#800 - 15 Lessons From 800 Episodes

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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To celebrate 800 episodes of Modern Wisdom, I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last hundred episodes. Expect to learn why starting the day with an imagined productivity debt is making you miserable, why being competent can be more of a curse than a blessing, how to easily assess how good an idea is, why obesity is a bigger problem than starvation, what I learned from Winston Churchill's father, how to predict culture war news stories, why it's so important to communicate directly and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://gymshark.com (use code MW10) Get $150 discount on Plunge’s amazing sauna or cold plunge at https://plunge.com (use code MW150) Get a 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 5.0 at https://manscaped.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: http://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: http://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: http://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - 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. My guest today is me. To celebrate 800 episodes of Modern Wisdom,
0:08.8	as is tradition I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last hundred episodes.
0:15.1	Expect to learn why starting the day with an imagined productivity debt is making you miserable,
0:20.2	why being competent can be more of a curse than a blessing, how to easily assess how good an idea is,
0:26.4	why obesity is a bigger problem than starvation, what I learned from Winston Churchill's father,
0:31.4	how to predict culture war news stories, why it's so important to communicate directly, and much more.
0:39.2	Obviously, a big one.
0:41.8	800 episodes is so many. It's wild to think that I've done 800 of these sat in front of a microphone whether in Newcastle or Vegas or Miami or Austin, Texas or Canada or wherever I've been.
0:57.2	I really appreciate all of you. The support is wild. It's been a rough few months dealing with some internal stuff dealing with some personal stuff and
1:07.5	all the way throughout my passion for the show hasn't slowed down which I guess is a good sign
1:12.4	you know nuclear war goes off and I'm still
1:14.2	going to be trying to do podcasts, which is good.
1:16.6	But I really do appreciate all of you, people that share and comment and send emails and
1:20.9	support me even when I can't hear it. I really do appreciate it and it means an
1:24.4	awful lot. So thank you. This episode is brought to you by Jim Shark, the
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