18 Lessons From 500 Episodes - Sam Harris, Jocko Willink & Alex Hormozi | Modern Wisdom Podcast 500

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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...

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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

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