Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2024-06-22
Books mentioned on 15 Lessons From 800 Episodes - #800
To celebrate 800 episodes of Modern Wisdom, I broke down some of my favourite lessons, insights and quotes from the last hundred episodes.
Chris Williamson discussed Love Life by Matthew Hussey and Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Love Life
Discussed“so when Matthew hussy came on the show he has this quote from his book love life where he's talking about how he is a internal Tyrant he says I struggle to believe I'm worthy of moments of joy and peace without first putting myself through a brutal schedule monitoring my productivity levels down to the minute”
Where to get it
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Four Thousand Weeks
Discussed“and Oliver burkeman who wrote 4,000 weeks has a name for this bottomless pit of self-imposed expected efficiency productivity debt”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Game
“and I spoke about this idea to Neil Strauss the guy that wrote the game”
Passing The Truth
“uh and then he wrote the truth”