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Show summary
We continue our 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos miniseries, and this week we discuss the harm in excessive self-critical social media comparisons and the powerful concept of incremental self-improvement (RULE 4 / Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today).
Show notes
1:59 – Comparing yourself to others is a losing game; your inner critic always wins
5:15 – Many social media platforms can drive internal criticism to unhealthy levels
6:30 – Social media consumption is harming the next generation (The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt)
8:01 – Envy blinds you from seeing what you really need in your life
9:30 – The Monkey Business Illusion (YouTube viral video)
11:02 – Incrementally improve yourself one day at a time–aim low
14:55 – Don’t be a tyrant or a slave–negotiate with yourself
21:11 – Darth Sidious, the postmodernist (YouTube clip)
22:45 – The new #10yearchallenge
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GenYChron Ep. 0005 – Sleep-loss epidemic, saunas and the Intellectual Dark Web
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This week we talk about your health on two fronts: the dangers of not getting enough sleep and the health benefits of going to the sauna. We provide a brief summary of Joe Rogan’s mind-blowing podcast with Matthew Walker, and we share our sauna bathing experiences in Canada and Germany. Last but not least, we define the trending #IntellectualDarkWeb by reviewing the facts.
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GenYChron Ep. 0018 – Birthdays, Pareto distributions and spirit molecules
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Join us this week as we talk about empirical evidence for birthday-dependent personalities, the eerie predominance of naturally occurring inequality within our universe and a psychedelic substance that our bodies produce, known as N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
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GenYChron Ep. 0026 – The forgotten meaning behind self-sacrifice
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We discuss “RULE 7 / Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)”, from Jordan B. Peterson’s best-selling book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. In this episode, we examine self-sacrifice, the dangers of expediency and a hypothesis about why evil exists.
