We Need To Stop Listening To These People - Douglas Murray - #706

Modern Wisdom

11/13/23

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120m

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Douglas Murray is a journalist, author and associate editor of The Spectator.

As the turmoil of global events dominates the media, it can feel as though the world is spiralling into chaos. If we can't agree on what's happening, how can we make sense of the world? What's the solution in a post-truth world?

Expect to learn how Victoria’s Secret betrayed the body positivity movement, why people are struggling to agree on what's true anymore, how the “Gays for Gaza” movement will get on, whether we are past peak wokeness, why there is such a huge increase in conspiratorial thinking, what the most recent South Park episode has to say about our culture and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Have Douglas’s Predictions Come True? (01:55) Victoria’s Secret Revert Back to Sexy (07:01) Society’s View of Having Children (12:03) Why Can’t We Agree on Truth? (17:24) Did New Atheism Actually Work? (24:31) How Celebrities Use Causes to Look Good (27:18) Why Women Support Body Positivity (30:13) The Negative Impacts of Low Self-Esteem (35:52) Who Actually Was George Orwell? (40:14) How K-Pop Is Causing Female Mental Health Issues (46:38) How Successful Will Gays For Gaza Be? (55:01) Is Douglas a Conspiracy Theorist? (1:03:10) The West’s Move Beyond Peak-Woke (1:12:40) People Who Have the Same Opinions on Everything (1:25:25) Humans Are Supposed to Be Resilient (1:37:23) HSBC’s Reimagined ‘Fairer’ Tales (1:45:33) Creating a Positive Vision For the Future (1:59:56) What’s Next For Douglas

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The 5 Most Effective Techniques To Hack Your Habits - Spencer Greenberg - #705

November 11, 2023

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Spencer Greenberg is a mathematician, a writer and the founder of ClearerThinking.org

First we make our habits, and then our habits make us. But what is the best way to step into this recursive loop and take charge of the most powerful force in our lives? Thankfully Spencer just completed a huge new study testing tons of different techniques.

Expect to learn how useful personality tests are, Spencer’s biggest insights from 450 people trying every habit strategy ever invented, how you can better integrate your subconscious into decision making, why becoming wise is genuinely important, how useful intuition really is, when you should trust your gut and when you should override it and much more...

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(00:00) How Useful Are Personality Tests? (07:18) The HEXACO Model For Testing Personality (12:40) The 5 Best Techniques For Creating Habits (23:49) Techniques From the Survey Which Failed (27:13) Clarifying Your Personal Values (34:27) Can We Actually Choose Our Values? (45:57) How Useful is Intuition in Decision-Making? (57:04) The Importance of Becoming Wise (1:04:27) Is Goodness a Vital Part of Wisdom? (1:13:25) The Traditional View of Wisdom (1:17:09) Why Perspective is So Important (1:21:14) Where to Find Spencer

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9 Timeless Lessons About Human Psychology - Morgan Housel - #707

November 16, 2023

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108m

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund, an investor and an author.

The world continues to change, but the hairless apes that inhabit it stay the same. So there must be some laws of human psychology which remain true, no matter what time and place you're in, and today we get to go through some of the most fascinating ones.

Expect to learn the problem with the way most people make predictions, who exactly are the reasonable optimists, whether anyone was able to predict the great depression, just how different median income for families differs from the 1950s to today, why trajectory is much more important than position, why stories are more powerful than statistics and much more...

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(00:00) What People Get Wrong When Making Predictions (03:50) The Fragility of History (15:35) Having a Positive Relationship with Risk (20:50) The World is Driven By Envy (25:04) Why You Can’t Base Happiness Off Wealth (32:39) The Mental Difficulty of Maintaining Success (41:56) How to Feel More Content With Life (51:58) Why People Desire Certainty (1:00:43) How Successful People Made Huge Decisions (1:07:30) How Morgan Writes His Books (1:18:40) Our Own Logic Can Lead Us Astray (1:26:15) Calmness Precedes Craziness (1:35:09) Are We Competing Against Other Generations? (1:42:10) Life Lessons From the Tallest Man Ever (1:47:07) Where to Find Morgan

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