Chris Williamson

"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.'"

"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.'"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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?"