#827 - Whitney Cummings - Why Is Everyone So Emotionally Fragile?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Whitney Cummings is a comedian, actress, writer, and a podcaster. Emotional maturity is a difficult thing to truly come by. Making your needs known, setting boundaries, being able to disappoint people without being afraid. If it's such an important skill, why is it so hard to discover how to develop it? Expect to learn how Whitney has been changed since becoming a mother, why Whitney has been thinking about circumcision so much, what codependence is and how to overcome it, why your niceness might be narcissism in disguise, why the news and memes are moving at such an insane velocity right now and much more... Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get $350 off the Pod 4 Ultra at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom (use code MW20) Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://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: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://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 Whitney Cummings. She's a comedian,
0:05.4	actress, writer, and a podcaster. Emotional maturity is a difficult thing to truly come by,
0:11.9	making your needs known, setting boundaries, being
0:14.2	able to disappoint people without being afraid.
0:16.9	But if it's such an important skill, why is it so hard to discover how to develop it? Expect to learn how Whitney has been changed since becoming a mother,
0:26.0	why Whitney has been thinking about circumcision so much,
0:29.0	what co-dependence is and how to overcome it,
0:32.0	why your niceness might be narcissism in disguise,
0:35.0	why the news and memes are moving at such an insane velocity right now, and much more.
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1:09.1	Live slash London. But now ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Whitney Cummings. The What has changed since becoming a mother?
1:35.0	I stopped getting Botox.
1:37.0	Okay, is stop getting Botox?
1:40.0	Okay.
1:41.0	Is that the main thing? Stop smoking weed, stop getting Botox. Okay. You know, a lot of things. I start with the sort of, you know, more facetious ones, but I'm obviously off birth control, you know, after having a kid I went off and I can't believe how much clearer I am, less emotional I am, less judgmental I am, less attracted to gay men I am. And then was like okay what else am I putting in my
2:05.4	body you know because as soon as you have a baby in utero you care about your
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