Modern Wisdom

#570 - Helen Lewis - Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus

Dec 29, 2022

01:38:36

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The peak-end rule

01:18

The Cost of Overworking

01:37

The Dark Side of Academia

01:40

Is There a Lack of Appropriate Faith in Science?

02:05

Introduction

6min

How Did You Become Interested in Modern Gurus?

2min

Is There a Way to Get People to Listen?

2min

Idw

2min

The Most Successful Serial Grifter on the Internet

3min

Can't Bin Face? Is That a Prick?

2min

Productivity Gurus Aren't the Most Productive People, Right?

2min

The Lung King Apologizes for Everything

2min

The Need That Gurus Are Taping Into

2min

10.

Are You Dating a Six Foot Two Girl?

5min

11.

Idw

2min

12.

Is There a Loss of Faith in Institutions?

2min

13.

Is There a Lack of Appropriate Faith in Science?

2min

14.

Is It a Problem on the Left?

2min

15.

Is the Mainstream Media Still Putting Out the Best Content?

4min

16.

What's the Peak End Rule?

5min

17.

The Peacate Rule

4min

18.

Is There a Degree of Freedom in Health and Fitness?

2min

19.

How Can I Say No to Most Things?

2min

20.

The Pick Up Artist

3min

21.

Is There Such a Thing as Toxic Femininity?

3min

22.

Is There a Difference Between Women and Men in Abortion?

2min

23.

The Crypto Gurus - Peter McCormack and Real Bedford FC

2min

24.

Cryptocurrency

2min

25.

Crypto - What Did You Learn From Leia Hylpurn?

2min

26.

Race to Dinner

3min

27.

The Purification Rituals of White Women

4min

28.

Why Women Are More Suffering Than Men

4min

29.

The Evolution of a Life Worth Living

2min

30.

Do You Have a Hand to You, Mate?

3min

31.

Why Women Shouldn't Get Drunk in Mixed-Sex Spaces?

2min

32.

Is There a Small Minority of Men Committing the Greatest Crimes?

4min

33.

Podcasts - Where Should People Go to Check Out This Series?

3min

Helen Lewis is a journalist at The Atlantic and an author

Humanity has become much less religious and in the ruins of this fresh, listless world, bereft of traditional insight, a cadre of new gurus have risen to take the high priests' place of dispensing insights about how to live. Helen's new BBC Sounds documentary series delves into this world of secular gurus.

Expect to learn why a Canadian man has started drinking his own urine, why Steve Jobs was much more than just a tech inventor, how much it costs to be accused of racism over dinner while being banned from crying, why so many people are turning away from mainstream media, Helen's post-mortem on the IDW, the mortal problem that productivity gurus are helping address and much more...

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