#966 - Dr Scott Eilers - Why Does Life Sometimes Feel Emotionally Numb?

Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author. Do you believe that your personality is permanent? Innate & inbuilt? Dr Hardy disagrees. Expect to learn why Myers-Briggs & other personality tests are destructive & as inaccurate as horoscopes, how to reframe your past narratives, why you can overcome traumas, how to become the scribe of your own identity narrative and much more... Sponsor: Check out everything I use from The Protein Works at https://www.theproteinworks.com/modernwisdom/ (35% off everything with the code MODERN35) Extra Stuff: Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ Buy Personality Isn't Permanent - https://bit.ly/benMW Check out Ben's website - https://benjaminhardy.com/ Daniel Gilbert's Ted Talk - https://youtu.be/XNbaR54Gpj4 - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

18 Juni 202056min

Ethan Suplee is an actor & a podcaster. Ethan's fitness journey has been a rollercoaster - from 200lbs at 10 years old to 550lbs in his 20's and now 260lbs at 13% bodyfat, all while starring in some of the biggest films in Hollywood including Mr Name Is Earl, The Wolf Of Wall Street & American History X. Expect to learn Ethan's thoughts on the response to Adele's weightloss photo, his advice for anyone looking to lose lots of weight, his lessons from decades of dieting and much more... Sponsor: Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ Extra Stuff: Follow Ethan on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ethansuplee/ Subscribe to American Glutton - https://americanglutton.net/ Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Juni 20201h 1min

William Leith is a journalist & an author. Acquiring an incredible fortune is the goal of many, but what is the true cost of being stupendously rich? Expect to learn how to make money from The Real Wolf Of Wall Street Jordan Belfort, the downside of wealth from a Russian half-billionaire who lives alone in a British mansion with his butler, how to avoid risk by the hottest thinker on the planet Nassim Taleb and much more... Sponsor: Shop Tailored Athlete’s full range at https://link.tailoredathlete.co.uk/modernwisdom (FREE shipping automatically applied at checkout) Extra Stuff: Buy The Trick - https://amzn.to/2BJK959 Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

13 Juni 20201h 11min

Dr Jack Lewis is a Neuroscientist, television presenter and an author. Why do we do the things we know we shouldn't? The 7 deadly sins have defined for hundreds of years and yet we all still fall prey to them. Expect to learn the underpinnings of our willpower, neuroscience's explanations for why we tend toward sinning, whether we have control over what makes us sexually aroused, a justification for punching someone in the face and much more... Sponsor: Sign up to FitBook at https://fitbook.co.uk/join-fitbook/ (enter code MODERNWISDOM for 50% off your membership) Extra Stuff: Buy The Science Of Sin - https://amzn.to/2MKGRkC Follow Jack on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DrJackLewis Subscribe to Jack's YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU7CrrFGLUxTCstZkpDlGfg Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

11 Juni 20202h 11min

Rutger Bregman is a historian & an author. It's a common-held view of humanity that humans are adversarial. Shaven chimps competing with each other for resources, held together by a veneer of politeness & society. Rutger disagrees and suggests that deep down humans might actually be quite nice. Expect to learn why soldiers don't fire their weapons in war, what happens when the real world Lord Of The Flies happens, how bombing a city doesn't weaken the inhabitants and much more... Sponsor: Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (Enter promo code MODERNWISDOM for 85% off and 3 Months Free) Extra Stuff: Buy Humankind - https://amzn.to/370ack5 Follow Rutger on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rcbregman Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Juni 20201h 8min

Matt Johnson PhD is a Neuroscientist and Prince Ghuman is a Neuro-Marketer. Combining the insights of Neuroscience & Consumer Psychology can help us to understand our own behaviour and how marketing affects us in unique and sometimes counterintuitive ways. Expect to learn why our brains don't experience reality directly, how you can make dog food taste like pate, the role of impulse in decision making, what neuroscience's definition of surprise is, how pleasure & pain affect our drive to buy and much more... Sponsor: Shop Eleiko’s full range at https://www.shop.eleiko.com (enter code MW15 for 15% off everything) Extra Stuff: Buy Blindsight - http://getbook.at/blindsight Follow Prince & Matt on Twitter - https://twitter.com/pop_neuro Check out Prince & Matt's Website - https://www.popneuro.com/ Watch Prince's Tedx Talk - https://youtu.be/LpJvuPOG40M Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Juni 20201h 56min

Daniel Schmachtenberger works in preventing global catastrophic risk. As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve our entire civilisation - I wanted to find out where self development and maximising personal agency fits into Daniel's perspective. I really enjoyed this change of pace. The conversation is deep, insightful and considered. If you're in the right place to hear the message, this could have a profound impact on the way you see the world. Sponsor: Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (Enter promo code MODERNWISDOM for 85% off and 3 Months Free) Extra Stuff: Check out Daniel's Website - https://civilizationemerging.com/ Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

4 Juni 20201h 31min

Long time friend of the show and all round great human George Mack joins me today as we revisit the world of decision making. Mental Models are tools you can use to improve your ability to effectively make decisions. Today we are upgrading our minds as we delve into some of mine & George's favourite mental models from Warren Buffett, Nassim Taleb, Naval Ravikant, Winston Churchill, Tobias Lutke and many more. Sponsor: Check out everything I use from The Protein Works at https://www.theproteinworks.com/modernwisdom/ (35% off everything with the code MODERN35) Extra Stuff: Follow George on Twitter - https://twitter.com/george__mack Sign Up to George's Newsletter - https://eepurl.com/g37gVL Take a break from alcohol and upgrade your life - https://6monthssober.com/podcast Check out everything I recommend from books to products - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Juni 20201h 29min