Modern Wisdom - #187 - Life Hacks 201

Episode Date: June 22, 2020

Jonny & Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me as we begin the 2nd Season of Life Hacks. Our favourite tools, apps, websites, strategies & resources for a productive and efficient life. Expect to learn our real life review of the AirPods Pro, how to hack your hunger when cutting, our favourite To Do List apps, how you can manage your Instagram Inbox on desktop, a huge list of our favourite things to watch on TV and much more... Sponsor: Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MODERNWISDOM (Enter promo code MODERNWISDOM for 85% off and 3 Months Free) Extra Stuff: Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ Check out Jonny & Yusef's site - https://propanefitness.com/ Learn to build an online business - https://propanefitness.com/modernwisdom Do your chores whilst cooking breakfast Coffee Bags 4:6:6 Method for coffee AirPods Pro - https://amzn.to/3fHhMn1  https://www.brain.fm/  Ask a friend to take you clothes shopping Reebok Nano X - https://amzn.to/3elVwyT  Romaleos 4 - https://www.wit-fitness.com/collections/romaleos-4  https://gethuman.com/  Write a letter online - https://www.pc2paper.co.uk/ Pressups when hungry Clean teeth on an evening to stop hunger Go to bed earlier when cutting https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/ The Foundation Series for posture - https://youtu.be/4BOTvaRaDjI  Start with weakest side in gym Watch a subtitled film to combat dual-screening Watch Parasite on Amazon Prime Keep a list of things to watch or read Watch The Gentleman Watch Succession Watch Gangs Of London Watch Defending Jacob Skip forward to avoid ads on Siri The Productivity Planner - https://www.intelligentchange.com/products/the-productivity-planner  SideCar on MacOS https://www.instagram.com/direct/inbox/  https://www.flotato.com/  Determine the maximum and minimum tolerance for areas in your life Upright induction charger - https://amzn.to/3epzOd2 Louder audiobooks for comprehension - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People of podcast land. Are you ready for the second season of Lifehacks? That's right, Johnny and you said from propanefitness.com, join me as we leave season one behind the wet behind the ears, virginity that was season one has been completed and we are on season two. So expect to learn our real life review of the AirPods Pro,

how to hack your hunger when cutting. Our favorite to do list apps, how you can manage your Instagram inbox on desktop, a huge list of our favorite things to watch on TV, how use of his sending letters from the internet, his best work around for not waiting on the phone for customer support to speak to you, and so much more.

Obviously season two has started because season one ended with the season finale of the Ultimate Lifehacks list. If you haven't got your copy yet, it is a free e-book which gives you every life hack we have ever featured on the show up to now, over 200 ways that you can upgrade your life and it is available for free at my website chriswillx.com slash life hacks. It's not going to be free forever, but it is still free this week. So chriswillx.com slash life hacks, go and pick yourself up a copy if you haven't already. So good to have the boys back. We're still recording remotely because we are socially responsible social distances, podcasters, but hopefully once the restrictions get removed, you will be able to see us in our full glory back

in my living room sitting on my couch. Now it is time, season two, I am so excited. Life hacks, let's go. It is Lifehack's time with Johnny and you, Seth from propanefitness.com. How are you doing, gentlemen? Good. All very good. You do the Macarena. I don't think it's like that, is it? That look more like a my-marthist pretending there was a glass wall. Pretending to do the Macarena. I'm not very up-to-date with my like 90s dance moves.

90s dance moves, yeah. Vendor boys. Yeah, if it was anything after Vendor boys or Craig David's debut single, that's your most current music, isn't it? It's like how you suffice like, there's one series and one film to talk about when someone's like, do you check age? Yeah, I've seen Breaking Bad or Breaking Bad.

And I've seen Fight Club. Do you mean the reverse? Is it like Fight Club? Is it like Fight Club? So look, I actually know pop culture very well. I have a pop culture. It is Lifehacks. We only done one new Lifehacks episode,

proper Lifehacks episode in 2020. So we should have tons. And I've got loads, I know you guys have got loads as well. Also, before we started, I wanted to say thank you to everyone that's downloaded the ultimate Lifehacks guide. If you haven't got yours, Chris will X.com slash lifehacks over 200 ways that you can upgrade your life and it covers everything we've done up to now. So this is kind of like the second season.

Second season of lifehacks. Lifehacks. A new beginning. A new frontier. So hot potato, Johnny, you are up. What have you got for us first? So mine I'll split between physical and digital. The OGs will know. Yeah, if you get that joke, congratulations, congratulations. Which one to pick? That's the thing. That's the question. Here's a really basic one. It's not funny. No, I've got one. Yeah. That's the question. Here's a really basic one.

It's not funny. No, I've got none. Yeah. What's something I've been doing recently? So I reread Atomic Habits. We all like Atomic Habits, don't we? I just already. Yeah.

You're reading it, congrats. I've got, I'm reading two books currently. Traffic secrets and Atomic Habits. To set. All to set up. So I basically, I mean, this is a, not that relevant, but I've started eating breakfast. So while things are cooking in the pan in the morning,

I basically do all of the, like chores in the kitchen. So I like to take the bin out, empty the dishwasher, wipe the surfaces, and then I can't forget it's happened and you go back in the kitchen, you're like, ah, this is clean, this is tidy. So it's just you, because other I previously, the first couple of times I was doing was just like standing looking at the pan, like waiting for it to warm up. So you're using dead time like that. And there was another example.

We've got example of that from an old one is when you were flossing your teeth in the shower you, so that sort of thing. I mean, so you know, you know when it's a really good life hack, when separately we haven't talked about it, but yet I do the same thing as you. So I have on a morning my housemate makes fun of me because we've been getting up at similar sort of times during lockdown and there's this weird ballet that I do around the kitchen when I'm making my food,

because I'm prepping my whole food for the whole day. And I'm also washing up and I'll wash all of his stuff because I don't mind, and I've got my podcast on. But I'm like going like, cook a sink, pirouette, microwave, freezer. Dada, da, da, da, da, yeah. It's like this elaborate dance thing where I'm moving.

You've got like 50s like Mary Poppins music playing in the background. It's Ben Shapiro's podcast usually, which actually makes you move a lot quicker. Yeah. What was the other example? Have you seen the Alan Parktards thing? We're talking about how to wash your hands and train toilet without touching anything. No, it's like elbow, elbow, soap, soap, tissue, tissue down, kick the door, open, down, out. That's how my morning feels. Well, I mean, it's so much better.

Like why wouldn't you use the time when you're cooking your food to do other things? Well, you can just look at your food, cooking. So there's a huge number of people do that. Oh, it wasted time. There's so much opportunity for that where like, we, so we discussed this with a process engineer on one of our podcasts called Efficiency as everything recently. And he talks very much about like, there's just hundreds of opportunities during the day where you set a process in motion that requires time, but no further input until it's done,

such as breakfast in the pan. And then you just go, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, do all the stuff in between, set another process and motion, and it's like it's all about finding what are those initial trigger processes that you can just set going. And so he talks about, I think we discussed this on probably one of the last ones about when Henry Ford gave his presentation of turning on a suit, or washing your, is it washing your balls first in the shower, washing your head first in the shower? It's washing your head first in it, trips to drips.

Yeah, the Henry Ford example is great. So he was talking about how he puts on a suit and he does his shirt from the bottom up and then ties his tie because his hands are moving bottom up to the neck, does the tie put that round, does this thing, you know? So yeah, I like that. Have you got any other, do you say you had another example of what you do? So it's just, so like in that process, I will like take the bin out, what like empty the dishwasher, reload the dishwasher with anything that needs to be put in,

fill up three of these and put them in the fridge. So then I just, because like a big resistant, I don't really like drinking water. And that sounds ridiculous, but like left to my own devices and just won't drink water. But if there's like chilled bottles in the fridge, ready to go, much so much easier. So like often I'll go back to the kitchen at like 11 a.m. Forget that I've done all of this.

I might, the kitchen's a convenient. Fucking clean in here. I've got chilled water and everything like this is brilliant. Bega, someone, the cleaning fairies have been in again. Man, so much of the stuff that you can do can be like, future Johnny will thank past Johnny that he hasn't even remembered. I remember one of my housemates, his girlfriend used to drunk clean. So she'd come in from a night out and clean the whole house drunk,

because she said the next day it was like she hadn't done it. That's clever. That's really good. Yeah. I like that. My flatmate did that when she first tried Jack 3D. Remember that pre-workout? Yeah. I got banned. She was someone who was no stranger to class A drugs as well. And I was, I had some and she was like, what's that? Can I try some?

And I was like, yeah, fine, I went to the gym, came back and the house was spotless. And she was like, I've had a really good day, so I've been really productive, I've cleaned the whole house, and I was like, okay, if you've got any idea why that might be the case. And no, I just, you know, you're just full of energy, I don't know what's going on.

I'm really in all of the time for some reason. A little bit sweaty, a little bit climbing, but yeah, yeah, jaws going. Okay, so do your chores whilst cooking breakfast and make use of dead time. Use if, what you got. So mine is coffee bags. I have discovered this recently by Johnny's really upset.

This is probably a very like absolute philistine thing to say for coffee or fish in ardo's like you got coffee. You just put it in the coffee pot. It's really quick. No, so it's the same niceness as proper coffee because it is just in a bag that's more permeable than a tea bag. Only discovered this by accident because a girlfriend went to buy some coffee, knew that I didn't have all the right coffee

kit. So she bought some coffee bags, turned up and realised that they were decaf, got really upset, and was like, you just keep them. I'm not touching those horrible things. Brilliant. So now I've got a box of coffee bags in the house. So is that what you were drinking in your big cup? This was actually a mushroom cocoa. I think on your recommendation, Johnny. Second hand, I got it because of hearing you talk about it on previous life hacks, and now I had some as a filter down.

It's like that makes me feel uneasy because it's like Mike, without me knowing, as listen to something I said a while ago, has gone out and done something, and now you've got it in a mug. It's a relaxant though, who are aware of that. It's like a Eve-dune blend. One is the Charger and one is Cordiceps. So this morning I was training my Cordiceps and then I had some of the mushrooms. Many out of Charger. All right. I could see in your facial expression that you had a criticism about coffee bags, Johnny, what's your... So one of mine is...

Becca bought me a temperature kettle. Now you might think, surely all kettles do temperature. How is this different? It's a kettle that you set the temperature and it boils up to a certain, it's got a special spout on it that allows you to pour water into a filter funnel, where I've been using the 466 method to brew coffee. So it's quite very manual, very slow, but delicious. So just contrast that to, that was one of my life hacks. Contrast that to use a coffee bag. It's done. You've got the full spectrum.

Wow. What is the 466 method method you might as well go again? It's so you you I mean I'll probably get some of this wrong but it's I think Japanese coffee prep method where you weigh out 20 grams of beans, grind them, put them into a filter paper beans and then you pour an initial amount of water on it, then you wait for the bloom, which is the carbon dioxide being released from the beans, and then you wait, and then you pour more water, wait, pour more water in a 466 pattern. So rather than me going through the full prep, so it's very, it's like a real craft process to make a coffee.

Isn't it amazing? The branding of Japan. Like, if you say anything, it uses a Japanese method, everyone's like, oh, must be so systematic. It's like this isn't just any bread roll and butter. This is Icelandic bread and an actual thick piece of butter. And you like, well, of course it's 900. Yeah.

It's counted down to 9,000 pounds. So Chris, what's yours? Coffee bags, have you got a brand for those scope? No, I think just any bio degradable one. The only thing I would avoid is this is tinfoil hat, but you know the really fancy tea. So it's in like a sort of silken mesh tea pigs have that kind of, it's like a pyramid style or a... I don't know what I'm talking about, but okay. What's the like, try something he'd drawn that's like pyramid with a triangle base? Okay. It's like that silky mesh, not a normal tea bag, not by a degradable, they are the worst thing for plastic and estrogen exposure

because they send off little micro particles of estrogen. Oh my god, I've got some of my cupboards. I've got T-pigs in my cupboards. They are absolutely terrible. So you don't want anyone that's using T-pigs to just throw them in the bin? Oh, bin them immediately. Yeah, or give them to someone that you want to have more estrogen. In fact, ironically, one of the best ways to clear out Eastrogen is because you live a cannot process,

it can't filter out the artificial Eastrugins, is to sweat them out. So sweat has a high proportion of artificial Eastrugins that you can excrete. Best way to do that, sauna, no saunas available all year. Probably won't be for another six to ten months. That makes me sad, man. It's like the coronavirus hub, isn't it?

Making you full of Eastridge, okay. So coffee bags, four, six, six methods for coffee. My first one, which we haven't covered, AirPod Pros. So they've been out for a little while. Surely covered these like every episode. No, I don't. Nope.

I think we have just written. I've just written an entire life. We have come like every episode. No, I don't. Nope. I think we have this written. I've just written. I've just written an entire life. We have come with air pods. Look, air pods was on the first ever episode. Air pod pros. So I got them the day they came out. I drove to the metro center to get them on the evening that they came out.

I got my buddy who works there to reserve a pair for me, which was good. And then four months later, Johnny and Jordan from Monomus and Big Dick's group got a hold of a pair and started extolling the virtues and telling me about just how great they were. You're like, I wish some of you. Chris, have you seen these? Chris, you should get some of these. They're just, if anyone that's listening, if you've got £240 to spend on a pair of headphones, if you use them a lot, you literally can't get better. They're the same price as any of the pair of noise-canceling headphones. The noise-canceling in them,

you might think, oh, why do I need a noise-canceling? That doesn't sound very interesting. It is just you existing inside of your own mind as opposed to you being within the world. It's so good. You can afford to have the sound turned down at a much lower level because the ambient noise coming in is competing with it much less, which means if you had problems with old airpods or wired headphones in a loud place like the gym or when you're driving or something else, it's just a wonderful experience. Battery life is still very strong, I've had mine for probably eight months now I guess since they came out And I don't regret buying them at all. One thing I would say is by the Apple Care Plus,

which extends the warranty for a couple of years, and I think is maybe 30 pounds. So all in, you're looking at about 270 pounds, but they're just amazing. If you're listening to this podcast, presumably you can assume a lot of audio content. The old AirPods are perfectly acceptable, but if you've got the extra £100 to spend it is worth it.

That's what I'm going to do. So actually one thing to add on that as well is, if you've got £10 to spend and you're not a twat, then you can get these, which are the anchor £10 Bluetooth headphones, you can actually get 30 pairs of these before you have to buy one set of AirPods. You say if you're not a twat, yeah, I think what you meant to say was, if you want to import your headphones via Yemen, you can. I was in, I was in top shop with Becca in Elton Square and I walked past, just when I still

had, you know, back in like 1999 when I had my normal AirPods andton Square. I walked past, this is when I still had, you know, back in like 1999 when I had my normal airpods and I was, I walked past and I saw like the box on the window and I was like, God, are they really not? And I'm like walking around touch up like this is boring. And I was like, I just, I wonder whether there's any reviews like, you know, non-biased reviews about Apple Pros, you Google it and it's just like page after page of these are the best headphones ever produced. So I was like, I'll just be back in a moment. I'm blissing Apple Pros. It's the sign of a great product when you see the advert and then you're like, oh, I'm like in a bit of a literal reaction because I don't own them. Yeah. It's, yeah, Apple do this thing to me, where I imagine you both probably have the same thing, where they release something and you think that looks pretty expensive, but you kind of

know that at some point you're going to buy them. It's just a matter of time. It's like, you're going to buy them. It's like not stupid. Like that. Yeah, pencil. And you're like, you're up. And then before you know it, before you know it's in your house, yeah, exactly.

Wow. So yeah, when I was drunk, Epod, Epod Pro's final lovely thing about Epod Pro is if you're on a plane, the best way to notice the difference in noise cancelling is if you're on a plane. So you can imagine that usually it's really actually quite loud. And you don't realize how loud it is until you can't hear it anymore. And it's not the same as not having noise, because you need the noise cancelling.

So if you just put earplugs in, that's not the same as noise cancelling. So you go from like, mhhhhh to... And it's so good. I was next to a crying child, which is obviously like, on a long flight, everyone's worst nightmare on the way out to Bali. Next to a crying child, I just looked at it and I was like, ah!

Boom! You just squeeze it, don't you? Give me a squeeze, give me a launch. Just do what you want. Just do what you want. Then the transparency mode of like, so if I'm like, while I'm doing my kitchen routine with my elbows and everything,

Becca speaks to me, I'm just like, he goes, boob boob. And then suddenly, it's like the music's being played from over there. And it's ambient noise. The prop, I dropped. I need to kind of caveat that you will look like an ignorant twat a lot with them in.

Because a number of times my housemate said something to me behind me, if it's on noise-cancelling with sound playing in it, you're not getting anything. There can be a fire and You're not gonna you're not gonna know about the fire Yeah, so can you put noise cancelling without anything playing? Yeah, so you can just and is there a setting for that you just say enable I turn noise cancelling on and don't play music Yeah, just put them in if you put them in and press and hold them, they'll just... So I can see a use case for them if someone that flies a lot. Or you're someone that has a noisy job or whatever.

I would love that in the office because there's a lot of... Yeah. But that way the binoral beats or just something low playing in the background is very, very silent. It's phenomenal. It's just not very PPE, like wearing a surgical mask. With air pods. With the pods, yeah. My thinking for doctor came up to me and they were, I had air pods in, I'd be like, come on mate. This is the worst day of my life, you'd like at least you could do. One air pod. Not have your air pods in. You also need to be able

to hear like arrest alarms and phone calls and that kind of thing. So if that could link in, though, somehow with your iPods, that would be better for non-epadier, isn't it? Definitely. Two things on them, something that Ben mentioned to me was, like, you know the vision of the future of where you just plugged into the internet. Having iPods in that have any time, Siri, like, pick up, is pretty close to that, if you think about it. Because all you have, you just have to say the right words and you can

say it happens yeah call someone search something on Google put something in your to-do list schedule something in your calendar like it's so I do it often while I'm like mid-set not mid-set between set right the technology already exists for that like I watched a video of this coder who just decided for fun to do the, you know, we can request a download of all your data from Facebook or Google or whatever. He did it with Google and it sent him 175 gigabytes of data

that he could download. And it was just hosted on a public URL, like obviously a long string of characters and stuff. And it was like long audio recordings of just like pre, like before him saying like, okay, Google or whatever. And he went through some of them and one of them was like, Google, do you ever have problems when you die a rear is so bad that you went and he's like, well, okay, you like, but it's, it's insane how much that he's like,

if they've only got that much data on me, like imagine. Multiply that by everyone else. Okay, so Johnny, what you got? Lasting on AirPods. So I found this thing called, you might have heard a bit Chris, I don't think you've just come across this called Better Touch Tool. I've done with the Avidab before.

So basically if I press Command Shift A, it connects my laptop to my AirPods from from my phone to my iPods. Johnny, I'm so proud. That's a good switch over an easy way to switch over your... Giddy? Yeah. Yeah, after the only phone. I have challenges making it work with my MacBook.

I tend not to. Every guest that I've podcasted with who's tried to use iPods or iP to do a podcast, has challenges, whether it's on Skype, whether it's on Zoom, whether it's on like whatever, they just tend to have challenges. It seems to be a little bit better optimized for your phone than it is for your laptop. I think they're great for FaceTime or like audio calls, but less so for Zoom or something like that. Yeah. Okay.

Have I mentioned brain FM before? I don't think I have. Yes, but we can go through it before? I don't think I have. Yes, but we can go through it just because I don't think he went in very deep. So it's something that, so I've tried lots of these services in the past. I've tried like, focus it well. There's another one. I can't remember the name of it. Like they play by me or it's a play like noise to try and help you focus.

Brain FM is one I've tried more recently and it, think you've tried it and doesn't know it's anything. There's a few other people I've mentioned to you who have seen a huge boost in focus and concentration. So they do like a three day free trial, I think. So brain FM, they have a focused playlist, a relaxation playlist, a nap playlist, a meditation playlist, for different types of final beats, basically. It's quite a lot of research behind what they're doing, like they produce a white paper behind all of the, the research they're doing.

And they sponsor like, it's, what's free for three days and then it's like 10 pound a month or 599 a month or something in that range. It's really expensive then for vinyl or beats. It is, it is. So that's why I think like, get the trial, see if you notice anything. But Ben's even said things like, he noticed he started procrastinating and then realized that the procrastination had started at the end of his, like, 30 minute, focused music window and stuff like that. So I think try, some people, like, it's some people don't.

I get a lot out of it, but try it for yourself. They'll have a web. There's a web version as well, which I really like. It is quite nice from a musical quality perspective as well. It's unintrusive, and I think the music's designed not to be surprising. It's all just very hard. I think I'm not up to date with the data on Binaural Beats. Last time I checked, it was very inconclusive, but that was like a few years ago. So, it probably was.

As with most of this stuff, though, if you believe in it sufficiently, like the placebo effect, is the most reliable effect in all of pharmacology, isn't it? If you could bottle the placebo effect, you'd have a panacea. So, Ben Greenfield, Ben Greenfield loves Ray Neufem, he says that he does part of his daily routine, money as he's in that. I don't think he says, he didn't mention that he uses it as part of work, but he uses it for his apps. So if it's good enough for Ben, it might be good enough for everyone else. I like it's a referral code. If you've got a referral code or anything like that.

I'll probably do, yeah. Just give me the link. It'll be in the show notes below. Everything that we talk about, AirPods Pros, whatever coffee bags I manage to find and all that stuff, they're always linked in the show notes or in the description on YouTube. You sit for a while. So, as you know, minus blit into different categories. This one is a social one.

Chris, it was you. It's to ask a friend to take you clothes shopping. I think you get a layer of objectivity. No matter how good or bad your sense of style is, like mine was terrible, but the t-shirt I'm wearing right now, in fact the shorts I'm wearing now as well. Plus everything you're seeing here, beard, nose ring, tattoo, it's all just Chris and a friend of mine called David, who I think are both equally attractive men, but on different ends of the male style spectrum and they both had a concordance with what they were recommending that I do image-wise and fashion-wise and

it's started with burn those horrible green loafers and every purple cardigan that you've got, get rid of your tracksuit bottoms and just let me bloody take your shopping. And Chris kindly took me to the metro centre and just went through top to toe, sorted me out. And that's lasted for years now. I've just been re-wadrobed thanks to Chris. Yeah, I think that's a really good way to do it. Like asking your friend to do anything that's kind of, like, what do you think about this as a haircut? What do you think about this as a potential style chair or whatever? You know, like getting that third party perspectives good, but especially with Clothes Shopping,

I don't have massive amounts of style and I appreciate the fact that you've like put me across as some sort of style guru here, like fucking Gokwan, but you are right, like just having someone there who can go, maybe not that Maroon cardigan mate, maybe not, maybe not another one. Well, that's it. As long as you're friend, you know that your friend has your best interests at heart and they're not just trolling you. I think Johnny felt as though we were trolling him

by trying to get him to the top nod. But as much as we try and convince him, we were 100% dead serious that he would look like a samurai. I just wonder, looking like a samurai is the desire, is like an outcome you would like, or I'm sure I would have looked like a samurai. Is that a good thing or not? I'd just say if you're trying to be a samurai, it's the best thing. I told Dave Rubin that he should get a top nut because we tried to get you to get a top nut and he didn't do it either.

So you're smart man. Next up, next up from me, the new Reebok Nano Xs. So, I've used Reebok's CrossFit training shoes since the eights came out. The eights were phenomenal. The nines were phenomenal and the Xs are even better. Like, they're just ridiculously comfortable. They look better than most fashion trainers do. They've finally managed to nail the colorways in them. So if you're in the gym regularly, if you're training, especially if you're doing anything plyometric, any squats, anything that requires you to drive force through your feet, you need a stable pair of shoes. Now, you can get away with a pair of low vans or converse. They're okay.

But the number of times that I see people in like classic Nike running shoes, you know, like just like a soft floppy pair of Nike running shoes that you can fold in half like this, which are comfortable for wearing around day to day, but when you watch someone squat in those shoes, you see the outside, the edge of their feet starting to peel the inner arch of their feet off the ground, and you let me. There's not many degrees of freedom left between you and just snapping your shit. You have to be able to have a shoe which is stable and is able to, it allows you to push into the ground. The Nano X is absolutely amazing. I can't, if you go to the gym, stop wearing Nike, Horosh's, they're not even shoes, let alone training shoes, stop wearing vapor macks which are those things with the little bubbles on the bottom of them. They're

also, why would you wear those? Why would you choose to lift in these things? It's always, it seems to me to always be the guys that consider themselves really serious gym goers, they're the ones that have got like a three piece fully coordinated Nike outfit with the headband on and the sweatband. And I, right, okay, you obviously have taken a lot of time to think about this.

What's happening? What's happening, what's happening with the shoes? Like there's no, anyway, 99 o'clock, Reebok, 99 o'clock, you need a pair. It's better than the person who wears like construction boots and a tank top and straps to come in and do like heavy shrugs and leave. That's a very new castle thing to do. That's a very new castle thing to do. How many times you say, if in Gold Star Gym, have you had to brush plaster dust off the bench before you've been able to get down on the...

Oh, I'm out of place for wearing gym clothes. Like, because I'm not in high viz and I'm kind of down. So... I mean, that, I kind of respect the guys, because obviously like you've come straight from graft, you haven't even had the time to get changed out of the clothes you wore at work. So presumably, your day must be so strapped down to the second that you couldn't even go into the changing room to decide you out of the paint and plaster-covered rigger boots

and stuff that you wore during the day or maybe that's a performance enhancer that none of us have ever seen and rigga boots are actually the best squat shoes that you can find. So these guys are operating on really high level, they're either like bastions of like efficiency performance or it's yeah, it's a dreaded, a dreaded atomic avid. That's all about environment design. But there are definitely some people who put those boots on for the purposes of training. You kidding?

Absolutely. I've seen some. There's some in a gym that we've all been to. Few people. Oh wow. I mean, we're getting into Brian Rose conspiracy theory territory here, aren't we? OK, what you got next, Johnny. Link to that.

So I wasn't going to say this, but link to training shoes. I have just changed. So for the first time in, I think probably, I can't remember how, it's a long time, I've just bought some new squat shoes. So they're no longer bright yellow, and they are the Romaliote falls. You're the twos? I had the twos, correct. No one I know knows what the Romali-o-1s looked like. Looked like? Nope. They must have existed.

But there's Romali-o-2s, Romali-o-3s, and then the Romali-o-4s, and they are incredible. Absolutely incredible. So the Romali-o-3s were criticised because they were quite light. So the Romali-o-3s were criticized because they were quite light. So the Romali-O-2s are like a brick, like you put your foot in a brick and then your station read on the ground and then your feet don't slide around at all. Romali-O-3s are made a bit lighter because they're a weightlifting shoe. And then the Romali-O-4s are just very, very stable. They've got like straps and laces and they're just cool. They're just really good. Something? Yeah. A good pair of squat shoes, especially if you squat,

like if you're doing a lot of squatting, the way a pair of weight lifting shoes make you feel when you train incredible. Yeah, so I mean, for the people that might not know the difference between something like the Nano X and the ROM 4s, is that you will have a much higher heel on the lifting shoes that permits you to get more range through your hips, more dorsiflexion. There you go.

Exactly. Those black ones, they look bad ass, man. Yeah. I think the vast majority of people, if you don't know what a pair of lifting shoes are, you probably don't need a pair of lifting shoes. But if you don't know what a pair of Nano X is are, you still't need a pair of lifting shoes? But if you don't know what a pair of Nano-Xs are, you still might need a pair of them. Because like ignorance, to get you through the door,

you could be wearing something which is potentially gonna snap your shit. Whereas if you don't know what lifting shoes are, you're probably not squatting to a sufficiently high volume. The metric we use is if you're squatting 1.5 body weight, you've unlocked the right to get some shoes. When you're squatting twice body weight, you can get a belt. I love that. I love that as a little... It's because and you guys have to be much more face to face with this daily in the CrossFit gym, which is there are many people who have all the gear yet no idea. And they have not unlocked that achievement, but they've tried to get the cheat codes

and powerlifters. Powerlifters, like the amount of kit that they come in with. And the thing is that for a lot of them, a lot of you guys, it's perfectly justified, heavy ass weight, like a lot of heavy ass weight. But when you can measure the amount of kit you've got in square meters on the floor, that someone comes, they open the bag up and it's just like, it's just like, it stuff starts flying out. And when you include like bags of haribo and like multiple cans of white monster in that. Because you've got a car butt for those three reps that you're doing.

Like the thing that Johnny and I were discussing the other day was a guy back from the like the old school golden era of fitness called Pete Rubish who is just this freak deadlifter who would train in is like in this basement and he's just got this like washing machine like rattling in the background. And he's just got this like washing machine like rattling in the background and he's just in shorts with plates that have been cellar taped together and he's just a nutter he's just this completely like unhinged deadlifter

you pulling ridiculous amounts of weight just in shorts and barefoot for years and years and it's like that is the man who deserves to get himself about. It allows you're allowed to have about. So, Johnny while we're on this, I want to ask, what do you deadlift in and what do you bench in? Okay, so I, what? What do you want to do? Well, that was just a really bad grammar question. What do you deadlift in and what do you bench in?

From this one, yeah, I want to know. Three who is who deadlift in? What is deadlift in? So my deadlift actually at the moment, completely barefoot. Wow. Controversial. Completely naked. Yeah, just to be honest. So like one of the training in my garage, like I, the other day, I was like, I'm not seeing completely naked. Yeah, just to be honest. For that.

So like one of the work, like in training in my garage, like I, the other day I was like, I'll just not bother putting my dead left shoes on, see how it feels. It feels mint. Like being completely barefoot, deadlifting feels absolutely class. So that, do you mean in terms of shoes? Yeah. Yeah. So, and then bench is flat shoes.

Some people, that's because of my morphology, like the way I have to put my feet to get like legal form. A lot of people, deadlift bench, sorry, in lifting shoes as well, to get like more extra clearance off the ground. You can get your feet closer to you, still on heels on the ground. If you are 85.5% legs, that's not, that's Yeah, that's obviously. Yeah, you actually want less. If anything. The thing that's very unfair is that in competition, people with short legs are allowed a block to put their feet on, right?

Because they can't reach the ground. Oh, okay. Diddams, right? But like, for me, I have the opposite problem. Why can I not have holes in the ground? Surely that's fair. Like as soon as we're moving the bar here, of what you can and can't have, surely. Absolutely, really good point.

It was Tim Garret, who told me about it. Because otherwise, that assumes that the bench is maximum height, and anything putting blocks up is for a comedy for shorter people. Which is not true. This is how wide should aeroplane seats be discussion all over again? Oh yeah. We don't need to get into that. Okay, so barefoot for deadlifting and flat shoes or lifters depending on your height for benching. You see, if what you got next. This is an app called Get Human. I don't think we've discussed this in the previous ones.

This is where you will save hundreds of hours. If you're on the phone to like customer service or whatever, trying to like upgrade a service for something or tech support and you put on hold listening to the same 10 seconds of Craig David, that's where you can use Get Human and it holds the call for you and calls you back when a human answers the phone. It's not 100% reliable because it involves the operator pressing a button as well and then it calls you back, but rather than having to sit on the phone and wait on hold, it's pretty good. That's, I mean, so I don't actually mind the concept behind it.

I have to say that is it free? Yep. Why are they doing this? I don't understand what to do. I have to say that is it free? Yeah. Why are they doing this? I don't understand what's going on. So it's because that there are many, I think they run on advertising. There are many companies that have a automatic callback service. But I think, and I'm convinced of this, that a lot of companies,

customer service and tech support, particularly during COVID, is deliberately obstructive and deliberately difficult to act as a deterrent, so you don't call them up. The same way that if you try and speak to a customer service rep for one of the budget airline companies, you just don't get to anyone. You get the dark patterns on the back end of the customer support thing. Do you want to check out our forum where other people have submitted answers to your question? Well, I don't want to go and search for other people asking the same question that I've asked and not getting a response. I just want a man.

This is why this is why I pull bullpenad. Yes, that's it. That's why bullpenad. She can it's amazing. You just call them up and they're like hello, bull and you know Wasn't ready for that. So I've got a problem. If you call Apple, so Apple initially, I was like, there's a bot that says, I am an automated bot, I can handle any plain text sentence, just say what you need. And you're like, okay, say a sentence. And then a couple of seconds, I was like, I made three to Apple and it's clearly just a guy at home. It was like, I have got the script. All right, no problem.

Yeah, how can I help out? What the fuck? Is this international company? Trillions of things happening. And yeah, they just got a bloke who probably lives on my road to help me out. I had an Irish girl pop up with a assistance that I needed for garage band. I was like, I couldn't work out how to turn off MIDI metronome, something, something, and did exactly that. I can't remember there being me just saying a thing. I think I might have submitted it online and then they rang me. If you ring them initially, there's an AI.

That's intense. I don't spend that long waiting, though. I mean me neither. I think it's it's part of the architecture isn't it? The ecology the ecology of a scoby problem has been built into the structure of the space time. It has these long waits because it's not me that submitted the initial request. It was actually my sister and my sister decided that she was going to do it with a credit card which then she cancelled. Actually, there's an ongoing lawsuit to do with that. So we're going to have to get, da da da da da da da da da da da da. It results in you having to go to your local use agents to get a card to plug in to like to put more energy into your house. So luckily the most recent one was me, this is another life hack was me upgrading my internet speed.

So going from Virgin like 100 megabit to just the maximum thing. And it, like, because of COVID, everyone's just decided that nothing can run anymore, and we just, oh, sorry, we just lost all humans and all staff to help anyone with anything. So, um, you can just send them a letter and then they call you back. I mean, it took them 45 days to call me back after sending the letter, but when they did, I was just like, look, I'm just trying to give you money, like, I don't get how that's a life hack. I don't get how waiting for them. All in the month and trying.

So you would sooner have bad internet for an extra 45 days. Yeah. Then, right, so this is, this is... Well, there's no other way to get hold of it. Because you try calling. You just, you cannot. It's just a brick wall. So, well, how else can I get in touch with them? Letter.

I feel like... If you handwrite the letter. No. Don't be silly. Does he use a printer. No, just online thing. You can send letters online. So you can write and send a letter online for about 50p. Really? What's that? There's loads of services that do it. So you type up a letter or you upload like a PDF for a word document and post it for you. Wow, that's amazing. How's how's that not on your mouth on your life hacks? Like we've had to do it.

It's just so embedded in like the base of this. We're desperately trying to fucking pull every scene you we can out of this weird service that calls you back when someone answers the phone. When you've got this pure gold, this unobtainium level life hack, sat there. Right, do you know what, you know what? How often do you find yourself in this scenario where you need to print something out? It happens maybe once every six weeks.

Yeah, but when you do, it's like, oh, sorry, I'm gonna be in this service way. And then your ink has run out and then you have to get paper and you've only got a lot of stamps, you don't have any envelopes. If you go to PC World and get a few of packard ink for your card. Oh my god. This is right, a letter online mate, that's phenomenal.

That's 10 out of 10. And also the fact that I'm so blown away by it means that I have no lateral thinking because obviously if moonpig.com exists and you can send someone a fucking birthday card, you can definitely write a letter. You only know moonpig exists because of moonpig.com. Like where's the virtual letter service song? Oh man. It's part of my paperless ecosystem

because I'm just so reversed to paper, I'm so angrily pissed off about paper that I've just developed this work around for everything that involves me not having to have a recommended service and if someone needs to send a paper letter. Right. Google it. Don't go. No, I'm alfredding it.

It is cfh.mail.com. That sounds so mean. Yeah. Also, there's also lmail.com. No, you said anyone, anyone can Google this. What we wanted was not isling it. These are my favorites for Alfred Chris. These are my snippets.

So which, what are the two of them? So l-mail.com and cfh.mail.com. Cfh.mail.com. Wow, okay, so we've worked out why this isn't working, Johnny, because all the companies that have done it, their branding is atrocious. One of those two will break your eye message. So there's a really easy kind of business when if anyone's good at branding and marketing, just approach one of those companies and be like, guys, branding, and you're offering such a good service. There we go. They're on the, they're on the edge of those companies and be like, guys, branding, and you're offering such a good service.

There we go. Because they're on the edge of it, aren't they, with sending cards to people, like virtually sending cards, and presents, and flowers, and all sorts of things? If MoonPig just pivoted, and I did that service in, I reckon they'd kill it. Right, I've got three in a row that are all kind of the same thing. So I'm on a cut at the moment and dealing with hunger, working out the best way to try not break my diet and stuff like that has been something I've enjoyed playing around with over the last three months

during lockdown. So first thing I've got, this is taken from Ben Bergeron, which is if you get the hunger pangs during the day, do a small amount of exercise. So like 30 press ups, 30 squats, go for a light walk or a light jog or something like that, because that actually switches off the rest and digest system.

And it changes the way that you sense hunger. So if you do, I promise you, if you feel hungry and you do 30 press ups, you don't feel that hungry anymore, it makes a market impact on how hungry you feel. So that means that you less likely to break your diet. Next thing, another Ben Burjronism, which is so clever, if you tend to cheat on your diet on an evening time

or on a nighttime, perhaps just before bed, clean your teeth immediately after eating your last meal of the day, because you don't want to then try and have food on top of clean teeth. It's just... If you feel like a bit of a twat, like after... If you're like, oh, I want to... I'm just gonna have to have a drink with the hospital.

I'm gonna have to have a crumpet, but actually I've got minty fresh teeth or whatever it might be. And also, going back to James Clears, it's part of the system of getting ready for bed, right? Like you don't usually eat after you clean your teeth, therefore clean your teeth earlier. And the final hack I've got is just go to bed earlier on an evening time. Like if I cheat on my diet, it always happens at night. So if I make sure that I'm in bed with teeth cleaned maybe half an hour earlier, that's it. Like I'm not going to get back'm not going to get out of bed to go up and then make a bowl of cereal to then get back into bed. So this is all increasing the dickhead factor

of any defaulting on it. So it's the fact you have to then go out of your way. And then as you're doing it, you've got this big flushing light in your head that's dickhead, dickhead, and you're like, oh, hang on, I can't do that. So I'm just going to go back to sleep. Yeah, no, that's it, man. The press ups were a hungry thing. I couldn't believe it. Also, I've gotten into the routine of doing press ups just before a podcast, just to try and get a little bit more awake, because mine tend to be on an evening time. And I guess that's similar to the... It puts you in like a peak state almost. Yeah, peak state.

So there's a similar strategy, which one of our clients used. So Ricky, great, great suggestion on this one was it's also called the five pound dick head strategy. I've got a video on it, which is that he keeps a five pound or a £20 note in his back pocket. And if he's ever going to buy food when he's out and about, so like eating out or doing something that's off his targets, he has to pay for it in cash and physically hand it over. And then just to minimise the kind of contactless payment not thinking about the whole thing process. I like that. It's the increase in friction. There was that study done where they asked people on the exit of a supermarket, how much do you think your receipt was? They took their receipt

off them and said, how much do you think your receipt was? And the difference in how people that had paid cash people that had paid card and people that had paid contactless was insane. Yeah, I couldn't tell you. Like, if I pay contact, let's just lie about that. Cash makes it real, isn't it? Like having to count the money out makes it feel real. Whereas if you just have to touch your phone on something, I don't know, I didn't have.

Do you do that thing? I'll deal that with you. If it's a self-service, do you do that thing? And as do I try and do this where I'll pay? And then, and then I'm trying to be out of the door before it prints the receipt. Right, that's it. Bag, phone, pocket, AirPods,

transparency mode off. Pure wet. Yeah, spin. I can't do self service. It really just are so frustrating. Unexpected item in bagging area. And then you have to go and get the little person to come and help you, you know, I'm just rather concerned.

You know what I've noticed about those, right? There's the more expensive the shop, the better and the more trustworthy the self-service system is. You shop at waitros? The waitros, I just want to say. I don't shop at waitros, but I have shopped at waitros. And if you do use it at waitros and amineses, you can stick whatever you want in the bagging area, it doesn't really know. That's because of like an AI machine learning system. Yeah, because the bourgeoisie obviously aren't stealing a packet per se pigs.

However, the proletariat in the street, when they're in Aldi or Lidl, like then. That's so true. Like, they probably dropped the sensitivity to the, to be fair, I've not set foot in a supermarket in years. So I don't even know what it looked like. And here's another thing I noticed. So in Asda, in the self-service checkouts,

they have an alert that says, that's scanned. Please place it in the bagging area. And that comes on so soon after scanning something that it's really irritating, even with noise cancelling on, you can still hear it a little bit. So what I think, here's my hypothesis about why they have it come on so quickly, is that you turn that voice off when it registers the weight flat and static in the bagging area. So if you think that actually encourages someone to scan stuff as quickly as possible and place it in the bag to turn the noise. What do we think? Do you think that might be true? Nice. Yeah. I think all these like all these incentives that are created at scale must be really really well thought through. Nothing's done by accident, man. Nothing.

The placement of food in supermarkets like where is on the shelves, the ordering of things in shell and shell fighting, so like whole science behind isn't there? Oh, massively. Yeah. Just to get people to spend money that spend money in these places. They've got different rhythms of music in McDonald's at different times of the day. So when they've got people with a high turnover, whether they know that they need extra seating and extra capacity, they have higher energy music here to get people in and out of the doors. It's the same reason why when you walk into a supermarket, they have the fresh fruit and veg and the flowers and stuff at the front

So how welcoming it is and the freezer is always tend to be over the far side and all this sort of you know supposed to walk It's around the edges isn't it stay around the edge for the healthy food and it's in the aisles That's where all this that's where they get you. I mean you say that but the bakery in as the pastries Yeah, is on the edge. Yeah, yeah, true. Yeah, there are there are some bakery base products to be hard to over consume. Just to the volume. If they've got a buttery, very easy base, buttery, buttery, buttery, buttery, buttery, buttery, buttery, buttery, buttery, biscuit base. I just I really hope there's somebody listening to this episode who's not got any of the weird references. So far, I've just think we've all got Tourette.

Yeah, there's tons of people that are getting exposed to episodes for the first time. And to all of you, you need to go back and watch every episode, all 185 episodes before this one. So that you understand what to go. It's like joining Grey's Anatomy at season 15. You can't do that. You gotta go back. You can't do that. You gotta go back. You gotta go back. Right. We don't go back to our podcast though. We listened back to one of our episodes recorded in like 2009 or something and it was horrendous. Yeah man.

It takes time. It takes time to develop the skills. Right. Anyway, Johnny, what you got? Next up. This one might upset you, sir. Good. Good. Thanks, Chris. Good. Omnifocus. Doesn't upset me.

I want to love Omnifocus. Okay, because I know how complete it is. Start using it. So I listen to a guy discuss it. Does everyone know what Omnifocus is? Do you do? Tell it. It's a to-do list app. So it's not completely as it is, start using it. So I listened to a guy, so does everyone know what Omni focus is? Do you do?

It's a to do list app. So it's like things or tick tick or to do list or any of those things. It's a bit, it's got fewer fancy features on it, but it's designed for GTD getting things done. And if you've done what Chris said and has listened to all the episodes and dealing up to this, you'd have heard David Allen talk about getting things done and why that's such a complete methodology. David Allen is on this podcast this week. Again, no, I haven't seen. Or are we in the time we're in the time loop here? So this is going to go

out after after I've recorded with you before I publish it. Perfect. Yeah, perfect. So if you're wondering what's getting things done, Johnny, you'll find out later this soon. So Omni focused, one of the things that I think is something you'll probably hear David talk about

is how important a review habit is. So lots of people have a list. lots of people look at the lists, but then it's, so something I've written down here is like one of the, one of the best places to get yourself to is feeling okay with all the things you're not doing today or all the things you're not doing right now. So, knowing that all of the stuff in your world, like all the projects and the things you need to remember and all the reminders are in something that you will see again at a regular time or at the right time. An omnifocus basically makes that makes the review feature, the review habit very, very easy. Almost, almost automated. So you, when you set a project or a task, you say to OmniFocus, like, I want to review this every three weeks, and it just throws it back into the list that you look at on a

daily basis. So what OmniFocus is really good at is it gives you like a menu of relevant things. So you can defer things so that you don't even see them, you delay things, you don't even see them. So when you look at you to do list, you don't see like, oh my god, there's 70 things there. You see, well, there's eight things I could do now. So it's very good. It kind of has lots of layers. So the things you only, the things you see are things that are relevant right now, things that you can do right now. And that links into like the ability to have, and this is quite a common feature, having like location based tags or energy based tags. So like I'm in, so I have a tag which is like in the center of Newcastle or at my parents house that trigger, throw those things back into my awareness

when I'm at those places. And all I see in a daily basis are the things that I could do then. Tiny little things that nudge, nudge things forward. Some of those features wipe the floor with things. However, some of the features that things has, I'm going against, will wipe the floor with omnifocus. So if someone wants to go into the Reddit wormhole that is the GPD method or the productivity, slash productivity subreddit,

you will see people getting religiosity level angry about whether or not Omnifocus is a true GTD app because it actually allows you to differ at times and you shouldn't have a time bet, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. Currently I'm playing around with things three and I love it. However, I am not using it to its full capacity and some of the features you've just said there with omnifocus. It's also great. Things doesn't have a review function. I've asked them anything. This is why there's no like best productivity app because and the reason people are so religious about them is because they've got their own use case or

their own kind of way that they would process. They've lodged it to fix the problem that it doesn't quite actually fix, which gives them a sense of ownership over the way that it's now being deployed. Yeah, exactly. So something that, which is it, I guess the hack that's relevant for anyone, regardless of app, was when I moved over to OmniFocus, I bought a course. So I heard OmniFocus being described as, like learning the snowboard. So when you've, I've never snowboarded, but it, you know, apparently when you first start the snowboard, you're like falling over and look, like you look stupid, can't work it out. But then like after a couple of weeks, you're like, you know, carving down the slopes and everyone's really impressed. And Omni focus is, there's this big hurdle to get over with setting it up. So I bought a course that guides you through that. One of the things the guy says in the courses, don't use fake

due dates or like times because your brain learns to not trust them. So he talks about like you would only ever use a due date for a to do list thing when there are actual major consequences of it not being done at that time. And I like I took this use of a while ago and I think everyone has the feeling of like, yeah, like that things, do being due on my calendar, and now it's been over due for three weeks, and so it wasn't actually due then. And all you're doing is detraining when you see a notification on a to do list app. You just don't trust it anymore. It's just something. You've just written, you've used the due date as a guideline for when you'd like to be,

to get it done by. Yeah, it's just you saying I should probably do as a guideline for when you'd like to be to get it done by. Yeah, it's just you saying I should probably do this soon, but it didn't have to be done three weeks ago, so there's no point in using it. That's not what a due date is for. What's the equivalent of people snoozing or, you know, we were talking about this a while ago, when people like, when you're writing like a dissertation and then you save the file as final, and then you're like, final two, final two, final, final, final, final. So I see this. This is the most hilarious break in the fourth wall stuff.

I've got partnership with Bloomsbury and Penguin Random House and Bonnier Books and all these sorts of stuff and I'll often get, so Ryan Holiday's new book, Lives of the Stoics, which is coming through is the first PDF I've ever got, ever in history, which is named the title of the thing that it is. Every other PDF that I get, which is sent through with a non-disclosure agreement saying, you can't forward this on, and it's always watermarked with my name and my email. So if I ever do decide to send it to someone and they of war, fourth pass, final, like QC 10 out of 10. So it's like they've had the fourth pass through of quality check. It's 10 out of 10 on doing it today. Or it'll be like still to have cover all mad.

But you see just left the call. It looks that way, doesn't it? Can he rejoin the call? Can we just continue now without him? I think so. Here he's back. Oh, you're back. Where'd you go?

I don't know. I just went, last minute. I just ran black. What's the course that you did for OmniFocus, Johnny? I'll have to get you the name of it. Cool. So the link to OmniFocus and to the course that Johnny followed will be in the show notes below.

Okay, let's start doing a quick, quick fiery one. What you got? Final one. So the foundation series, this is similar to the StumeGile Big 3 and it's by a guy called Eric Goodman and it's a 12 minute training sequence to improve your posture and improve lower back pain. And the reason that I fall out of the habit of doing it is not that it doesn't improve my back pain but just that it's hard. And so what I've done now is I've just used it as a chance to listen to 24 minutes of an audio book because two times speed.

Um, our in the morning, especially when it's sunny, just out in the yard doing the, doing the program. It's a free video on Sunsund YouTube, it's called the foundation series, founder or something. 12 minutes, very unpleasant, but you feel like your glutes and your hamstrings are just on the rest of the day and you lower back just because, I'm not having to carry the load of all this. Why is it better or different to the big three stuff? I think you can do it in addition to the big three, but it's more of a sequence.

So you can turn the big three into like a pre-workout or warning. So I have my big three done by the second. So I know at four minutes and 40 seconds that I've completed my modified curl-ups. I have 20 seconds to transition myself into my side plank, side plank, and then I've got a cat cow, like a one minute and 20 second cat cow transition into the, and then at 15

minutes and 40 seconds, I'm done. So you're right. You can turn anything that you do sufficiently frequently. The ballet of the kitchen is essentially kind of like a sequence, right? Like it's now it's the microwave, now it's the oven, now it's the thing. So is this a, is this a injury prevention thing? Or is this because, do you guys do this because of back problems? That's why I do it. I put up a tweet the other day saying, like, what is this weird new wave of people that are doing hours of prehab in the absence of injury, and how has that become of you training the style? Where have I just, just everywhere you see, I think I missed a memo

between now and like 2015 and now that like has suddenly made people not actually trained for anything and just do prehab as their workout. I haven't seen this one, I haven't. I think we're just subscribed to the wrong people. Like a lot of the PT's on Instagram stuff are just doing like it's not Pilates, it's not specific injury rehab, it's just like stuff for the point for the sake of it and people who don't look like they're left that are spending hours training every week without a specific purpose or outcome. And I think if you're going to be doing that stuff, it has to be with a goal in life. What's the end goal?

Yeah, no, I couldn't agree more. So my next one, which I've been doing for years and years, and we've never mentioned, is start with the weakest side in a unilateral movement in the gym. So if you're going to do curls and you're right-handed, start with your left hand, or if you're going to do a single legged, like a Romanian, a single legged box squat or something like that, whatever it might be, start with the weakest side first. Reason being that there will be some sort of degradation to your CNS. You're also going to, even with a bicep curl, a seated bicep curl, you have to turn your midline on at least a little bit, so you have to presume that if you're fresher in abs, in being able to brace, in being able to do all this stuff, you will give your weaker side

in the bracing being able to do all this stuff, you will give your weaker side sometimes minor, sometimes perhaps even major advantage, which will help to bring that imbalance back up. And I've always done it. I've always started with my left because my left is so much weaker than my right and still not managed to balance that imbalance out. But I think you guys can go with it. So one thing you can add is you start with the weak side and then you match the reps with the strong side rather than trying to do more on the strong side until they equilibrate. So let's say you can do eight reps with the left arm, ten reps with the right, you just match eight on the right as well.

eight on the right as well. So you get slightly more muscle, muscley on one side for a bit. Okay. Slightly more muscley. Less muscley on the side that's already more muscley. Until eventually you just muscley. I think it's muscley.

Well it's muscley as possible. Johnny, what you got? Watch a subtitled film to help to come back with like two screening or make it a more immersive experience. So I've had, I get really frustrated. I don't know why, but when Netflix upload, like for originally foreign films or aren't they are in English and they're dubbed and it's really badly dubbed. So like the voice just doesn't fit the situation, like the the intonation expression makes it like unwatchable. Becker and I watch this film called Parasite the other week which is Korean I believe, subtitled in

English and I had really low expectations. I was like it's really frustrating. I'm gonna have to read the entire thing. It's amazing how ten minutes in, you've almost forgotten about the fact that it's subtitled, but you're completely engrossed in the film because you can't even look away from it for five minutes because you completely lose track of what's happening. So this only works with foreign films because there's no reason to continue watching. Exactly. So I think there's a lot of good foreign cinema, a lot of good foreign series in cinema, a lot of them are dubbed which I think makes everything worse

because you're actually less likely to pay attention. But if you get the, get like the version that's foreign and watch it with the subtitles, often that's pretty good. I mean, I like that. Have you seen the platform on Netflix? It's about, I've heard about it. So the concept is so cool.

People locked in, it looks a little bit like this prison, and there's two people per level, and like 50 stories and a huge big hole in the middle. So you can imagine that the people live around the outside of a square, and in the middle of the square, there's this big hole, and this elevator goes up and down. But it was for, I want wanna say French or something like that. And I've just went on, started watching it with the British dubbing overdubs or whatever it's called, and it was unwatchable.

So I was like, I'm not gonna bother, I'm not gonna bother doing it. But if I watched it with some title. It's such a shame. Ruins. It's like, hey, please don't kill me. That's it, okay. All right, oh, because like you think, well, you know,

the actor's been picked for the role for a reason. Right, like, it's not like you don't want the actor acting and then someone else, not in the situation speaking without the right. More than just that as well. Because they have to do the work to get the acoustics of the sound to match where they are. Because like, if you're in, especially with that,

the platform film, it's a very unique, acoustic environment. You know, it's this very long brick walled thing, and it's gonna have specific ways that the sound bounces. It's so much less immersive. Like that's it. It's the immersion that you've got in it.

If someone's on a beach, but like the audio sounds like someone in a soundproof room, which it is. Which it is. Which it is. I've been getting some microphone with a pop filter, like it doesn't quite, but I would highly recommend Parasite. I think it's on Amazon Pratt.

You do have to pay for it. I don't think it's available for free, but honestly. Wow. Pairing for a Korean subtitled film, I never thought I'd see it. So I saw loads of other bits about it. Backward heard about it, and it was like two weeks ago, and we're like, should we watch this? Like it might be shit. Like decent chance at shit.

And then because it's sub-title, like I resist stuff like that. Yeah, but, man. Change, completely change, man. Mavi, you want to? I'm to just footnote that watching a English or a native speaking film with the subtitles on is one of my least favorite things to do because I can't not read the subtitles, which means I just don't watch the film.

So this is my problem. I'm reliant on subtitles now. It doesn't matter what language it's in sound wise, because I'm just so subtitled. I think I just process information better in text than all here entertainment. Yeah, I just rely on subtitles. Hold on. So if it's in English, the English series English audio, yeah, I'll always prefer subtitles. And you're not watching the you're not watching it. No, I'm just I could be reading a book. I suppose we're reading like karaoke style book. That's blown my mind. Yeah, me too.

I hate it. There's nothing I mind. Yeah, me too. I hate it. There's nothing I like. There's nothing that I dislike. Different strokes. Yeah, man. So that means you get the benefit that I got from watching the Korean film from everything. Yeah. I can't really get because you can look away.

I think that's the thing, isn't it? Like you don't have to pay attention. But I think my problem when I'm watching something is not like I want to look away or check another screen. I think if that's the case, then you're watching something that's too boring. What is your reason for using subtitles when you can already understand the words then? I just, my comprehension percentage is better with subtitles. Again, this is my point about entertainment. Like, there's no quiz after finishing this

episode of Breaking Bad. Yeah, but you still want to be able to under, like, why would you watch something if you don't understand it? I don't, why can you not? You're like, I'm just just I'm just not very smart. So it's not bullshit. The only piece of the puzzle that's not fitting for me is that I feel like if everybody I know you have the best audio comprehension because you're on like two and a half time

speed on audio. Still, it's still better. I think like just having an extra way to that immersive reading thing that's quite popular at the moment would be something that I could see you do. Oh, it's lovely. Yeah, I should maybe train the habit of not using subtitles to become better at understanding. Playing around. Have you got any more, let's go. Yeah, so I've actually just used it now with the parasite and the platform, which is to have a list of things to watch or things to read and just have it in a queue because there's nothing worse than if you get to the end of a season

or whatever and you're like, oh well, what do I watch now? You don't want to just pick the thing that Netflix suggests for you. So if you've got something that's been highly recommended, like the last thing I watched on Johnny's recommendation was the gentleman. Fantastic. Oh wow. Yeah, that new guy, Richard. Excellent. Excellent. phenomenal film. I would never have watched it without having that lifehacking place. I would have forgotten about it.

How are you supposed to watch this? And you're like, okay, and then two months later when it comes time to to reach to watch it, you've forgotten. So I just have an Evernote list with a queue based on how much I trust the person who's recommended it and how much I trust the person who's recommended it and how much I think I would like the show and if I would have access to it. I imagine you move up or down the list depending on when you watch something, if it's good. Johnny's taking the piss a bit here.

We'll move on. All of Johnny's metrics are now downreg it. What's at the top of your list currently? Let's have a look. While he's doing that, yeah, succession. If no one's, if you haven't seen succession, that's tremendous succession, right? And that's gangs of London. So the top ones are also Johnny's recommendations. There's defending Jacob.

And decoding Bill's brain. So that's not me, I don't think that's George. What was that Jacob? Defending Jacob. What's that? It's on Apple TV. It's about like a kid who gets accused of murder. Wow.

Yeah. There's so much good stuff out at the moment. I guess a lot of studios have realized that because people have got more time at home, that they really need to capitalize on it. We've got tons of stuff. Watch Parasite and Amazon Prime, watch the gentleman's succession gangs of London defending Jacob.

This is ramping up. This is a big fat one. Fat one. Fat one. So this is my favorite hack that I've developed. I've already mentioned it on isolation hacks, but I'll put it in properly here. For listening to podcasts that have mid-roll ads, if you're on iPhone, you can simply

say to your iPhone, hey Siri, skip forward by 60 seconds, or hey Siri, skip forward by 90 seconds. For instance, if you're listening to Ben Shapiro, I know that he's by doing this, that his agreement deal with his advertises is a minimum of a 60 second mid-raw lad. But he always says, we'll get to that in a second. But first, and as soon as he goes, but first, if I say, hey Siri, skip forward by 90 seconds, I land just as he comes back in. And that's it. Yeah, that's your insight, and I'll just let that's your, that you're, you can see the matrix. You'll get there. You'll get there event like true Jordi,'ll be everyone every advertiser that you listen to every

Podcast will be 60 seconds and 90 seconds or 120 and most mid rolls aren't gonna be that But especially with someone like Rogan you know that you can skip forward probably by six or seven minutes to catch the start of his guest intro I'm speaking to Brett Weinstein today and we're talking about blah blah blah So philosophically, how is that miss a lot, how is that different to having spotter free? Uh oh. Can you use spotter free to get past mid raw lads in a podcast? That's not what I'm asking though. Like I'm saying, how is it philosophically different to have something that mutes the

60 second Spotify adverts compared to because you have to you have to sit for 60 seconds in silence. Well that's fine it's music so I'm in a second. I thought that you paid or you use an app to allow you to not have to sit and wait in silence for someone but you're happy to sit and wait in silence whilst music's in between. Yeah, I just use Spotify as like background music. So if there's 60 seconds of silence, it's not in song. The fact that you've chosen to use it in that way

doesn't defend the discontinuity between those two. So as long as we don't fall out about it. So a podcast which like is only being supported because of the adverts and only able to run because of the sponsors. But we're like, we don't make any more money by me listening to them. I'm not buying it, whether I listen to what I know. That's like saying using Chrome with an ad blocker, like the only reason why Google, what Google's predominant ad revenue is from ads. So if you're

blocking the ads, but using Chrome and using Google, well, Spotify don't make any more money by someone skipping or less money by skipping the adverts or muting them, we think. Well, not yet, not until Rogan comes through. But I mean, my main problem with Spotify free is that you don't have access to Spotify premium and you get around this because you use Spotify on your MacBook a lot, rather than on mobile, but the difference in how much people use it on iOS

or whatever versus on Mac OS is gonna be huge. The vast, vast, vast majority of people use it on the phone, which means that you can't choose songs. You can, everything's got to be unshuffle, which is like, disgusting. I don't know if I can got it on my phone, actually. Well, there you go. Just maybe the problem. Like, I would bet that a whole host of people, the vast majority of people who have Spotify probably don't have the app on their laptop.

Interesting. So then it's, yeah, then it becomes a no-brainer to just buy it. I think so, but I think you make an interesting point. My justification for it is I can listen to a 55-minute Ben Shapiro podcast in 40 minutes at one time speed, because that's how many adverts are in there. So would you also, you know, there's certain apps like Castro, which cuts out the silence between like dead silence in podcasts, but the problem is it then like means people have no pauses between what they say and it's really hard to comprehend what they're saying.

No, because I want to listen, I want to consume the content as it's created. I trust Ben to be able to give me his delivery in a way which maximizes what I'm supposed to consume. So, he is like that thing where all the silence has been removed, but some Harris' most recent episode on Can We Pull Back from the Brink, which is amazing and everyone that's listening should go and check it out?

That has 90% silence. Yeah, he has a lot of scientists. He is just he talks in guided meditations. But the The silence is in there are done for not only effect but also to allow you to Consider what he's doing. It's a two-way Conversation between you as the listener and him as the producer. You're supposed to allow your thoughts to fill those gaps. And the same, I had Daniel Schmackton burger on a couple of weeks ago. And this is, bless you.

There is one section in that where he's silent for 20 seconds, 20 seconds of silence. And I could have cut it. But I was like, actually, I mean, he's left this in for a reason. He's stayed silent because he's contemplating something. Are you here to purely index the information that Daniel gives you? If so, I can just get a transcript written and give you the transcript. Or are you here to actually be an active participant in the way that this conversation unfolds? That's a check that your airport's having enough battery.

The number of people that were like, dude, I had to check and see if you guys had stopped and I can see it was still playing and I thought that there was a problem with the file and no, it was just 20 seconds later, you responded. Do you remember when Star Wars did that? No. There was one of the more recent Star Wars films as an explosion in space because obviously it's in space and there's no sound in space. It went silent and had loads of apparent,

I mean, I'm remembering this, I don't criticize me if it's wrong, but apparently loads of people complain because they thought they'd have a lot of hearing in the cinema. Actually, just accurate physics. Actually, yeah. But you can test if you've lost your hearing

if you're sat in a cinema, what an idiot. Like, there's loads of people go, mate. Johnny, are we all still friends after the ad thing? I'm just checking him. So this is something that I made fun of this for a while. It's something that I found through Googling. There's a podcast at Tim Ferris did a long time ago where he talks about productivity,

he talks about like how just focus on one thing for two or three hours in the morning, that sort of stuff. And there's a the actual quote or the written transcript from the podcast is in the front of something called, is he gone? I'm still here. I'm just going for a wee. Okay.

Why is it carrying a video off? I don't mind me to be on YouTube. Oh, hang on. So you're now in the bathroom. Yeah. Oh, I'm not just, I'm not having a wee at my desk. Right. Yeah, but you could have just left your desk, but you don't want to miss what Johnny's about to say.

Can you mute your mate for the very, for the benefit of the listeners, please? So it's called the Productivity Planner. So something that I have been doing more with, like, it's based off of the, obviously, the six minute diary, or the same people who produce the five minute journal make the productivity planner. It basically just forces you to when you're scheduling your day, you can only write down five things you're going to do the most important thing then two secondary then two additional and you also have five things in a week and that sort of thing. Very simple paper bait. I've got, I'm quite enjoying paper based. So I use OmniFocus as digital, but everything else is paper based.

So like journaling, habit tracking, everything else is physical. And you can probably see it there, sort of on the side of that sofa. So in the morning, I'll use the journals one by one, we use like the things that I'm using one by one and move them from one side to the other and then I'm using one by one, move them from one one side the other and then I'm done with my. It feels like a done yeah. Exactly. I've got I've got that one. I've got that one over there. Okay. I've also got the Michael Hyatt full focus

planner. Oh nice. Which is according to Jordan airs even better and I have to say upon comparing the two it definitely seems like the full focus plan might be an interesting switch for you once because you have about 90 days out of that, right? Of the productivity plan. Yeah. Yeah. So it's just I thought the full focus plan was more like just general journaling. I thought it was more fun. No, not at all. Is it all work based on that? Yeah, exactly. And it also allows you to revisit where you are getting to with weekly, monthly goals. It's really clever. But I've got next time that we see each other, which actually might not be before your 90 days is up on that based on the moment. I'll be able to show

you it. But Jordan's had both and is now on this full focus planner thing and highly, highly recommend it. But the productivity planner. Yeah. So the only reason I looked, so I've seen it before and I was like, you know, that's it, that looks a bit stupid, but it's made by the five minute journal people. It's based around Tim Ferriss' productivity philosophy. So it's very simple. And I think sitting down and thinking, if I'm only going to do five things today, starting with something a big project and then pull it out little things, it's actually pretty going to do five things today, starting with something a big project and then all they don't little things, it's actually pretty hard to do that. It's the intentionality, man.

Yeah, it forces prioritization and then you realize like when you still sometimes do only four or five, you're like, I completely overestimate what I'm able to do. Yeah, absolutely, you know, I really, really agree. a lot of people that are listening, if you were like I was a little while ago, you'll start your day upon having to do some work, but not actually know what you're going to do. It's like, right, time to sit down and do work. And it's just this big amorphous blob that is work time. But it's like, if you have a set list,

this is it's gonna be this, then it's gonna be this, then it's gonna be this. Like you never have to guess what you're doing next. You see, if why have you put Cermet the Frog behind you on your... He's turned his mic off. Oh, I see. He's turned his mic off and he's tried to do it for comedic effect. He's back again.

Can you just tell me when he goes away? I cannot believe that you've tried to do the only thing that I can say that the redeeming feature of that is it's not the man with the huge penis that you put on before we started recording because if you'd hit the wrong button there, Dean would have had an absolute nightmare trying to pull you out of. We'd have had the worst thing that you can ever say to use that is we're going to have to scrap the audio. You're going to have to scrap the audio. You're going to have to re-record that again.

I saw someone using this effects the other day. It cracks me up because now all I can see is Chris' description of it looks like a five-year-old has coloured in your ears. Is that a life hack? Don't use the fudged deck effect on Skype. Just watch out that Kermit isn't behind you. Sometimes he creeps up. Good dreams. Have you got any more, Yusuf? Ooh, let's see.

I have. So we've done the foundation series. This one is not actually one that I use because I have a second monitor. But if I had an iPad, the new version or the current version of Mac OS has a feature called Sidecar, which means that you can use your iPad as an external monitor. Sidecar. Sidecar.

Sidecar. So, and that can be wireless or it can be wired. So you can literally just set up your iPad on a stand and you've got two displays. Having two displays is a life changer for getting things done. Reference document on one side, task on the other or like even having your omnifocus or your things or you to do list on one side and then. And so there's two quotes both from Sam Evans. So Chris will get upset, but you might listen. So one of them is there's a direct correlation between how unproductive someone is and how many tabs they have open in the browser. And here's it's not a quote, it's an idea of him saying like, why if you're

only ever able to do one thing at a time, would you need to monitor's academic one time? So that that is it. That's a good question. So what I do it for is if I'm like, that's how I'm doing a web page design. And I've got the original page on one and then the creation page on the other or the preview or text, like reference and production, you reference and production. You can also use, so if you use Tiktok,

it has a built-in Pomodoro timer that you can use to fill up an entire screen that just gives you the task that you're doing. So it's like a big, real Pomodoro that I thought I was gonna ask whether or not you do that. That's pretty cool. You can just count that timer. Yeah, big countdown timer, the name of the task in the middle of the screen, and that's it,. So you just say, yeah, big count on timer, the name of the

task in the middle of the screen, and that's it. And then you're like, right, I'm going to do it. Yeah. Kim, Kim, Kim and the frog on the other screen. Is there something PTSD? Is there something specific about it being a second display, rather than it being, let's say, just a 32 inch display? Because you display. Because you could get a total amount of screen space from a very large display. Someone could just plug that TV in. It's the same thing, so. Yeah, so.

So specific to do with the fact that it's two distinct discrete displays. Yeah, so one way to say it is that, like, if you have an external display, it's something that you maybe, it's officially a secondary display, so you're not using it as your primary focus. But there is a display that you can get,

I think it's like 1200 quid, which is a big curved monitor, so it curves towards you. And that way you would actually just put your Macbook or whatever vertical stand over on the side, not look at it and just have the entire display in front of you. You can do the same with the vertical display too, If you're a coder and you've got like multiple lines of code above and below, then you can use better touch tool and keyboard shortcuts to send windows to the side of the... I bet that would take if you had like a big,

whatever, couple of feet wide display, I bet better touch tool would have a little bit of a time getting it together. But once you had it fully set up, that would be pretty good. Command shift left or command shift right? Nice for me. I still haven't moved on the better touch tool I need to. It's only a very recent for me. I have an initial resistance curve with all of these things. I want to make sure that use of doesn't get arrested or like something doesn't happen.

Something bad doesn't happen. And then once I, like, it's still fine, I usually adopt the same app with Alfred. That's a Scoby probation. So there's a probation period attached to the architecture of the Scoby problem, which is built to the time space manifold. And once he's managed to get through that, which is usually around about six months or so, with no Scoby problems occurring,

that's when you can fully implement it. The safety margin, then you're like, okay, I could say. It's because you stuff like that, it's discovery and turnover of apps and the improvement of the process is so violent. It is high noise, high noise low signal. But I think the sediment left over, those are the things that this is.

The buttery bit. It's the biscuit. The things. It's the buttery bit. It's the biscuit. The biscuity. The buttery biscuit. Biscuit base. Okay, my next one. We talked a little while ago about Flume, which is a Mac app,

which gives you full functionality for Instagram. Fantastic. It allows you to upload photos if you get the Pro version, which is only about one or two pounds I think you can have unlimited accounts to switch between. So especially if you're a social media market or something like that And you want to be able to monitor multiple accounts Fantastic service for that. However, the one thing that it doesn't support is temporary Images on your inbox so that that is every story that you reply to or that

someone replies to of yours which for the vast majority of people is how they're driving DMs in their inbox. Most of the messages that you get are just a response to something that you've put up. But it doesn't support it. However, Instagram.com slash direct slash inbox has the full functionality of your entire Instagram inbox on a browser and supports stories, story messages allows you to see pretty much everything. There's only a couple of times where someone sent something

I've not been able to get. I think it's like if it's a disappearing message which is not replayable once and it's sent by people that's not a friend or whatever. But essentially that now and because you have, if you just use Instagram.com, you can just click the little envelope icon. You don't need to go to that URL, but it is in the show notes below. If you go there, it's just as single-focused as using Flume and getting rid of all of the different tabs because you don't see anything else. There's no other bits popping up, so you can go on, reply to all of your messages and

then leave. So this is a new function of Instagram and what you can do if you still want it in the kind of packaging of a Mac app is there's many apps now that allow you to create electron based, basically a browser tab, but all the mobile version of a browser tab as a separate markup. So you basically put in the URL and it generates an app for you with the Instagram icon. That's like adding a webpage to your home screen on iOS, right? And then it kind of becomes an app. Yeah, it's exactly that. Man, and what's that called? There's loads of tools that you can do it.

Some are better than others and they keep out competing each other. So I don't want to give the name of one and then it's like this. This is the same as the productivity tool stuff, man. Like until someone comes up with the like omnifocus five that ends up taking 80% of the market or things 10 or whatever, you know, like, that ends up winning everything. And to go, it should just quickly loop back to the productivity app comments. I asked David Allen, like, whether someone's made the app that GTD deserves, and he basically said, no, the long story is like, there isn't an app out there, which does all of the different things that it needs to do yet.

It needs to be interface with your brain, basically. That's what he said. That's exactly what he said. Oh, did you listen to it, didn't you? I've had the inside scoop. Yeah. Did you enjoy it to the episode? I already, I think, some of the stuff that he said, like, while disappointing, I did

expect him to say, like, because he just uses a, uses Lotus Notes, right? And he uses a part of paper and a pen. Like it's not, well, when you've been doing this from, that for the last 30 years, you're not going to be up to date with something which isn't Lindy, you're going to have something that you've, that you developed the workflow for in like the 90s. Yeah. And you've grandfathered it in.

Well, so I think like his point of like, it more about the it's about the way you use the tool. The approach, yeah. So it's like, do you have a capture process? Are you processing those things? Do you review them? Then it doesn't really matter what you use. It's just like what makes most sense for me. It's why it's weird that there's so many like note editors when it's like at the end of the day, like you just want something to put text into and find those bits of text. Which it's lists and documents, files and folders, and it's just that. And then loads of people make that really complicated.

Yeah, I have to say, I really, really love notes for iOS notes or I'm Mac notes or whatever. That's my go to for stuff that's not serious and not long form. But I'm just looking here, all iCloud notes, 1,330. But they're nested in the right subfolders and you can have tags and stuff like that. But it's just so good. Like, and it is because if you use Apple devices,

they have a disproportionate advantage over everything else because it's always going to be quicker. It's always going to be better integrated. It's always going to be blah, blah. And then it's space as well. Flow Tato is one of the market leaders for that. For the runners. Float. How do I spell that? It's felt like potato, but FL.

FL, oh, Tato. Potato, FL. But float. Flo. FL, oh, Tato. Potato, FL. Flute. Flute. Flute, Ato. Flute, Ato. Flute, Ato. There's also native fire, which looks a bit bean.

I've not used that one. It's on GitHub, which means it's going to be very beautiful. You think it looks bean, when, when, when, isn't it? Approach with caution. That's a big warning. Yeah, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that is, that big warning. Yeah, that is my preparation, probation is period not completed. To be honest, if using native fight, if using anything off GitHub, usually that doesn't even have it, it's not even compiled, like the

developers just giving you the code and you have to then compile it yourself. So you've got to then open it in terminal and do a home brew and turn it. That's the same. That's the same. You're in your bathroom with a big like that of beatings. No, it's the same thing. What's it that you and Bekidu, is it Galsto, a blue apron or whatever? Oh, yeah. Gusto.

Whatever. Yeah. Are you liking that to GitHub? Yeah. It's the tech for you. Here's all of the things that you need to make your evening dinner. But it's your job to do it, however pay us over price. Yeah. Whereas Flutato is just like, here's a chicken curry that's in a pack.

Are you in the microwave? I feel like it's like a recipe book. It's like look, here's all the things you would need to buy and how to do the things with those things to make it into this thing. Gusto's a step ahead of that. Gusto's like the app store. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, let's get get that again. Let's not fall out about it. Have we got, have we got time? If you got one each for a super, super quick fire hours, as long as it's really quick, because I do need a wee.

That's fine. Just take the thing, maybe you shifted. Yeah, I was desperate. I'm not going to take my laptop to the toilet. I just just morally, I just have a problem with it. Fine. Johnny, have you got feels? It feels unclean to me. Oh, God. Fresh. Can you feel that pressure? Shall I do mine while Johnny's looking? He's looking uncomfortable.

Yep, fine. I can do it. Johnny, it's not really a hack. It's just something that again, from Sarmov and so Chris loves Sarmov and sometimes just rings me and says, have you listened to this video from Sarmov and so I'm like, yeah, Chris, it's brilliant, isn't it? But something that he talks about, which is quite useful for just general personal development when you're sort of observing yourself, is determining your personal development when you're sort of observing yourself is determining your maximum and minimum tolerance for something that you're trying to change. So everybody has an amount of money in the bank account where they like start to look on online shopping a lot and

you know they're like oh I'm flush, I spend a bit of money but everyone also has the panic number and everyone has the weight on the scales, like maybe not YouTube because you're absolutely in a whole time, but most normal people have a panic number and they're like, ah, I can be a bit more, like, you know, I don't need to worry about. So like observing those and observing the behaviors that happen when you start to reach those triggers is one of the easiest ways to just like nudge your reference range down. Something you talk about is the thing you consistently achieve or the thing that consistently happens in your life is your minimum acceptable standard. So, you'll very rarely get above your maximum acceptable weight. You'll very rarely go below your minimum acceptable amount of money

in your bank account. So, like, if you change those, that's one of the easiest ways to influence your behaviour. I really like that. How do you change them? What's his advice? I think just, his advice was just simply, simply like a lot of people have those and operate in that way but aren't necessarily aware of it. So there might be become cognizant is the first? Yeah, there might be a level of tidiness you allow your like desk or desktop or kitchen or bedroom to be before you like all right I need a big tidy. So like trying to notice what that is and think oh that's coming, I'm gonna do something

before it, ahead of time, just becoming aware of it. It's a very like watery vague, fluffy thing. It's not easy to instantiate, but it's an interesting reflection. A lander bot done had a thing the other day where he cited some old philosopher talking about the fact that humans go through these cycles. And he actually had, if you can imagine, a snake

snaking its way from top to bottom in a mid-range, like the interquartile range of some graph. And that is... It's Hagle. Hagle. Yeah, when you've oscillate between political, our sides of the political spectrum or the Samovans video is called Face Off with the devil where you have these like top and bottom points. Science or cosine, isn't it?

Yeah. Nice, but not time. There's no. Yeah. Nice. But not time away. Not time. Sign. Not what have you got? I don't know. We can't say that. That's.

This is a. It's a contactless charger. But this one stands up. So I think the problem with normal contactless charges, the flat ones, is that because the charge magnetic bit has to be aligned properly with it, you end up having to fiddle around a bit. I mean, with you, I am so...

We have this problem. What I have won, it was what I decided to buy when I first got an induction charger for my phone. I bought a new way I bought a flat one, but I have to be incredibly precise about how far up, down, left and right it is. And if it's slightly off, whereas if you use an upright stand,

I've been thinking this for ages. Man, you nailed it. You nailed it. So it's fixing the point, fixing a point where you know, well, if that is there, then the rest of it must be right. I've got two many degrees of freedom on a flat induction charger.

I had a few instances where I like put my phone on it at night and I'd wake up and I hadn't charged. Just dead. It took two instances of that for me to be like right no more. So I just sucked off the induction charging all together. If you've got an Apple watch as well then there are some that have a stand and a little watch thing, which have already the Apple devices on one place, which is quite nice. Man, I think that obviously is deep with your phone outside your room, then which you should. You know, anyone that's listening to this, but away from you. With their phone, in Naaman, it needs outside of the room, like digital sunset is increased.

That's an upright induction charger. I am all over that. What have you gone for with the charger? This is a bean 1.1. It almost says less cone. What do you say? You can't see that. That's so close. So close. And caliever it. So my final one is if you're listening to an audio book which you need to focus on, turn the volume up. So much of the time when you're listening to something, you'll just listen at a comfortable level.

I'm not saying make your ears bleed, but if you have something which is louder, a little bit louder, I tend to take more notice. I tend to not be able to have my thoughts be as distracted. You have to presume that your ability to think of something else is a function of how much you're not able to think of the thing that you're listening to. And if the thing that you're listening to is taking up more of your consciousness, more of your senses, turn it up a bit. And if you're worried about it being too loud, you can go into Apple Health and it tells you whether your headphones have been turned up too loud or not. Have you done the thing on Siri where you go, hey Siri, turn the volume up to 80%

and then it gives you the warning where it says, that's very loud. Are you sure? Have you had that? I've not had that, no. There you go. That's because you've got a pair of AirPods Pros and you've never had to have it above 65%.

Yeah. But yeah, louder audio books or podcasts for Comprehension definitely seems to be something. So it's like you get a 10 pound headphones and then at some point, I have to pay for hearing, like to see a consultant to talk about your hearing or you just buy the expensive, nice ones. Yeah.

No, you're right. Man, this list from today is absolutely massive. Hell a big. Everything that we've gone through will be linked in the show notes below. On the description on YouTube, I will find some discount codes, some affiliate links or whatever I can get hold of to try and make you hack your life for less. Guys, people want to check out your stuff. What you got going on at the moment?

Anything you want to direct them to? Just go to propinifitness.com for slash modern wisdom. All the fun stuff happens there. Like you might think this podcast is good. Check out that. So that's a lot of fun stuff. Check out that page. Yeah, that is that is predominantly for personal trainers or anyone looking to take things online business wise or propinifitness.com forward slash calculator for the macros, for the secret magic macro. In fact, you can even calculator for the macros for the secret magic macros. In fact, you can even just get the macros on propin fitness.com.

So you even have to go to the calculator. You probably have to use the calculator. But yeah, to use the calculator. Yeah. Also, check out propin fitness Instagram use if you're putting up some cool stuff at the moment, man. I know you've got nearly things premiered and scheduled for the next few months. I'm on Twitter. You're on Twitter. You're on Twitter. You're still on Twitter. I'm on Twitter. You're on Twitter. You're on Twitter. I'm on Twitter. I was going to say you've never been on Twitter.

You're pretty stupid. Yes, thank you, gentlemen. Everything that we've gone through, including prop-infitnesses, appropriate links for you to check out their stuff, will be in the show notes below. If you haven't already got your copy of the ultimate life-hax list, 200 ways to upgrade your existence, that will be linked below as well.

Gentlemen, until next time, or do you know what it is? Next time is gonna be episode 200. Two, Andy. Two, Andy. Two, Andy. 100, thank you, Andy. So if you've got some questions that you want me,

Johnny and you, Swift to answer, episode 200, we will be reading them out alive on air. Thank you, Andy. Thank you, Andy. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Andy. Thank you, Andy. Thank you. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Annay. Okay. Goodbye, then.

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