Chris Williamson: The Shocking New Research On Why Men And Women Are No Longer Compatible! | E237

78% of women want to date a man who is as educated or as employed as they are. This is just a straight up imbalance, and this is what I've called the tall girl problem. So... (sighs) Chris Williamson, he is an entrepreneur.

Former club promoter turned podcaster with more than 70 million downloads.

How did I get here?

Chris, are you aware of the dark side that's driving you?

Do you really wanna go here? I've been chronically unpopular throughout all of school. Badly bullied, didn't have a group of friends, so I compromised an awful lot of who I truly was to try and just be as popular and successful in that world as possible. But there was an ambient sense that something is broken with me. In a journal, I, I've got a couple of different entries, and it just put, "I think I'm lonely." 15% of men say that they have zero close friends.

Where did we go wrong?

The world of social connection has been made less and less social. The single biggest predictor of your health outcomes in life are the number of close connections that you have. It's more than going to the gym, it's more than stopping drinking. People that are in relationships have better health outcomes. But one in three men between the ages of 18 and 30 hasn't had sex in the last year. 80% of men report not approaching a woman because they are scared of being seen as creepy. And by 2040, 45% of 25 to 45-year-old women will be single and childless. You can start to see how this imbalance could cause a problem. This is a very difficult conversation. The first thing that we need to do is ... (video pauses)

Before this episode starts, I have a small favor to ask from you. Two months ago, 74% of people that watched this channel didn't subscribe. We're now down to 69%. My goal is 50%, so if you've ever liked any of the videos we've posted, if you like this channel, can you do me a quick favor and hit the subscribe button? It helps this channel more than you know, and the bigger the channel gets, as you've seen, the bigger the guests get. Thank you and enjoy this episode. (instrumental music plays) Chris, you do a lot of things, and you do a lot of things very, very well. One of the struggles I had when thinking about how to direct this conversation was really like, understanding, because you're so diverse in your thinking and your ideas and the subject matter that you're curious about, how to try and encapsulate exactly who you are. So, I guess the question I wanted to start with is, w- in your own words, what is your mission?

I'm a very curious person. I always have been. And I now have the opportunity with my podcast, Modern Wisdom, to commercialize, utilize, weaponize that, so that I can bring people in that I'm interested in. So a good example, I did a masters and a bachelors degree at uni in business, and I always regretted not going and doing philosophy or psychology. And in retrospect, it always made me resentful of uni a little bit, because I'd spent all of this time learning stuff that didn't teach me anything about the business world, but then upon starting the podcast, what I realized was that I've been able to design my perfect university degree with the top lecturers on the planet, and I get to do it three times a week at the cadence that I want. And not only do I get the lecturers that I want, but I get to ask them about the specific area of their work that I want as well. So it's curiosity. The thing that drives me is curiosity. The reason that I do this is because I wanna know, I wanna know about everything. I wanna know about why the guy (laughs) that was sitting next to us at dinner last night decided to wear a suit with, like, Converse.