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Modern Wisdom

#697 - Konstantin Kisin - Why Does It Feel Like Everyone Is Losing Their Minds?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Konstantin Kisin is a podcaster, a speaker and an author. Despite living in objectively the best time ever, there is a common trend of people believing that the world is getting worse. Is this an accurate assessment of the existentially unfulfilling modern world, or is it fragile victims whining about nothing? Expect to learn the danger of pedestalising victimhood, Konstantin's thoughts on Theo Von being screwed out of thousands of dollars, his reaction to Sam Harris' viral clip on Triggernometry, why people still won't shut up talking about Brexit, his advice for young men, the problem with climate change discourse and much more... Sponsors: Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://bit.ly/sharkwisdom (use code: MW10) Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) 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 friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Constantine Kissin, he's a podcaster, a speaker, and an author.

0:08.0

Despite living in objectively the best time ever, there is a common trend of people believing that the world is getting worse.

0:15.6

Is this an accurate assessment of the existentially unfulfilling modern world, or is it fragile victims

0:21.6

whining about nothing, or something in between.

0:24.0

Expect to learn the danger of pedestalizing victimhood.

0:27.0

Constantine's thoughts on Theovon being screwed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars,

0:32.0

his reaction to Sam Harris's viral clip on trigonometry,

0:35.2

why people still won't shut up talking about Brexit, his advice for young men, the problem with climate

0:40.8

change discourse, and much more.

0:44.0

Next Monday we have one of the biggest guests on the planet returning to Modern Wisdom,

0:50.0

one of the most requested guests that's ever been on and I cannot wait I just got back from

0:55.0

filming in LA which was frankly super intense very fun but so long and tough but we got it done we got some phenomenal episodes recorded

1:07.6

four episodes in 27 hours while we were in LA and then we flew to Miami and we did some stuff in

1:13.8

Fort Lauderdale too. So yeah the next few weeks are just beyond stacked. I'm

1:18.2

I'm really really fired up to get some huge episodes out and finish this year strong

1:22.2

with some great guests some really

1:23.7

fascinating conversations and I'm back in the UK this weekend at Arc in London so

1:30.5

I'll be recording again there and then we get back and we go to Arizona

1:34.0

So yeah long story short there is lots of cool stuff happening over the rest of the year

1:38.1

And I really appreciate all of you guys for tuning in supporting the episodes sharing them and all of that stuff.

1:43.6

It really does mean an awful lot to me while I'm on the road.

1:47.3

It's nice to feel like I've got the support of everyone that's listening, so thank you.

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