What It Means To Live A Fulfilled Life - Jimmy Carr - #691

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Carr is a comedian, television host and an author. Jimmy is known as one of the best one-line comics in history, but this episode goes way deeper than you’re probably expecting. It's far less about jokes and far more about Jimmy’s obsession with human psychology, frameworks and thinking tools. Expect to learn what the most important question to ask yourself is, why you have probably been thinking about luck incorrectly, what the two great myths in life are, the most common misconceptions about being famous, how to survive a cancellation attempt, what kind of relationship we should have with our inner-critic, how to enjoy the passage of time in a graceful way and much more... Sponsors: Get the Whoop 4.0 for free and get your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get $150 discount on Plunge’s amazing sauna or cold plunge at https://plunge.com (use code MW150) Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Timestamps: (00:00) Ask Yourself ‘What Do You Want?’ (10:57) The Intense Schedule of a Popular Comedian (16:15) Are Comedians Ahead of the Curve on Society’s Issues? (25:14) Our Obsession With Ourselves & Individualism (33:40) The Internet’s Culture of Cynicism (41:39) Hidden Vs Observable Metrics (53:25) Using Useful Delusions to Make Life Better (1:06:32) The Rise of Andrew Tate in the Silent Crisis of Young Men (1:16:45) The Experience of Being Cancelled (1:26:47) Our Personas Crave Praise (1:35:37) Fear of What Other People Will Think of Our Failure (1:42:46) Jimmy’s Thoughts on Kindness (1:49:45) Do Men Have a Quarter-Life Crisis? (1:54:45) How We Value Things At Different Stages of Life (2:01:45) How Should We Respond to Critics? (2:08:45) Should We Be Worried About China, AI & Existential Risks? (2:24:09) Going from the Easy Life to Having Children (2:36:04) The Beauty of Flow States in the Passage of Time (2:41:07) What’s Next for Jimmy 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 Episodes You Might Enjoy: This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠ How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠ The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ - 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	Jimmy Carl, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I'm a big fan of it. I'm kind of nervous about
0:05.2	talking to you in a weird way, because I like the show. I really like you as a kind of cultural
0:12.4	entity. I think it's a really interesting kind of journey you've had, and I get so much from
0:17.7	this show. You know, that phrase, I think you use it probably more than any other phrase.
0:22.6	Does it grow corn?
0:24.1	And for me, this show really kind of grows corn.
0:26.6	There's so many little things that I've taken from this that I've kind of gone,
0:30.3	oh, I'm going to, I'm going to do that.
0:31.9	I'm going to do something with that.
0:33.1	So kind of the practical application of the wisdom, what you get out of people seems to be very easy to integrate into life.
0:42.0	Right. So the bar's been set high for you today then if you start dicking around.
0:46.4	Well, I mean, dicking around is sort of what I do. So the other thing is like I kind of get more nervous being myself than being sort of the comedic persona, you know,
0:56.8	just being funny.
0:57.5	Just being on things, being funny, I find very easy.
1:00.5	It's an interesting sort of life lesson, the idea of like, what do you find easy that
1:04.6	other people find difficult?
1:06.1	Go for that.
1:07.1	Do that for a living.
1:08.9	That's, there's, there's, there's going to be money there.
1:10.3	There's going to be, there's going to be, there's going to be
1:11.3	some gold, you're going to be okay.
1:12.9	If you find it easy and everyone else is going, that's impossible.
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