Chris Williamson

"Jared, do a ChatGPT search. What was the ancient cup that was made to ensure people didn't overfill it?"

"I'm a big investor in Heritability who is the most evidence-based one of these."

"I'd have my Kindle and I'd have this little blanket and I'd put this blanket over my knees and I'd have a cushion and I'd put my Kindle on the cushion and I'd sit down and I'd try and read."

"like just table salt cuz it was before Element and was available in the UK. Maybe I didn't even know it existed."

"I did it on a case of Red Bull and three bags of very, very questionable cocaine from my local dealer."

"Do you know Gym Shark? You familiar with Gym Shark? No. So, it's probably one of the biggest British companies to active. I'm actually wearing the trousers right now"

"This Bloom Pop stuff fucking rips, dude. It's so tasty. I'm a massive fan of a chilled beverage. Highly recommend."

"I use Cold Turkey which I think is something similar."

"Listen, I've got it in my Audible. George has got it in his a couple of our friends that we've sent it to"

"And we rendered the entire scene in Unreal Engine 5 and then did set dressing. So we had live elements, dirt on the floor and cactuses"

"I've got the journals on my Apple Notes still of what if I do this thing and it goes wrong and everyone's going to laugh at me"

"There's an extension for Google Chrome called Push to Kindle, and if I press it, the article appears on my Kindle because I don't like reading on my phone and I don't like reading on my laptop."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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 you ever read Seven Eves by Neal Stephenson? Love that book. Yeah, one of my most reread fiction books."

"One of the other ones that's in there is The Precipice by Toby Ord and that's all about existential risk. How humanity could go extinct from super volcanoes to supernova explosions to nanotechnology and engineered pandemics."

"It is a travesty. Everyone needs to go and read Roy Baumeister's Substack because it's got three likes and they're all me and my friends. And he's the goat, right?"

"There's a great workbook from Tony Robbins, Unleash the Giant Within, but it's this weird 1994 Audible workbook and it's only an hour and a half long"

"personally I think that the entire world needs to read The Genetic Lottery and Blueprint by Plomin because just nobody... the number of people who actually understand the genetic influence on behavior is essentially zero"

"He does House of Strauss. Awesome substack. Sports reporter, but every time he writes something, I don't know much about basketball and March Madness but every time he writes something not about sport, it's one of the best things I've ever read"

"personally I think that the entire world needs to read The Genetic Lottery and Blueprint by Plomin because just nobody... the number of people who actually understand the genetic influence on behavior is essentially zero"

"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."

"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%."

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

"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"

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

"There's an effect in psychology called the bless her heart effect. The type of gossip is couched under concern."

"Young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores."

"for the same amount of money that was spent, I think every American citizen could have got Starlink"

"That anthropic report that just got released looking at which jobs are going to be popped first by AI."

"Ladies, you need to be wearing cotton underwear. 100% cotton only if you want babies."

"it was a Douglas Murray episode actually that put the final like cuz he said, 'What's that on the ceiling?'"

"George Mack is just the most abundance mindset person that I've ever met. He has this is my favorite George stories. I think he must be on his 30th pair of AirPods now."

"readily available information is completely free or at most what, $10 a month for Claude or ChatGPT?"

"He put Meta Ray-Ban glasses on. So this guy did it before and he's like, I'm going to do it again. This is basically a training montage of a bank heist, but it's just streaking at the Super Bowl."

"And then if you skip forward, he's on SeatGeek looking at the 3D images of which seat is optimal to jump. Like how high is the rail, how deep is the fall"

"Polymarket is basically only people with skin in the game betting on an outcome. So if you're wrong consistently, you will lose money. If you're right consistently, you'll have a bigger bankroll on Polymarket. So over time, it becomes the closest thing to accurate predictions."

"It's like if you ever read Flash Boys, there was a whole quant trading thing where if they put your server close to the New York Stock Exchange server, you could get your trade in before the guy who was doing it through a normal server"

"Alpha School is doing a South by Southwest pop-up in the middle of downtown. Mackenzie Price was on the podcast."

"JK Rowling went on to sell 500 million copies in the Harry Potter franchise and became richer than the queen."

"OECD data shows that highly successful, highly educated, high earners, they have more trouble with alcohol than people on the other end of the spectrum."

"you can fall asleep to ambient sound, rainfall, or Dr. Andrew Huberman, whatever helps you switch off"

"some of the young girl supposed to be young girls that I've seen uh videos of on TikTok there like 22 23 year old chicks and they look mid30s or 40s"

"Level two, Epstein still alive and playing Fortnite in Israel, is actually by pursuing formidability"

"JK Rowling went on to sell 500 million copies in the Harry Potter franchise and became richer than the"

"Heated Rivalry was a book about these two hockey players on opposing teams and then they have a relationship. This has broken the internet and is basically revealing just how flexible women's sexualities are."

"My favorite place for doing mating research is the pool at Soho House here in Austin. It's ground zero for looking at mating dynamics."

"There was a lovely woman sat next to me and she had her iPad up and she was reading Court of Thorns and Roses. That is one of the most popular romantic books at the moment."

"So the first one was pickup artistry and that was Neil Strauss and The Game. It was negging."

"Roy Baumeister is now on Substack and is just so fascinating."

"I go on Tucker Carlson's podcast and I was accused of being riddled with feminist lies and infected with bluepill thinking."

"I read The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. And in it, one of the main protagonists is a therapist who's trying to get this patient to speak."

"Her new book is original sin. And it's all about how people's behavior is influenced by their genes, especially maladaptive antisocial behavior."

"Slack is like it's so useful and invites so much chaos at the same time."

"As far as I can see, the only company that's even remotely close is Herasite. If it's not them, I think everybody else and even they are still at the absolute frontier"

"I quote the writer Andrew Solomon who wrote this fabulous book called Far from the Tree which is all about parents and children who are very different from each other"

"I was speaking to Elliot Buick who is a host of the Next Generation podcast and I was trying to explain to him the difference between inputs, outputs, and outcomes."

"Atomic Habits by James Clear. Phenomenal book, fantastic writer. But when he said, 'You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.' Everybody started optimizing for inputs only."

"Why do you think that LASIK and glasses exist? Because people want those traits."

"I'm using the dramatized series of Chernobyl as my reference. It was trying to be accurate, I think, scientifically."

"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.'"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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 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."

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

"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.'"

"TRX rows."

"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."

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"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."

"Polyester underwear on dogs tanked their progesterone 90% and 75% of them couldn't get pregnant. Polyester creates an electrostatic field that disrupts hormone production."

"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."

"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."

"We initially thought GLP-1's like Ozempic, Zepbound, and retatrutide just reduced food cravings. Now we know they work for alcohol and gambling and other addictions, too."

"The most common way that high negative affect people manage their negative affect is alcohol because it's unbelievably effective."

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

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

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