Modern Wisdom

#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 ...

#187 - Life Hacks 201

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me as we begin the 2nd Season of Life Hacks. Our favourite tools, apps, websites, strategies & resources fo...

#186 - Elena Seranova - Overcoming Low Self-Esteem In Business & Life

20 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Elena Seranova is a business coach, entrepreneur & PhD student. Many of us could do achieve far more if only we had the confidence to go after what we...

#185 - Dr Benjamin Hardy - The Truth About Your Personality

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author. Do you believe that your personality is permanent? Innate & inbuilt? Dr Hardy disag...

#184 - Ethan Suplee - What It's Like To Lose 300lbs & Adele's Transformation

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ethan Suplee is an actor & a podcaster. Ethan's fitness journey has been a rollercoaster - from 200lbs at 10 years old to 550lbs in his 20's and now 2...

#183 - William Leith - Why Some People Become Ridiculously Rich

13 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

William Leith is a journalist & an author. Acquiring an incredible fortune is the goal of many, but what is the true cost of being stupendously rich? ...

#182 - Dr Jack Lewis - The Neuroscience Of The 7 Deadly Sins

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Jack Lewis is a Neuroscientist, television presenter and an author. Why do we do the things we know we shouldn't? The 7 deadly sins have defined fo...

#181 - Rutger Bregman - Humankind: Are We Good Or Evil?

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rutger Bregman is a historian & an author. It's a common-held view of humanity that humans are adversarial. Shaven chimps competing with each other fo...

#180 - Prince Ghuman & Matt Johnson - How Marketing Reshapes Our Brains

06 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Johnson PhD is a Neuroscientist and Prince Ghuman is a Neuro-Marketer. Combining the insights of Neuroscience & Consumer Psychology can help us t...

#179 - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Reality, Meaning & Self-Development

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Schmachtenberger works in preventing global catastrophic risk. As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about how to improve our entire civ...

#178 - George Mack - Mental Models 103

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Long time friend of the show and all round great human George Mack joins me today as we revisit the world of decision making. Mental Models are tools ...

#177 - Jim Mullane - How To Get Better With Books

30 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Mullane is the man behind the fastest growing Instagram page focussed on self-development & books @GetBetterWithBooks. Developing a reading habit ...

#176 - Catch Up 105

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonny & Yusef join me again for another Catch Up episode. No agenda, no topics, just us talking about our lives & what we've been up to recently. Expe...

#175 - Greg McKeown - Essentialism Explained: How To Focus On What Matters In Life

25 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Greg McKeown is a public speaker, leadership & business strategist and New York Times Bestselling Author. Do you feel busy but not productive? Like yo...

#174 - Alex Kantrowitz - Why Are The Biggest Tech Companies So Dominant?

23 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Kantrowitz is a Senior Tech Reporter at Buzzfeed and an author. The biggest tech companies on the planet are incredibly dominant and today we dis...

#173 - What Is The Fitness Menopause?

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today I am joined by Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness. The Fitness Menopause is a concept we've been talking about for a while. It describes the tran...

#172 - Johann Hari - What Are The Real Causes Of Depression?

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Johann Hari is a writer & a journalist. Rates of depression are at an all time high and yet pharmaceutical drugs have never been more widely used. If ...

#171 - Stephen Hicks - Socialism & Postmodernism For Dummies

16 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Hicks is a Professor at Rockford University and an author. Socialism & Postmodernism are terms thrown around a lot but I don't really understa...

#170 - Massimo Piggliuci - 5 Exercises From Stoicism To Improve Your Life

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Massimo Piggliuci is a Professor of Philosophy at City College and an author. Despite being 2500 years old, Stoicism has recently seen a surge in popu...

#169 - Ollie Ollerton - Becoming Battle Ready

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ollie Ollerton is an ex-Special Forces Operative, Instructor from SAS Who Dares Wins and an author. Life doesn't come with an instruction manual. We h...

#168 - Zack Telander - Stereotypes In Fitness & On The Internet

09 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Zack Telander is a weightlifter, coach & YouTuber. I'm joined by Coach ZT himself today for a chilled out discussion where we hit all the big topics, ...

#167 - Bruce Duckworth - Designing The World's Biggest Brands

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Duckworth is a designer and the Co-Founder & Co-Chairman of Turner Duckworth Design Company. Amazon's smile logo, Coca Cola's rebrand, Samsung, ...

#166 - Fat Tony - How To Spend £1,000,000 On Drugs

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Fat Tony is a DJ & promoter. Tony's story is fascinating. From being one of the biggest DJs in London's house music scene to running some of the best ...