Hello friends, welcome back to the show. It is Modern Wisdom's fifth birthday, five years ago,

on February 12th, 2018. I launched this podcast with a conversation in my old company's office

in the Northeast of England, and over the last 588 episodes, over a thousand hours and nearly

two thousand days of working away on this project. I have learned quite a lot, and today I'm going

to go through some of the most important lessons and insights that I've picked up.

I expect to learn the importance of a wide vocabulary, why all amateurs and narcissists,

why learning about the reasons for your actions can liberate you or destroy you,

whether you should trade youth for money, if you should be known for your takes or your work,

why envy, not greed drives the world, how to stop getting stuck in old patterns, and much more.

I wasn't really planning on doing a fifth year anniversary birthday episode,

but then I figured it's a nice opportunity for me to reflect on the most important things

I've picked up over the last half decade, which sounds absolutely insane. Half a decade of doing

anything is quite a long time, and it does feel very special, and thank you to all of you that

have been here. Some of you may have been here from the very very beginning, and to you I applaud you

massively, and you deserve some sort of veterans trophy, perhaps, or a nice medal. But yeah,

this is a special one. I got to go through some things that took a long time to sink in,

and maybe of great value to you, if you are on a similar sort of journey from

useless idiots to slightly less useless idiots. Actually, before I get to other news,

if you do want to give me some sort of gift, it is my birthday next week,

monomysdoms birthday, my birthday, aren't far apart, and if you do want to get me a gift,

press subscribe. That's all I would ask. It does support the show, and it means that I can get

bigger and better guests, and it makes me very happy. I thank you. In these other newses,

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