Dr Stuart McGill is a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo and a world expert in back pain.In the new WFH world, many people are changing their routines, desk setups and posture. Combined with limited access to gyms and less chance to move and exercise, this is a perfect storm for creating back pain.Expect to learn the number one cause of back pain Stu sees in his patients, why most physicians are wholly unprepared to deal with spinal injuries, why social media can stop you from being a master of your craft, whether our ancestors suffered with back pain and much more...Sponsors:Get 35% discount on everything I use from The Protein Works at https://www.theproteinworks.com/modernwisdom/ (use code MODERN35)Extra Stuff:Check out Stu's Website - https://www.backfitpro.com/ Follow Stu on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/backfitpro/ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Meadows is a journalist and author.Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. How to organise our lives to be efficient but have options, to be take advantage of routine and enjoy variety is one of the hardest balancing acts we face.Expect to learn why you should earn as much money as you can when you're young, how to make life changing choices under uncertain conditions, protect against financial disaster, develop a system to create our own luck and much more...Sponsors:Get 20% discount on the best coffee in Britain with Uncommon Coffee’s entire range at http://uncommoncoffee.co.uk/ (use code MW20)Extra Stuff:Follow Richard on Twitter - https://twitter.com/meadowsrichard Buy Optionality - https://amzn.to/397R4lJ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian D. Earp is a Research Fellow at Oxford, philosopher and writer.Love is a feeling many of us yearn to feel, but the medical developments of the 21st century is moving love out of the personal and into the medical realm.Expect to learn if we can make ourselves fall in or out of love with drugs, whether we can turn a straight person gay, how anti-love drugs can help reduce domestic violence, the ethics of changing your attractiveness with drugs and much more...Sponsors:Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM)Extra Stuff:Follow Brian on Twitter - https://twitter.com/briandavidearp Buy Love Is The Drug - https://amzn.to/3bf6uas Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jordan Shallow is a Chiropractor, Strength & Conditioning Coach and Powerlifter.Given that we should hopefully be returning to normality this year, I wanted to ask Jordan about how he balances his desire for improvement with protecting his body and mind from becoming damaged.Expect to learn whether Jordan thinks there is a balanced way to use social media, how we can avoid injury when re entering the world of training in 2021, why being obsessive about balance can counteract an all-or-nothing mentality and much more...Sponsors:Get 50% discount on your FitBook Membership at https://fitbook.co.uk/showcase-your-work/ (use code MODERNWISDOM)Extra Stuff:Follow Jordan on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/the_muscle_doc/ Check out Jordan's Website - https://themuscledoc.com/ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Noreena Hertz is an author and economist.Even before social distancing was a word, loneliness was a huge crisis. More people than ever before feel detached in a world that's never been so connected.Expect to learn the dramatic health impacts of loneliness, the extreme lengths some people are going to in an effort to feel connected with other humans, why 16-24 year olds are at highest risk and much more...Sponsors:Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 3.0 at https://www.manscaped.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM)Extra Stuff:Buy The Lonely Century - https://amzn.to/352AouB Follow Noreena on Twitter - https://twitter.com/noreenahertz Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Steele is a scientist, writer and presenter.Ageing is a phenomenon we're all familiar with and is completely taken for granted as a fact of reality, but do we have to accept it?Expect to learn why curing ageing might be easier than curing cancer and all other diseases, the unfortunate truth of fasting for longevity, why the next decade will be the most exciting for lifespan research and much more...Sponsors:Get 35% discount on everything I use from The Protein Works at https://www.theproteinworks.com/modernwisdom/ (use code MODERN35)Get 20% discount on Reebok’s entire range including the amazing Nano X at https://geni.us/modernwisdom (use code MW20)Extra Stuff:Buy Ageless - https://amzn.to/38Ya1aFFollow Andrew on Twitter - https://twitter.com/statto Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joel Jamieson is a performance architect.Heart Rate Variability is everyone's favourite new health metric. Joel is one of the world's leading coaches for HRV and today he takes us through what HRV is, why it matters and his best strategies and workouts for improving yours.Sponsors:Get 2 weeks Free Access to the State App at https://apple.co/36nNALG (discount automatically applied)Extra Stuff:Check out Joel's company - https://www.8weeksout.comFollow Joel on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coachjoeljamiesonCheck out Morpheus - https://trainwithmorpheus.com Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlotte Fox-Weber is a Psychotherapist and an author.As a therapist of many years, Charlotte saw an opportunity to turn the mic around on me for once and ask some questions about how I see myself and why I do what I do.Definitely a change of pace today but I really enjoyed opening up. There are some takeaways in here which might illuminate your own mental state and thought patterns.Sponsors:Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM)Extra Stuff:Follow Charlotte on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-fox-weber-aa287219/ Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Sparks, a Productivity Coach and Former Top 20 Online Poker Player, shares his process for conducting an end-of-year review and setting goals for the new year. They discuss reflecting on personal achievements, the importance of being anti fragile, changing context to optimize effectiveness, creating a vision for the future, improving relationships, applying marketing principles to life, and the reflective nature of the end of the year.

Jonny & Yusef join me today to talk through our biggest lessons from 2020.Expect to learn what we've learned from the weirdest year ever, how Yusef's insight on the front-lines of a hospital has changed his worldview, how Jonny has improved his personal development by removing most of the things he does, how hot a hot potato can be and much more...Sponsors:Get 2 weeks Free Access to the State App at https://apple.co/36nNALG (discount automatically applied)Extra Stuff:Check out Jonny & Yusef's site - https://propanefitness.com/Learn to build an online business - https://propanefitness.com/modernwisdomGet my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom-Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillxTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillxYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcastEmail: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices