Insights From History's Greatest Thinkers - David Senra - #566

Modern Wisdom

12/17/22

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David Senra is a podcaster and a writer.

Many of the most important insights you need to learn to improve your life have already been discovered in the past. Thankfully David spends all his time reading biographies of the greatest thinkers, founders, entrepreneurs and inventors from history and has synthesised those lessons so you can remember them too.

Expect to learn how Steve Jobs came to think about time, what Kobe Bryant believed about the dangers of success making you soft, how the Rockefellers created their fortune, why crossing the Vanderbilts may result in you being very dead, whether anyone with extreme success managed to master a work-life balance, why you have to start reading Paul Graham's work, David's most recommended books and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:35) The Mental Athleticism of E-Sports (05:40) Studying How Paul Graham Thinks (11:40) The Hardest Workers of All-Time (21:08) Optimising for Optionality (26:37) Most Common Traits of High Performers (35:14) Are the People David Studied Generally Happier? (43:55) Do the Ends Justify the Means of Success? (1:00:35) The Most Ruthless Entrepreneurs (1:16:57) Founders’ Ability to Deal with Discomfort (1:34:51) How to Retain Important Information Better (1:44:25) David’s 3 Recommended Books (1:47:12) Where to Find David

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16 Lessons From 2022 - Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson & Jocko Willink - #565

December 15, 2022

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63m

It's the end of 2022 and to celebrate I thought I'd run through some of the best lessons I've picked up over the last 12 months.

This year has had over 10,000 minutes of episodes produced so there was a lot to choose from but I ended up settling on 16 insights from some of my favourite conversations, articles and books, both inside and outside of the podcast.

Expect to learn why Jocko Willink thinks that most people overcomplicate motivation, what Joe Rogan taught me about difficult and valuable things, why Douglas Murray makes a mean manhattan cocktail, how Jordan Peterson highlighted the price you pay for inaction, how Rob Henderson predicts the news cycle with amazing accuracy, how Rick from Rick & Morty can help you be more confident and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:19) Joe Rogan - Value & Difficulty (03:40) Jordan Peterson - The Price of Inaction (07:18) Roy Baumeister - Women Set the Price of Sex (11:49) Ryan Holiday - Do the Thing (14:59) Rob Henderson - The Goal of Propaganda (18:33) Gurwinder Bhogal - Theory of Bespoke Bullshit (21:56) How to Deal with Critics (30:20) Jocko Willink - Discipline Eats Motivation for Breakfast (33:18) Douglas Murray - You Choose Your Regrets (38:47) Russell Kennedy - Lessons on Anxiety (45:22) Robert Wright - Being Conscious of Your Mental Afflictions (47:40) Greg McKeown - Decide What You Will Suck At (51:25) Alex Hormozi - Outwork Your Self-Doubt (1:02:29) Conclusion

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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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14 Psychoanalytical Concepts To Understand Yourself - Dr Jonathan Shedler - #567

December 19, 2022

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76m

Dr Jonathan Shedler is a psychologist, author, master clinician and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California.

We do not understand ourselves. Almost all of what is inside of our minds is obscured from us. We don't need to exclusively despair though. With a little work and some good insights from psychoanalysis, the view can be made a little clearer.

Expect to learn why people believe that their suffering makes them more moral than others, how you can create a false identity without realising, the ruthless danger of projective identification, how come it's easier for us to see people as either good or bad, how extreme envy can manifest, the manipulative strategies we all enact without thinking and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:48) The Need for Psychoanalytic Psychology (06:11) What is Moral Masochism? (15:32) Developing a False Self (21:16) The Relationship Pattern of Transference (27:49) How Projective Identification & Splitting Works (46:11) Everyone Engages in Repetition & Enactment (50:50) Using Reaction Formation as a Defence (54:22) The Sub-conscious Act of Displacement (1:00:46) One Thing Dr Shedler Wished People Knew (1:03:21) How to Choose the Right Therapist (1:16:01) Where to Find Dr Shedler

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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

Get in touch.

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