Modern Wisdom

#313 - Cancel Culture, Sobriety & Identity Change

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally recorded on Sean Spooner's podcast Life and Lessons. I enjoyed this discussion so much, I figured I'd put it on Modern Wis...

#312 - Gabrielle Bluestone - The World's Biggest Scammers

24 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gabrielle Bluestone is the Executive Producer of the FYRE Documentary, an author & journalist. From failed festivals to fake blood tests, the grifters...

#311 - Life Hacks 204

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for another Life Hacks episode. Sit back & enjoy as we run through our favourite tools, apps, websites, str...

#310 - Adam Lane Smith - 15 Harsh Psychology Truths

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Lane Smith is a psychotherapist an author. Humans are not transparent to ourselves. We are complex creatures who operate on ancient programming. ...

#309 - The Fitness Chef - The Biggest Myths About Fat Loss

17 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Graeme Tomlinson is an evidence based diet coach and an author. Let's face it, pretty much everyone is fat right now. If lockdown has left us with any...

#308 - Brian Greene - The Mind-bending Physics Of Eternity

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Greene is a theoretical physicist, mathematician, an author and the Director of Columbia University’s Centre for Theoretical Physics. Nothing ...

#307 - Dr Jordan B. Peterson - Take Control Of Your Life

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist and an author. The last year has been incred...

#306 - Thomas Moynihan - A History Of Existential Risk

10 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Thomas Moynihan is a historian and an author. Humans may have only had the ability to destroy ourselves for the last hundred years or so, but thinkers...

#305 - Steven Kotler - A Complete Recipe For Peak Performance

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Kotler is a peak performance expert, entrepreneur and an author. The mystery of achieving peak performance is what many people are striving tow...

#304 - Victor Wooten - The Spirit Of Music

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Victor Wooten is one of the greatest bass players of all time and a 5-times Grammy Award Winner. After a career of writing, teaching and performing at...

#303 - Chrissie Mayr - All The Big Mistakes Women Make

03 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chrissie Mayr is a comedian and a podcaster. A lot of success in life can be achieved by simply avoiding failure. I wanted to bring Chrissie on to dis...

#302 - Ryan Bush - A Guide To Mental Self-Mastery

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Bush is systems designer and an author. Redesigning your mind is hard because there are a lot of influences at play. A very comprehensive approac...

#301 - Steven Bartlett - Lessons In Creating A Successful Life

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Bartlett is the Founder of Social Chain, an entrepreneur and an author. Building a business, buying fast cars and becoming a millionaire is the...

#300 - Greg Everett - How To Truly Build Toughness

27 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Greg Everett is a weightlifting coach and an author. We're in the middle of a toughness revolution. From David Goggins motivational videos to cold sho...

#299 - Chris Baber - How To Cook Amazing Fitness Food, For Idiots

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Baber is a Chef and a Marks & Spencer food ambassador. The cells in our body are made up of what we put in our mouth. Although we all cook for o...

#298 - Polina Pompliano - David Goggins & Elon Musk's Performance Secrets

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Polina Pompliano is a writer, author & founder of The Profile. Polina spends her time assessing the world's highest performing & most interesting indi...

#297 - Brian Christian - The Alignment Problem: AI's Scary Challenge

20 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Christian is a programmer, researcher and an author. You have a computer system, you want it to do X, you give it a set of examples and you say ...

#296 - Kalle Sauerland - The Life Of A Global Boxing Promoter

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kalle Sauerland is one of the most successful promoters in world boxing, Co-Founder of Sauerland Events and Co-Founder of the World Boxing Super Serie...

#295 - Ben Bergeron - Creating A Life Of Excellence

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Bergeron is a CrossFit Coach and the Owner of CrossFit New England. As far as we know, we only get one shot at life, so we'd better make it count....

#294 - John Vervaeke - Creating A Life Of Meaning & Wisdom

13 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Vervaeke is an Associate Professor at the University Of Toronto. There is a meaning crisis upon us. People are revisiting Stoicism and Buddhism a...

#293 - Adam Alter - The Psychology Of Phone & Tech Addiction

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Alter is a Professor of Marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business and an author. Most adults report that they are within an arm...

#292 - Rob Henderson - Signalling: Why You Do The Things You Do

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran. Signalling is something everyone is doing all of the time....

#291 - John Danaher - What Happens If Robots Automate The World?

06 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Danaher is an author and a lecturer at the National University of Ireland. Having a job is valorised in modern society. But if our jobs are taken...

#290 - Dr Diana Fleischman - How Catching Covid Can Change Your Personality

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Diana Fleischman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth and an author. When we get sick with a virus ...

#289 - 100k Q&A - Sam Harris, Brian Rose & Podcast Tips

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We hit 100k Subscribers on YouTube!! To celebrate I asked for questions on Instagram and Twitter. I was going to just make a short YouTube-only video ...

#288 - Diane Rehm - Do We Have The Right To Die If We're Terminally Ill?

27 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Diane Rehm is a former radio presenter, producer and an author. Talking about the end of life is uncomfortable, but watching someone you love be force...

#287 - Sven Nyholm - Are Sex Robots And Self-Driving Cars Ethical?

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sven Nyholm is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Utrecht University. Robots are all around us. They perform actions, make decisions, ...

#286 - Dr Zach Bush MD - Why We Shouldn't Aim For A New Normal

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Zach Bush MD is a physician and educator specialising in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. The last 12 months have been a challeng...

#285 - The Freemans - How To Have Better Arguments With Your Partner

20 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aaron and Jocelyn Freeman are relationship coaches and authors. Success in relationships can be as much to do with dealing with disagreements as findi...

#284 - Hamilton Morris - Creating The Future Of Psychedelics

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hamilton Morris is a journalist, documentary producer and a chemist. Hamilton's Pharmacopeia is one of the most interesting documentaries around chemi...

#283 - Andrew Doyle - Free Speech And Why It Matters

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Doyle is Titania McGrath, a comedian and a writer. Free speech is one of the core tenants of a modern liberal society, and yet we are seeing re...

#282 - Dylan Werner - How To Breathe Like A Yogi

13 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dylan Werner is a yoga teacher and an author. Breathing is one of the few ways we can directly interact with how our physiology is operating, and yet ...

#281 - Life Hacks 203

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from Propane Fitness join me for another Life Hacks episode. Sit back & enjoy as we run through our favourite tools, apps, websites, str...

#280 - Carl Benjamin - Making Sense Of 2021's Madness

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Carl Benjamin is the YouTuber formerly known as Sargon Of Akkad, a political commentator and host of The Lotus Eaters Podcast. It feels like a decade ...

#279 - How Not To Start An Online Business

06 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny joins me (without Yusef) to discuss the wild west of creating money on the internet. Given the living hell that real businesses have been throug...

#278 - Professor W Keith Campbell - The Psychology Of Narcissism

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

W Keith Campbell is Professor of Psychology at the University of Georgia's Franklin College and an author. Expect to learn what The Dark Triad is, how...

#277 - Michael Malice - Connecting The Dots Of Chaos

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Malice is an author, political commentator & podcaster. The first few weeks of 2021 have been madness. Michael joins me today to connect the d...

#276 - Brian Muraresku - The Psychedelic Origins Of Western Civilisation

30 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Muraresku is a lawyer and an author. The Mysteries of the ancient world are just getting stranger and stranger. Did Plato, Marcus Aurelius and t...

#275 - Andy Ngo - Unmasking Antifa: Inside America's Anarchy

28 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Ngo is a journalist and an author. Andy has been on the front lines to observe some of the most radical, intense rioting in America, including th...

#274 - Donald Robertson - Stoicism: How To Think Like A Roman Emperor

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Robertson is a Psychotherapist and an author. People are getting tattoos of Marcus Aurelius, copies of his Meditations sold out at the beginnin...

#273 - John Sweeney - Alexei Navalny: Putin's Enemy Explained

23 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

John Sweeney is an investigative journalist and a writer. There is a fascinating and incredibly dangerous poker game going on in Russia at the moment....

#272 - Philip Goff - What Is Consciousness?

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Goff is a Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and an author. Consciousness is the most evident of all phenomenons. It's the one thing ...

#271 - Dr Rangan Chatterjee - Building A New Mindset On Success

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Rangan Chatterjee is a British physician, author, television presenter and podcaster. How can we create the life where we don't just look fulfilled...

#270 - Dr Stu McGill - Protecting Spinal Health When Working From Home

16 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Stuart McGill is a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo and a world expert in back pain. In the new WFH world, many people are changin...

#269 - Richard Meadows - Optionality: How To Make Your Own Luck In Life

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Meadows is a journalist and author. Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. How to organise our lives to be efficient but have options, ...

#268 - Brian D. Earp - The Ethics Of Using Drugs To Fall In & Out Of Love

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Brian D. Earp is a Research Fellow at Oxford, philosopher and writer. Love is a feeling many of us yearn to feel, but the medical developments of the ...

#267 - Jordan Shallow - Protecting Your Body & Mind From Your Personality

09 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Shallow is a Chiropractor, Strength & Conditioning Coach and Powerlifter. Given that we should hopefully be returning to normality this year, I...

#266 - Noreena Hertz - Is There A Loneliness Epidemic?

07 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Noreena Hertz is an author and economist. Even before social distancing was a word, loneliness was a huge crisis. More people than ever before feel de...

#265 - Dr Andrew Steele - Why We Get Old & How We Can Stop It

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Steele is a scientist, writer and presenter. Ageing is a phenomenon we're all familiar with and is completely taken for granted as a fact of re...

#264 - Joel Jamieson - An Expert Guide To HRV & How To Improve It

02 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Joel Jamieson is a performance architect. Heart Rate Variability is everyone's favourite new health metric. Joel is one of the world's leading coaches...

#263 - Reflecting On My Mental Flaws & Strengths

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Fox-Weber is a Psychotherapist and an author. As a therapist of many years, Charlotte saw an opportunity to turn the mic around on me for on...

#262 - Chris Sparks - How To Properly Do An End Of Year Review

26 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Sparks is a Productivity Coach and a Former Top 20 Online Poker Player. Many people use the end of the year as a breakpoint to check in with how...

#261 - Our Biggest Lessons From 2020

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me today to talk through our biggest lessons from 2020. Expect to learn what we've learned from the weirdest year ever, how Yusef's...

#260 - Diren Kartal - Finding Your Why

19 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Diren Kartal is an online coach and speaker. As we approach the end of 2020, many people will be looking to make changes in their lives. As a coach wh...

#259 - Rob Lipsett - The Most Positive Man On Earth

17 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Lipsett is a YouTuber and Fitness Model. While I was in Dubai I managed to get hold of the loudest, friendliest and most positive Irish man in his...

#258 - Paul Evans - Living An Alternate Reality During A Coma

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Evans is an entrepreneur and author. Out of body experiences during operations are bizarre but at least semi-common, living an entire new life in...

#257 - Harold McGee - The Science Of How Smells Work

12 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Harold McGee is an author and food expert. Our sense of smell sits at the front of our daily experience and yet our understanding of what smells are a...

#256 - Nims Purja MBE - Climbing The Fourteen Highest Mountains On Earth

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nims Purja MBE is a mountaineer and former SBS Operative. The fastest anyone had previously climbed the 14 Death Zone mountains greater than 8000m was...

#255 - Rory Sutherland - The Psychology Of Irrationality

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy Advertising and an author. 2020 is the year of change. Human behaviour is far less rational and sophist...

#254 - Cory Allen - The Story Behind Binaural Beats

05 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cory Allen is an audio engineer, meditation coach and author. Binaural Beats have been brought into popularity over the last few years for assisting m...

#253 - George Mack - Mental Models 104 - Bear Or Bull?

03 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

George Mack is a writer and a growth marketer. If you imagine your mind as an operating system, mental models are apps that you can install to give yo...

#252 - Tom Otton - You Are Not A Victim

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Otton is the Managing Director at Create Group and an Ultra Endurance Athlete. Everyone experiences negative self talk and doubt, how you deal wit...

#251 - Colin Wright - The Battle Between Gender & Biology

28 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Wright is an Evolutionary Biologist and the Managing Editor at Quillette. The debate around gender and sex differences has taken longer to work ...

#250 - Marcus Smith - Build An Unbreakable Mindset

26 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marcus Smith is an ultra endurance athlete and gym owner. From breaking his body in a cycling accident to running 30 marathons in 30 days, Marcus embo...

#249 - Mike Thurston - Traveling, Steroids & How To Build An Audience

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Thurston is a YouTuber and Fitness Model. Mike is one of the biggest fitness YouTubers in the UK and a good buddy of mine, given that we're both ...

#248 - Tim Campos - Doubling Facebook's Workforce Productivity & Fixing Your Calendar

21 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Campos is the CEO of Woven and Ex-CIO of Facebook. We live in a world with a surplus of information. How we cut through that noise and arrive at a...

#247 - Hamilton Souther - A Master Shaman's Guide To Ayahuasca

19 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Hamilton Souther is a Master Ayahuasca Shaman. Psychedelics are the cool kid on the block in 2020, from plant medicine holidays to recreational DMT tr...

#246 - Jay Morton - Developing A Special Forces Mindset

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Morton is a Former SAS Operator and Two-time Everest Summitee. Becoming a soldier means dealing with fear, coping with pressure and performing wit...

#245 - Rob Bell - Is Spirituality Compatible With Modern Life?

14 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Bell is a MegaChurch Pastor and an author. When you're compelled to discover why we are here there are a number of potential routes you can go dow...

#244 - Diana Rodgers - The Case For Eating Better Meat

12 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Diana Rodgers is a dietitian, author and a film producer. The case for veganism is often made, today we get to hear the other side of the argument. Ex...

#243 - Sevan Matossian - A Growth-Minded Guide To Raising Superhuman Kids

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sevan Matossian is a filmmaker and a parent. 90% of people will have children at some point in life, yet we're never given the same insights for raisi...

#242 - John Roa - The Dark Side Of The Startup World

07 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Roa is an entrepreneur and an author. We often hear about the galactic successes of high growth startups, but what is the price that the founders...

#241 - Seth Godin - Weaponise Your Creativity

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, marketer and an author. “Process saves us from the poverty of our intentions” - Elizabeth King. Seth is an absolute...

#240 - Sheldon Solomon - Does The Fear Of Death Drive Everything We Do?

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sheldon Solomon is a social psychologist at Skidmore College and an author. Humans are a unique animal in that we are aware of our own mortality. One ...

#239 - Massimo Pigliucci - The Stoic Guide To A Happy Life

31 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Massimo Pigliucci is a Professor of Philosophy at City College and an author. The stoic teachings have helped people for thousands of years, Massimo i...

#238 - Reeves Wiedeman - The Catastrophic Story Of WeWork

29 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Reeves Wiedeman is an author and a Contributing Editor for New York Magazine. At one point, WeWork was one of the world's highest ever valued private ...

#237 - Chris Voss - How To Negotiate Like An FBI Agent

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Voss is the Ex Lead International Kidnapping Negotiator for the FBI, a CEO & author. Chris is someone who has negotiated under the highest imagi...

#236 - Robert Glazer - Elevate Yourself & Reach Your Potential

24 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Glazer is a CEO and an author. Closing the gap between where we are and where we could be is one of the most important pursuits in life. Today ...

#235 - Konstantin Kisin - Approval To Speak Freely

22 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Konstantin Kisin is a comedian and podcaster. Growing up in Russia gives you a unique insight into culture, identity and politics. Hopefully this epis...

#234 - Life Hacks 202

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for another Life Hacks episode. Sit back & enjoy as we run through our favourite tools, apps, websites, ...

#233 - Annie Duke - How To Make Better Decisions

17 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Annie Duke is a professional poker player and an author. The quality of our life depends upon the quality of our decisions. As a poker player who has ...

#232 - Andrew Doyle - I'm Not Exaggerating The Problem

15 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Doyle is Titania McGrath, a comedian and a writer. More clairvoyant prophecy today from Andrew as he reminds us all that everything he said in ...

#231 - Ali Abdaal - How To Learn & Remember Anything, Fast

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ali Abdaal is a Doctor and a YouTuber. The ability to consume and retain information quickly is one of the most important skills of the 21st century a...

#230 - Mark Walsh - How To Get Out Of Your Own Head

10 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Walsh is the Director of the Embodied Facilitator Course & Founder of the Embodiment Conference. We all spend a lot of time being cerebral. But b...

#229 - Mara Cortona - Why Is No One Talking About Existential Risk?

08 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mara Cortona is the Executive Director of the Astropolitics Institute and Founder of Nöonaut. The world is going to end. Eventually. For most of us t...

#228 - Daniel Sloss - The Biggest Lessons From 2020

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Sloss is a comedian. 2020 has been chaotic to say the least. Daniel joins me to break down his biggest lessons from a year without comedy shows...

#227 - Heather Morris - Lessons In Listening From The Tattooist Of Auschwitz

03 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Heather Morris is an author. Heather's first book The Tattooist Of Auschwitz was a global phenomenon and the process of creating that work involved ye...

#226 - Ryan Holiday - Taking Wisdom From The Lives Of The Stoics

01 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ryan Holiday is a marketer and an author. Stoicism is the hot new girl in school. Increasingly we're being exposed to the lessons of ancient Athens 20...

#225 - Eric Jorgenson - The Wisdom Of Naval Ravikant

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Jorgenson is a growth marketer and product strategist. Naval Ravikant has risen to wisdom-stardom over the last 10 years but is far more aloof th...

#224 - Erin Zammett Ruddy - All The Adulting Skills You Were Never Taught

26 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Erin Zammett Ruddy is an author. Life doesn't come with an instruction manual, and yet we're all meant to muddle through it anyway without setting our...

#223 - Fiona Murden - How Role Models Change Our Lives

24 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Murden is a psychologist, executive coach and an author. We might think we're sovereign beings with independent will & agency, but the examples ...

#222 - Morgan Housel - How To Become Wealthy, Stay Wealthy & Be Happy

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan Housel is a writer and investor. It doesn't matter if you earn £10m a year, if you spend £11m then you're not creating any wealth. How can pe...

#221 - Justin Tosi - The Abuse Of Moral Talk For Self Promotion

19 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Tosi is the Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Texas Tech University & an author. Moral grandstanding is the easiest way to signal your virtu...

#220 - Steven Pressfield - How To Turn Pro

17 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Pressfield is an author. Many people's lives are split into two parts; before and after they Turn Pro. Steven's work has helped millions of peo...

#219 - Douglas Murray - Permission To Think Differently

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Douglas Murray is a journalist, author and associate editor of The Spectator. Gender, race & identity have been the most inflammatory topics of 2020, ...

#218 - Matthew Yglesias - Is One Billion Americans A Good Idea?

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Yglesias is a writer and the Co-Founder of Vox. There is an impending economic and social threat from China and India to America's global domi...

#217 - Gad Saad - The Death Of Truth And How To Revive It

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gad Saad is an Evolutionary Psychologist, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University and an author. Bad ideas are infecting every area of society,...

#216 - Matthew Kobach - Evolution, Meaning and Managing The NYSE's Social Media

03 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Kobach is a content strategist. Matthew transformed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) into a social media behemoth. Plus he's a very interest...

#215 - Josh Kaufman - The Key Principles Of Running Any Business

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Kaufman is a skill acquisition expert and an author. The Personal MBA is one of the best selling business books from the last 10 years and today ...

#214 - Cosmic Skeptic - How Do We Define What Is Good & Bad?

27 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alex O'Connor is a philosopher & YouTuber. Get ready for a mental workout today as Alex poses some of the most famous and most difficult questions in ...