1.75M Q&A - Growing Pains, Social Anxiety & Dating Problems - #752

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is me. I hit 1.75 million subscribers on YouTube, and to celebrate as is tradition, I ask for questions from YouTube and Twitter and Instagram. So here is another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. As always, there's some great questions in here about my thoughts on James Smith's recent video about modern podcasting, why women are so afraid of men now, and how to deal with social anxiety. Expect to learn whether I think Coffeezilla is right, that people should only speak on their expertise, my ultimate goal with the podcast, how to balance high standards with gratitude, the plans for Neutonic, what my pickleball rating is, whether I'll start changing the show's content when I have a family, and much more. Little bit of a different vibe today. You may notice in my sentiment and sort of the way that I was feeling that day that I don't know, just not that things are getting to me, but the pressure of increased scrutiny after the Rogan episode and all of these people and there's this sort of culture of pushback against podcasts and all the rest of it. It's interesting. It's more open and more honest and more vulnerable and reflective and transparent than I usually am. And that is something that I struggle with a good bit on the show, opening up this much. But yeah, I hope that it comes across in the right way. I hope that it gives you guys a bit of an insight into actually what's going on internally and what it feels like to kind of be on this rollercoaster from absolute normal bloke to still a normal bloke, but just a normal bloke that reaches half a billion people a year and is battling with the challenges associated with all of that attention and stuff. So it might be, I hope it is interesting to you. It's definitely at least interesting to me, even if it's a mixed bag sometimes. Anyway, I'll stop waffling. This episode is brought to you by Whoop. I've won Whoop for over four years now since way before they were a partner on the show. And it is the only wearable I have ever stuck with because it's the best. It is so innocuous. You do not remember that you've got it on. And yet it tracks absolutely everything 24 seven via something from your wrist. It tracks your heart rate. It tracks your sleep, your recovery, all of your workouts, your resting heart rate, your heart rate variability, how much you're breathing throughout the night. It puts all of this into an app and spits out very simple, easy to understand and fantastically usable data. It's phenomenal. I am a massive, massive fan of Whoop. And that is why it's the only wearable that I've ever stuck with. You can join for free, pay nothing for the brand new Whoop 4 strap. plus, you get your first month for free and there's a 30 day money back guarantee. So, you can buy it for free, try it for free. And if you do not like it after 29 days, they will give you your money back. Head to join.whoop.com/modernwisdom.
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