18 Lessons From 500 Episodes - Sam Harris, Jocko Willink & Alex Hormozi

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... Sponsors: Get £250 discount on Eight Sleep products at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom (discount automatically applied) Get 83% discount & 3 months free from Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (use code MODERNWISDOM) Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at https://bit.ly/proteinwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: 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 #motivation #discipline #fame - 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 - Join the Modern Wisdom Community on Locals - https://modernwisdom.locals.com/ Listen to all episodes on audio: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/