Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist, senior researcher at the University of Oxford and Deputy Editor at Our World In Data. Climate alarmism dominates headlines, painting a grim picture of impending global catastrophe. But what if the actual data reveals a less worrying situation, one where we don't all end up in a fiery inferno? Expect to learn why everyone thinks the world is doomed due to climate change and what we can do about it, why people are more pessimistic about the world than the data s...
Feb 10, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 743
Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer. Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites. Expect to learn whether cynical people are actually smarter, why people tend to find uncertain outcomes so intolerable, why people would rather lie than say what they really think, whether people wou...
Feb 08, 2024•2 hr 53 min•Ep. 742
Dr. Joe Dispenza is a researcher and an author specialising in neuroscience and known for his work on neuroplasticity and epigenetics. If your thoughts can make you sick, the obvious question is whether your thoughts can make you well. Just how instrumental are the things we think to the way our mind and body operate, and how much is this crossing over from experimental subculture to legitimate science? Expect to learn how to make genuine change in your life, why we get addicted to thinking nega...
Feb 05, 2024•3 hr 47 min•Ep. 741
Andrew Henderson is the founder of Nomad Capitalist, a global citizenship expert and financial consultant known for helping people with offshore strategies. Should you stay in the country you were born in? Is that the best, happiest place for you to be? What if there was a different option? Well, that's Andrew's entire philosophy - to go where you're treated best. Expect to learn the best travel hacks to save on taxes, what it actually means to have dual citizenship, why America ranks so low as ...
Feb 03, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 740
Dr Robert Glover is a therapist, coach and an author. Being nice is something many of us aspire to become. After all, who doesn't want to be nice? Well Nice Guy Syndrome has been ruining the lives of many men for decades, so perhaps we should aspire to be something else. Expect to learn what is actually wrong with being a nice guy, why men become so afraid of putting their needs first, how to stop people pleasing, why nice guys end up resentful and bitter, whether nice guys attract or repel wome...
Feb 01, 2024•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 739
Alex Hormozi is a founder, investor and an author. Alex’s Twitter continually has been one of my favourite sources of great insights over the last few years. Today we get to go through some of my favourite lessons from him about life, human behaviour, psychology, business and resilience. Yet again this is so, so good. Expect to learn why being called a control freak isn’t an insult, how to stop making the same mistakes over and over again, why being at the top will always require you becoming un...
Jan 29, 2024•3 hr 15 min•Ep. 740
Dr. Karan Rajan is a surgeon, clinical lecturer at The University of Sunderland and an author A lot of health advice can be extremely difficult to verify. Does this actually make me healthier? Is it grounded in science, or whimsy? Thankfully there are actual doctors we can ask who can determine science fiction from medical fact. Expect to learn why you shouldn’t hold in your farts, what Dr Karan wishes more people understood more about digestion, why the best probiotics aren't always found in th...
Jan 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 737
Dr. Paul Conti is a Stanford and Harvard trained psychiatrist and author specialising in unconscious trauma. If our mind was an iceberg, our conscious thoughts are the tip, and the huge mass below the surface are our unconscious thoughts. Dr Conti's research works on bringing the, forgotten, traumatic, painful and unseen into the light so you can heal and improve. Expect to learn what people mean when they refer to the unconscious mind, what Paul wished people understood about how trauma works, ...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 736
Rory Sutherland is one of the world’s leading consumer behaviour experts, the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy Advertising and an author. The advertising industry creates a unique intersection between psychology and creativity. By looking at what works in the world of ad campaigns, we can learn even more about the human mind and Rory might have the best insight on the planet for this. Expect to learn how dating apps can improve by being more like property websites, why women actually wear engagement ring...
Jan 22, 2024•2 hr 16 min•Ep. 735
Dean Phillips is a member of the U.S House of Representatives, presidential candidate and former owner of Talenti Gelato and Belvedere Vodka. Whether it's stories in the press or scenes in House Of Cards, no one seems to have much faith in the American political system at the moment. Dean has had a front row seat to this world for a long time and is now running for president, so he should be able to give some insight on just how bad it's become. Expect to learn whether congress or the business w...
Jan 20, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 734
Rikki Schlott is a journalist, columnist, free speech activist, and author. Saying "you can't say anything any more" is the internet's tagline. Cancel culture has been the hot topic over the last few years. But why has it taken over the discourse so much and just how much truth is there that it's getting worse than ever before? Expect to learn what Rikki uncovered from a mass analysis of Twitter bans, whether the rates of people being cancelled are increasing, if the cancellers actually enjoy th...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 733
Mary Harrington is writer, columnist and author. Everyone has the temptation to share their life on the internet, but where does the line of sharing stop and oversharing begin? How has our performance for the crowd crept into our morals and changed the way we see the role of privacy around our personal lives? Expect to learn what Digital Modesty is, why liberals would more likely date an Only Fans worker than an OnlyFans subscriber, if there is a crisis with both masculinity and femininity in ou...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 732
Danny Polishchuk is a writer, YouTuber, comedian and a podcaster. I was on tour in NYC so stopped in to see one half of The Boyscast and work out why hundreds of thousands of people were drunk and dressed as santa. Expect to learn why Instagram banned Danny from their platform, what's happening with Britney Spears & Taylor Swift lately, whether Danny thinks getting a vasectomy to save the climate is a good idea, if we have gone too far with being too protective from germs and pathogens, what the...
Jan 13, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 731
Mike Thurston is a podcaster, YouTuber and a fitness model. Me and Mike went to university together 15 years ago. And yet in 2024 many of the problems we encountered back then have gotten even worse. Why is a lack of confidence, overly comparative mindsets and body dysmorphia so persistent and how do we go about fixing it? Expect to learn why male body dysmorphia is on track to overtake female body dysmorphia, what Mike's relationship with social media looks like right now, where you actually ga...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 730
Alex O’Connor is a YouTuber, writer and a podcaster. Grappling with difficult moral questions is a part of human life, but in the age of Wikipedia and ChatGPT, are we now outsourcing our morality? Are people becoming less moral over time? Expect to learn why Peter Hitchens really does not like Alex, whether ChatGPT can be convinced of the existence of God, what the non-identity problem is, if Nihilism will make a comeback, the impact of the debate around free will, how much we can trust the hist...
Jan 08, 2024•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 729
Gregory Clark is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis, researcher and an author. Everyone has a dream of making a better life for their family. But fascinating new research suggests that your social status is heavily predetermined by your genetics, and that your descendants escaping the position they've always been in is very unlikely. Expect to learn if social status is actually heritable, how much genetics really plays a role in social hierarchy, how researchers can ...
Jan 06, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 729
James Smith is an author, podcaster, online trainer and not a life coach. I just finished a full month of live shows with James. We didn't kill each other but did learn a lot, so today we're reflecting on a month on the road while digging into some of James' biggest realisations of finally becoming an adult. Expect to learn what my first ever live tour experience was like, how to increase your luck in life, what James’ thoughts are on the Male Sedation Hypothesis, how to find true success, why y...
Jan 04, 2024•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 727
Shawn Stevenson is an American nutritionist, bestselling author, and podcaster. You spend more time asleep than any other activity, and yet no one teaches you how to do it properly. Thankfully there are some simple routines, hacks, foods and habits you can implement to improve your sleep and longevity immediately. Expect to learn if poor circadian rhythm is responsible for the modern mental health crisis, the most important habits to improve your sleep routine, how to get the best sleep of your ...
Jan 01, 2024•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 726
Seerut Chawla is a licensed psychotherapist and founder of The Trenches, an organisation focusing on mental health and social media dynamics. There is a trend of online influencers who can identify your trauma and diagnose your attachment problems over social media. Is this an important new frontier for discussing mental health? Or cod-psychology over the internet. Expect to learn the biggest problems with coddling how it enables victimhood, the difference between pain and trauma, why being trig...
Dec 30, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 725
I hit 1.5 million Subscribers on YouTube!! To celebrate, I asked for questions from YouTube, Twitter, Locals and Instagram, so here’s another 90 minutes of me trying to answer as many as possible. As always there’s some great questions in here about whether I'll bring Dr Joe Dispenza on the show, if you can grow a podcast without going on Love Island and how I deal with negativity online. Expect to learn what my plans are for the show in 2024, what I'll change for my next live shows, why we didn...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 724
2023 has been crazy. I'm back on my old couch in Newcastle with Jonny, Yusef & George to catch up on their favourite lessons from the past 12 months plus their best new hacks and plans for 2024. Expect to learn why you need two duvets to improve your sleep when sharing a bed, the new productivity system that everyone now uses except me, what you can learn about using a fitness tracker without actually buying one, which app Yusef uses over 400 times a day, why all 5 of my top songs this year were...
Dec 23, 2023•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 723
Get my free End Of Year Review Template here - https://chriswillx.com/review/ It’s the end of 2023 and to celebrate I thought I’d run through some of the best lessons I’ve picked up over the last 12 months. This year has 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 favourite conversations both inside and outside of the podcast. Expect to learn what Toxic Compassion is, why Alex Hormozi needed to do damage co...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 724
George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur. Thinking for yourself is one of the most important skills you can develop. However it's hard. It's a difficult task to overcome the boring, negative, irrational trends around you. Which is why you need some new tools in your mental models box. Expect to learn what the Keynsian Beauty Contest is, why memes are so influential in society today, which behaviours appear positive but actually harm you in disguise, what the forgetting paradox is, w...
Dec 18, 2023•2 hr 41 min•Ep. 721
Whitney Cummings is a writer, actress, comedian and a podcaster. Women aren't having a great time at the moment. They're maybe just as lost as men, the only difference is they get a little bit more sympathy. So just where did the trajectory of women go awry and how can they find a way to be happy again? Expect to learn the social psychology behind the rise of Taylor Swift, Whitney’s thoughts on becoming a mother and the future of motherhood, whether women really can have it all, why more men are...
Dec 16, 2023•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 720
Ali Abdaal is a YouTuber, podcaster, entrepreneur, and an author. What would life be like if you didn't get so distracted? If you actually did the things you wanted to do with your productive hours, rather than what you were distracted by. Ali has spent an entire career deconstructing the keys to productivity, and today we get to go through some of the most important. Expect to learn what feeling good has to do with productivity, Ali’s core foundation to what makes someone productive, what deter...
Dec 14, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 719
Bedros Keuilian is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, podcaster, and business coach Everyone could do with a bit more confidence in their abilities. A bit more certainty about what they can achieve and their power to overcome obstacles. Maybe telling people to man up isn't so bad after all... Expect to learn what it truly means to improve, why the story you tell yourself about yourself matters, how to overcome the traumas you’re struggling with, tactics to fix the negative voice in your head, the...
Dec 11, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 718
Jeremy Boreing is the co-founder and CEO of the Daily Wire. Independent media is having a moment. YouTube numbers dominate mainstream TV and podcasts wipe the floor with radio. But is it possible for movies, children's programming and more to tumble next? Expect to learn what it's like to work with Ben Shapiro, where Disney keeps going wrong, the problems with modern day Conservatives, whether Jeremy will hire Douglas Murray, why children's TV shows are so important to get right, the dangers of ...
Dec 09, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 717
Scott Galloway is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, a public speaker, entrepreneur and an author. Despondency and cynicism are everywhere online. Some of the most popular modern trends are those that tell people to not hope for the best and that things can never get better. Thankfully I don't agree, and neither does Scott. Expect to learn why Scott recommends all men watch the movie Her, the problem with the left’s view on masculinity, what we...
Dec 07, 2023•59 min•Ep. 715
Louise Perry is a writer, Press Officer for the campaign group We Can’t Consent To This and an author. Young women have been through turmoil over the last 50 years. With their entry into the workforce, emancipation from the kitchen and greater freedom and independence, you might think they have got everything they want out of life. But unfortunately, the reality may be less rosy. Expect to learn why 40% of young adults say that marriage has outlived its usefulness, why younger generations see re...
Dec 04, 2023•2 hr 39 min•Ep. 715
Shane Parrish is the Founder of Farnam Street, an ex-Canadian Intelligence Agency Operative and an author. Our lives are mediated by our thoughts. The more accurately we can make decisions, the better and happier our existence will be. Therefore it makes sense to spend some time learning how to think more clearly and frameworks to keep us rational. Expect to learn if its truly possible to think independently, what it takes to become a clear thinker, the most common pitfalls holding you back from...
Dec 02, 2023•55 min•Ep. 714
