#570 - Helen Lewis - Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Helen Lewis is a journalist at The Atlantic and an author
Humanity has become much less religious and in the ruins of this fresh, listless world, bereft of traditional insight, a cadre of new gurus have risen to take the high priests' place of dispensing insights about how to live. Helen's new BBC Sounds documentary series delves into this world of secular gurus.
Expect to learn why a Canadian man has started drinking his own urine, why Steve Jobs was much more than just a tech inventor, how much it costs to be accused of racism over dinner while being banned from crying, why so many people are turning away from mainstream media, Helen's post-mortem on the IDW, the mortal problem that productivity gurus are helping address and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Helen Lewis, she's a journalist at the |
| 0:06.0 | Atlantic and an author. Humanity has become much less religious and in the ruins of this fresh, |
| 0:13.0 | listless world bereft of traditional insight, a cadre of new gurus have risen to take the high |
| 0:18.5 | priests place of dispensing insights about how to live. Helen's new BBC Sound documentary series |
| 0:24.5 | delves into this world of secular gurus. I expect to learn why a Canadian man has started |
| 0:30.1 | drinking his own urine, why Steve Jobs was much more than just a tech inventor, how much it costs |
| 0:36.2 | to be accused of racism over dinner while being banned from crying, why so many people are |
| 0:41.7 | turning away from mainstream media, Helen's post-mortem on the intellectual dark web, |
| 0:46.3 | the mortal problem that productivity gurus are helping address, and much more. |
| 0:51.1 | As I mentioned earlier this week, there is no episode this Saturday, I figured I would give you |
| 0:56.2 | New Year's Eve off to enjoy yourself doing whatever it is you are doing. I also need to admit that |
| 1:01.6 | I messed up a little bit, I released an annual review template thing a year ago, which is the |
| 1:07.6 | exact process I use to review the year that's just finished and plan my goals and stuff for the |
| 1:13.6 | upcoming year. It is a combination of all of the best things that I've found from every big |
| 1:18.1 | productivity writer on the internet, and I just put it together for myself, and then I made a |
| 1:21.6 | template that you guys could use, released it last year, and totally forgot to talk about it this |
| 1:27.3 | year. So if you want to get a copy, you can get it for free, it is chriswillx.com slash review, |
| 1:33.3 | it will give you the best template that I've found for doing an end-of-year review for setting |
| 1:38.2 | and planning goals for the upcoming year, it'll help you to reinforce habits, remember good memories, |
| 1:42.6 | all of that stuff, chriswillx.com slash review, and do not worry if you are deep into January and |
| 1:49.2 | you still haven't done it yet, you have bags and bags of time to do this, it's not the sort of thing |
| 1:53.3 | that needs to be completed before New Year's Eve or else it's useless, chriswillx.com slash review. |
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