3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My North America live tour starts this month! New York City, Austin, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City & Chicago have very limited space left. Get your tickets now at http://chriswilliamson.live/ Anyway, I finally put a name to an idea I've been thinking about for months, I really hope you enjoy this one... We love blaming our parents, it’s practically a rite of passage in modern psychology. But there’s a double standard buried in the trend: we attribute what’s broken...
14 days ago • 4 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I spent the last 9 days at a retreat. By far the most intense thing I’ve ever done. Think of it like Navy SEAL Bootcamp for emotions. It’s way too soon for me to explain what I learned, but here’s an idea that came to me when reflecting on my experience… The Anorexic Hermit Crab. There’s a kind of hermit crab that dies if it doesn’t find a bigger shell. Its soft, vulnerable body grows slowly over time, until the shell that once protected it becomes a claustrophobic...
21 days ago • 4 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My North America live tour starts next month! New York City, Austin, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City & Chicago have limited tickets left. Come and see me live. There’s a problem with how we all take advice when pursuing personal development. Guidance doesn’t sculpt us into something new, it exaggerates who we already are. The pattern is almost cruel: the ones who least need the medicine are the ones most likely to overdose on it, while the ones who need it...
28 days ago • 4 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, The brand new Modern Wisdom Reading List Vol. 2 is live, featuring 100 more books to read before you die. Download it now - https://chriswillx.com/morebooks/ I saw a comment on one of my videos this week that really struck me. I wish I could remember who posted it but I can’t. Thank you for inspiring this essay <3 “Why is it that when I mess up it’s my fault but when other people mess up it’s also my fault?” Let’s call this The Atlas Complex. If you care too much...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, We live with a quiet superstition: that beneath the noise of our habits, mistakes and contradictions lies a truer version of ourselves - a self that is fundamentally good. An alcoholic who gets sober is “becoming who he really is”, a sober man who starts drinking again has “lost his way.” In Scrooge, Dickens didn’t just write about a man who swapped stinginess for generosity; he wrote about a man who discovered his real nature. When Richard Nixon fell in disgrace,...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, Humans have an asymmetry of errors. We over-index exceptions - we use things that break the pattern we’ve come to expect as a serious learning opportunity. But we tend to only learn much faster from errors of commission (things we do), not errors of omission (things we don’t do). You only learn the sting of misplaced trust when someone betrays you, but when you refuse to trust and miss out on love, partnership, or help, the loss leaves no scar to remind you. It’s...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My North America live tour is getting close to selling out - LA, Vancouver, Toronto and Nashville are all gone. New York City, Austin, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City & Chicago - limited tickets left. Come and see me live. “You are a different character in the mind of each person who knows you, because their impression of you is made of the bare bones of what they’ve seen, fleshed out by their knowledge of themselves.” — Gurwinder Bhogal The Lonely Chapter has...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’ve been thinking about the shame of simple pleasures. “I have not yet grown wise enough to deeply enjoy simple things.” — Visakan Veerasamy We are all terrible accountants of our own joy. Most of us only accept deposits when the transaction is sufficiently large: the day we get married, the night we play the main stage at Glastonbury, the moment the business sells for $100 million. Anything less, and the entry doesn’t even make the ledger. We treat small pleasures...
2 months ago • 4 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My North America live tour is getting close to selling out - LA, Vancouver, Toronto and Nashville are all gone. New York City, Austin, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City & Chicago - limited tickets left. Come and see me live. I’ve been reflecting on a lot of Morgan Housel’s work ahead of recording with him later this year. I came across a list of difficult questions to ask yourself from him. Using these as journal prompts is one hell of a way to humble yourself… Which...
2 months ago • 3 min read