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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Love Life
Love Life: How to Raise Your Standards, Find Your Person, and Live Happily No Matter What by Matthew Hussey is a relationship and self-development guide designed to help readers navigate dating, overcome past heartbreaks, and cultivate fulfilling partnerships.
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”
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Four Thousand Weeks
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman is a time-management philosophy book that reframes productivity around the harsh reality of human finitude, urging readers to accept their limitations and abandon the impossible quest to finish everything.
Discussed“and Oliver burkeman who wrote 4,000 weeks has a name for this bottomless pit of self-imposed expected efficiency productivity debt”
