3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, It's nearly the end of the year, you should do a review process. My End Of Year Review framework has been downloaded by 100,000 people and is totally free. Enjoy x This time of year can be tough. Downtime from busyness, overwhelm from family and melancholy from reflection can create the perfect storm for overthinking. So here’s 20 Sentences to Stop Overthinking by Nir Eyal. Use these one-liners as mantras when your brain won't switch off. I don't need certainty to...
9 days ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, You should do an end of year review - it’s the one time of the year that’s culturally appropriate to fully focus on reflection. My favourite free end of year review process is here. Enjoy x Below is a list of the Top 15 most played episodes on audio of 2025. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that epic Naval episode came in at #1, it's so so good. Gonna have to do something special to beat that in 2026. It’s great to see such a range of topics performing well, I love how...
16 days ago • 5 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, It's nearly the end of the year, you should do a review process. My End Of Year Review framework has been downloaded by 100,000 people and is totally free. Enjoy x You are not original. I've talked to thousands of people one-on-one at my live show meet & greets over the last year. Here is a list of thoughts that almost everyone has, but thinks that no one else has… I’m terrified that momentum is more important than talent, and I lost mine. I need to choose between...
23 days ago • 5 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, This week I found out I’m the 8th biggest podcast in the world. Just… wild. I’ve never worked so hard on anything in my life. The last few years have just been a permanent sprint. I’ve done 3 episodes a week for nearly 6 years now. I’ve done it with a snapped Achilles, I’ve done it on no sleep, I’ve done it with a broken heart, I’ve done 4 episodes in a day, I‘ve done it in Hawaii and Guatemala and Sydney. There hasn’t been a single bedroom of any house that I’ve...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My tour finishes this week. Salt Lake City & Vancouver have been sold out for months, Denver on Friday has a few tickets left! I was recently asked why I try and stay out of drama on the internet. There’s no shortage of it to inject yourself into. It is much easier to grow an audience by creating an enemy, even an imaginary one. Galvanising people’s in-group & out-group biases will bring you ardent fans more quickly than anything else, it's something I'm proud of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I’m coming back to Australia with a brand new live show in March! Plus New Zealand and Bali 💜 Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Christchurch, Auckland and Canggu. Get your tickets now. In celebration, here’s a story from that side of the world. In Australia in the 1970’s a woman was assaulted. Her assailant had broken into her house and attacked her inside of her home. The police were called and took her report, she identified a TV psychologist, Donald...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, Modern Wisdom’s merch drop has 24 hours left to buy. Pre-order finishes Tuesday. After that you will never be able to buy these designs again. Last chance for MW Merch. We like to pretend procrastination is a time-management problem, but regularly it isn’t. It’s often a self-protection strategy wearing a Fitbit. When we delay doing the thing we know we should do, we’re sometimes not wrestling with our schedule, we’re wrestling with our self-worth. The logic goes...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, My LA show this weekend was so good, thank you to everyone who came out. I love you all Final 50 tickets left for Boston this Thursday & Chicago this Friday. Also, I’m finally releasing MW Merch! If you’ve seen me wearing it on vlogs or in photos, this is what it’s been working toward. I wanted a new brand for the merch which is associated with the podcast but also separate. So the clothing is called Mostly Wise. The first Mostly Wise drop goes live this Friday at...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, I'm back on the road. LA for a full week of episodes then playing The Regent Theater this Saturday - I can't wait to see you there! All my live shows are sold out except for Boston, Denver & Chicago now. The Rivalry Theory Of Body Positivity. TLDR: Female support for body positivity is at least in-part fuelled deep down by female intrasexual competition, which pushes other women out of the dating pool by discouraging them from losing weight. This was originally...
2 months ago • 4 min read