#653 - George Mack - 16 Life-Changing Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 126 minutes

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George Mack is a writer, marketer and entrepreneur. If our mind is an operating system, ideas are the apps we install to give us a greater understanding of the world. George is one of my favourite thinkers and today we get to go through 16 of the best ideas we've both discovered since the last time we spoke over 3 years ago. Expect to learn whether optimism is actually a scam, why it's so sexy to be cynical, why high agency people are the best ones to have in your life, what is the most interesting question of all time, the difference between treadmill friends and sofa friends, why most people die at 25 but aren't buried until they're 75, how to stop worrying about everyone else's opinions and much more... Sponsors: Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at http://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 10% discount on Marek Health’s comprehensive blood panels at https://marekhealth.com/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Extra Stuff: Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - 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 everybody, welcome back to the show.
0:02.9	My guest today is George Mack, he's a writer, business owner, and an entrepreneur.
0:07.7	If our mind is an operating system,
0:09.6	ideas are the apps that we install to give us a greater understanding of the world.
0:13.4	George is one of my favourite thinkers,
0:15.3	and today we get to go through 16 of the best ideas that we've both discovered
0:18.8	since our last time that we spoke over three years ago.
0:21.5	Expect to learn whether optimism is actually a scam,
0:24.4	why it's so sexy to be cynical,
0:26.6	why high-agency people are the best ones to have in your life,
0:29.9	what is the most interesting question of all time?
0:32.2	The difference between treadmill friends and sofa friends,
0:34.7	why most people die at 25 but aren't buried until they're 75,
0:38.4	how to stop worrying about everyone else's opinions, and much more.
0:43.5	The OGs amongst you will remember George as being one of the first episodes
0:49.3	that went pretty big on YouTube and on audio,
0:53.3	and he has been an important part of my life for the last five years.
0:56.6	He is currently away living in Dubai,
0:58.4	running this amazing agency,
1:00.3	and he's been in Austin with me for a full month.
1:03.6	I love this guy a bit, I love his ideas, I love the way he thinks,
1:06.6	I love his positivity.
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