Modern Wisdom
Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Matthew McConaughey, Alain de Botton, Alex Hormozi, Tony Robbins, Chris Bumstead, Mark Manson and more.
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- 1 Command in the AirGiulio Douhet · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumNicolaus Copernicus · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 East of EdenJohn Steinbeck · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Finnegans WakeJames Joyce · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have ToDavid Sinclair · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Nuclear War: A ScenarioAnnie Jacobsen · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Age of Violent PopulismRobert Pape · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 StonerJohn Williams · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The BibleVarious Authors - Compiled by Mark T · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyJohn Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Command in the AirGiulio Douhet · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumNicolaus Copernicus · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 East of EdenJohn Steinbeck · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Finnegans WakeJames Joyce · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have ToDavid Sinclair · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Nuclear War: A ScenarioAnnie Jacobsen · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Age of Violent PopulismRobert Pape · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 StonerJohn Williams · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The BibleVarious Authors - Compiled by Mark T · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyJohn Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 Command in the AirGiulio Douhet · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumNicolaus Copernicus · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 East of EdenJohn Steinbeck · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Finnegans WakeJames Joyce · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have ToDavid Sinclair · 1× across 1 episode
- 6 Nuclear War: A ScenarioAnnie Jacobsen · 1× across 1 episode
- 7 Our Own Worst Enemies: America in the Age of Violent PopulismRobert Pape · 1× across 1 episode
- 8 StonerJohn Williams · 1× across 1 episode
- 9 The Anxious GenerationJonathan Haidt · 1× across 1 episode
- 10 The BibleVarious Authors - Compiled by Mark T · 1× across 1 episode
- 11 The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald · 1× across 1 episode
- 12 The Hero with a Thousand FacesJoseph Campbell · 1× across 1 episode
- 13 The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign PolicyJohn Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt · 1× across 1 episode
Your Home Might Be Destroying Your Health (& how to fix it) - Michael Feldstein - #1173
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How War Shaped Human Evolution - David Geary - #1172
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The Origin of Mind
David Geary
that's the um topic of uh one of my earlier books the origin of mind which i'm now writing a second edition of ▶ tap to play from here
How To Make Better Decisions (with way less uncertainty) - Joe Hudson - #1171
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
it feels to me like system one system two thinking a bit from daniel kahneman thinking fast and slow ▶ tap to play from here
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Antonio Damasio
so if you read a book uh called descartes air twenty twenty twelve um he wrote that the emotional center of the brain is what makes decisions ▶ tap to play from here
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Sogyal Rinpoche
whether you were a stoic or a samurai or tibetan book of living or dying the way to overcome the fear of death is to actually visualize and feel the experience of death over and over ▶ tap to play from here
Expelled, Arrested & Somehow Winning At Life - James Smith - #1170
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35 Emotions Explained By Evolutionary Psychology - Rob Kurzban - #1169
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Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
Randy Nesse
evolutionary psychiatry good feelings for uh good reasons for bad feelings great book ▶ tap to play from here
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
i don't know if the anxious generation findings are gonna hold up ▶ tap to play from here
Why Buddhism is True
Robert Wright
that was robert wright's why buddhism is true when i first learned about that ▶ tap to play from here
All the Feels: Augmenting Emotion for Fast-Paced Living
Rob Kurzban
the book is called all the feels ▶ tap to play from here
Crypto Scams, Dopamine Websites, Tasteful Slop & Vape Shop Energy - Rabbit Hole #6 - #1168
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Zero to One
Peter A. Thiel
einstein didn't actually say that uh it's in zero to one ▶ tap to play from here
Think on These Things
Jiddu Krishnamurti
i recommend it's think on these things by uh christian murti ▶ tap to play from here
Positive Psychology Founder: How To Stop Your Negative Thoughts - Martin Seligman - #1167
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The Iliad
Homer
if you look uh uh just homer uh the greeks um if you look at the older homer which is the iliad ▶ tap to play from here
On the Freedom of the Will
Desiderius Erasmus
the leading catholic theologian erasmus writes a major article called on the freedom of the will ▶ tap to play from here
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
wonderful book called the bicameral mind ▶ tap to play from here
What You Can Change and What You Can't
Martin Seligman
my favorite book of yours is what you can change and what you can't ▶ tap to play from here
Abnormal Psychology
Martin Seligman
i had written five edition of abnormal psychology ▶ tap to play from here
Why Men & Women Are Giving Up On Each Other - Daniel Cox - #1166
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Forgotten War Heroes Who Changed The World - The Fat Electrician - #1165
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The Forgotten Highlander
Alistair Urquhart
Alistair Urkart ... The forgotten Highlander. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. So um that was one of the first stories that got me into this ▶ tap to play from here
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Damien Lewis
i mean the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare was a little bit of a shame uh the movie yeah the book because i was such a fan of the book first ▶ tap to play from here
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Edward Slingerland
an interesting story from edward slingerland as well he wrote this book the the history of alcohol ▶ tap to play from here
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Heroes Erased: Book One: The Flight of Richard Bong
Nick Flood
heroes erased book one the flight of richard bong that's what i'm up to next brave books ▶ tap to play from here
Father Of Quantum Computing: How To Think Like A Genius - David Deutsch - #1164
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The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
say in in my book uh we're all at the beginning of infinity ▶ tap to play from here
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
not only does he die but everybody dies like in hamlet ▶ tap to play from here
9 Harsh Truths No One Wants To Admit - Shaan Puri - #1163
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller
i don't know if you what is that book catch twenty two or is that that great scene where the guys in the the they get he gets invited to this like great gatsby party type of thing ▶ tap to play from here
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
he gets invited to this like great gatsby party type of thing ▶ tap to play from here
Why Life Feels So Dull All The Time (and how to fix it) - Robert Greene - #1162
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The 50th Law
Robert Greene and 50 Cent
i made the tenth chapter of the fiftieth look fifty cent book about the sublime about how he had nearly died from the gunshot wounds ▶ tap to play from here
Mastery
Robert Greene
and then i from fifty cent book it was a chapter about mastery so i turned that into the book mastery ▶ tap to play from here
My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor
and so she wrote a book about that called my stroke of insight ▶ tap to play from here
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
have you ever read his dark materials by philip pullman ▶ tap to play from here
The Subtle Knife
Philip Pullman
it had the subtle knife in it the golden compass oh so it's it must be thirty years old ▶ tap to play from here
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
it had the subtle knife in it the golden compass ▶ tap to play from here
The Way of the Superior Man
David Deida
i spoke to david dader you know way of the superior man author so uh illustrious longtime author ▶ tap to play from here
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
i wrote the forty eight laws of power when i was thirty nine essentially and i'd been um pretty much a loser up until then ▶ tap to play from here
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
i wrote a book on on human nature laws of human nature it's about five hundred and sixty pages kind of dense no imagery it's kind of look at first glance it looks incredibly intimidating ▶ tap to play from here
The Only 12 Lessons Buried In Every Self-Help Book - Spencer Greenberg - #1161
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Twelve Levers
Spencer Greenberg and Jeremy Stevenson
that's the name of our buck twelve lovers ▶ tap to play from here
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Matt Dinniman
i'm obsessed this uh i'm wearing my new dungeon crawler carl t shirt today ▶ tap to play from here
Atomic Habits
James Clear
i suppose this is probably one of the advantages of a book like let's say atomic habits or tiny habits b j fogg ▶ tap to play from here
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
BJ Fogg
i suppose this is probably one of the advantages of a book like let's say atomic habits or tiny habits b j fogg ▶ tap to play from here
CIA Whistleblower: “The Shadow Government Is Real” - John Kiriakou - #1160
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Inside the Company: CIA Diary
Philip Agee
he wrote a book called inside the company in which he document in an appendix the names of every undercover cia officer that he ever met ▶ tap to play from here
The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare
John Lisle
i have had do you know john lyle familiar with him he wrote the dirty tricks department ▶ tap to play from here
The CIA Insider's Guide to Lying and Lie Detection
John Kiriakou
i wrote a book called the cia insider's guide to ling and lie detection ▶ tap to play from here
4 Men Share How They Hit Rock Bottom (and got out) - Dr K, Joe Hudson & Connor Beaton - #1159
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
i read the alchemist by paolo coelho so i was in a fucking like psychedelic fugue state for the entirety of the time that i was on ▶ tap to play from here
The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
there's a bible which is like what jesus taught ▶ tap to play from here
The Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa
there's a krish there's the bhagavad gita which is what krishna taught ▶ tap to play from here
Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
mean that's the message of grit um and you know the reason i i embarked on this in the first place is that i knew that i had achieved what i had achieved through effort and not through natural talent ▶ tap to play from here
The Person and the Situation
Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett
the book is called the person of the situation and it is not a bestseller it is written by two academics who never went on podcasts right they are dickness bitt and lee ross ▶ tap to play from here
How To Go Hard, Even When You Don’t Want To - Sam Sulek - #1157
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The Bible
Various Authors - Compiled by Mark T
to those who have nothing more will be taken to those who have everything more will be given ▶ tap to play from here
James Sexton, Rick Glassman, Matt McCusker - Mostly Wise #4 - #1156
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
read way too much like how you went friends and influenced people ▶ tap to play from here
How To Make Your Creativity Beat The Algorithm (w/Live Performance) - Dylan Gossett - #1155
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The E-Myth Revisited
Michael E. Gerber
there's a book called the emyth revisited by uh i think it's michael gerber it's like just a business book ▶ tap to play from here
Democrats vs Republicans: Who Is Actually More Violent? - Robert Pape #1154
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