The West Is Under Attack - Konstantin Kisin - #499

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07/14/22

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Konstantin Kisin is a podcaster and an author.

The West has had a bad run over the last few years with accusations every ism and obia under the sun. Having grown up in the Soviet Union however, Konstantin has a unique perspective on just how bad a nation can be and has some home truths to remind everyone of.

Expect to learn whether we should be bothered that Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin are banned from Twitter, why the term Political Correctness has some very communist roots, how a Russian disinformation agent predicted everything we're seeing in 2022, whether we've passed peak woke, if both-sidesism is a grift and much more...

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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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The Mystery Of Female Sex Drive - Roy Baumeister - #498

July 11, 2022

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78m

Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist at the University of Queensland and an author.

The social psychology of sexual interactions is fascinating. Sex is more than just a physical act, it has cultural, emotional, spiritual, psychological and social implications, many of which we are unaware of. Thankfully Roy has spent years studying the literature on why people have sex and what's going right and wrong with it.

Expect to learn why the female sex drive doesn't occur in the same way anywhere else in the animal kingdom, why women shape men more than men shape women, why more women have tried being bisexual but more men are gay, why there is very little evidence for a cultural suppression of female sexuality from men, why the male sex drive is a tragedy and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:23) How Women Shaped Men (12:45) Lack of Data on Sex (15:36) Mystery of Female Sexual Desire (21:01) Evolution of Orgasms (26:54) Malleability of Female Sexual Drive (37:29) Why the Male Sex Drive is a Tragedy (45:08) Studying Masochism & Kink (54:48) The Pornography Revolution (59:29) Suppression of the Sex Drive (1:12:37) What is the Future of the Sexual Marketplace? (1:17:19) Where to Find Roy

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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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