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3MM: Worry, Marriage & Parents

3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, When faced with a challenge, your nature might be to worry and obsess and grip tightly. The classic Insecure Overachiever mindset. Because worrying is so common in every pursuit you attempt, your successes are seen as proof that worrying is a performance enhancer, and your failures are proof that you should have worried all along. Unfalsifiable negativity. “A walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity” as Andrew Wilkinson says. You build a link between...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, “No one deserves to be praised for kindness if he does not have the strength to be bad." — La Rouchefoucauld I’ve been thinking about the difference between choosing to do a virtuous act, and being compelled by your nature. I have a tendency to see other people’s emotional states as my responsibility. If you’re not ok, then I’m not ok. That someone else’s distress is a problem for me to solve. A while ago I rang a friend to check in on them after an amicable debate....

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I'm back in the UK. Come see me live this Thursday in London at the Eventim Apollo - https://chriswilliamson.live/london “I still find myself with this sense that success has to be earned. And the only way to earn it is to inflict pain on yourself. And if you’re not in pain you didn’t try hard enough. And it would have been better if you’d suffered more. And I think that’s a lie, and I want to find out if it’s a lie or if it’s true.” — Rich Roll I think it’s a lie...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I'm coming to London! See me live next Thursday 28th November at the Eventim Apollo with 3499 other people - https://chriswilliamson.live/london An ode to people who don’t believe in themselves. What comes first, belief or action? Do you need to believe you can do a thing before you do it? “Fake it until you make it” is one option, but incredibly hard if you’re introspective or have low self-belief and high standards. So what about make it until you fake it? Here...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I just finished my Australia Live Tour - 5000 people across 3 cities in 4 days. Absolutely surreal. Still processing everything, thank you all. Next up: London XL show - Thursday November 28th https://chriswilliamson.live/london Question. Does astrology work? Spencer Greenberg (Modern Wisdom guest) tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Back in January, a study was run trying to predict 37 facts about...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I'm in Australia! Come and see me live this week. Brisbane is sold out, Melbourne 8th & Sydney 9th have limited tickets left - https://chriswilliamson.live/australia See me live in London on Thursday 28th November - https://chriswilliamson.live/london “The latest social science tells us that children raised in single-mother homes are about five times more likely to be poor than kids raised in stably married homes. That young men raised apart from a stably married...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, See me live in London on Thursday 28th November - https://chriswilliamson.live/london See me live in Australia! Brisbane sold out, Melbourne 8th & Sydney 9th November - https://chriswilliamson.live/australia Question: How much should you care about things? Answer: I’m unsure exactly but I know that it’s not “the absolute maximum amount, all the time, for everything”. A classic insecure overachiever struggles to correctly distinguish between the small number of areas...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, Type A Problems, Type B Problems. I think Type A people have a Type B problem, and Type B people have a Type A problem. Insecure overachievers need to learn how to chill out and relax, and lazy people need to learn how to work harder and be disciplined. Given that you subscribe to me, I’m going to guess you’re probably Type A. Some version of a “walking anxiety disorder harnessed for productivity” as Andrew Wilkinson says. Here’s the thing you may have already...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, See me at my London Live Show on Thursday 28th November at the Eventim Apollo - General Tickets still available! https://chriswilliamson.live/london 3 weeks until Australia! Brisbane 6th, Melbourne 8th & Sydney 9th November - General Tickets still available! https://chriswilliamson.live/australia I recently learned about The Fading Affect Bias. The goodness and badness of memories fade over time, but the badness fades faster. Some bad memories even become good...

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3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’ve been thinking about the public drama around the widespread adoption of Ozempic and GLP1s. Unsurprisingly there has been a lot of pushback from the body positivity movement. Headlines say that anorectics (the broader class of drugs like Ozempic) confirm society’s “anti-fat bias” and claim that “a future without fat is a dangerous idea”. Basically that appetite-suppressing drugs are a removal of fat people’s identity and a denial of their right to exist. All the...