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It’s the end of 2023 and to celebrate I thought I’d run through some of the best lessons I’ve picked up over the last 12 months.
This year has had over 10,000 minutes of episodes produced so there was a lot to choose from but I ended up settling on 16 insights from some of my favourite conversations both inside and outside of the podcast.
Expect to learn what Toxic Compassion is, why Alex Hormozi needed to do damage control this spring, the reason you should just “be yourself”, why getting what you want isn’t actually a win, the reason you don’t want to be Elon Musk, why trajectory is more important than position, how a terrible job can be a huge blessing and much more…
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00:00 Intro
00:38 Why You Should Just Be Yourself
04:45 Figure Out What You Want to Want
07:45 Beware of Toxic Compassion
15:26 Elon Musk: “My Mind is a Storm”
18:32 The Untold Struggles of Fame
21:56 Trajectory is More Important Than Position
28:58 The Power of Succeeding in Something You Hate
31:54 Shunted to the Side of Your Own Life
33:33 The Happiness of Pursuit
37:27 Do Not Outsource Your Sense of Self-Worth
40:33 The 4 Levels of Saying ‘Fuck You’
44:30 Why You Shouldn’t Fear Failure
46:26 The Definition of Neediness
50:37 Don’t Blame & Complain
55:25 Conclusion
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Hello you beauties. Access all episodes 10 hours earlier than YouTube by Subscribing on Spotify – https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts – https://apple.co/2MNqIgw. Here’s the timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:38 Why You Should Just Be Yourself
04:45 Figure Out What You Want to Want
07:45 Beware of Toxic Compassion
15:26 Elon Musk: “My Mind is a Storm”
18:32 The Untold Struggles of Fame
21:56 Trajectory is More Important Than Position
28:58 The Power of Succeeding in Something You Hate
31:54 Shunted to the Side of Your Own Life
33:33 The Happiness of Pursuit
37:27 Do Not Outsource Your Sense of Self-Worth
40:33 The 4 Levels of Saying ‘Fuck You’
44:30 Why You Shouldn’t Fear Failure
46:26 The Definition of Neediness
50:37 Don’t Blame & Complain
55:25 Conclusion
I really Like your videos. Your Seo score is 50 which is too bad. Only your Subscribers watch this. I hope you improve your SEO performance.I Love your videos. I make shorts for your videos. really a nice work.
Thank you for another year of wisdom dude 🙏
This was so good chris, was struggling with some questions and this video gave me more clarity. Thank you for this ❤
You are a thoughtful human, Chris.
I think position can be better than trajectory if you're a healthy individual who can manage this well and set the right expectations for yourself
Ahh, toxic empathy. What a timely term.
Your girlfriend is certainly a lucky woman. You are a superhuman!
Well done Chris. Eloquent and prescient as usual. We must push things forward in a ‘selfish’ way yet helping others when appropriate.
Thank you 🎉
Drink away my friend😅😅😅. The absurdity that you would be criticized for drinking on air is a perfect example of everything wrong with today’s internet outcries. Here you are giving away golden insight, for free I might add……yet here people are not satisfied with the information, if applied could actually change the direction of your life, they want to point out “ drinking on air” 🤦🏼♂️
Hey bro, you should check out Michael Singer. His teachings are gifting me so much self awareness and understanding. He talks about how we all live so trapped in our heads, focusing on the past or future so much that we never really live in the moment. He explains so beautifully and simply, if we are not okay inside, we can never be okay outside, no matter what we achieve. Then he gives wonderful teachings on how to find inner acceptance and peace. Explaining that from this epic, peaceful inner foundation we can achieve anything we choose, and also be okay if we don’t. He explains it much better than I can 😅 I think he might just gift you and all the people who watch you amazing insights and new perspectives. Would be epic if you got him on your show. Love your work brother, thank you for being and sharing you ❤
One of the most insightful and eye opening videos I’ve seen
Thanks a lot chris, i learned a lot from your podcast
Hey Chris, loving your talk today. I wanted to say that I was fortunate to have come to many of these conclusions some years back (like 30) and its been literally the best path I could have ever chosen. I think I sort of started it when I was hated at school by many of the "cool or popular kids". Most of them are long gone from my life.
I did want to comment on your FYI … I'm not sure how Y and I combine to U (as this is what they deserve to hear from you); but if anyone is commenting about you drinking, just how is that anything that deserves your reply?
Anyway, I only found your stuff in 2023 and I'll be keeping an eye on you and your guests.
Thanks and best wishes for 2024
PS: I think (perhaps inadvertently) you just hit upon the underlying aetiology of "Imposter Syndrome"
That one thing about envy hits me pretty hard. Ive never thought of it in that way. Thank Chris! Greetings from Uruguay!!!
Fantastic!!! ❤I needed this 🎉
Thank you for summing this all up great recap!
I feel like I listened to every episode!
Happy Holidays All 🎉
This was great, thank you. Many insights that I implicitly knew but never thought of consciously. Many incites that I did not know, and were brought to conscious awareness.
I appreciate your honesty and authenticity of the journey. I could've listened to an hour of just that. Keep up the good work. Btw, it's your channel, do wtf you want, because hydration matters!! 😂 Happy Holidays! (I'm a newbie from this year) 2024… Let's go!
Thank you for the great content and work! Looking forward for more!
Your drinking had nothing on Tim Dillon smacking his lips right into the mic, while eating a brownie. It literally sounded like a pig at a trough.
Wife and children.
There's an idea for the distinction between externally caused shame and externally caused – the external one is guilt, the second, shame.
There's a second idea, that both have 'regular' and 'toxic' versions. The regular is about our actions, the toxic version claims itself to be about our very nature.
So there's 4 states. Very useful model.
Healthy shame about our bad actions is the valuable one, but becomes impossible if we're drowning in 'I'm a shit person'.
Chris Williamson
One element that bums me out on your opening statement, is that humor is predominantly used to affect individual’s persona’s.
It accelerates the witness into a fade of being entertained by the counter personality and is a blur of the point often times.
It all can boil down to being too serious as to be focused on the true self, and being an executor of controlled perception in traction of limiting what other’s minds perceive.
Perhaps it’s true that we can only be funny when it is curved by extreme wisdom that only life allows at an older age.
These are important and humbling. Thank you.
The first quote is actually from Curt Cobain (joking of course, but still, said the same thing).
Alex hormozi z best
I learned the first one right before I met my husband. It’s funny cause the advice I had gotten from other women in my life was hide your crazy until they fall in love. It seems so dumb to follow that advice looking back. Cause you can’t keep up a persona 24/7 and if you want to find someone who loves you for all that you are you have to show them all.
Great, thank you Chris and happy holidays!
This is a terrific episode! Thank you Chris!
Just as always a pleasure to listen to and very informative I really appreciate your way of viewing things and the Podcasts in general.
Listening to you doesn't feel like wasting your time but rather like learning something/improving in some aspect.
Thank you
You’re awesome Chris, really appreciate the work you do.
I was one of the ones that found your content at the beginning of 2023. It’s almost a year now, but it feels as if it was yesterday. Your topics and insights are always refreshing whilst challenging, and has really helped me to keep an open mind plus keeping my focus on what’s important in life.
Keep doing you Chris.
All the best.
K Swales
How many dancing Monkeys here…lol
Awesome summaries!
Subscribed.
Drink quieter-er😂
im dead at you calling lil dicky "little bobby" 🤣