#1037 - Life Hacks: A Christmas Special (2025)

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 130 minutes

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I'm back on my old couch in Newcastle upon Tyne, with Jonny, a virtual Yusef & George to catch up on what they've learned this year, what their best hacks were, and their reflections on 2025. Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT’s most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get a free bottle of D3K2, a Welcome Kit, Travel Packs, plus bonus gifts (US only) when you first subscribe at https://ag1.info/modernwisdom Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom New pricing since recording: Function is now just $365, plus get $25 off at https://functionhealth.com/modernwisdom 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: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - 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	Merry Christmas, everybody. For the people who joined the podcast within the last five years,
0:07.1	the last few million, three million subscribers. This is my living room in Newcastle.
0:13.9	And this is Johnny. And this is George. And that's Youssef, and he's in Malaysia.
0:20.0	And this is a Christmas episode.
0:21.3	We've got one day to turn this around.
0:23.3	So Merry Christmas.
0:24.4	It's Christmas Day.
0:26.1	Enjoy the turkey and the pigs and blankets.
0:29.5	And we are going to do some lessons and life hacks and fails from the last 12 months.
0:33.4	It's kind of a Christmas tradition, I suppose.
0:36.7	And also another part of the tradition,
0:39.6	is that you go first, Johnny.
0:41.0	So give us a life hack.
0:43.2	All right.
0:43.7	My life hack, which might not be allowed, we'll see if it gets past the Chris rule, has
0:49.7	already been a life hack.
0:51.0	Okay.
0:51.5	Is that all right?
0:52.1	It's the best ones.
0:52.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:53.8	It's the reason it's a life hack is I was speaking to a few friends about this and neither of them had heard of it. And I was like, you know, I thought Chris was really building attention here. I know. Well, it's the waking up app by Sam Harris. Okay. Why's that bad? He's been sponsored.
1:11.5	It's not.
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