Special: 18 Lessons From 500 Episodes - #500

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
What's happening, people? welcome back to the show. My guest today is me. To celebrate 500 episodes on Modern Wisdom, I have broken down some of my favorite lessons, insights and quotes from the last four and a half years. It's insane to think that this is how long the project's been going on for. And thank you to everybody that listens. You are my absolute favorite, everyone that tunes in every week, that shares the episodes, that helps the show grow. 500 episodes is completely wild. So thank you for supporting me and being a part of it. Today, expect to learn why having no role models can be an advantage, how discipline eats motivation for breakfast, why you should be training for the difficult, why success in pursuit of happiness can be self-defeating, why fame makes you weak, how an obsession with productivity is just immortality by another name. What I learned about negativity biases from Margaret Thatcher, the importance of letting go of successful habits for new ones and much more. This Thursday, Jocko Willink live, well not live, pre-recorded and going to be published two and a half hours with one of the scariest men I've ever met in my life. And it is a very, very cool episode. Fantastic to spend a bit of time with him and get to dig into a very different type of person to the one that I usually have on the show. So yes, make sure you're subscribed so that you don't miss that. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. Good sleep is the ultimate game changer and nature's best medicine. At the moment, if you're sleeping too hot on a nighttime, cooling yourself down by trying to use a fan next to your bed is not enough. You actually need to cool what's happening inside of the bed. And the Pod Pro Cover by Eight Sleep is the most advanced solution on the market for thermoregulation. It pairs dynamic cooling and heating with biometric tracking. You can add the cover to any mattress and start sleeping as cool as 55 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as 110 degrees Fahrenheit. I have no idea why you'd want to do that. Temperature of the cover adjusts each side of the bed based on your sleep stages. So if you and your partner sleep at different temperatures, this is perfect. It also takes your biometrics of what's happening right now plus the bedroom temperature and reacts intelligently to create the optimal sleeping environment. This is wild. Eight Sleep users fall asleep 32% faster, reduce sleep interruptions by 40% and get more overall restful sleep. Go to eightsleep.com/modernwisdom. That's E I G H T sleep.com/modernwisdom to check out the pod pro cover and save $150 or 150 pounds off its ships within the USA, Canada and the UK. That's eightsleep.com/modernwisdom to stop yourself from being so hot on a nighttime. In other other news, this episode is brought to you by Surfshark VPN. You do not need to pay tons and tons of money to have a bunch of different memberships for your streaming services. You can actually just maximize the ones that you've got at the moment. If you've got Netflix and with one touch of a button Surfshark will change your location and that means you have access to everything that that country's Netflix library has. If you're anywhere outside of the US, changing your location to the US gives you access to loads more Marvel series and movies. And if you're in the US, you can check out what we've got going on over here in the, well not over here because I'm in Texas, but you know what we had going on over there in the UK. There's cool things to watch too. You can protect your browsing while you're doing this. It stops websites from tracking your data, stops your internet service provider from selling what you've been looking at to companies that are trying to target you with ads and it prevents phishing websites from stealing your data. Also, on top of all of that, you get a 30-day money back guarantee so you can buy it and try it for 29 days and if you do not like it, they will give you your money back. On top of all of that, you get an 83% discount and three months free. It's £1.50 or $2 a month to 10x access to your Netflix library and secure your browsing across an unlimited number of devices. So everything laptop, TV, iPad, phone, full works, all protected with one membership and one push of a button. Head to surfshark.deals.modernwisdom.
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