16 Lessons From 2022 - Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson & Jocko Willink - #565

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is me. It is the end of 2022, and I thought to celebrate that I would run through some of the best lessons that I've picked up over the last 12 months. This year's had over 10,000 minutes of episodes produced. So there was a lot to choose from, but I ended up settling on 16 insights from some of my favorite conversations, articles and books, both inside and outside of the podcast. I expect to learn why Jocko Willink thinks that most people overcomplicate motivation, what Joe Rogan taught me about difficult and valuable things, why Douglas Murray makes a mean Manhattan cocktail, how Jordan Peterson highlighted the price you pay for an action, how Rob Henderson predicts the news cycle with amazing accuracy, why Rick from Rick & Morty can help you to be more confident, and much more. I really like doing this little roundup thing. I haven't done it before, but I'm definitely going to make a tradition of it. It's very good to kind of reflect on the coolest insights and the ones that really stick out to me every single year. So I'm going to do this again. Also on the Three Minute Monday newsletter, I'm going to do a list of the top 10 most played on audio platforms episodes of 2022 So if you want to get access to that, head to chriswillex.com/books, and you can sign up to my mailing list and get the Modern Wisdom reading list for free.
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