Modern Wisdom - Chris Williamson

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The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen - #188 Jun 25, 2020

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David Allen is a productivity consultant and an author.

Today I speak to the grandfather of the modern productivity movement. David is the creator of Getting Things Done - the most famous productivity system on the planet.

Expect to learn David's 5-step process for organising your life, why your brain is a terrible library, what apps & systems David uses to enhance his own life, where he sees the future of productivity going and much more...

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

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Life Hacks 201 - #187 Jun 22, 2020

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Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me as we begin the 2nd Season of Life Hacks.

Our favourite tools, apps, websites, strategies & resources for a productive and efficient life.

Expect to learn our real life review of the AirPods Pro, how to hack your hunger when cutting, our favourite To Do List apps, how you can manage your Instagram Inbox on desktop, a huge list of our favourite things to watch on TV and much more...

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Do your chores whilst cooking breakfast

Coffee Bags

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Ask a friend to take you clothes shopping

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Pressups when hungry

Clean teeth on an evening to stop hunger

Go to bed earlier when cutting

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The Foundation Series for posture - https://youtu.be/4BOTvaRaDjI

Start with weakest side in gym

Watch a subtitled film to combat dual-screening

Watch Parasite on Amazon Prime

Keep a list of things to watch or read

Watch The Gentleman

Watch Succession

Watch Gangs Of London

Watch Defending Jacob

Skip forward to avoid ads on Siri

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SideCar on MacOS

https://www.instagram.com/direct/inbox/

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Determine the maximum and minimum tolerance for areas in your life

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Louder audiobooks for comprehension

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

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Overcoming Low Self-Esteem In Business & Life - Elena Seranova - #186 Jun 20, 2020

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Elena Seranova is a business coach, entrepreneur & PhD student.

Many of us could do achieve far more if only we had the confidence to go after what we want. Getting out of your own way therefore becomes a goal in itself.

Expect to learn how to use confidence to gain a competitive advantage, the common stumbling blocks Elena sees when working with clients on confidence, a selection of embarrassing stories from our history in academia & business and much more...

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

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The Truth About Your Personality - Dr Benjamin Hardy - #185 Jun 18, 2020

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Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author.

Do you believe that your personality is permanent? Innate & inbuilt? Dr Hardy disagrees.

Expect to learn why Myers-Briggs & other personality tests are destructive & as inaccurate as horoscopes, how to reframe your past narratives, why you can overcome traumas, how to become the scribe of your own identity narrative and much more...

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

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What It's Like To Lose 300lbs & Adele's Transformation - Ethan Suplee - #184 Jun 15, 2020

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Ethan Suplee is an actor & a podcaster.

Ethan's fitness journey has been a rollercoaster - from 200lbs at 10 years old to 550lbs in his 20's and now 260lbs at 13% bodyfat, all while starring in some of the biggest films in Hollywood including Mr Name Is Earl, The Wolf Of Wall Street & American History X.

Expect to learn Ethan's thoughts on the response to Adele's weightloss photo, his advice for anyone looking to lose lots of weight, his lessons from decades of dieting and much more...

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

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Why Some People Become Ridiculously Rich - William Leith - #183 Jun 13, 2020

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William Leith is a journalist & an author.

Acquiring an incredible fortune is the goal of many, but what is the true cost of being stupendously rich?

Expect to learn how to make money from The Real Wolf Of Wall Street Jordan Belfort, the downside of wealth from a Russian half-billionaire who lives alone in a British mansion with his butler, how to avoid risk by the hottest thinker on the planet Nassim Taleb and much more...

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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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The Neuroscience Of The 7 Deadly Sins - Dr Jack Lewis - #182 Jun 11, 2020

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Dr Jack Lewis is a Neuroscientist, television presenter and an author.

Why do we do the things we know we shouldn't? The 7 deadly sins have defined for hundreds of years and yet we all still fall prey to them.

Expect to learn the underpinnings of our willpower, neuroscience's explanations for why we tend toward sinning, whether we have control over what makes us sexually aroused, a justification for punching someone in the face and much more...

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

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Humankind: Are We Good Or Evil? - Rutger Bregman - #181 Jun 08, 2020

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Rutger Bregman is a historian & an author.

It's a common-held view of humanity that humans are adversarial. Shaven chimps competing with each other for resources, held together by a veneer of politeness & society.

Rutger disagrees and suggests that deep down humans might actually be quite nice. Expect to learn why soldiers don't fire their weapons in war, what happens when the real world Lord Of The Flies happens, how bombing a city doesn't weaken the inhabitants and much more...

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

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How Marketing Reshapes Our Brains - Prince Ghuman & Matt Johnson - #180 Jun 06, 2020

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Matt Johnson PhD is a Neuroscientist and Prince Ghuman is a Neuro-Marketer.

Combining the insights of Neuroscience & Consumer Psychology can help us to understand our own behaviour and how marketing affects us in unique and sometimes counterintuitive ways.

Expect to learn why our brains don't experience reality directly, how you can make dog food taste like pate, the role of impulse in decision making, what neuroscience's definition of surprise is, how pleasure & pain affect our drive to buy and much more...

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Watch Prince's Tedx Talk - https://youtu.be/LpJvuPOG40M

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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.

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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Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact

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Reality, Meaning & Self-Development - Daniel Schmachtenberger - #179 Jun 04, 2020

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Daniel Schmachtenberger works in preventing global catastrophic risk.

As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve our entire civilisation - I wanted to find out where self development and maximising personal agency fits into Daniel's perspective.

I really enjoyed this change of pace. The conversation is deep, insightful and considered. If you're in the right place to hear the message, this could have a profound impact on the way you see the world.

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

Get in touch.

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