Modern Wisdom

Nik Nocturnal is a musician, YouTuber, and content creator.

What is happening in modern metal music? The days of thrash and hair metal dominating culture are long gone, and something entirely new has taken their place. So what defines modern metal, why does it sound so different, and how has the internet changed the music industry forever?

Expect to learn how big of an impact TikTok plays in shaping the way modern metal songs are written, which songs are the most influential songs in modern metal, what Nik thinks of AI-generated music, the most overused trends in metal right now, the tension between making art and making “content” in music, the worst thing about being a YouTube musician and much more…

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Timestamps:

(0:00) How is TikTok Reshaping Metal Music?
(8:24) Is Metal Music Better Than Ever?
(17:36) Are We Living in a Golden Age of Metal?
(25:39) How Pop Culture Is Reviving Metal
(28:28) The Best Metal Songs for Nostalgia
(34:55) Is Originality Dead in Music?
(41:29) Is There Beef in the Metal Genre?
(47:02) Who is Slipknot’s New Drummer?
(50:22) How Long Have Kilswitch Engage Been Around?
(51:05) Why is Metal Becoming Self-Aware?
(54:04) How Hit Songs Are Really Made
(58:52) Are Bands Being Engineered for Virality?
(01:06:49) The Building Blocks of Nik’s Fast Songwriting
(01:16:52) The Hidden Costs of Taking a Break
(01:27:06) Why Creators Burn Out So Fast
(01:35:51) The Power of the “F*ck You” Pivot
(01:40:34) Are Streaming Platforms Exploiting Artists?
(01:53:44) How Song DNA is Improving Credit
(01:56:16) What’s Next For the Alt Music Scene?
(02:08:59) Metal Bands You Shouldn’t Miss
(02:16:23) Where to Find Nik

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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠

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In this evolutionary psychology debate, we explore:

- Why women feel much more negatively towards young men than young men feel about them.

- Why men are more often demonised and women are seen as victims.

- How differing political views are quietly becoming one of the biggest relationship dealbreakers for young people.

- and much more...

Guests

- Freya India is a writer and journalist focused on female mental health and modern culture.

- William Costello is a psychology researcher and Ph.D. student specialising in evolutionary psychology.

- Dr. Tania Reynolds is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of New Mexico.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Why Are Modern Women So Angry?
(8:50) Do Most Women Lean to the Left?
(15:37) The Rise of Male Looksmaxxing
(21:10) Why Men and Women Have Different Preferences
(32:38) ADoes Insecurity Make Us More Extroverted?
(35:33) How Women Adapted So Well to the Modern Workplace
(38:36) Are Male Mental Health Incentives Actually Pushing Against Opening Up?
(53:26) The Hidden Rise of Benevolent Sexism
(59:33) Do Women Find Aggression Attractive?
(01:07:44) What Sex Dolls Reveal About Male Desire
(01:14:10) Who Resents the Opposite Sex More?
(01:19:15) Do Men Get the Ick Too?
(01:21:58) Why Privileged Women Feel More Pessimisti
(01:25:15) Can Men Be Victims Too?
(01:28:20) Why Attractiveness Is the Ignored Privilege
(01:32:59) Should You Be Friends Before Dating?
(01:39:11) Is Effortless Beauty More Attractive?
(01:45:04) Where to Find Everyone

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#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠

#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠

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Jefferson Fisher is a trial attorney, legal educator, and content creator.

Why are the conversations that matter most the hardest to have? When something meaningful needs to be said, we often avoid it, only making things worse. So how do you structure a difficult conversation the right way, and connect with someone not just logically, but emotionally?

Expect to learn why we fear conflict in communication and why it’s so scary but necessary to navigate, how to deal with conflict more effectively, the best ways to respond to an insult, why being right feels so good, what’s realistic and true about working out if someone’s lying to you, how to properly connect in any communication and much more…

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Why Communication Feels Harder Than Ever
(0:41) Is Conflict Really Something to Fear?
(1:45) Why Are We So Quick to Lose Control?
(2:56) What Actually Triggers Us?
(7:57) We Need to Learn How to Hold Space For Others
(14:59) The Best Ways to Regulate Any Conversation
(17:34) Simple Tricks to Stay Calm in Difficult Conversations
(25:22) What Is Your Anger Really Hiding?
(31:39) Are You Making This Mistake During Conflict?
(33:24) Why Setting Boundaries Feels So Difficult
(36:56) How Do You Handle Passive Aggression?
(39:55) Does Childhood Shape Passive Aggressive Behaviour?
(42:20) The Best Way to Deliver Bad News
(52:28) Are You Carrying Other People’s Emotions?
(56:45) The Shame of Small Fears
(01:06:02) How to Avoid Frustration When You’re Being Misunderstood
(01:09:15) How Much Does a Divorce Raise Your Heart Rate?
(01:13:50) Is Silence the Best Response to Insult?
(01:26:32) Why Do We Hide Behind “Just Joking”?
(01:28:51) Do Certain Phrases Make You Sound Weak?
(01:31:15) Where Does Self-Assurance Come From?
(01:36:09) What Makes Someone Sound Truly Composed?
(01:38:17) Can You Be Assertive Without Being an A**hole?
(01:41:33) Why We Need to Be Intentional With Our Words
(01:47:04) Is Being Right Overrated?
(01:52:29) Why We’re Obsessed With Winning Arguments
(01:53:06) The Biggest Clues Someone is Lying to You
(01:56:42) The Best Way to Repair After Conflict
(01:59:33) Why Tough Times Build Stronger Relationships
(02:01:08) What Really Makes a Great Partner?
(02:02:56) Lessons From a Trial Lawyer
(02:06:47) The One Rule Behind Great Communication
(02:10:02) Find Out More About Jefferson

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This Is How To Master Your Life - David Goggins - #577: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠⁠

How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs - Dr Jordan Peterson - #712: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠⁠

The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠

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Mercedes Coffman is a writer, researcher, and cultural commentator.

What’s happening with modern dating? People who are genuinely ready for a relationship feel frustrated, even punished by a shallow dating pool, yet others seem to find real love every day. So what’s actually broken, and what can be fixed?

Expect to learn why avoidant culture is changing relationship expectations, if modern dating is punishing emotionally available people, why dating fatigue is kicking in, if someone is actually too busy for you or if they just say they are, the most common ways people unknowingly sabotage their own relationships, why you can just “fix her” and much more…

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Timestamps:

(0:00) How Avoidant Culture is Rewriting Relationships
(1:55) Does Modern Dating Punish Emotionally Availability?
(4:20) What Makes Emotionally Available People Vulnerable?
(8:51) How to Spot Emotional Availability
(12:00) What Does a Perfect Match Really Look Like?
(13:33) What Blocks True Alignment?
(16:39) Are We Too Obsessed With Love?
(25:28) Why Discernment is the Ultimate Relationship Skill
(34:23) How Do Rom-Coms Distort Our Love Lives
(37:02) Romantasy: Escapism or Soft-Core Porn?
(39:55) Does Desire Outpace Emotional Capacity?
(42:53) Why We Self-Sabotage in Relationships
(45:10) The Best Way to Build Emotional Capacity
(46:16) Does Trauma Drive Relationship Self-Sabotage?
(49:32) We Need to Start With Self-Acceptance
(01:04:07) Why We Crave Chaos and Stability
(01:07:34) Love Bombing: The Most Dangerous Red Flag
(01:14:15) Who Falls Hardest Into Limerence?
(01:17:35) Why Inconsistent Praise Hooks You In
(01:25:37) The Wrong People Are the Hardest to Get Over
(01:27:30) Stop Being So Hard on Yourself
(01:28:53) How to Comfortably Hold Your Boundaries
(01:30:33) Where to Find Mercedes

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠

#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠

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In the second edition of this new experimental episode format, we explore:
- If Kratom is more addictive than heroin
- What the latest and greatest life hacks are
- Who actually is the highest-earning athlete in history
- and much more…

Guests:
- Gary Faust is a comedian and writer.
- Shaan Puri is an entrepreneur, former CEO, podcaster and an angel investor.
- George Mack is a writer, marketer and entrepreneur.

Sponsors:

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Peanuts in Coke… Is This a Good Idea?
(2:19) The Most Ridiculous Paycheck in Sports History
(5:53) Is the Mainstream Media Overhyped?
(13:45) UK vs the Roman Empire: Who’s Actually Better?
(16:31) Would Claude Beat Grok in a Fight?
(17:38) Is the LGBTQ+ Acronym Getting Out of Hand?
(23:42) Why No One Takes Mental Health Seriously Anymore
(27:26) Is Kratom More Addictive Than Heroin?
(38:19) What Can DNA Testing Reveal About You?
(46:09) Do You Remember Every Porn Video You’ve Ever Watched?
(49:18) The Ultimate Trick to Boost Uber Eats Tips
(51:48) The Peak Bachelor Pad Setup
(53:38) Are Norwegian Prisoners Living Better Than Us?
(55:44) The Analyst Who Sounded the Alarm on Hormuz
(01:00:20) Are Gay Relationships a CIA Strategy?
(01:05:14) Is Flighty the Greatest Life Hack?
(01:08:08) Can We Trust Studies Anymore?
(01:12:17) Is California Trying to Bury Fraud?
(01:18:04) Do Your Game Choices Define You?
(01:23:13) Are Likes and Views Changing How We Consume Content?
(01:34:19) Does Everyone in the UK Know the King?
(01:40:05) Could a Dinner Have Stopped WWII?
(01:41:55) FTX’s Painful Anthropic Fumble
(01:47:53) Does Momentum Suffocate Talent?
(01:52:28) What If Ja Rule Co-Founded Apple?
(01:53:19) How Supernormal Stimuli Hijack Your Brain
(01:59:23) The Burning Monk and the Extremes of the Human Mind
(02:03:29) Why Everyone’s Dooming About AI
(02:06:18) Could AI Replace Doctors?
(02:11:19) The Craziest One-Day Price Move
(02:13:07) Is AI Learning From Indian Factories?
(02:17:12) Wait… His Dad’s in the Rock Hall of Fame?!

Extra Stuff:

Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: ⁠⁠https://chriswillx.com/books⁠⁠

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠

#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠

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