Modern Wisdom
#881 - Christmas Special - Life Hacks, Biggest Lessons & Best Resolutions
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What is the theme of the Christmas special?
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. It is a Christmas special. For those of you who have only joined the show over the last year or the last few years, you might not recognize this room, and it is my old living room in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where we first started the show, joined by Johnny Youssef from Propion Fitness and George Mack, stopping off en route from Glasgow to Manchester, of course.
Uh... This is a life hacks, lessons from 2024 and best New Year's resolutions episode. So if you haven't seen these, we'll go around in a circle coming up with whatever we've discovered over the last year. And then the rest of us will rip it apart or say that it's good. And maybe there'll be some ideas for you for what you can implement going into the New Year.
Also, if you haven't done a New Year's review, the exact template that I use and have crafted very delicately over the last decade or so is available right now for free. at chriswellx.com slash review. That's tradition. Something else which is tradition is you getting hot potato and going first. Hot potato. A festive potato for you. Festive potato. Jonathan Watson, what have you got for us?
Is it life hacks first? It is.
So my life hack is a Ninja Creamy. So happy you said that. Really? I've got one. Have you? I've got one. Yusuf's been thinking about getting one. I think hasn't got one yet. What's a Ninja Creamy? Do you know what one is? Educate me. What I use it for is making ice cream from a protein shake. It's brilliant. So like skimmed milk, what do you use it for? The same thing or berries?
I imagine you have berries in yours.
uh actually no uh mine has been low sugar high protein ice cream made with the exact protein powder that i want right so pretty much the same thing that you're doing yeah do you put topping in it So I've encountered a problem with that, which is when you have to make up the mixture and then put it in the freezer for it to freeze.
The issue is the viscosity of the liquid when you put it in the freezer versus the viscosity of the liquid when it becomes ice cream is different. So if you put chocolate chips in, they all just sink to the bottom and create a layer. What's your solution?
Well, you put them on after you've... So you creamy it and then you... Sorry, I'm just writing instructions. You do what? Yeah. I don't see a pen, George. It doesn't look like you're making notes. It looks like you're trying to make fun of me, George. Go on. You cream it. Cream it. And then once it's creamy, there's a mix-in button.
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Chapter 2: What life hacks did the guests discover this year?
Yeah.
Because how much xanthan gum?
Well, you'd just experiment, wouldn't you?
But think how long it's going to take to get that right.
That's true. Because you've got something that works sort of 80% now. Exactly. Okay. So white chocolate performed. White chocolate and raspberry whey.
Yep. With raspberries and white chocolate chips as the topping mixed in. So good. It's like 40 grams of protein or a little bit more if you include the milk. And like 400 calories. It's brilliant.
And you see one of those off in one go? Yeah. Dessert? Lunch? You can tell you're not running anything. Usually like last meal of the day. That's pretty dialed. So good. That's very good. I'm a big ninja. I mean, ninja are just between the air fryers, all of the different air fryers they've got. They've got this air fryer crispy thing now, which is a glass tray at the bottom.
So you can see how it sort of crisps and you can make lasagnas, you know, where you have that sort of the filtering on the top. I've not got an air fryer.
Do you have an air fryer, imagine? That seems like... Yeah, I should get one, should I? Do you have one, George? Yes, but I never used it.
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Chapter 3: How can gratitude triggers improve your mindset?
Journaling is... So this one is less about... It is essentially... you don't appreciate... Writing a journal now, it's kind of like investing in the S&P. You go, ah, I could be doing all these activities. But a journal five years hence, the value of that is so significant.
It's like even now, if I go on a flight and I can go through exactly how I thought 10 years ago or what I was doing, because you forget so much. And going back to your point earlier, it's just the same problems over and over again. I had a friend of mine who I think had his journal stolen. And because he left it in his suitcase, they got stolen. I go, how much was that worth to you?
He's like, probably like 15% or 15 or 20% of everything I have. It's so valuable. Jim O'Shaughnessy, who's one of the smartest guys I know, older gentleman, he's about 60. And he was telling me about journals he has from when he was like 21 and the value that that has to him.
Have I told you about this, George? I took a journal every day from the age of 13 to 19. Wow. On a Microsoft Word document. And then one day I opened it, file corrupted. Just like, fucking hell. Oh, well.
Did you never back it up?
No, I was like, well, that's the end of that and just stopped.
Not backing that up is the least you thing ever.
Or is that where it starts? This was when I was transitioning Windows to Mac. So it was in that. However, I've still got the file. So I could maybe uncorrupt it now with modern technology. I'd be able to.
like whether it's you do this very well you take a lot of photos videos I don't do that I'm trying to do it more but more photos more videos more journals because the value of it is so significant 10 20 30 days day one day one no you can use you can leave audio messages you can photos videos
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