3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, Below is a list of the Top 10 most played episodes on audio of 2024, in order. Perhaps unsurprisingly, that epic Matthew McConaughey episode came in at #1, it’s still so so good. It’s great to see such a range of topics performing well, I love how varied I can go with the show and everyone still enjoy it. Anyway, all the links for Spotify and Apple Podcasts are below, go back and check some of these monsters out. If you would like to get me a belated Christmas...
12 days ago • 3 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, The exact annual review template I use is now available for you to download for free - https://chriswillx.com/review If you want to learn your lessons from this year and set your intentions for 2025, it should help a lot. “Find someone who you just feel safe being a burden to. You’re not going to intentionally be a burden but sometimes you suck, you know. Sometimes you’re a burden. And if you don’t even feel safe being like that around your partner, if you have to...
19 days ago • 2 min read
3 MINUTE MONDAY Hi friend, Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchill's mother, once dined with both Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and his rival, William Gladstone, on consecutive nights. When asked about her impressions of the two men, she said, “When I left the dining room after sitting next to Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But when I sat next to Disraeli I left feeling that I was the cleverest woman”. Most people think they want to be charismatic. They want their...
26 days ago • 3 min read
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...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
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....
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
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...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
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...
2 months ago • 4 min read
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...
2 months ago • 5 min read