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Dr Sarah Jones is an immersive storyteller using AR, VR and 360. For the last 50 years or so, storytelling hasn't massively changed its form, but with the advent of increasingly portable devices, the platforms we use are all changing. How will Virtual Reality enable us to tell stories in a new way? Should we be worried about the control that these technologies could have over us? Are sci-fi predictions about holographic humans realistic? -  Extra Stuff: Follow Dr Jones on Twitter - https://twitter.com/VirtualSarahJ Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.c

Douglas Murray is a journalist, author and an associate editor of The Spectator. What is the price of thinking out loud about the most inflammatory topics of our age? Gay, Women, Race & Trans make up the four chapters of The Madness Of Crowds and today Douglas jumps feet first into all of them. Expect to learn which chapters Douglas could have added to the book but didn’t, how the LGBTQ community are less united than you may think, why we should be skeptical about the number of gay stories in the press, why Piers Morgan seems to be in the middle of so many controversies, what Douglas thinks about Nicki Minaj shaking her butt in everyone's face and why the demands of men by women may be totally unrealistic. A massive thank you to all of you for your support over the last year as this episode marks Modern Wisdom's crossing of 1 Million Total Downloads. Hit Subscribe if you haven't already! -  Extra Stuff: Buy The Madness Of Crowds - https://amzn.to/35egrPU Follow Douglas on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Douglas

Peter Frankopan is a Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Director at the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and an author. In the west we tend to have a view that our own political, economical and cultural situations are the most important on the planet. We tend to believe that we are principally shaping the direction the world heads in. Today Peter offers an alternative view which identifies the rapid rate of change seen in Asia over the last few years which could change not only the financial and commercial but the cultural focus of the globe. Extra Stuff: Buy The New Silk Roads - https://amzn.to/2nXSonD Follow Peter on Twitter - https://twitter.com/peterfrankopan Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instag

Graeme Garrard is a Teacher at Cardiff University & Harvard Summer School and an author. Why do we need politics? And who are the individuals that have most shaped the world of political thought? Today we get to find out about some of the most influential thinkers in history from Marx to Plato, Nietzsche to Machiavelli and Plato to Locke. Extra Stuff: Buy How To Think Politically - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472961781/ Follow Graeme on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GarrardGraeme Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for another Business Principles episode. Today we're talking about one of the questions we're most commonly asked - should you take the plunge into self employment. Being your own boss sounds fantastic, but what's the reality of your income being completely in your own hands? Expect to learn our favourite mental exercise for working out the true salary of your job, why Jonny & Yusef left high paying graduate jobs to pursue their passions, what sort of personality types are not built for self-employment and whether we believe everyone can find a job they enjoy. This episode is brought to you by https://pso-rite.com - if you're sitting at a desk all day, this product may be a fantastic addition to your routine to reduce psoas tension. Extra Stuff: Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion wi

Thomas Johnson is an ethical hacker and social engineer. Hacking is often thought of as a dark art. Dark basements and illegal activities. But there's an entire other world of hackers who are using their skills to subvert security systems both online and offline for good. Expect to learn just how Tom hacks both people and computers to break into secure buildings, how safe your information is online, what tools Tom uses to bypass the systems that are meant to keep him out and his best advice for staying secure online. Also get ready for him to hack into a university's CCTV system only using Google while we are recording. Extra Stuff: Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter:

Nir Eyal is an author, business owner and Teacher at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design. What would life be like if we didn't get distracted? What if we always followed through with the things we said we were going to do? That's the purpose of today's discussion. Expect to learn how internal and external triggers can combine to form a breeding ground for poor productivity, and how making time for traction is just as important as avoiding distraction when getting things done. Extra Stuff: Buy Indistractable - https://amzn.to/2Nfzsfh Check Out Nir's Website - https://www.nirandfar.com/indistractable/ Follow Nir on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nireyal Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www

Alex O'Connor aka Cosmic Skeptic is a YouTuber and Student at Oxford University. How many people go vegan due to a philosophical debate? And how many actively try to get the fans of their YouTube Channel to talk them out of it? Alex is one person on that list. Expect to learn the one philosophical question which Alex has trouble justifying, Alex's reasons for going vegan, whether he thinks that a less religious society has problems with morality and how religions relate to social cohesion. Extra Stuff: Follow Alex on Twitter - https://twitter.com/CosmicSkeptic Subscribe to Alex on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/cosmicskeptic A Meat Eater's Case For Veganism - https://youtu.be/C1vW9iSpLLk Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me.

Frank Dikotter is a historian and author. The 20th Century was characterised by an attempt on the one hand to build up civil society and have cheques & balances, and on the other hand an attempt to concentrate power into the hand of a single dictator. Expect to learn what the characteristics of a dictator are, why the 20th century created a perfect petri dish for this proliferation, how a dictator coerces his people into supporting him and how dictators deal with the paradox of hiding their goals of tyranny in a democratic society. Extra Stuff: Buy How To Be A Dictator - https://amzn.to/2PZSlFd Check out Frank's Website - http://www.frankdikotter.com Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/c

Sienna Day is a pornstar. Kind of like chicken nuggets, everyone is familiar with porn but few of us understand how it's made. Today we get to find out. Expect to learn how you get started in the porn industry, what it's like on set, how you prep for anal, what is the optimal strategy for elongating your career, how to monetise a feature on Brazzers or FakeTaxi into a decentralised membership site, what 30 days of back-to-back DP feels like, and much more. This warning should be obvious but I'll put it just in case... This episode contains adult themes which some viewers may find offensive. Extra Stuff: Follow Sienna on Twitter -https://twitter.com/adayinsiennna Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.ins

Jonny & Yusef join me for a special edition Q&A to celebrate 100 episodes of Modern Wisdom. Expect to learn... everything that the internet wanted to know. Plus enjoy an exclusive clip from the Pilot Episode of Modern Wisdom back in 2017. Thank you to everyone who tunes in, your continued support is hugely appreciated. Big love x Extra Stuff: Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Sparks is a productivity coach, founder of The Forcing Function and a Former Top 20 Worldwide Online Poker Player. What happens when a world famous productivity coach compiles the most effective tasks he's discovered for developing personal productivity into an E-Book? Well today we're going to go through the best of what he's uncovered. Expect to learn how to set more effective goals and stick to them, how to build better habits, maximise time, attention & energy, avoid procrastination and accelerate your learning. Get your notepad out. This episode is brought to you by The Protein Works. Leave us a review wherever you are tuning in to be in with a chance of winning an entire year of free Loaded Nuts. Check out the full range here - https://bit.ly/TPWChrisWillx Extra Stuff: Get a free copy of Experiment Without Limits - https://www.theforcingfunction.com/blog/experiment-without-limits Take Chris's Performance Assessment Quiz - https://www.theforcingfunction.com/assessment Follow Chris on Twitter - http

Mike Winnet is an entrepreneur and a professional Get Rich Quick ad clicker. The people who made the real money in the gold rush weren't digging for gold, they sold shovels. Fast forward to 2019 and the new gold rush is on to discover the magic formula for passive income. Enter the contrepreneurs. Mike has spent half a million pounds on putting the claims of internet marketers to the test in a documentary, from crypto mining to property investments, stock trading to amazon affiliate sites. Today we get to go behind the scenes. Extra Stuff: Subscribe to Mike on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/mikewinnet Follow Mike on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mikewinnet Watch The Contrepreneur Formula Trailer (full episode will be updated here once it's live) - https://youtu.be/ZK1z_rNrhgA Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with m

Andrew Doyle is a writer and comedian. Titania McGrath is now fully established as the Queen of the internet Woke Movement and today we get to meet the man behind one of Twitter's most hilarious and controversial accounts, Andrew Doyle. Expect to learn what it's like running Titania's Twitter account, what Andrew thinks of Little Mix's opinions on Syria, why Donald Trump is potentially the funniest president in history, why we should be worried about Britain's hate speech laws, whether cats are feminists, whether dogs are prejudiced and which is the most oppressive vegetable. Extra Stuff: Follow Titania on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath Follow Andrew on Twitter - https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com Buy Titania's Book Woke - https://amzn.to/2L4GXCc Bridget Phetasy's Article - https://spectator.us/battle-cry-politically-homeless/ Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop

Zuby is a rapper, author and podcaster. Zuby exploded onto the internet earlier this year and after a number of months being mentioned on the biggest news outlets and podcasts in the world it's time to get him on Modern Wisdom. Today we talk all things woke from cancel culture to the ethics of encouraging trans children, Zuby's views on religious thinking among atheists and his advice for how to operate in an increasingly chaotic world. Extra Stuff: Follow Zuby on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ZubyMusic Zuby's Website - https://www.zubymusic.com/ Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast

I'm joined by long time friend of the show and all round great human George MacGill to re enter the world of Mental Models. Mental Models are tools you can use to improve your ability to effectively make decisions. Today we are upgrading our minds by thinking about thinking, as we delve into some of mine & George's favourite mental models from Jocko Willink, Paul Graham, Ben Bergeron, Navil Ravikant, Nassim Taleb, David Wong, Rick & Morty and many more. Extra Stuff: Follow George on Twitter - https://twitter.com/george__mack Rick & Morty & Roy - https://youtu.be/szzVlQ653as David Wong's Article - https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/ Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: http

Brian Carroll is a coach, author and multiple world record holding powerlifter. Brian is one of the strongest men on the planet, having squatted 1000lbs+ more than 50 times in official meets. He suffered a catastrophic spinal injury which would have stopped many athletic careers but has recovered to not only be pain free, but now has his eyes set on more world records. Expect to learn about the genesis of powerlifting as a sport, Brian's advice for strength athletes and those beginning their lifting journey, his mindset before he is about to lift, his diet and training plan and much more... Extra Stuff: Buy Brian's Book - https://www.powerrackstrength.com Follow Brian on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/briancarroll81 Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the

Roger McNamee is a businessman, investor, musician and founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners. Roger has had a front seat to the biggest developments in Silicon Valley for the last 30 years and this culminated with his time as an early investor and key advisor to Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook. Over the last few years he became concerned with the direction that Facebook and Big Tech was taking and now spends his time educating the general public on the dangers of Surveillance Capitalism, data privacy, technology addiction and much more. Extra Stuff: Buy Roger's Book - https://amzn.to/2ySnZcm Find Roger's Tour Dates - http://www.zuckedbook.com/ Follow Roger on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Moonalice The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism - https://amzn.to/2Tm1HsU Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and o

Scott H Young is a blogger, programmer and author. Learning new things is hard. Learning new things quickly is even harder. So how did Scott manage to complete the entire MIT Computer Science Degree of 4 years in just 12 months? Today we're going to learn about learning as Scott shares with us the approaches and real world examples of how people master hard things quickly from his new book Ultralearning. Extra Stuff: Follow Scott on Twitter - https://twitter.com/ScottHYoung Buy Scott's Book Ultralearning - https://amzn.to/31kiNKi Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://w

Richard Shotton is a behavioural scientist, the Founder of Astroten and an author. What is the reason that restaurants don't put £ signs in front of their prices? Why do marketing campaigns with huge flaws end up winning the market over? How does increasing wait times on comparison sites improve customer buy-in? And why do budget airlines reduce quality of experience to improve trust? We're talking all things behavioural science today. One of my favourite topic areas with a fascinating guest, this episode is absolute gold and packed with great concepts and hilarious real world examples. Do not sleep on this one. Extra Stuff: Follow Richard on Twitter - https://twitter.com/rshotton Buy Richard's Book - https://amzn.to/2YCQfdt Buy Richard's Online Course - https://www.42courses.com/courses/behavioural-science-for-brands Listen to Rory Sutherland on Modern Wisdom - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/049-rory-sutherland-psychology-in-the-world-of-advertising/id1347973549?i=1000428600578 Check out everything I