Modern Wisdom

#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 ...

#213 - James Ball - Who Owns The Internet & How It Owns Us

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Ball is a writer, journalist & Pulitzer Prize winner. The internet is more than the website you browse... it's real wires under the Atlantic, hu...

#212 - Ashley Mears - Why Do People Go To Nightclubs?

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley Mears is a writer, sociologist and former fashion model. What happens if a sociologist decides to do immersive ethnographic research and become...

#211 - Chris Daw QC - Why We Should Close All Prisons & Legalise Drugs

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Daw is a Queens Council Barrister and an author. Does the current UK justice system work? Is it rehabilitating offenders? Does it even deter the...

#210 - Nina Jankowicz - Russian Election Meddling & Fake News

15 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nina Jankowicz is a writer and an analyst for Central and Eastern Europe. Expect to learn whether Russia are meddling in our elections, why Moscow car...

#209 - Catch Up 106

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me again to discuss our experience as humans over the last few months. No agenda, just finding out what's been going on in life. I'...

#208 - Jamie Alderton - Life Beyond Being Shredded

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Alderton is a coach, fitness model and author. Jamie has been to the peak of fitness modelling, multiple magazine front covers, stepping on stag...

#207 - David Birtwhistle - What It Feels Like To Become Famous

08 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Birtwhistle is a PT and star of Netflix's Too Hot To Handle. The entire world is obsessed with blue ticks and follower counts, fame "by any mean...

#206 - Kezia Noble - A Woman's Guide To Attracting Women

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kezia Noble is a dating & attraction coach for men. Men are struggling to attract women, divorces are on the rise and relationships are more transient...

#205 - James Smith - How To Design A Life You Love

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Smith is a PT and not a life coach. Following your default desires and social norms is a surefire route to misery, yet we're given very little g...

#204 - Ashley 'Dotty' Charles - Why Everyone Is Outraged

01 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ashley 'Dotty' Charles is a rapper and BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter. 2020 is the year of outrage. Loud, brash, unsubtle conversations where whoever can b...

#203 - Matt Maruca - How To Use Light To Optimise Your Health & Happiness

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Maruca is the CEO of Ra Optics and creator of The Light Diet. This episode goes DEEP. Expect to learn how crucial light is to optimising your hea...

#202 - The Secret GP - What Really Goes On Inside Your Doctor's Surgery

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This guest's identity is being kept anonymous. He is a GP working for the NHS in the UK. Trips to the doctor are never fun, but how fun are they for y...

#201 - Andrew Scott - Society Has Everything Wrong About Ageing

25 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Scott is an economist and an author. Society has never been so old and yet never had so long still to live. More women had children over the a...

#200 - Episode 200 Q&A

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me for a special edition Q&A episode where we answer all your queries. These questions really ran the full spectrum from insightful...

#199 - Taylor Pearson - Discover Your Life’s Core Values & Operating Principles

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Taylor Pearson is an investor and writer. Your life is highly controlled by your values and principles, even if you haven't written them down, or even...

#198 - Tim Harkness - An Expert's Guide To Mastering Difficult Conversations

18 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Harkness is a psychologist and an author. Our ability to communicate is crucial for happiness and social cohesion, yet it seems that the art of h...

#197 - Petr Ludwig - How To Overcome Procrastination

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Petr Ludwig is a speaker, author and CEO of Procrastination.com. Procrastination is a speedbump in many a would-be productive person's life. Thankfull...

#196 - Amanda Kuda - Navigating The Dating Market In 2020

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Amanda Kuda is a life & mindset coach. Finding a partner that you're happy with is challenging. Add on layers of Tinder, Instagram, drunken dates & re...

#195 - Stefan Molyneux - Why YouTube Deleted My 1m Subscriber Channel

11 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stefan Molyneux is a philosopher & (ex)YouTuber. Stefan is the creator of one of the longest running channels on YouTube with hundreds of millions of ...

#194 - Gail Golden - Ending The Struggle For Work-Life Balance

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gail Golden is a management psychologist and an author. A balanced life is a happy life, and yet many people are overworked, underslept and have littl...

#193 - Ollie Marchon - Every Day Is Mindset Day

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ollie Marchon is a coach and business owner. I wanted to find out the principles Ollie uses to negotiate his life as a dad, husband, athlete, coach, b...

#192 - Professor Adam Hart - When Human Evolution Collides With The Modern World

04 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Hart is a scientist, author & presenter. Our species has been around for far longer than the modern world. This is leading to some imbalances bet...

#191 - Alcohol, Friend Or Foe?

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was originally recorded on Ben's show Ben Coomber Radio. I enjoyed this discussion about alcohol and drinking habits so much, I figured I...

#190 - Christopher Berry-Dee - Death Row's Worst Killers In Their Own Words

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Christopher Berry-Dee is a criminologist and a writer. Christopher has spent a career interviewing some of history’s most notorious killers includin...

#189 - Kyle Eschenroeder - How To Work Out What You Want To Want From Life

27 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kyle Eschenroeder is a marketer and a writer. You do not want to live a life that you regret at the end of it. But working out what you WANT to want i...

#188 - David Allen - The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

David Allen is a productivity consultant and an author. Today I speak to the grandfather of the modern productivity movement. David is the creator of ...