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Live should be lived by design, not default.

This is the danger of not spending time working out what you want to want.

Kyle Eschenroeder explains it beautifully…

Blindly following your desires makes you a slave to your impulses — slave to the assumptions of those around you, the advertisements you’re exposed to, and the confused chemical signals of your body.

If we don’t pause and ask ourselves what we want to want, we will spend our lives focused on unhealthy aims defined for us by others and the worst parts of ourselves.

We will pass these bad assumptions about life onto our children and loved ones.

We will reinforce these boring, desperate defaults in everyone we encounter.

To achieve freedom we must be able to think for ourselves.

If we don’t cut to the core and program our wants (our desires) then our best-case scenario is to be a successful, rich, or famous slave.

If we never peer into our programming then we may end up being the cleverest rat in the room, but that’s hardly worth celebrating.

TLDR: your default factory settings are awful.

Do not follow them.

The people who do will never actualise their potential - either for happiness or success.

Your desires define your own paths of least resistance.

The goal is to arrive at a point where we actually want what we want to want.

Your life should be lived by design, not default.

MODERN WISDOM

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

Monday.
Birth Rate Debate - Stephen J. Shaw, Simone Collins and Lyman Stone join me to discuss why no one is having any kids. Is it the cost of living? Modern culture? Feminism? The Mansophere? Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Thursday.
Episode 1100 - just me talking to me. I break down some of my favourite lessons, insights and stories from my personal learning over the last few months. One of my favourites

Saturday.
David Deida - The Way Of The Superior Man author gives his first interview in 10 years. Very special. (sorry it didn’t go out last week!)

THINGS I'VE LEARNED

1.
​Why you can’t mass produce elite special operators for the military.

“The percentage of guys with 130+ IQ who enjoy both books and bar fights is incredibly small.” (h/t Link)

2.
​Your greatest growth comes from your lowest moments.

“It is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life.

The only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.” — BeautyOfSaas

3.
​C. S. Lewis, the feminist.

“The homemaker has the ultimate career.

All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.” — C. S. Lewis

LIFE HACK

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Big love,
Chris x

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PS
I recorded an episode with Matt McCusker, Andrew Huberman and Tom Segura last week. I can't even describe how good it is. One of the best things I've ever done. Pepper your angus.