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Podcast answers from Modern Wisdom

Modern Wisdom: ideas worth exploring

Questions answered from Modern Wisdom, with links to the episode moments that support each conclusion.

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Brian D. Earp
Brian Earp on Using Drugs to Fall In or Out of Love
Brian D. Earp's cautious account of relationship drugs, psychedelic-assisted couples therapy, SSRIs, consent, coercion, and uncertain evidence.
1 episode51 citations
Alex Hormozi
Alex Hormozi on Success, Failure, and Staying Focused
A source-linked synthesis of Alex Hormozi's views on failure, focus, motivation, achievement, and why success must be maintained rather than won once.
1 episode48 citations
Jessica Baum
Jessica Baum on Anxious Attachment and How It Heals
Jessica Baum explains anxious attachment, the anxious-avoidant cycle, nervous-system regulation, partner choice, and how safe relationships can support healing.
1 episode52 citations
Matthew Fray
Matthew Fray on the Everyday Habits That Destroy Relationships
Matthew Fray explains how small unrepaired injuries, emotional invalidation, defensive intent, and depleted trust can gradually destroy a relationship.
1 episode59 citations
Robert Waldinger
Robert Waldinger on What Actually Makes People Happy
A source-linked account of Robert Waldinger's happiness research, including why relationships matter, what the evidence cannot prove, and the habits he recommends.
1 episode39 citations
Robin Dunbar
Robin Dunbar on Love, Attraction, and Pair Bonding
Robin Dunbar's evolutionary account of love, including attraction, commitment, pair bonding, monogamy, biological mechanisms, and the limits of the evidence.
1 episode64 citations
Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Peace, and Anxiety
Naval Ravikant's account of happiness across four interviews, including how ambition, wealth, anxiety, meditation, acceptance, and meaning fit together - and where his advice should not be mistaken for clinical guidance.
4 episodes93 citations
Naval Ravikant
How Naval Ravikant's How to Get Rich Framework Evolved
Direct revisions and carefully labelled extensions to Naval Ravikant's wealth framework across four appearances, covering understanding, freedom, AI, attention, location, and intrinsically rewarding work.
4 episodes85 citations
Bryan Johnson
What Bryan Johnson Removed From Blueprint and Why
A four-show evidence map of the treatments, foods, exposures, and habits Bryan Johnson says he removed, replaced, or reinstated, with his stated reasons and the limits of each claim.
4 episodes69 citations
David Goggins
David Goggins on Mental Toughness
A three-show comparison of David Goggins on honest self-assessment, chosen difficulty, quitting thoughts, earned confidence, and the limits of copying his extreme routines.
3 episodes94 citations

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Modern Wisdom: ideas worth exploring

Brian Earp on Using Drugs to Fall In or Out of Love

Alex Hormozi on Success, Failure, and Staying Focused

Jessica Baum on Anxious Attachment and How It Heals

Matthew Fray on the Everyday Habits That Destroy Relationships

Robert Waldinger on What Actually Makes People Happy

Robin Dunbar on Love, Attraction, and Pair Bonding

Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Peace, and Anxiety

How Naval Ravikant's How to Get Rich Framework Evolved

What Bryan Johnson Removed From Blueprint and Why

David Goggins on Mental Toughness

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