Modern Wisdom

#500 - Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes

Jul 16, 2022

01:11:27

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Episode notes

Discipline Eating Motivation For Breakfast

02:18

All Your Heroes Aren't Gods

02:40

Controlling the Mind with the Body

01:25

Deliberate Practice Leads to Effortless Mastery

01:25

Introduction

4min

Surf Shark Dot Deals Slash Modern Wisdom

2min

The Best Lessons I've Learned From the Show

3min

Discipline Eating Motivation for Breakfast

4min

Creating Creativity Through Difficulty

2min

What Is Your Creative Process?

4min

Are You Driven by Fears of Insufficiency?

5min

Is There a Endpoint to Productivity?

2min

Productivity Dis Morphous

2min

10.

Productivity Obsession Is Immortality

3min

11.

Fame Ain't What It Used to Be

2min

12.

The Promise of Obligation Free Status Y

5min

13.

The Negative Bias Is No Longer Serving Us

4min

14.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

2min

15.

The Secret of Confucianism

2min

16.

How to Predict Long Term Relationship Happiness

3min

17.

How to Optimize for Long Term Relationship Happiness

4min

18.

You Can't Control the Perceptions of Other People

2min

19.

The World Isn't the Way That It's Meant to Be

4min

20.

The Reverse Roll Model

3min

21.

Your Weirdness Is Your Competitive Advantage

4min

22.

The Suck Is Just Suck, Right?

2min

23.

All Your Heroes Aren't Gods

3min

24.

The Expectation Effect

2min

25.

Ik, I Have Control Over This and My Destiny Approach

3min

To celebrate 500 episodes on Modern Wisdom, I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last 4 and a half years.

Expect to learn why having no role models can be an advantage, how discipline eats motivation for breakfast, why you should be training for the difficult, why success in pursuit of happiness can be self-defeating, why fame makes you weak, how an obsession with productivity is just immortality by another name, what I learned about negativity biases from Margaret Thatcher, the importance of letting go of successful habits for new ones and much more...

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