Supercharged Effortless Productivity - Tiago Forte - #501

Modern Wisdom

07/18/22

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63m

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Tiago Forte is a productivity coach, Founder of Forte Labs and an author.

The world has far, far too much information in it. Humans don't do well when they are overwhelmed with incoming signals and yet we can't stop ourselves from wanting to acquire more, interesting insights. Thankfully Tiago has created one of the world's most popular systems to Capture, Organise, Distill and Express pretty much anything.

Expect to learn the most important apps Tiago uses to enhance his productivity, why everyone needs to go through an insane efficiency stage in life, how he's moving beyond pure productivity and into something more holistic, why read later apps can save your life, how to use the relationship between productivity and creativity and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:47) How to Avoid Productivity Obsession (05:58) The Need for a Second Brain (15:06) What is a Commonplace Book? (23:36) The Relationship Between Productivity & Creativity (27:23) Become Effective at Capturing Information (40:22) Learn to Organise & Distill Information (45:28) Self-Expression is the Purpose for a Second Brain (56:13) Tiago’s 5 Most-Used Apps (1:00:47) Making Productivity Less of a Chore (1:03:18) Where to Find Tiago

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Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes - #500

July 16, 2022

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68m

To celebrate 500 episodes on Modern Wisdom, I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last 4 and a half years.

Expect to learn why having no role models can be an advantage, how discipline eats motivation for breakfast, why you should be training for the difficult, why success in pursuit of happiness can be self-defeating, why fame makes you weak, how an obsession with productivity is just immortality by another name, what I learned about negativity biases from Margaret Thatcher, the importance of letting go of successful habits for new ones and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:53) Discipline Eats Motivation for Breakfast (04:22) Absurd Ideological Beliefs are Shows of Fealty (06:12) You Are Training for the Difficult (11:03) Achieving Happiness Through Success is Self-Defeating (15:03) Out-Groups are More Popular than In-Groups (18:07) Productivity Obsession is Immortality by a Different Name (23:00) You Can’t Control the Mind with the Mind (24:50) Fame Ain’t What it Used to Be (31:29) The Negative Bias is No Longer Serving Us (35:41) What Got You Here Won’t Get You There (39:42) Romantic Desirability Has Almost No Predictive Power for Long-Term Relationship Happiness (46:04) Be Careful, You Can’t Control the Perceptions of Other People (50:34) When You Get Bored with the Process, You Negatively Change the Trajectory (53:38) The Reverse Role-Model (56:41) Your Weirdness is Your Competitive Advantage (57:55) The Moment-to-Moment of Almost Anything is a Grind (1:02:05) Accept that All Your Heroes are Full of Shit (1:04:46) The Expectation Effect

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Creating An Unbreakable Mindset - Jocko Willink - #502

July 21, 2022

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153m

Jocko Willink is a retired United States Navy officer in SEAL Team 3, an author and a podcaster.

Finding discipline in the modern world is hard. A hyper convenient existence rarely encourages radical responsibility or extreme ownership. Thankfully Jocko has spent an entire life learning how to love discomfort, and also teaching others how to love it too. If discipline equals freedom then Jocko must be one of the freest men on the planet.

Expect to learn what Jocko thinks about the Detroit self-defence guy, why discipline always beats motivation, the similarities between elite special forces and elite BJJ athletes, Jocko's opinion on Jordan Peterson, how to get over an ex, whether he regrets being famous after working in the shadows for so long, how he used a Jim Carrey impression to chat up his wife, whether he wants to try psychedelics and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (03:20) BJJ Athletes Vs Special Forces Operators (09:55) Is it Possible to Take Too Much Responsibility? (15:33) Jordan Peterson (26:10) Revisiting the ‘Good’ Video (32:29) Do People Overcomplicate Motivation & Courage? (39:40) Learning How to Fight Properly (45:26) Mental Health Treatment in America (51:48) Being a Husband & Father (1:04:15) Processing Grief & Heartbreak (1:11:29) Why Jocko Willink Writes Kids Books (1:31:53) How Surfing Impacted Jocko (1:38:05) Keeping in Mind the Shortness of Life (1:46:51) Life as an ex-Navy SEAL (1:52:25) Problems of Fame & Being Recognised (2:01:45) Would Jocko Run for Office? (2:07:24) No Solutions, Only Trade-Offs (2:11:31) Does Jocko Plan for Long-Term? (2:15:09) What Jocko Sacrifices for Success (2:32:39) Where to Find Jocko

Extra Stuff:

Check out Jocko's website - https://jocko.com/

Get my free Reading List of 100 books to read before you die → https://chriswillx.com/books/

To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom

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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