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Life lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, James Clear, Robert Greene, Balaji Srinivasan, Steven Pinker, Alex Hormozi, Douglas Murray, Chris Bumstead, James Smith, Dr David Sinclair, Mark Manson and more. Understanding the world is hard. This podcast will help.

Modern Wisdom Chris Williamson

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Life lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, James Clear, Robert Greene, Balaji Srinivasan, Steven Pinker, Alex Hormozi, Douglas Murray, Chris Bumstead, James Smith, Dr David Sinclair, Mark Manson and more. Understanding the world is hard. This podcast will help.

    #685 - Rich Roll - Stop Making Excuses & Transform Your Life

    #685 - Rich Roll - Stop Making Excuses & Transform Your Life

    Rich Roll is an ultra-endurance athlete, podcaster an and author.
    In today’s modern world, relentless pursuit of goals often leads to being overworked and burnout. Finding the balance between working hard enough to achieve your dreams without destroying your sanity along the way is a difficult balance, but Rich seems to have found a solution.
    Expect to learn what it means to have “lower companions” who hold you back, why we all are so addicted to progress, why you might be more dependent than you think, who is the most controversial athlete in all of endurance racing, why Rich takes a “Manuary” sabbatical, how to deal with setbacks, the keys to resilience and much more…⁣
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    • 1 hr 55 min
    Vincent Harinam - Cancelled For Appearing On This Podcast

    Vincent Harinam - Cancelled For Appearing On This Podcast

    Vincent Harinam is a data scientist, law enforcement consultant and a writer.
    Vincent came on Modern Wisdom 2 years ago. Shortly after that, he was pulled into a meeting at a prestigious British University where he was teaching to be reprimanded for his comments. Today we get to break down what happened, and continue our dating discussion that got him in so much hot water.
    Expect to learn why academia has such a problem with independent media, what has changed in the dating market over the last 2 years, what the future trends in mating crisis-land will be, whether men are actually lost or just need to work harder, whether polygyny can fix population collapse, Vincent’s thoughts on my male sedation hypothesis and much more...
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    • 1 hr 35 min
    Shaan Puri - 7 Semi-Controversial Rules For Success

    Shaan Puri - 7 Semi-Controversial Rules For Success

    Shaan Puri is an entrepreneur, former CEO, podcaster and an angel investor.
    Shaan is kind of an anti-guru. He's a self-identified lazy person but also managed to exit multiple companies for millions of dollars. So today, we’re delving into 7 of his most semi-controversial insights and discuss why much of the advice from business gurus might just be useless.
    Expect to learn why hard work is massively overrated, what the two most understated skills in the word are, how to get out of your head and stop overthinking, why many people learn the wrong lessons from failure, how falling behind might not be the great teacher many think it is, why being a billionaire is a stupid goal, why you shouldn’t follow what most people do and much more...
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    • 1 hr 46 min
    Stan Efferding - Do This To Build Muscle, Burn Fat & Get Healthy

    Stan Efferding - Do This To Build Muscle, Burn Fat & Get Healthy

    Stan Efferding is a professional bodybuilder, powerlifter, entrepreneur, author and a nutrition expert known for creating “The Vertical Diet”.
    Earning the title of the world’s strongest bodybuilder isn’t an overnight achievement. With 35 years of experience in bodybuilding, powerlifting, and dieting, Stan is one of the most accomplished and knowledgable coaches on the planet, and today we get to dig into his biggest lessons.
    Expect to learn what the main causes of the obesity epidemic are, why diet culture is so tribal, the 3 core principles of the Vertical Diet, whether red meat is actually healthy for you, the relationship between sleep and weight loss, Stan's top 10 exercises for building muscle, why a 10 minute walk after eating will change your life, how to hack meal prep for the rest of time and much more...
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    • 2 hr 29 min
    Ben Lamm - The Man Bringing Extinct Creatures Back To Life

    Ben Lamm - The Man Bringing Extinct Creatures Back To Life

    Ben Lamm is an entrepreneur, CEO of Colossal and a founder.
    What if Jurassic Park's dream of bringing extinct creatures back to life was possible? Well it kind of is. And Ben's company is forging ahead in the new frontier of de-extinction, starting with some of the most legendary animals from history.
    Expect to learn why Ben is bringing Wooly Mammoths back to life, how you give birth to an animal that died out thousands of years ago, where Ben gets the genetic material from, how bringing back Mammoths could fix climate change, whether artificial wombs will actually work, if we can make humans as strong as Neanderthals using their DNA, why we should bring back the Dodo bird and much more...
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    • 1 hr 14 min
    Dr Anna Machin - Do You Actually Need A Father To Raise A Child?

    Dr Anna Machin - Do You Actually Need A Father To Raise A Child?

    Dr Anna Machin is an evolutionary anthropologist at Oxford University, a researcher into the role of fatherhood across time and an author.
    The modern world has made dads surplus to requirements in many ways. The deadbeat dad is such a meme in sitcoms and cartoons now that it's no surprise men don't feel they have a role in child rearing. But just how important are fathers to the development of boys and girls? And what don't we know about their impact?
    Expect to learn how fathers saved the human race when babies heads got too big, whether it's normal for dads to not feel love for their baby when it's born, the most important ways dads can bond with their kids, whether dads are more important to girls' or boys' development, what pushback Anna got for writing a pro-father book and much more...
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    • 1 hr 7 min

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This podcast always gives me a lot to chew on intellectually

Listen to the full episodes, there’s a lot more depth than the Youtube vids.

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Ben Lamm

Chris is one of the best, most intelligent podcasters out there. I am a doctor and love listening to him and his guests, almost all the time. Ben Lamm, however, along with Sam Harris, r two of the most incompetent, arrogant, ignorant, simple minded people I have ever listed to.

Great to hear from all sorts of people, it’s one of the only ways to gain wisdom. Understanding opposing thought processes. Some call this quantum thinking. Chris is excellent at this.

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Honestly lifechanging

Listen all the time , have learned so much , how I live my life is improved in minor and sometimes major ways every time I listen. Thanks Chris and guests for all the hard work

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