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Hi friend,

That's it! Tour is finished. Thank you so much to everyone who came out and enjoyed the shows. I already can't wait to come back and do bigger venues very soon <3

One of the best questions to ask yourself when faced with a decision is “what would you tomorrow want you today to do?”

This has been something I’ve relied on for years to help give me perspective and make better choices.

It rips you out of the moment.

It stops you from relying so heavily on the confused chemical signals coming from your body and instead gives you a bit more distance.

It depersonalises the decision and helps you to treat yourself like a friend you’re responsible for helping.

It forces you to optimise for long-term thinking rather than immediate gratification.

It reminds you that ultimately decisions aren’t being made for you now, they’re being made for you in 24 hours, and 24 days, and 24 months.

Our decisions are investments we make into our future, and the more ruminative and deep of a thinker you are, the more you need to make decisions for your future self, not yourself now.

Optimising to gratify your desires in the moment at the expense of the way you feel and the story you tell yourself about yourself in the future is rarely a good deal.

Joe Hudson - one of the best coaches on the planet on how to make decisions, be more decisive and remove self doubt. Straight heat.

Choose wisely.

We don’t have crystal balls to see the future, but this is about as close of a tool to clairvoyance as I can think of.

In fact, I can’t think of a single decision which would be worse if I actually did what I wished I’d done 24 hours later.

So yeah, try to be kind to your 24-hour-you, they’re the one who has to deal with whatever you do today.

MODERN WISDOM

I do a podcast where I pretend to have a British accent.
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This week’s upcoming episodes:

Monday.
Joe Hudson - one of the best coaches on the planet on how to make decisions, be more decisive and remove self doubt. Straight heat. Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Thursday.
David Geary - how did warfare shape human evolution? Would we have the civilisation we do without aggression?

Saturday.
Michael Feldstein - why is the air quality in your house one of the most important silent killers of health that no one realises?

THINGS I'VE LEARNED

1.
​Non-biological risk factors most strongly associated with early death:

1. Active smoking: +91%
2. History of divorce: +45%
3. Alcohol misuse: +36%
4. Recent financial difficulties: +32%
5. History of unemployment: +32%
6. Being a former smoker: +32%
7. Low life satisfaction: +31%
8. Never having been married: +30%

(% denotes how associated each factor is with a higher mortality hazard)

2.
​Sigmund Freud in a letter to Carl Jung…

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as most beautiful.”

3.
​Anxiety is not your friend.

A 2020 study found that 91.4% of anxious thoughts (“worry predictions”) never come true.

“Almost all of your thoughts are completely useless, wrong, and meaningless.

They are just biological feedback from a disregulated nervous system, old childhood defence mechanisms, and genetic conditioning.” — @alexeixbt

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Big love,
Chris x

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