Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes - #500
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,...
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Summary
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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