Simple Life Changes That Lead To Big Results - George Mack

Sign up and download Grammarly for FREE: http://grammarly.com/modernwisdom George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur. George is one of my favourite writers and probably delivers the highest insights-per-minute of anyone on Twitter. Today we get to go through some of my favourite ideas from him over the last few months on human nature, tribalism, happiness and politics. Expect to learn what the Busy Trap is and how to avoid it, the biggest differences between the US and the UK, the contrarian argument for why money doesn’t buy happiness, why strategic ignorance is so important, George’s favourite story about Charlie Munger, the lessons we both learned celebrating George’s 30th birthday in Miami and much more... - 0:00 The Busy Trap 07:51 How People Signal Busyness 15:10 Tactics to Get Out of the Busy Trap 21:34 Differences Between US & UK 32:50 Why You Need to Big Up Your Friends 41:35 The UK’s Biggest Strengths 45:40 Why Adults Don’t Really Exist 56:22 Does Money Buy Happiness? 1:05:41 Why George Loves Federer, Nadal & Djokovic 1:11:51 Praying at the Altar of Hard Work 1:15:29 A More Effective Way to Make Friends 1:26:35 The Most Annoying Thing About Cynics 1:35:38 The Uniqueness of Salvador Dali 1:43:22 Being Trapped With a Sub-Prime Audience 1:53:49 People Who Go Against the Consensus 2:00:24 The Power of Incentives 2:04:40 Why Men Need Sausage Fests 2:13:01 Where to Find George - Get 20% discount on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom AG1 - Get 5 Free Travel Packs, Free Liquid Vitamin D and more from AG1 at https://drinkag1.com/wisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of all LMNT Flavours with your first box at https://www.drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom (automatically applied at checkout) - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - 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/