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#801 - George Mack - 13 Life-Changing Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur. George is one of my favourite writers and probably delivers the highest insights-per-minute of anyone on Twitter. Today we get to go through some of my favourite ideas from him over the last few months on human nature, tribalism, happiness and politics. Expect to learn what the Busy Trap is and how to avoid it, the biggest differences between the US and the UK, the contrarian argument for why money doesn’t buy happiness, why strategic ignorance is so important, George’s favourite story about Charlie Munger, the lessons we both learned celebrating George’s 30th birthday in Miami and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get up to 20% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Sign up and download Grammarly for FREE at https://grammarly.com/modernwisdom Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) 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 friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is George Mack. He's a writer, marketer, and an entrepreneur.

0:08.0

George is one of my favourite writers and probably delivers the highest insights per minute of anyone on Twitter and today we get to go through some of my favorite ideas from him over the last few months on human nature, tribalism, happiness and politics.

0:22.2

I expect to learn what the busy trap is. tribalism, happiness, and politics.

0:22.5

Expect to learn what the busy trap is and how to avoid it.

0:26.4

The biggest difference is between the US and the UK,

0:28.9

the contrarian argument for why money doesn't buy happiness,

0:32.2

why strategic ignorance is so important,

0:35.0

George's favorite story about Charlie Munger, the lessons we both learned celebrating

0:39.4

his 30th birthday in Miami and much more.

0:44.6

For those of you who enjoyed the vlog we put up on YouTube last week and said,

0:49.2

who's that guy sat at the table?

0:51.2

He's really interesting and I loved his idea about a bear or bull market for

0:54.8

moustaches. This is him and you get to hear two hours of him and he's on fine form today.

1:00.4

Lots and lots to take away. So get ready for this one. Also people of Australia.

1:06.7

I will be inside you very soon. Brisbane, Wednesday 6th of November, Melbourne, Friday the 8th of

1:12.3

November and Sydney Saturday the 9th of November, Melbourne, Friday, 8th of November, and Sydney, Saturday the 9th of

1:14.3

November. Tickets will be available very soon. They will be available tomorrow morning

1:18.5

from Chris Williamson. Live slash Australia. So go there, sign up, you and get pre-sale tickets available right now

1:25.2

and I will see you on the other side of the planet. Pretty sure some people think there's

1:30.5

a conspiracy that Australia doesn't exist and it's all fake so I guess

1:34.7

I'll get to find out. See you soon.

1:37.9

But now ladies and gentlemen please welcome George Mac. What's the busy trap? The busy trap is the idea that we're busy today because we were busy yesterday and we'll be busy tomorrow because we're busy today and it's this never-ending

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