Modern Wisdom's real thesis: stop chasing motivation — discipline built from consistent fundamentals, not biohacks, is what compounds into lasting health.
The final number I came to is 1.4 billion observable universes with this ribbon... to get to the end of the ribbon that's the end of the black hole era.
You can beat 99% of people if you can master the shame of rejection, the bord of repetition, and the pain of feedback.

The point of life is not to arrive safely at death.

what all these interventions had in common is the ones that worked, the reason they worked is because they made us feel more connected to and loved by others.

The content of a medium is the juicy steak thrown to distract the watchdog of the mind.

I was essentially apologizing for the oversight that I believe both my generation… the oversight that they did not share with their children, their daughters in particular, how to go about building a life that essentiall

I've spent my entire adult life developing a skill set nobody wants. What am I supposed to do now? I don't know how to do anything. You want me to go to Home Depot? Like, what am I supposed to do?

I started becoming a bad person when I'd listen to hip-hop too much.
Empathy without boundaries is self-abandonment.
We're living in the matrix. And that's why people say, 'I don't know. It doesn't feel like real dating. ... It doesn't feel like real achievement' ... because we're living in a simulation.

They want a bad dude, I’ll give you a bad dude.

You only envy the lives of people whose sacrifices you can't see.
Your boundaries are not going to push them away. Your boundaries are going to keep the good person and it's going to protect the relationship.

We get so used to catching just because somebody threw, we feel like we automatically have to catch. It's not tennis. It's not volleyball. You don't have to hit it back over a net. You can just let it be there.

No one is average. Only for three of them hit 3%... it's way better to just build a customizable cockpit.

Nice says it's focus all on the surface, the pleasantries. I can't say that. I can't tell you the truth, Chris. That's not nice. Kindness says, 'I care enough about you to tell you the truth.'

You get praised for in public, you pay for in private.

Imagine Brad Pitt just jumping on to Modern Wisdom or jumping on to Joe Rogan or Andrew Huberman and discussing who was better in bed, Angelina or Jennifer.

People quit when they focus on how far they have to go.

The audience is the star of the show. I don't mean that in a cliche new age. I mean, literally, I don't have a show without the audience.
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