Modern Wisdom &#8211; Chris Williamson

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Life Hacks 206 - #398 Nov 15, 2021

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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'm moving to Texas, how to track your barbell speed, how to get free golf club trackers, why Yusef thinks that snidely charging VAT is reprehensible, how to hack ASOS sizing, how to stop yourself from buying junk in the supermarket, why you only need one foreign plug converter and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:44) Chris is Going to Texas (10:35) Bar Velocity Trackers, Photo Digitisation & Free ASOS Delivery (20:36) Buy Monthly, Toilet Tablets & Eat Sandwiches While Shopping (33:10) Percy Pig Ice Cream, Apple Notes Update & Setting Your Price (44:14) Prioritise Clearing Your Inbox, Cordless Vacuum Cleaners & Video Introductions (59:09) Wearable Tech, Summary Emails & Multi-sockets (1:13:41) MacroFactor, Meteomatics & Send a Car for People (1:28:08) Things You Need to Watch

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Order everything in multiple sizes from ASOS and use free returns.

Go monthly, not annual for memberships as a reminder.

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Eat a sandwich before shopping.

Percy Pigs secret low calorie ice cream.

iOS Optical Character Recognition.

Ask “What’s the budget?”

Avoid overwhelm by clearing your Capture Inbox.

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Send someone a video introduction.

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Send a summary email of negotiation calls “As Discussed”.

Use a single converter and a multi socket.

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"I’ll send a car."

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Watch A Quiet Place

Watch Kin

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A High Achievers' Guide To Happiness - Dr Benjamin Hardy - #397 Nov 13, 2021

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Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author.

Many high achievers are unhappy because the same motivation which drives exceptional performance often also leads to feelings of insufficiency, jealousy and comparison. So how can driven people reframe their worldview to come from a place of gratitude and happiness, whilst still keeping that competitive edge?

Expect to learn how comparing your performance to your potential is a recipe for disaster, why success without happiness is a pointless pursuit, Ben's best triggers for realising when you've fallen into The Gap, how to protect yourself against complacency when feeling happy with your performance and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:45) Why Are Most High Achievers Unhappy? (11:59) What is the ‘Gap’ Mentality? (18:09) Importance of Being Content with the Present (24:02) How to Measure & Define Success (37:12) Signs That You’re Falling into the ‘Gap’ (47:32) How to Transform Your Trauma into Gains (53:47) Why is ‘Success’ Put on a Pedestal? (1:00:04) Where to Find Ben

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The Brutal History Of Freedom - Sebastian Junger - #396 Nov 11, 2021

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Sebastian Junger is a journalist, author and filmmaker.

Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don’t coexist easily: we value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs.

Expect to learn how having kids in your 50's can give you more freedom than you might think, what happens when you lose 10 pints of blood and have a near death experience, why fighting to the death was most common in free societies, how countries with freedom always get tempted toward tyranny and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:24) Examining Sebastian’s Near-Death Experience (15:44) Starting a Family Later in Life (20:00) Tension Between Freedom & Community (26:20) What is the Opposite of Freedom? (37:58) The Story of Michael Mallin (46:16) Why Politicians Fail at Leadership (1:01:44) Dealing with Covid as a Community (1:11:54) Where to Find Sebastian

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Not Sucking At Fatherhood, DIY & Halloween - Alfie Brown - #395 Nov 08, 2021

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Alfie Brown is a comedian and a podcaster.

Adulting is hard. I had hoped to discover that Alfie, a dad of 3, would have worked out how to do it properly. But alas, no, it seems we are both condemned to flail around in the liminal purgatory of "just about getting by" for at least another few years.

Expect to learn why being a comedian doesn't mean that you can perform effectively as a compere for a 7 year old's birthday party, what it's like entering the world of fitness at 34, why my obsession with candles was cut short, at what point after becoming a father that your DIY skills improve and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:38) Celebrating Halloween as a Father (09:58) Finding a Persona (22:32) Problems of Fatherhood (34:03) How Lockdown Impacted Alfie (46:31) Alfie’s Health & Fitness Journey (59:03) Finding Your "Thing" (1:08:00) Protest Voting in the Information Era (1:23:28) Why Chris Stopped Drinking Coffee (1:28:15) Where to Find Alfie

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

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What Are The Weirdest Types Of Life? - Carl Zimmer - #394 Nov 06, 2021

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Carl Zimmer is a science writer, journalist and an author who specialises in evolution, parasites, and heredity.

Life is the thing which illuminates our corner of the universe. It gives colour to an otherwise cold, brutal void. But what is life? How is it defined? Despite seeming obvious at first glance, this question is one of the most contested in science.

Expect to learn what are the most extreme forms of life which can live in the vacuum of space, how life might have begun in rock pools, why aliens might be so different to us that we don't even recognise them, how a slimemould that looks like dog vomit can learn its way through a maze and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:38) Our Awareness of Life (10:09) What Constitutes Life & Death? (20:45) Animals with Weird Ideas About Life & Death (25:48) Understanding Life for Fungi (34:21) Other Forms of Life in the Universe (40:16) Origins of Life on Earth (44:48) Are Viruses Alive? (50:13) Discovering a Better Definition of Life (57:10) Where to Find Carl

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12 Simple Ideas To Earn Passive Income - Ali Abdaal - #393 Nov 04, 2021

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Ali Abdaal is a Doctor and a YouTuber.

Money makes the world go round. After the last 12 months, everyone should have realised that relying on a single source of income is not a very antifragile way to construct a financial set up. Creating multiple revenue streams is a great way to de-risk yourself, and today we get to find out 12 of Ali's favourites.

Expect to learn why the S&P500 almost always beats expert hedge fund managers, how Ali makes his money on YouTube, why Coinbase is great for crypto investing, the easiest way to create an online course, why houses are still a great investment idea, how to automate a business, the best and worst ways to make affiliate marketing money and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:09) Why Bother with Passive Income? (06:51) Stocks & Shares for Beginners (14:22) Investing in Real Estate (24:13) Making Money from Digital Products (30:04) Creating Profitable Online Courses (40:33) Becoming an Affiliate Marketer (50:17) Offering Value on Membership Sites (54:12) How to Automate Your Business (58:34) Conclusion on Passive Incomes (1:01:59) Where to Find Ali

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

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How To Reset Your Brain's Dopamine Balance - Anna Lembke - #392 Nov 01, 2021

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Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist who is Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic at Stanford University and an author.

Dopamine is a key neurotransmitter in our reward pathway. It tells us when to feel pleasure and pain, it can cause depression and anxiety, and it's being hijacked by the modern world. Phones, video games, porn, food, our world is filled with cheap dopamine, which in turn is making us miserable.

Expect to learn how dopamine creates a see-saw balance of pleasure and pain, why cravings to use your phone are driven by dopamine, the truth about dopamine detoxing, how to reset your brain's dopamine balance, the most successful interventions for changing your relationship to dopamine long term and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:40) How Does Dopamine Work? (10:27) Why Men Feel Sad After Sex (20:20) Dopamine Detox Truths (24:48) How Social Media Impacts Dopamine Levels (31:40) Which People Are More Likely to Become Addicted? (37:45) Preventing Addiction Through Purpose (43:55) Utilising Discomfort to Rebalance Dopamine (50:37) Anna’s Tips to Control Dopamine (1:02:49) Where to Find Anna

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Why Are We Yearning For Tradition In 2021? - Tim Stanley - #391 Oct 30, 2021

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Tim Stanley is a historian, author and leader writer for the Daily Telegraph.

The modern world has given us a lot. Safety and warmth, lighting at night, medicine, new age religions, Deliveroo and OnlyFans, but a lot of people feel unhappy with the life that modernity has handed them and are pulled toward a different style of living, one where they embrace values of the past rather than the future.

Expect to learn why The West is as war with its own history, how Notre Dam nearly became a swimming pool, why Liberalism is the primary villain, why conservatives are terrible at conserving things, how men's roles in society have been eroded, why all revolutions look the same and much more.

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(00:00) Intro (00:54) Why Tim is Interested in Tradition (06:44) The War with Our Own History (15:13) Is Liberalism the Primary Villain? (22:17) Tim’s Studies of Circumcision (31:55) Erasing Figures of History (36:47) Traditional Roles Within the Family (46:59) Culture’s Role in Managing Traditions (52:21) Predicting a Tradition Counter-culture (1:06:00) Where to Find Tim

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

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How Does Anti-Racism Hurt Black People? - John McWhorter - #390 Oct 28, 2021

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John McWhorter is a linguist, associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University and an author.

The last 5 years has seen race become a primary flash point for culture, news, protests, social justice, hiring, firing, media and politics. But why have race relations come back to the forefront and who is driving this new religion of Woke Racism forward?

Expect to learn what John McWhorter thinks of White Fragility and How To Be An Anti-Racist, whether cultural appropriation is an actual thing, how anti-racism actually hurts black people, why black people are attracted to a movement that treats them like simpletons, the problem with the concept of "whiteness" and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (03:42) The Woke Obsession with Race (12:27) John’s Reaction to White Fragility (18:18) How Anti-Racism Harms Black People (29:22) Connotations of Whiteness (36:12) Is Cultural Appropriation Absurd? (44:43) Black Lives Matter vs BLM (49:23) Where to Find John

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

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