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 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."

"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'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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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"

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

"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."

"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."

"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.'"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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'"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"You can get the same checkout that I use with Newtonic on Shopify right now."

"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."

"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."

"Chris Williamson.Live for the tour stuff."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."