To celebrate 800 episodes of Modern Wisdom, I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last hundred episodes. Expect to learn why starting the day with an imagined productivity debt is making you miserable, why being competent can be more of a curse than a blessing, how to easily assess how good an idea is, why obesity is a bigger problem than starvation, what I learned from Winston Churchill's father, how to predict culture war news stories, why it's so important to communicate directly and much more… - 0:00 The Productivity Debt 08:00 The Curse of Competence 13:43 Be More Sanguine 15:23 The Power of Low Self-Esteem 19:26 Obesity is a Bigger World Threat than Hunger 20:56 Focus Less on Wealth & More on Lifestyle 29:46 The Culture Wars Shiny Object Cycle 37:05 Fighting Against Cynicism 40:34 Don’t Wait for Life to Happen 44:13 The Danger of Shadow Sentences 55:25 The Best Heuristic for Finding Friends 57:38 Find th
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