15 Lessons From 800 Episodes - #800
June 22, 2024
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Episode 800 · June 22, 2024
15 Lessons From 800 Episodes - #800
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Summary
To celebrate 800 episodes of Modern Wisdom, I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last hundred episodes.
Expect to learn why starting the day with an imagined productivity debt is making you miserable, why being competent can be more of a curse than a blessing, how to easily assess how good an idea is, why obesity is a bigger problem than starvation, what I learned from Winston Churchill's father, how to predict culture war news stories, why it's so important to communicate directly and much more...
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Timestamps:
(0:00) The Productivity Debt
(08:00) The Curse of Competence
(13:43) Be More Sanguine
(15:23) The Power of Low Self-Esteem
(19:26) Obesity is a Bigger World Threat than Hunger
(20:56) Focus Less on Wealth & More on Lifestyle
(29:46) The Culture Wars Shiny Object Cycle
(37:05) Fighting Against Cynicism
(40:34) Don’t Wait for Life to Happen
(44:13) The Danger of Shadow Sentences
(55:25) The Best Heuristic for Finding Friends
(57:38) Find the Others
(01:00:58) Most Important Lessons About Stress
(01:08:12) Ending
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