#972 - 3.7M Q&A - Fatherhood Plans, Medical Update & New Hairstyle

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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I hit 3.7 million Subscribers on YouTube!! To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, X, and Instagram, so here’s another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. Expect to learn all about my new hairstyle, how to best deal with procrastination, which people are up next on my "Mount Rushmore" of podcast guests, what the current state of my health is, the best tips to manage stress, when podcast merch will be coming to a closet near you, which future music guests I want on the pod, the real power of money, and much more... Sponsors: See me on tour in America: ⁠https://chriswilliamson.live⁠ See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get 10% discount on all Gymshark’s products at https://gym.sh/modernwisdom (use code MODERNWISDOM10) Get the brand new Whoop 5.0 at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom Timestamps: (0:00) - Go See Chris Live (1:19) - What’s Up with the Curly Hair? (3:28) - How To Deal with Procrastination (5:39) - Chris’ Go-To Shorts (6:58) - Future Musical Guests (8:09) - Why Won’t She Commit? (11:42) - Who’s in the Next ‘Infinity Gauntlet’? (13:34) - Will James Sexton and Sadia Khan Be Back? (13:56) - The Impact of the Male Sedation Hypothesis on Masculinity (18:15) - Chris’ Medical Updates (23:53) - The Negative Effects of Reality Shows (28:47) - How Money Can Change Your Life (32:49) - Top Tips on Stress Management (36:36) - Where Will We Be in 10 Years? (42:30) - Is Chris a Deano? (44:04) - Cool Kids Names (45:05) - How to Get Over Ghosting (49:17) - Modern Wisdom Merch (50:20) - A Love Life Catch-22 (56:58) - Dating in Your 30s (01:00:24) - How the Modern Wisdom Team was Built (01:02:19) - Are 20-Year-Olds Still Partying? (01:04:39) - The Art of Drifting (01:05:50) - How to Tackle Regret (01:07:53) - Reading List (01:09:38) - Being Loved for Being Your Authentic Self (01:14:37) - The Benefits of Having Siblings (01:16:07) - Thoughts on Travelling Alone (01:17:06) - The Rise of Hybrid Athletes (01:18:26) - Don’t Ruin Your Phone with a Phonecase (01:19:15) - Comfort Over Style (01:21:35) - Settling Down (01:24:28) - Being Roasted by Fin Taylor (01:25:20) - Seeing Sleep Token (01:25:49) - Tips on Tinnitus (01:27:18) - Would Chris Beat Lex Fridman? (01:27:28) - Outro 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	What's happening, people? Welcome back to the show. It is a 3.7 million subscriber Q&A episode. Before we get
0:07.8	into this one, I'm going on tour. This October, November and December, I'm going on tour around all of
0:12.9	North America, Canada as well, and tickets sold out for lots of places. So Toronto sold out,
0:18.7	L.A. sold out, Nashville sold out, and Vancouver
0:21.1	sold out. But there are still tickets available for New York at the town hall on Thursday,
0:25.7	October 23rd, for Boston at the Wilbur on Thursday, November 13th. Chicago at the Vic on Friday,
0:31.8	November 14th. Nashville is sold out. Austin, the Paramount Theater, Thursday, November 20th. That's the adopted hometown show.
0:39.9	Salt Lake City at the Complex Thursday, December 4th. Denver at the Paramount Theater Friday, December 5th.
0:44.9	All of those have still got limited tickets available and you can get yours now at Chris Williamson.
0:50.3	com. You can come and see me. It's a solo live show, me on stage for an hour and a half, and then there's a Q&A at the end, and there's a meet and greet afterward, and this sold out in Australia and in London last year, and it's really good. And I'm never going to run the show again. So after this particular tour is done, the self-discovery show is going to be binned for the rest of time.
1:11.5	So if you want to come and see me live, Chris Williamson.com. All right, let's get into asking
1:17.0	and answering some questions. Insiders 22, what's going on with the hair? Yes, fair question.
1:26.0	I've got a lot of comments about this. In the last five years since I had this hair, which was the hair I had five years ago, go back to like pre-early COVID. This is the hair that I had for a decade. To now, it's kind of someone with curly hair that's short on the sides has taken on an entire new meme meaning all of its own mark Zuckerberg hasn't helped in that regard it's like the broccoli hair cut you have to understand that if you're a person with curly hair if you're a guy with curly hair like me you have three hairstyle options right you? You can have skinhead, which I did for the last
2:04.0	five years since COVID. My COVID haircut just extended. You can have short on the sides, long on the top,
2:10.9	or some version of mullet, right, still short on the sides and long elsewhere, which ends up
2:15.6	kind of looking like this.
2:19.8	Or you can grow afro.
2:21.2	Those are the three options.
2:27.4	Skinhead, like, newly like nomenclatured broccoli haircut, and afro.
2:28.5	Those are the only three options.
2:30.9	And I was kind of sick of the skinhead thing.
2:32.3	I'd done it for so long.
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