700k Q&A - Negative Self-Talk, Upcoming Live Tour & Ray Dalio - #595

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02/27/23

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I hit 700k Subscribers on YouTube!!

To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, Twitter, Locals and Instagram, so here's another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. As always there's some great questions in here about whether Ray Dalio is coming on the podcast, how to overcome negative self talk and whether I'll be doing a live tour soon.

Expect to learn how I deal with nerves before big podcasts, my very simple memorisation tactic for the books I read, whether I class myself as anti-woke, if I think young men should leave the dating market all together right now, why I stopped working as a model, what t-shirts I always wear, whether I'm worried about EMFs from AirPods, my favourite chest day routine and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:10) Caring About What Others Think (02:07) Getting Nervous Before Podcasts (03:05) Concern About Burnout (05:25) Chris’s Book List (07:50) Why the Goggins Episode Had Ads (09:59) Modern Wisdom Merchandise (10:56) Cosmic Skeptic’s Meat Confession (13:07) 1 Million Subscriber Episode (13:44) Improving the Podcast (14:50) Naval or Curtis Yarvin on the Podcast (15:42) How to Ask Great Questions (18:18) Is Chris Anti-Woke? (20:02) Opinion on UK Tap Water (21:43) Why Chris Quit Modelling (22:47) Meditation for Beginners (23:58) Opinion on Decoding The Gurus (26:14) Staying Impartial as an Interviewer (28:11) Outsourcing Your Self-Worth (30:23) Modern Wisdom Live Shows (31:58) Will Chris Play Cricket Again? (32:11) The Podcast Intro Song (33:16) Important Changes in the World (34:01) Guesting on the Joe Rogan Podcast (34:40) Is Dating Worth the Sacrifices? (36:39) Tips to Increase Vocabulary (38:09) Chris Needs More Subscribers (38:17) Book-Writing in the Time of AI (39:58) Keep Going (40:08) Thank You Chris (40:17) How Chris’s Parents Feel About His Success (41:02) Does Chris Miss the UK? (42:25) Chris’s Haircut (42:49) Diary of a CEO (43:09) Does Chris Keep All the Books He Reads? (43:44) Ray Dalio on the Podcast (44:05) Avoiding Negative Self-Talk (46:03) What Would Chris Do Differently? (46:38) Baccarat Rouge 540 (47:43) What Brand are Chris’s T-Shirts? (48:25) Why Chris was Bullied at School (50:01) Recording with Cameron Hanes (50:55) Is the Mating Crisis That Bad? (52:59) Meeting People Who Have Been Impacted by the Podcast (54:47) Peter Attia on the Podcast (55:20) Does Chris Only Wear Vans? (56:32) Concern About EMFs (57:29) Do Men Care About Female Pubes? (58:26) Where Did 600K Subscribers Go? (58:39) Chest Day at the Gym (1:00:15) Life Advice (1:02:18) Will the Podcast Always Be Fulfilling? (1:04:55) Update on Stell Cem Treatment (1:06:29) Chris’s Process for Scheduling Episodes (1:08:17) Insights from Quitting Caffeine (1:10:26) How to ‘Do The Thing’ (1:13:57) How Chris Remembers Quotes (1:14:50) Should You Quit Soda or Booze? (1:15:15) Advice for Aspiring Podcasters (1:17:11) Over-Correcting Your Self-Improvement (1:19:58) Important Lessons from the Last Year (1:20:46) What Chris Looks for in a Podcast Guest (1:22:45) Gratitude Practices (1:24:07) Relationship Advice to 20-Year-Old (1:26:46) Conclusion

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The Incredible Evolution Of Human Violence - Dr Richard Wrangham - #594

February 25, 2023

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80m

Dr Richard Wrangham is an anthropologist and primatologist, a Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and an author whose research focuses on ape behaviour, human evolution, violence, and cooking.

Humans have the capacity for incredible benevolence and kindness, but also are able to be execute other members of our species with a uniquely effective ruthlessness. Why would evolution give us such differing capacities to chimps and apes and what can this tell us about our nature?

Expect to learn the fascinating evolutionary story of human aggression through the ages, how humans actually selectively bred ourselves to become less aggressive, how our capacity for violence informed the evolution of morality, the true reason for why humans might have a sense of right and wrong, what would have happened to a hyper aggressive male ancestrally and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:26) Are Humans an Aggressive Species? (06:38) How Human Violence Evolved (21:08) The Self-Domestication of Man (24:33) Understanding Psychological Changes Through Bones (27:47) Has Female Aggression Evolved? (39:12) Did Violence Influence the Development of Morality? (52:26) How Much of Mythology is Justification for a Male Bias? (56:19) Evolution of Kin-to-Kin Aggression (58:44) How Sex Ratios Impacted the Local Ecology (1:06:03) Humanity’s Approach to Male Aggression in Today’s Society (1:19:17) Where to Find Dr Wrangham

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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

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Feminism Is No Longer Helping Women - Mary Harrington - #596

March 2, 2023

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104m

Mary Harrington is a contributing editor at UnHerd and an author.

Women have been subject to a lot of changes over the past 200 years. Liberated first from the land, then from the house, then from the womb, and finally even from their own nature. But has it actually helped? Has modern feminism been for the best or has it made women's lives more confusing than ever?

Expect to learn why feminism might not have delivered on the promises it made to the world, why there is a war on relationships between the sexes, Mary's guess on why there are so few families getting together, how women's liberation has only worked for a small number of women at the expense of many others, why abortion and birth control actually led to more single parent households and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:33) What Qualifies Mary to Critique Feminism? (09:00) Hasn’t There Been Progress for Women Since the Industrial Revolution? (21:28) Feminism After the 1800s (25:50) When Men ‘White-Knight’ for Women (30:20) The Impact of the Sexual Revolution (39:02) What are the Motivations Behind Modern Feminist Progress? (58:25) The Worrying Rise of 'Transhumanism' (1:11:21) Society’s Need to Abolish ‘Big Romance’ (1:25:02) Is the Sexual Revolution Sidelining Men? (1:32:16) The Feminist Case for Not Taking the Pill (1:38:24) How People Can Help to Abolish ‘Big Romance’ (1:43:26) Where to Find Mary

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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

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