcast with Hamza Ahmed (22:11) Feeling Different After 500K (24:50) Dinner (25:10) Finding Guests (26:44) Writing a Book (28:20) Liberal or Conservative? (29:31) How to Survive Uni (31:16) Does Chris Eat Junk Food? (32:45) Modern Wisdom Nation (33:19) Peter Thiel (34:15) Club Promoting Anthropologist (35:29) Chris’s Manifesto for Men (38:05) Advantage of Loving your Work (39:28) Mediocrity (41:38) Going to a Longhorns Game (42:16) Red Pill Community (45:39) Support from Chris’s Family (46:45) Alcohol & Caffeine Usage (49:30) Investing for Beginners (50:37) Motivation to do Hard Things (52:35) Views on Casual Sex (54:04) Finding Serendipity (55:29) Advantages of Attractiveness (57:34) Arguing with Conspiracy Theorists (59:48) Olivia Wilde (1:02:41) Having Meaningful Conversations (1:04:29) Has Chris Ever Lost Hope? (1:07:50) Working on Insecurity (1:12:48) Roe vs Wade (1:15:50) Autism (1:16:58) Healthy v Casual Relationships (1:19:23) Struggling to Get Out of Bed (1:24:30) Losing Attention in an Interview (1:26:30) Conclusion

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A Russian Adventure, During Wartime - Charlie Walker - #524 Sep 10, 2022

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Charlie Walker is an explorer, writer and public speaker.

What happens when the Russian government catch you taking photos and writing articles shortly after a war breaks out? Very little that is good. Unfortunately Charlie stumbled into precisely this situation, but thankfully he got out too so he can tell us what happened.

Expect to learn what it feels like to travel over 50,000 miles by bicycle, foot, horse, raft, ski and dugout canoe, how close Charlie came to spending his life in a Russian prison, how long a triathlon needs to be in order for it to takes 4 months to complete, why distinctions between European and Asian people makes no difference to anyone on the border and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:25) Motivation for Charlie’s Pursuits (05:05) Charlie’s 4-Month Triathlon (12:26) Experiences into Dicey Places (28:40) Finding Assistance in the Middle of Nowhere (35:52) Conflict Within Russia (42:00) Re-adjusting to Normality (46:37) Travelling 43,000 Miles on a Standard Bicycle (55:04) Lessons Taken from Charlie’s Travels (58:37) Where to Find Charlie

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The Science Of Personality Change - Dr Christian Jarrett - #523 Sep 08, 2022

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Dr Christian Jarrett is deputy editor of Psyche and an author.

Most people believe that they are their personalities. That it's an immutable, unchanging, central part of them as a person. But psychologists and neuroscientists have been studying the science of personality change for many years and have uncovered strategies to nudge your personality in the direction you want.

Expect to learn why most personality tests are basically useless, how genetically heritable our personalities are, just how much of a change we can make from where we start off, how to stop being shy or introverted, the best strategies to become more ambitious and conscientious, the most effective ways to maintain personality change and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (03:26) The Problem with Personality Quizzes (07:46) Physiology of Personality (16:10) Can Personalities Truly Change? (23:59) Developing Different Admirable Traits (33:21) Extraversion v Introversion (39:07) How Life Events Impact our Personality (48:17) Making a Personality Change (1:02:02) Becoming Emotionally Stable (1:06:10) Improving Confidence (1:12:47) Where to Find Christian

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Is Social Justice A Religion? - Andrew Doyle - #522 Sep 05, 2022

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Andrew Doyle is Titania McGrath, host of GB News, a comedian and a writer.

There are some new puritans in town. They have their own sacred texts, their own high priests, blasphemy, unspeakable words, rites of passage, heathens and practises of sacrilege. So much so that the behaviour of many social justice activists in 2022 seems to echo very closely the behaviour of the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

Expect to learn why Ben Shapiro is a terrifying man, whether not calling me hot makes you a bigot, why social justice captures smart people just as much as stupid people, why tyrannies are particularly dangerous when they claim to help the oppressed, whether it's accurate to characterise the culture war as left vs right and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:27) Redefining Hotness (08:45) Ben Shapiro’s Presence is a Terror (19:47) The Salem Witch Trials (33:14) Promoting Victimhood (41:10) Are We Past Peak Woke? (50:02) Social Justice as a Religion (59:12) Trans People in Female Prisons (1:04:48) Where are the Intelligent People? (1:13:58) How Andrew Stays Positive (1:17:08) Where to Find Andrew

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Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics - Sabine Hossenfelder - #521 Sep 03, 2022

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Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, quantum gravity researcher and an author.

There are a lot of big questions in the world, like does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe fine tuned for us? Do we have free will? And are we living in a simulation? Given that we don't have answers yet, why not let a physicist have a crack at them?

Expect to learn why physicists who say they know how the universe started aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute a human brain, why no one gets any younger, if maths is the ultimate basis of reality, why there might be copies of all of us out there in the universe, how your entire life could be the imagined history of a brain floating in space and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (02:53) The Problem with the Simulation Hypothesis (11:15) How Physics Impacts Free Will (18:13) Misunderstanding the Universe’s Origins (27:09) Is There Something Better than Mathematics? (32:00) The Fine-Tuned Theory (37:45) Boltzmann Brains (45:10) Can We Compute Consciousness? (53:37) Where to Find Sabine

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The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠

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