Chris Williamson

"Song just came up on my Spotify. I had it on shuffle and it was making me think of you."

"I trained martial arts from the time I was seven until I was in my 20s. I trained Okinawan and Goju karate and Muay Thai kickboxing and I gave it up."

"When I got divorced, I went back to martial arts class when I took up Brazilian jiu-jitsu because I actually took up well, you know, Craig Jones actually said in an interview recently like this is cardio for divorce."

"I trained martial arts from the time I was seven until I was in my 20s. I trained Okinawan and Goju karate and Muay Thai kickboxing and I gave it up."

"I trained martial arts from the time I was seven until I was in my 20s. I trained Okinawan and Goju karate and Muay Thai kickboxing and I gave it up."

"Joseph Campbell has this hero's journey that he charts out and it's basically a clock where you start up here. I had been charting where I was and he's got like basically 12 to 17 different stages."

"to be honest therapy has been so activating for me and interesting"

"I've been using the neutonic sachets and the capsules as opposed to the RTD. So I took a break from caffeine."

"We are actually working with the designer for Sleep Token's stuff. So, the guy who does all of Sleep Token's merch, I managed to get an intro to him."

"I spent that week with him. I did his retreat. I did Groundbreakers."

"This deal has been there for a long time with Portfolio from Penguin. Adrian, the owner, is really wonderful with me and has allowed me to put my delivery date back three times already."

"I've done the communications course from Art of Accomplishment."

"I've been using these AO glasses. They're kind of like light therapy light therapy panel but you wear them above your eyes. They look really dorky, but I've been wearing them."

"If I do guided, I use Waking Up from Sam Harris."

"meditation insight timer unguided doing Shinzen Young's five ways to know yourself which is the only really the only unguided meditation that I know."

"He works with a company, hydrogen water company, Echo, that I'm a fan of."

"I kept I picked that up in a Christmas episode two years ago, long like a good a good while ago. De was filming and um, I still use that now."

"I was reading Juju Mufu's blog when I was like 16 and he had this uh blog post called water the preferred drink of hardcore people"

"I remember not going on nights out with the guys cuz I wanted to stay in and read bodybuilding.com forums."

"The um Manta eye mask that I love, which I think is great. Very expensive. So expensive. But uh on this one"

"Have a little mantra at the beginning of the day say I'm truly grateful for the happy things and the fun things are going to happen this day, but I'm also grateful for the trouble I'm going to have because therein lies my growth."

"I ask my students to repeat after me. My suffering is sacred."

"Apple Photos sends these memories reminders every once in a while to you. Like it just goes into your camera roll and it says like here's a memory. I get them and half the time I text them to the person who's in the photo with me."

"I'm such a huge fan of your work and your newsletter as well that everyone should go and sign up to that the imperfectionist."

"There's a book called Your Brain on Love by Stan Tatkin. It's in my second reading list. And he explains how in couples that are having arguments, you want to deal with the argument as quickly as possible and ideally within 3 minutes."

"Take James Smith's how to become an online fitness coach thing and you know do that."

"If it's a really big deal, you can get a low or no beer. Heineken double zero. A Guinness do a good 0% now. Peroni do a good 0%."

"Mel Robbins also just phenomenal. You need to go and watch her."

"So if you can't view bright light in the form of sunlight, get it from artificial"

"Toby Ord wrote this great book called The Precipice and he is from the future of humanity institute at Oxford. He got the best researchers in the world to rank what are the most dangerous existential risks to humans."

"So there's a great documentary on Netflix. You got to watch it. How I'm feeling now."

"Harvey Firestone, who created Firestone Tires, he wrote a biography in the 1920s and pointed out that every wealthy person he knows without exception buys a gigantic house."

"When I was reading this book 1929 about the stock market crash, the focus was financial gain."

"When my book, you know, How to Stay in Love, right? Like this title for a book, How to Stay in Love. Noble goal. You're in love. You want to stay in love. That's lovely."

"If you walk into Galloway's home and you see Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, you see Power of Habit by Duhigg. You would go, 'Look at this guy. Look at Galloway, man. He's crushing it out there. He's a monster.'"

"If you walk into Galloway's home and you see Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, you see Power of Habit by Duhigg. You would go, 'Look at this guy. Look at Galloway, man. He's crushing it out there. He's a monster.'"

"That is nourishing to me in a way that reading Atomic Habits for the first time was nourishing to me or listening to Peterson tell the truth was nourishing to me."

"Not only did you turn your video game Hades 2 into a business and that you had to optimize, but you turned this thing which is supposed to be like loving presence into a business that you're supposed to build and exit."

"Diet Coke is a great version of this. You take your first sip and it's satisfying, but the real key to Diet Coke is that you can keep drinking it and you really never get sick of it."

"I learned from Jessica Baum's first book, Anxiously Attached. She's got a new one out called Safe. You should bring her on the show. She'd be great for you."

"She's got a new one out called Safe. You should bring her on the show. She'd be great for you."

"We had this with Prime, Logan Paul's drink, for instance. Prime optimized for first sip and we did a ton of taste testing on a lot of different drinks."

"they'll go to a gym, they'll go get red light therapy, they'll do a cold plunge, they'll do all this stuff basically to compensate"

"they'll go to a gym, they'll go get red light therapy, they'll do a cold plunge, they'll do all this stuff basically to compensate"

"It makes me think about releasing. It makes me think about David Hawkins letting go type."

"Not only did you turn your video game Hades 2 into a business and that you had to optimize, but you turned this thing which is supposed to be like loving presence"

"you go to ChatGPT and you load the last few messages in and you say, 'Can you write me a reply that is meaningful and loving that compromises without completely destroying my boundaries'"

"You're a fan of Krishnamurti's secret of existence: I don't mind what happens."

"I have a new record. 3 hours 49 minutes. Yeah, it's substantially better than an elite 18-year-old."

"In the story of the Odyssey, Odysseus has gone through everything. He had 600 men. They're all dead. He's washed up on this island."

"A buy offer comes in for Charisma on Command and it's dude you just ride off in the sunset. You could just you put it away."

"So I don't treat the Bible as literally every word is true. But I treat it as a repository that has been mistranslated some of the time of a brilliant mystic."

"So have you ever read Escaping Flatland? It's a book from like 1850 or so. Sounds niche as fuck but you might... it's super famous. It's a book about a two-dimensional world."

"If you go down for a dinner or whatever and you're in a like a Lululemon t-shirt or something, you're a little bit you're struggling."

"he had this 60-minute wind down routine which was blue light blockers on and the mouth tape and the nose strip and the magnesium glycinate"

"he had this 60-minute wind down routine which was blue light blockers on and the mouth tape and the nose strip and the magnesium glycinate"

"he had this 60-minute wind down routine which was blue light blockers on and the mouth tape and the nose strip and the magnesium glycinate"

"he had this 60-minute wind down routine which was blue light blockers on and the mouth tape and the nose strip and the magnesium glycinate"

"There's a study of college students who are in bad breakups. Some of them get Tylenol and some of them don't. Those who take Tylenol, a course of Tylenol, are about a third less heartbroken."

"I should have done the decisions course. It's happening right now from Art of Accomplishment. Everyone that was in my Groundbreakers group is telling me how great it is."

"And especially on a first date, we had this with Prime, Logan Paul's drink, for instance. Prime optimized for first sip and we did a ton of taste testing on a lot of different drinks and there were some drinks that have your tolerance for them over time."

"I mean this was a great insight I learned from Jessica Baum's first book, Anxiously Attached. She's got a new one out called Safe. You should bring her on the show. She'd be great for you."

"Diet Coke is a great version of this like you take your first sip and it's satisfying but the real key to Diet Coke and all of the Coke line is that you can keep drinking it and you really never get sick of it."

"Naval's first episode on his only episode on Rogan where he says, you see a bear, that's kind of interesting. You see a unicycle, that's kind of interesting. You see a bear on a unicycle and you go, 'Wow, look at that.'"

"I just had yesterday a conversation with Tucker Carlson went up talking about men and masculinity."

"It's not more bench press or Brazilian jiu-jitsu or even more time meditating, right? All of these things are actions that you have done."

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"Rachel Carson, she wrote that book, Silent Spring, 1962. It's about DDT, environmental epidemics. She gets mocked by scientists, castigated by everybody, but her work led to the banning of DDT."

"Don't Look Up, that movie on Netflix with Leonardo DiCaprio a couple of years ago. It's supposed to be a comment on the impending doom of climate change and nobody's listening."

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"I'd rather leave my kids at a Somali daycare than with anyone who works at the BBC."

"What? Did you see what they did to Doctor Who?"

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"Part of what drove early Charisma on Command and early Charlie was deep people pleasing"

"I've put together a list of 50 of the internet's most viral questions to connect more deeply with your partner. Some of them are evidence-based, some of them are stuff that I've come up with. And then 25 to work out whether or not it's time to leave. You can get that at chriswilx.com/valentines."

"Chris Williamson.Live for the tour stuff."

"I'm going to Australia, New Zealand, and Bali in four weeks, 5 weeks, and Brisbane sold out, Perth's sold out. There's still tickets for Adelaide, Oakland, Christ Church, Sydney. Melbourne and Bali."

"I put together a list of 50 of the most evidence-based and viral questions on the internet and from my journal to connect more deeply with your partner and 25 to work out whether or not you should break up."

"Chris.com/valentine if you want to get some questions to connect with your partner or make yourself squirm."

"I do this newsletter every week and it's a thousand words. I've done it for 5 years. That's a quarter of a million words."

"I have put together a list of 50 of the most viral and science-backed ways to connect with your partner more deeply and 25 questions that will help you work out whether or not you should break up. And they're all available right now at the Modern Wisdom Valentine's review. And it is completely free."

"The Geio Seamless T-shirt is a staple in the gym for me."

"I have been wearing Whoop for over 5 years now. Way before they were a partner on the show. I've actually tracked over 1,600 days of my life with it according to the app, which is insane."

"This training app has made a huge impact on my gains and enjoyment in the gym over the last 2 years now."

"Their crest hoodie and light gray marl is what I fly in every single time I'm on a plane."

"Gym Shark makes the best men's and girls gymwear on the planet. Let's face it, the more that you like your gym kit, the more likely you are to train."

"Their hybrid training shorts for men are the best men's shorts on the planet."

"Timeline is the number one doctor recommended urolithin A supplement with a compound called Mitopure. Basically, it helps your body clear out damaged mitochondria and replace them with new ones."

"I started taking Timeline nearly 2 years ago because it is the best product on the market for mitochondrial health, and that is why I partnered with them."

"This lemon Lemonade flavor in a cold glass of water is how I've started my morning every single week for years."

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"AG1 just released their nextgen formula, which is a more advanced, clinically backed version of the product I've been drinking every day for years."

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"I started taking it nearly 2 years ago because it was recommended to me by my doctor and that is why I've used it for so long since way before I knew who made the product"

"you've probably heard me talk about Element before, and that's because I am frankly dependent on it. This is how I've started my day every single morning."

"I am such a huge fan of Athletic Brewing Co. They've got 50 types of NAs, including IPAs, Goldens, and even limited releases like a cocktail inspired Paloma and Moscow Mule."

"I've been drinking AG1 every morning for years now. It is the best all-in-one drink that I've ever found and that's why I'm such a fan of them."

"Most brands never test their products after they leave the factory, while Momentous tests every single batch for purity and banned substances, which is why I partnered with them."

"You've probably heard me talk about Element before and that's because I am frankly dependent on it. And it's how I've started my day every single morning. This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market."

"Twice a year, they run lab tests that monitor over 100 biomarkers. They've got a team of expert physicians that analyze the data and give you actionable advice to improve your health and lifespan. And seeing your testosterone levels and tons of other biomarkers charted over the course of a year with actionable insights to actually improve them gives you a clear path to making your life better."

"I've been drinking AG1 every morning for years now. It is the best all-in-one drink that I've ever found. And that's why I'm such a fan of them."

"This training app has made a huge impact on my gains and enjoyment in the gym over the last 2 years now."

"Their hybrid training shorts for men are the best men's shorts on the planet. Their crest hoodie and light gray Maul is what I fly in every single time I'm on a plane."

"I started taking Timeline nearly 2 years ago because it is the best product on the market for mitochondrial health, and that is why I partnered with them."

"I am frankly dependent on it, and it's how I've started my day every single morning. This is the best tasting hydration drink on the market."

"In other news, I've been drinking AG1 every morning for years now. I have got my mom to start taking it, my dad to start taking it, and all of my friends as well. And if I found anything better, I would switch. But I haven't."

"This lemon lemonade flavor in a glass of water is how I've started my morning every single week for years. Element contains a science-backed electrolyte ratio. Sodium, potassium, and magnesium with no color, no sugar, no artificial ingredients."

"They're literally the best on the planet. They're unparalleled when it comes to rigorous third party testing. And this stuff tastes phenomenal. This whey protein is sourced from grass-fed European cows. No hormones or antibiotics or GMOs."

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"Eight just released their brand new Pod 5, which includes the world's first temperature regulating duvet. Compare it their smart mattress cover, which cools or warms each side of the bed by up to 20°."

"This training app has made a huge impact on my gains and enjoyment in the gym over the last two years now."

"Eight just released their brand new Pod 5 which includes the world's first temperature regulating duvet paired with their smart mattress cover which cools or warms each side of the bed by up to 20°."

"Which is why I partnered with Function because I wanted a smarter and more comprehensive way to actually understand what's happening inside of my body. Twice a year, they run lab tests that monitor over a 100 biomarkers."

"Eight just released their brand new Pod 5 Ultra, which includes the world's first temperature regulating duvet. Eight has been clinically proven to increase total sleep by up to 1 hour every night."

"Element contains a science-backed electrolyte ratio. Sodium, potassium, and magnesium with no color, no sugar, no artificial ingredients or any other BS."

"Function just introduced PFAS testing as an add-on for members. On top of the over 100 biomarkers that they already track twice a year, hormones, heart levels, nutrient levels."

"Eight just released their brand new Pod 5 Ultra which includes the world's first temperature regulating duvet. It's been clinically proven to increase total sleep by up to 1 hour every night."

"And with Shop Pay, you can boost conversions by up to 50%."

"Shopify powers 10% of all e-commerce companies in the United States. They are the driving force behind Gym Shark, Skiims, Aloe, and Newtonic, which is why I partnered with them because when it comes to converting browsers into buyers, they are best-in-class."

"With Momentous, you know you're getting the highest quality omega-3s on the market. They're NSF certified for sport and they're tested for heavy metals and purity, so you can rest easy knowing anything that you take from Momentous is unparalleled when it comes to rigorous third-party testing."

"Which is why I am such a huge fan of Athletic Brewing Co. They've got 50 types of NAs, including IPAs, Goldens, and even limited releases like a cocktail inspired Paloma and Moscow mule."

"LMNT contains a science-backed electrolyte ratio: sodium, potassium, and magnesium with no color, no sugar, no artificial ingredients or any other BS. This lemon lemonade flavor glass of water is how I've started my morning every single week for years."

"Which is why I partnered with Function because I wanted a smarter, more comprehensive way to understand what's happening inside of my body. Twice a year they run lab tests that monitor over a 100 biomarkers and their team of expert physicians analyze the data and give you actionable advice."