3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My LA and Toronto live shows sold out in hours. Absolutely wild. Limited tickets remain for all other US & Canada dates - get yours here. I’ve been thinking about impediments to happiness. And I can see two obvious roadblocks. First is wanting things to be different. “Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something.” — Naval Ravikant If...
7 days ago • 2 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My US & Canada solo show tour goes live on presale at 10am PT / 1pm ET tomorrow. I think some shows might actually sell out before general on-sale on Thursday - so make sure you don’t wait if you want to come. Get first access to VIP, Meet & Greet and Tickets here. Anyway, I’ve been trying to work this idea into an understandable form for a while, I really hope you like it… "When a man can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” —...
14 days ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’m taking my solo live show on tour around the US & Canada! Presale Tickets go live next week. Get first access to Tickets, VIP and Meet & Greet by signing up at https://chriswilliamson.live/ I can’t wait to see you all there. Anyway, onto what I’ve been thinking about… In September 1893, Churchill was admitted, on his third attempt, to the Sandhurst military college. He wrote to his father, “I was so glad to be able to send you the good news on Thursday.” His...
21 days ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, A friend did a mushroom trip and a question came to him: “Do people love you for who you are or for what you do?” This is uncomfortable to consider. People loving us for who we are feels more real, genuine, caring, empathetic and robust. It feels like it’s less fickle and more difficult to lose. On the other hand, people loving us for what we do feels transactional and transient. The love we receive becomes contingent on what achievements and successes we can offer...
28 days ago • 2 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I put a vlog out last week about my trip to record with Rogan & Naval. It's pretty beautiful. In other news, Waymo the driverless taxi service has come to Austin. I’ve found over the last few weeks that a Waymo which says it’s 7 minutes away regularly takes 15 minutes to get to me. It wasn’t getting lost or taking wrong turns, it just seemed to be moving unusually slowly around pedestrianised areas and junctions. I’ve realised that Waymo is totally cucked and has...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, Toxic Compassion is the prioritisation of short term emotional comfort over everything else. Over truth, reality, actual long-term outcomes, flourishing, everything. It optimises for looking good, rather than doing good. This is seen in much of popular culture as the desirable, fair, empathetic thing to do. And it’s everywhere. People would rather claim that body fat has no bearing on health and mortality outcomes to avoid making overweight individuals feel upset....
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, The Gastric Band Surgery of Being Busy. After undergoing gastric band surgery, people’s risk of suicide goes up. That’s perhaps unsurprising - gastric band surgery is a big deal and can sometimes have complications, infections and painful outcomes. But one of the unseen reasons for the increased suicide risk is actually due to the surgery going right, not it going wrong. Many patients used food as a way to deal with issues in their lives like emotional challenges,...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’ve been thinking about how to achieve a Realistic Path To Enlightenment. As much as moving to a cave in the woods and spending a decade in silent retreat might be great for your spirit, it’s not going to be doable by pretty much anyone. If you’ve meditated enough, you know that you accumulate momentum in mindfulness, kind of like a swell moving underwater. After enough time, there is a force and a power to your ability to drop into the present moment, and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, Post-Content Clarity. This is the best way to work out whether the content you consume is making your life better or worse. You see, there is a problem. While you watch anything, you are distracted by the content itself. Which means you can’t judge how the content impacts you. The creator has designed the content to be compelling and to keep you hooked, because if they didn’t, they’d be beaten by another creator who achieved that more effectively. But just because...
2 months ago • 3 min read