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Life Hacks 103

Jonny and Yusef from PropaneFitness.com dropped in again for another Life Hacks episode where we detail a selection of our favourite apps, websites, resources and tools for a productive and efficient life. Find out our choice for the undisputed king of wireless headphones, how cutting your workload up into 25 minute blocks can turbocharge your productivity and how a green smoothie can make your daily movements as regular as the passage of the sun. Extra Stuff: Unfollow the people that you hate on social media. Train more frequently but have shorter sessions. Tick the boxes of things you NEED to do first thing on a morning. Apple AirPods - https://amzn.to/35BkDKb Have a “waiting for” list. Do Pomodoros with Be Focused Pro - https://xwavesoft.com/be-focused-pro-for-iphone-ipad-mac-os-x.html Buy an automatic car. Anki Spaced Repetition Software - https://apps.ankiweb.net/ Hack your fruit & veg intake with a greens smoothie. VSCO Cam - https://vsco.co/ - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XrOqvxlqQI6bmdYHuIVnr?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostJonny (Propane Fitness)guestYusef (Propane Fitness)guest
Jun 8, 20181h 22mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:06 – 1:46

    Setting the stage: why this became “Life Hacks 103” (and not relationships)

    1. CW

      Hi there. This week it's another life hacks episode. Johnny and Yousaf from Propain Fitness are joining me as we originally intended to do a podcast about relationships, and we didn't even get round to the topic. So after an hour of us all chatting shit, we decided to just do a life hacks episode. Relationships will be coming up, and I might actually, if enough people are interested, I might just post the hour and a bit of what we ended up talking about, 'cause it was actually pretty funny. Uh, undirectional but quite interesting. Coming up soon I've got Cory Allen from the Astral Hustle Podcast, also the creator of Release Into Now, which is my favorite guided meditation. I'm actually sitting down with him tomorrow and I'm going to be going through from beginning to developing your practice in meditation, how mindfulness can be for everybody. I'm also sitting down with Quinn Hennick from Juggernaut Training Systems to go through some mobility myths and work out, t- try and cut through some of the bullshit about what mobility, stability, and flexibility mean in a performance perspective. And I've managed to get Johann Hari, author of Lost Connections, recently on Joe Rogan's podcast, and an absolute intellectual monster. I managed to get him to say yes to come on. So I- I can't wait to sit down with these guys. Feeling really fortunate. But before that, obviously, biggest guests that I could have, Johnny and Yousaf from Propain Fitness. Let's go.

    2. JF

      Excellent.

    3. CW

      I guess-

    4. JF

      You could go there with your laptop and just-

  2. 1:46 – 5:13

    Warming up with Newcastle bar banter + random headlines

    1. CW

      Wha- what makes, what makes me laugh about that Continental place is the fact that it's the, the quietest bar in all of Newcastle. That's both in terms of customers and volume coming out of the speakers.

    2. JF

      Surprisingly quiet for customers.

    3. CW

      Yeah. And through the back is a room which is even more private and quiet.

    4. YF

      Yeah. That's... It's almost eerie, that room.

    5. JF

      Mm-hmm.

    6. CW

      Like why... What- what's this graveyard room at the back for?

    7. YF

      Whose idea was it to put this here? Why is it still here?

    8. CW

      Yeah.

    9. YF

      How is this place making any money?

    10. CW

      Why are the des- why are the desks laid out like a 1940s exam hall?

    11. YF

      And why do they only hire Spanish people?

    12. JF

      Mm-hmm.

    13. CW

      Well, it's k- it's called Continental, isn't it?

    14. JF

      So it has to... They have to make it authentic, but they give you little bits of steak or whatever as well.

    15. CW

      They, they don't have to, like, I- I wouldn't mind...

    16. YF

      They do, they do.

    17. CW

      I've never had bits of steak. I just have things that kill him.

    18. JF

      Oh, yeah.

    19. YF

      Yeah.

    20. JF

      The peanuts... They give you, like, little meatballs. Often pork or peanuts, actually. So...

    21. CW

      Okay, so they're either-

    22. YF

      A nightmare.

    23. CW

      ... sacrilege or fatal-

    24. YF

      Yeah.

    25. CW

      ... to people in our friendship group.

    26. JF

      They're kafir, aren't they?

    27. YF

      They are kafir.

    28. CW

      They are kafi-

    29. YF

      Kafir.

    30. CW

      Anyway, life hacks.

  3. 5:13 – 7:07

    Deepfakes and the death of video evidence

    1. CW

      You know what I watched last night? I watched, uh, um, an episode of Family Guy where Lauren Conrad from The Hills is on it, and she says, "We've, uh... It's all part of a big pu- publicity stunt at the moment. They're actually CGI-ing a sex tape of me and Bill Cosby." And it's Bill Cosby, like, undressing. "We are gonna do the ziggity zap and the zhu, zhu."

    2. JF

      (laughs)

    3. CW

      Like, two years later, that could not be any more inappropriate.

    4. YF

      Mm-hmm.

    5. JF

      CGI-ing, uh...

    6. CW

      So she said that they were CGI-ing a sex tape of her and him, but this is before all of the shit came out about Bill Cosby.

    7. JF

      Oh.

    8. CW

      It's so rude. (laughs)

    9. JF

      That, apparently that's gonna become a thing soon, that we're, we're not gonna be able to use video evidence as a, um-

    10. CW

      'Cause he was CGI'd, so he's out of it.

    11. YF

      Because CGI is so manipulative.

    12. JF

      Yeah.

    13. YF

      There was a thing like that I saw, must have been, it'll be on Facebook. It'll be fake news probably.

    14. CW

      Yeah, but they-

    15. YF

      It'll be Zuck.

    16. CW

      There was a guy, there was a video of Barack Obama-

    17. JF

      ... speaking, saying like, really weird shit. It was like, uh, "Donald Trump is, uh, clearly a moron."

    18. CW

      Yeah.

    19. JF

      And then it splits the screen, and it's got the guy who's actually doing the voice.

    20. CW

      Ah.

    21. JF

      Whoa. And it's completely-

    22. CW

      Overlaying it.

    23. JF

      ... completely CGI'd-

    24. CW

      Yeah.

    25. JF

      ... Obama. And you're like- It's very convincing. ... "That is fucking mental."

    26. CW

      But Sam Harris touches on that, right, with the Ham Sarris thing?

    27. JF

      (laughs)

    28. CW

      Like, the, the sniggy he does.

    29. JF

      Someone's made a version of me on the internet.

    30. CW

      He says, "I completely support it," and you're like-

  4. 7:07 – 13:27

    Life hack: stop hate-following people on social media

    1. CW

      Right. Life hacks 103.

    2. JF

      Life hacks.

    3. CW

      Um, first one, I've got... I've been collecting these.

    4. JF

      Oh my god.

    5. CW

      So I've been writing some in on a daily basis. We've had the ones that were, like, apps and stuff so far.

    6. JF

      Mm-hmm.

    7. CW

      What I've been doing is I've been using like a note as a, like a life hack diary of stuff that I do and I think-

    8. JF

      Oh, that's cool.

    9. CW

      ... "I need to put that in a podcast."

    10. JF

      Cool.

    11. CW

      So first one I've got, uh, unfollow the people that you hate from social media. And both of you are culprits of not doing this.

    12. JF

      (laughs) Mm-hmm.

    13. CW

      And I'm not going to name the plethora of people.

    14. JF

      Yeah. It's interesting.

    15. CW

      If it... So the thing is this, but-

    16. JF

      I think we both get a lot of pleasure out of following the people that... W- oh, I don't know. Is, is it even hate, or is it just like car crash?

    17. CW

      It's the, it's the

    18. JF

      She's probably right.

    19. It's sort of this entertainment.

    20. CW

      But it's, but it's not, because you come away from it a lot of the time indignant.

    21. JF

      Annoyed. (laughs)

    22. CW

      True.

    23. JF

      It was David's analysis of it, of like, she's got-

    24. She's passing off-

    25. She's got the gall to p- to assume that... She's passing off, what is it?

    26. She, she's passing off what is offensively obvious-

    27. (laughs)

    28. ... as wisdom. And she's got the arrogance to be doing this.

    29. (laughs)

    30. Like, yeah.

  5. 13:27 – 16:49

    Capture systems for the mind: bookmark queues and decision reduction (Toby/Pocket)

    1. JF

      So, I can't remember if I mentioned this last time. But this ties into the capture process that I think you have to always have. So it would be, you know, 20 years ago it would be carrying a notebook in your pocke- in your pockets and everything.

    2. CW

      Filofax.

    3. JF

      Filofax. And if something comes into your awareness that needs to either be actioned, or looked up, or noted down, or an insight or something, it would go down in the notebook. And when you get home, you would then put it into, put it into your process. Which is like, you'd look through your notebook at the end of the day, be like, "Right, I've got these things. They need, these need to be either put into the action list or whatever." And so for me, Toby, which is a browser extension for Chrome, allows me to quickly organize anything. So, if someone sends me an article that I need to read or there's a video that comes up that I should watch at some point or whatever, and I can't action it right away, I can create separate queues of reading queue, listening queue, and then frequently visited-

    4. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    5. JF

      ... thing. And then you can sub-split those into, like for me, for example, it would be medicine, study, um, propane or, or, uh, business stuff, and then work that needs to be done.

    6. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JF

      And so having that as a capture means that you no longer l- lose out on, um, someone sends you an article and you're like, "Oh yeah, I'll read that later." But because you can't sort of-

    8. CW

      So it's a very cleverly, it's a very cleverly put together bookmarks manager, isn't it, basically?

    9. JF

      It's great. Um-

    10. CW

      Uh, we did, we did actually bring this up on the last one. However-

    11. JF

      Uh-

    12. CW

      ... you've done, uh, you've come at it from a different angle now, which I think is worthwhile.

    13. JF

      I think so, 'cause there's, um, you know, you, you can try and capture it at the point of, at the point it comes in. But then you have no control over whether someone sends you a WhatsApp or a text message or whatever.

    14. CW

      You're speaking, you're speaking about this a little bit in the way that a 10th dan black belt would talk about punching someone in the face.

    15. JF

      (laughs)

    16. (laughs)

    17. CW

      I, I do think, I do think that you're totally right, that you need to... We are stressed by having too much stuff that we need to remember. Our brains are built for processing information, not remembering information, right?

    18. JF

      Exactly.

    19. CW

      Decision-making, not retention.

    20. JF

      I- it's built for having thoughts, not holding them.

    21. CW

      Okay.

    22. JF

      Take the day at hand.

    23. So there's a couple of layers there.

    24. CW

      That's what I want to-

    25. JF

      And one of them is the decision that you s- you sit down, you open a new tab, you're like, "Right, I want to read something." If you have to make a decision every time or run through... And obviously you can't mark your iMessages as unread, for example, or whatever, so you-

    26. CW

      Such an annoy- why have they not, why have they not allowed that?

    27. JF

      It's a very annoying feature.

    28. CW

      (laughs) Yeah.

    29. JF

      Who knows?

    30. So you have to then be like, "Right, I need to, I need to read something. Oh, there was that thing that Chris sent me a couple of weeks ago and I was like..."

  6. 16:49 – 25:54

    Consistency hack: train more often with shorter sessions (and do it early)

    1. JF

      I can do one that I've been experimenting with recently. It's just that it's more of like a...

    2. CW

      Is it NOFAP?

    3. JF

      No. And this is something that I speak to a lot of clients about who struggle with tr- just training, getting their training in, or I think it's the case with trying to do anything that you want to do consistently.

    4. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    5. JF

      So, used to train four days a week. Done that, like, for as long as I can remember. Started finding that, um, I'd have a particularly hard session or, like, schedule would be slightly different and I'd just go, "Ah, I'll train tomorrow."

    6. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    7. JF

      And then it gets to Friday and you realize that you've got to train-

    8. CW

      Four days of training.

    9. JF

      Yeah.

    10. CW

      You've fit it in three years.

    11. JF

      You want to train Friday, Saturday, Sunday and you're like, "Right, well, that's going to wreck me." And I was starting to get niggles and... So I was just like, "Right, I'm just going to s- try and train six days a week." Stay the same volume, shorter sessions, and just part of my morning is get up, do morning routine stuff, go to the gym, start work after that.

    12. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    13. JF

      And doing that has been really positive so far. So I've only done it for two weeks.

    14. CW

      But what's, what's, what's the main change? The volume stayed the same but spread across more sessions or you're doing more of your training?

    15. JF

      Yeah. S- so, so short, shorter sessions so there's less of a, there's less of a barrier to like, "Oh my god, I'm going to be in the gym for two hours."

    16. CW

      Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

    17. JF

      Each of the sessions are therefore easier. So...

    18. CW

      Slightly lower impact?

    19. JF

      Yeah.

    20. CW

      You've had to... I'm presuming you've had to get your coach to adapt the-

    21. JF

      To sign it off, yeah.

    22. CW

      ... yeah, the program appropriately.

    23. JF

      So he, I think he has probably upped the volume ever so slightly. There's a few more assistance exercises and stuff.

    24. CW

      Well, but it would be, it would be silly not to, right?

    25. JF

      Yeah. But it, it's just... Because before, like, well, the way that I operated anyway was-... tr- today's a training day or tomorrow's a training day, today's a rest day.

    26. CW

      Yeah.

    27. JF

      And your whole routine's different.

    28. CW

      Yeah.

    29. JF

      For me, anyway. Like the time I start work and all that sort of stuff.

    30. CW

      There's an inherent, um, inconsistency-

  7. 25:54 – 33:25

    Gear that actually changes daily life: Apple AirPods (and weird bonus uses)

    1. CW

      No, that's fine. Next one, Apple AirPods.

    2. JF

      Oh, god. They're so good.

    3. CW

      (laughs) You have-

    4. JF

      They're so good.

    5. CW

      You (laughs) -

    6. JF

      I know audio broadcast for them.

    7. CW

      I see.

    8. JF

      Yeah.

    9. CW

      Digital.

    10. JF

      For those of you who want to hear broadcasts. Yeah.

    11. CW

      So they are without a doubt the, you, you said this before, single biggest change in quality of life was something that you came up with for one of your last life hacks. Apple AirPods for me are from u- upon purchase, quality of life instantly increases-

    12. JF

      Yeah.

    13. CW

      ... on aggregate by 5 to 10% every day, and upon using them, by 50%.

    14. JF

      Even just, even just by owning them.

    15. CW

      Just by having and looking at them.

    16. JF

      Even just, it's how nice they are and-

    17. CW

      So-

    18. JF

      Y- do you know what makes them? Is their-

    19. CW

      Is it the little pack of dental floss?

    20. JF

      It's the little things about them. But I'll let, I'll let, I'm not spoiling it, spoiler.

    21. CW

      But it's just, uh, th- everyone uses, everyone needs a pair of headphones. Um, if you're not u-, if you're not on iPhone, I don't know how they will link up with-

    22. JF

      I don't think they can.

    23. CW

      Well, they're just Bluetooth headphones, right? So they must be.

    24. JF

      Do they not have something in them, 'cause wasn't that one of the criticisms of the HomePod?

    25. CW

      I'm not sure.

    26. JF

      'Cause it was a chip.

    27. CW

      I wouldn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be able to, uh-

    28. JF

      Maybe they, maybe they do work.

    29. CW

      I wouldn't be able to elaborate. Anyway, if you, if you are someone who uses your headphones ever, you should buy a pair of AirPods. So they come in a case. The little case is an external charger for the earbuds. The buds get four hours charge out of about a 15 minute-

    30. JF

      Yeah.

  8. 33:25 – 39:46

    Tracking ‘open loops’: Waiting-For lists, email follow-ups, and reminders that cancel themselves

    1. JF

      Yeah, so this isn't a very sexy one, but I am currently dealing with a lot of companies, too many to keep track of, um, in terms of following up responses and so on. So what I do is I have a list on Wunderlist called Waiting For, and if I've sent out a request to these companies, maybe at, maybe I've got 10 or 12 on the go at, at one time, I just add it to that list, and then I know that they're the people that I, I'm waiting for a response from.

    2. CW

      Okay.

    3. JF

      Alternatively, you can do it all within Apple Mail. If you use Mailbutler or Followup then, which is Johnny's preference.

    4. (laughs)

    5. Mailbutler, um, allows you to tag an email as you send it. You tick a box on the email itself that says, "Remind me in two weeks." And it, it links, it adds a reminder into your Apple Reminders, links to that particular sent email, and then cancels the reminder if you get a response-

    6. If you get a reply.

    7. ... to that email.

    8. That's clever.

    9. Which is fantastic.

    10. CW

      Yeah.

    11. JF

      Um-

    12. CW

      Again, what we're, what we're talking about is just capture, isn't it?

    13. JF

      Mm-hmm.

    14. It's just capture.

    15. CW

      It's just removal. It's just removal of having to remember stuff yourself. My reminders now are starting to back up so much because I'm using them so much.

    16. JF

      Well, it's-

    17. CW

      All the time.

    18. JF

      ... 'cause I, I think... 'cause I, I got criticized from my uncle who was like, "Yusuf, you need to just rely on your memory more. Stop being such a, a, a pussy with- (laughs)

    19. CW

      ... with using, you know, relying on calendars and things." And it's like, that's fine for you to say if you're retired and don't have anything. But, like, e- Need to do is remember to get the cat out.

    20. JF

      Yeah. (laughs)

    21. CW

      Try doing a medical degree and running a company.

    22. JF

      Well, you get to the point where it exceeds the capacity of your memory, or even if it doesn't, even if you have a, uh, internal system, it's gonna stress you out by having to maintain the open loops, whereas if it's just completely out of your head, you know that I can just check the waiting... "Oh yeah, I haven't heard back from NPower yet. Okay, I will-"

    23. CW

      Da-da-da.

    24. JF

      ... "chase them up." Yeah. So-

    25. There's two very really important caveats with that, and it's, you need to practice the skill of capture, I think.

    26. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    27. JF

      Yeah.

    28. And I think you need time-

    29. CW

      Yeah, it's not, it's not something you fall into immediately.

    30. JF

      Well, 'cause, uh, like, everyone's had the, the experience where you're sat doing something else and suddenly the thought of like, "Oh my God, I was meant to do..."

  9. 39:46 – 43:19

    Focus and deep work: Pomodoro technique + timer apps with analytics

    1. JF

      Have I, have I mentioned Pomodoros?

    2. YF

      Yeah.

    3. JF

      Before?

    4. CW

      Um, yeah. But you can, if you, if you can wrap them in a different twist, yeah.

    5. JF

      So, FocusMe Pro. It's a Mac app. Might be an-

    6. YF

      Okay.

    7. JF

      ... iPhone app as well. Um, so the problem I... So Pomodoro-

    8. YF

      Be Focused. Or have you got one called FocusMe?

    9. JF

      Oh, I don't know. It's the one I recommended to you. Just the same one.

    10. YF

      Okay. The one I use is-

    11. CW

      But you've got, you've got a pro version, which means you have to pay for it. Which means that-

    12. JF

      It's a one-off.

    13. CW

      Which means that he definitely hasn't.

    14. YF

      I, yeah, I've, I've got Be Focused free.

    15. JF

      Right.

    16. CW

      Light. (laughs)

    17. YF

      Light.

    18. JF

      Light. It has all the ads on and stuff like that.

    19. YF

      Yeah.

    20. JF

      Um-

    21. CW

      Watermarks your reminders.

    22. YF

      (laughs)

    23. JF

      Pomodoros is, uh-

    24. CW

      (laughs)

    25. JF

      (laughs) ... is 25 minutes of work followed by five minutes break. And the idea is, like, to prevent you from procrastinating, like at the start of the 25 minutes you're like, "I'm going to do this for 25 minutes and I'm gonna challenge myself to see if I can do it for 25 minutes without getting distracted."

    26. YF

      You're quite good. It's just 25 minutes. What's it like?

    27. JF

      Like, it can't be that hard. It, really difficult to do. Um, so you try and manage your distractions. So it's 25 minutes of like purely just doing whatever. Doesn't matter what it is. Five minutes of total disconnection. And then you do that four times, then you get a longer break. So that's a- that's how the Pomodoro setup works.

    28. CW

      It's a bit Cal Newport, that, isn't it?

    29. JF

      Yeah. It's, it's practicing deep work. It's practicing getting better at, like, just focusing on one thing. There's loads of case studies of people using it and talk about how, "I used to work a 60-hour work week and now I do eight Pomodoros a day because I've become better at-"

    30. CW

      What, Parkinson's Law is exactly what that is.

  10. 43:19 – 55:19

    Driving upgrades: automatic cars + ‘always fill the tank’ (and paying at the pump)

    1. CW

      Another one which is probably a little bit more of a prohibitive, a prohibitive life hack, but is one that I'm going to stick to for the rest of my life, automatic cars.

    2. JF

      Oh, so much.

    3. CW

      Automatic, automatic gearbox.

    4. JF

      Oh, my God. So, do ... Have I told you about Paul Knott-Small talking about this?

    5. CW

      No.

    6. JF

      So there's a guy who's a bit of a Facebook personality, f- uh, Paul Turner, who I was talking to him about this topic and he was like, "Oh, yeah. People always say I'm fucking, I'm a fucking woman for driving automatic. All right then, want to take that to the extreme? Or like, I'll go and crank up the engine at the start and pump up my tires every time, and, and, uh, sp- spray water on the windscreen." You know? He's like, "Where does it stop?" And you're like, "Yeah. Totally agree." Like, why is it that changing the gear on the transmission is somehow the manly thing to do?

    7. CW

      Akin to being involved in the driving experience.

    8. JF

      Yeah.

    9. CW

      When someone will get out and go and buy a barista-made coffee-

    10. JF

      Yeah.

    11. CW

      ... as they take the escalator and the lift to work.

    12. JF

      (laughs) Oh, yeah, exactly. Right.

    13. (laughs)

    14. CW

      You are selecting-

    15. JF

      Unless they're using, unless they're using f- like an iPhone, or like ... It's just like-

    16. But it's not, it's fine 'cause they'll change gear manually.

    17. Yeah.

    18. Like, it's totally ...

    19. Yeah.

    20. It's like, it's, it ... I'd, I had to drive a manual the other day, and I realized how much of a ball ache it is when you go back to it.

    21. CW

      Oh.

    22. JF

      And it delays you, like-

    23. I didn't know that.

    24. 'Cause I, I get pi- really pissed off, uh, like unreasonably annoyed. Uh, sorry, Chris, I'm s- I'm stealing your, your, your lifehack point here.

    25. CW

      (laughs)

    26. JF

      (laughs)

    27. CW

      That's fine. That's fine. We're all, we-

    28. JF

      Press the D, D button.

    29. CW

      I know that we all agree. I might as well, we might as well have all said it.

    30. JF

      Oh, I'm just very passionate about it. So like, I get re- unreasonably annoyed at people that take ages when the light goes green.

  11. 55:19 – 1:00:31

    Tesla tangent: EV running costs, range anxiety, and the self-driving future

    1. JF

      So I, I was just looking it up. It costs three pound 64 to charge an electric car.

    2. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    3. JF

      Um, or it's free at the public charger places.

    4. CW

      For a range of probably about 300 miles if you get a good one.

    5. JF

      Okay. So Tesla give you a solar panel to put on your garage, and then-

    6. CW

      Oh.

    7. JF

      ... it comes down, like the cable can come down and plug it-

    8. (sighs) I'm so sold on a Tesla. That's just-

    9. CW

      Yeah.

    10. JF

      It's really expensive.

    11. CW

      Yeah.

    12. JF

      I mean.

    13. CW

      But you can get, I mean, you can get a, um, a S.

    14. JF

      The new one they're bringing out.

    15. CW

      No, you can get a Model S, which is the one that's been around for a while.

    16. JF

      Mm-hmm.

    17. CW

      It's kind of the saloon style one. There's some good ones of that, that's not super basic floating around for about sort of £60 grand now. You think like, what can you get?

    18. JF

      Hmm, that's still a, still a high end car though, isn't it?

    19. CW

      It is, but look at what you get for it.

    20. JF

      Yeah, you do get an awful lot.

    21. So spacious inside as well.

    22. CW

      Yeah, they're massive.

    23. JF

      So it's a, it's a luxury car that's faster than, like, 99% of things.

    24. (laughs)

    25. So fuel efficient and so cheap to run.

    26. CW

      Yeah.

    27. JF

      Like-

    28. CW

      No tax.

    29. JF

      Get a lease one or get one second hand, I suppose.

    30. CW

      I mean, even on PCP, even on PCP, that'd be £5 grand down, £800 quid a month, £700 quid a month-

  12. 1:00:31 – 1:03:05

    Quick-fire study hack: Anki and spaced repetition for high-volume learning

    1. JF

      So Anki for me.

    2. CW

      Oh, that's what you used to study with for med school, right?

    3. JF

      Yeah, well, well remembered. So it's a space repetition software, um, based on a lot of the evidence showing that the act of actively remembering something, the active recall is the thing which cements it in memory. It's not repeated exposure, but it's repeated retrieval. And so Anki helped me to, um, perform quite well in my exams a couple of years ago in, in med school. The l- l- last year I didn't really use it as much, unfortunately, but that was just 'cause I was being-... lazy and over, over-stretched. But, um, I made 6,000 flash cards and just reviewed them, and it gives you analytics and so you, you reviewed each of them maybe three or four times over, and by that point, you're pretty familiar with the material. So I think for anyone that has to memorise a large amount of information in a short time, it's probably the best way to actively cement it in.

    4. CW

      So you can use this, you create your own cards and then it quizzes you on the cards that you've made?

    5. JF

      You can, you can create your own or there are... I mean, for, for something like medicine where it's quite unanimous topic, like there are-

    6. CW

      Yeah.

    7. JF

      ... many pre-made cards.

    8. CW

      There's ubiquitous ru- rules, right? Like-

    9. JF

      Yeah, so, so loads of people have made decks themselves which is, which is fine.

    10. CW

      Are they free?

    11. JF

      Free, yeah. So-

    12. CW

      Wow, that's such a fucking good resource.

    13. JF

      Yeah, it is.

    14. CW

      I'm gonna guess, like, for learning stuff like languages and things like that, maybe not speaking-

    15. JF

      There's loads of apps for languages. Um-

    16. Are they reviewed?

    17. They're not, but you can, you can usually tell. Like, so there, there's one called Flash Finals which is, like, split into, you know, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology and stuff, and it's all like, they give you sources at the end of each.

    18. CW

      Oh.

    19. JF

      Whoever's made the flash cards has like-

    20. Knows what they're doing.

    21. Yeah.

    22. CW

      Fuck.

    23. JF

      Just quite an insidious thing, isn't it? Like, if you made the flash cards and it was just a bit wrong-

    24. CW

      Wrong.

    25. JF

      ... like slightly wrong.

    26. Yeah, it's why I don't always want to rely on people's decks 'cause sometimes people-

    27. Yeah.

    28. ... like, you're like, "What is this person doing?"

    29. Yeah, you're assuming that they've just copied out a textbook or-

    30. Yeah.

  13. 1:03:05 – 1:11:41

    Nutrition compliance hack: daily green smoothies (and the frozen spinach warning)

    1. JF

      Green smoothies.

    2. CW

      Ugh.

    3. JF

      Have I said that?

    4. CW

      No.

    5. JF

      No?

    6. CW

      No.

    7. JF

      (laughs)

    8. You were drinking one this morning.

    9. I was, yeah.

    10. This morning, yeah.

    11. You clocked it. So, um, I find just generally like vegetables and fruit and like managing my, like the quality of my diet, a bit of a pain.

    12. CW

      Yeah, same for me.

    13. JF

      In general. Um, well aware that it's some- I think like everyone feels like they should probably have more fruit and vegetables, like even like-

    14. Very few people I know actually eat fruit.

    15. ... flex an entire eating routine.

    16. CW

      Even v- even vegans probably need more fruit.

    17. JF

      (laughs) .

    18. CW

      More fruit. It's in the chips.

    19. JF

      Everyone's like, "I could probably do with having more fruit and vegetables."

    20. I don't know anyone that's like, "Oh, I think I'm eating too many vegetables here."

    21. "I'm having a... Yeah, precisely."

    22. "I should really cut down on my vegetable intake."

    23. So like, I just don't like it being something like at the end of the day if you're like, "Have I got any vegetables today?"

    24. It's like a small pack of peppers or something.

    25. Yeah, like, "How can I fudge it in this?" So instead just breakfast for me is green smoothie.

    26. CW

      What does... what goes into a green smoothie?

    27. JF

      Spinach, blueberries, banana, scoop of protein powder and I add like my, like creatine and stuff like that. So take all my supplements. So there's, there's like a reasonable hit of micro-nutrition and like all of the like health stuff that I feel like I should do is done.

    28. What blender would you recommend?

    29. I, I don't think it really matters. I think-

    30. CW

      What are you using?

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