1.75M Q&A - Growing Pains, Social Anxiety & Dating Problems - #752

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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I hit 1.75 million 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 my thoughts on James Smith's recent video about modern podcasting, why women are so afraid of men now and how to deal with social anxiety. Expect to learn whether I think Coffeezilla is right that people should only speak on their expertise, my ultimate goal with the podcast, how to balance high standards with gratitude, the plans for Neutonic, what my pickleball rating is, whether I'll start changing the show's content when I have a family and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get $150 discount on Plunge’s amazing sauna or cold plunge at https://plunge.com (use code MW150) Get a 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 5.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:51) Chris’s First Job & Missing the UK (03:43) James Smith’s Analysis of Modern Podcasts (14:42) Pickleball Ambitions & Remaining Grateful (20:58) Future Plans for Neutonic (22:02) How Success Impacts Relationships (24:46) Greatest Midwit Memes of Recent Times (26:58) Ads on Modern Wisdom (29:23) If Chris Could Only Keep 10 Exercises (30:55) Most Impactful Life Lessons (33:47) The Risk of Becoming a Meme (36:22) Building an Undeniable Stack of Evidence (38:44) Isolation of Living in Front of a Screen (43:16) If Chris Had Kids Would Modern Wisdom Become More Dad-Centric? (47:13) A Fight Between Squirrels & Beavers (49:43) Chris’s Back Issues & Stem Cell Treatment (53:11) What Chris is Proud of & Ashamed of (57:07) The Mindset of Training Like an Athlete (1:00:15) Pushing Back on Guests & Guest Suggestions (1:06:47) Places Chris Would Like to Visit (1:08:20) Chris’s Spiritual Beliefs (1:09:15) How to Get Great Guests on Your Podcast (1:13:11) Are Podcasts Just Profit-Oriented? (1:17:30) Navigating the Dating Arena in Your 30s (1:22:04) Insights Into Neutonic (1:24:07) Picking Yourself Up When You Lose Steam (1:29:32) Are Women More Anxious About Men? (1:32:02) Closing Thoughts Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/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: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome back to the show my guest today is me I hit 1.75 million
0:07.4	subscribers on YouTube and to celebrate as is tradition I ask for questions from
0:11.5	YouTube and Twitter and Instagram so here is another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible.
0:17.0	As always, there's some great questions in here about my thoughts on James Smith's recent video about modern podcasting, why women are so afraid of men now
0:24.8	and how to deal with social anxiety.
0:26.7	Expect to learn whether I think Coffey Zilla is right that people should only speak on their
0:30.7	expertise. My ultimate goal with the podcast, how to balance high
0:33.9	standards with gratitude, the plans for Newtonic, what my pickleball rating is,
0:38.0	whether I'll start changing the show's content when I have a family, and much more. A little bit of a different vibe today. You may
0:47.6	notice in my sentiment and sort of the way that I was feeling that day that I don't know just not that things are getting to me but the
0:55.9	pressure of increased scrutiny after the Rogan episode and all of these people and there's this
1:00.7	sort of culture of pushback against podcasts and all the rest of it.
1:04.0	It's interesting. It's more open and more honest and more vulnerable and reflective and transparent
1:12.0	than I usually am and that is something that I struggle with a good bit on the show opening up this much.
1:19.0	But yeah, I hope that it comes across in the right way. I hope that it gives you guys a bit of an
1:26.3	insight into actually what's going on internally and what it feels like to kind of be on this roller coaster from you know absolute normal bloke to still a
1:36.8	normal bloke but just a normal bloke that reaches half a billion people a year and
1:40.5	is battling with the challenges associated with all of that attention and stuff.
1:46.1	So it might be, I hope it is interesting to you. It's definitely at least interesting to me even if it's a mixed bag sometimes. Anyway I'll stop waffling.
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