#688 - Steven Bartlett - 17 Raw Lessons About Human Nature

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Steven Bartlett is the Founder of Social Chain, an entrepreneur, a podcaster and an author. How to become a functioning human is a difficult skill to work out. Should I focus on achieving goals or inner peace? Can I become confident without arrogant? Thankfully Steven has spent the last 2 years distilling a ton of lessons into his new book, and today we get to go through my favourites. Expect to learn Steven’s equation for unbreakable discipline, the biggest lesson from dealing with mainstream media pile-ons, why there are so few actual practitioners in the world, how to stop being your biggest critic, why your weirdness is the ultimate competitive advantage, how Steven discovered he was riddled with fake ambition and much more…⁣⁣ Sponsors: Get a FREE 30-day trial and 2 months at 50% off from Epidemic Sound at https://share.epidemicsound.com/modernwisdom (use code MW50 at checkout) Get 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM20) Get $150/£150 discount on Eight Sleep’s Pod Cover at https://eightsleep.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.
0:02.8	My guest today is Stephen Bartlett.
0:04.7	He's the founder of Social Chain,
0:06.0	an entrepreneur, a podcaster, and an author.
0:09.6	How to become a functioning human
0:11.7	is a difficult skill to work out.
0:13.4	Should I focus on achieving goals or inner peace?
0:16.0	Can I become confident without becoming arrogant?
0:18.6	Thankfully, Stephen has spent the last two years
0:20.7	distilling a ton of lessons into his new book,
0:23.3	and today we get to go through my favorites.
0:26.0	Expect to learn how Stephen's equation
0:28.1	for unbreakable discipline works.
0:29.9	The biggest lesson from dealing
0:31.7	with mainstream media pylons,
0:33.4	why there are so few actual practitioners in the world,
0:36.4	how to stop being your biggest critic,
0:38.2	why your weirdness is the ultimate competitive advantage,
0:41.1	how Stephen discovered he was riddled with fake ambition,
0:45.0	and much more.
0:46.9	I really enjoy these episodes,
0:48.1	where we just get to break down and play about
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