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Life hacks 106.
Big swinging dicks. Just like the Where So, the the Family Guy producers did a press conference and they had someone doing the the sign language. Mhm. Um and Did he say it again? And he noticed it and he was he started saying more and more silly stuff. In fact, we could could we include the clip of this? Um here. Um all I can add to that is everyone look at the sign language interpreter right now. [ __ ] [ __ ]
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Giant beefy flippity floppity saggy And we're back. I'm back. God, it was weird being away. It was. Now we're back. Yeah, I didn't like being away. So pleased to be back. Yeah, me too. So, life hacks 106, principles for a productive and efficient life. You made it trendy. Why have you made it trendy? It was fine. It's just life What? Where's the tagline from? Oh, it's trendy. Ruins the intro. You do. You do. You do.
Do I ruin it or do I No, you ruin it. Is it endearing? No. Uh it's endearing. And then Chris tries to reel it back so we can continue doing it in one take. But I'm the ghost in the system. Right. Do you want to go last? Fly in the ointment. Who's a scone in the the lemon in Scone in the scone in the pot. Right. Uh for the first time in three episodes, you have a list. I have some I just wrote this earlier.
Cool. It's not very comprehensive. Do you want Do you want Just big top I got you quick one. Quick one. Little jab. Throw one thing away per day. All right. As in like one empty packet of crisps. No, no. One possession. That's presuming that you purchase possessions at quicker than one a day. No, it's not. You're going to end up with no possessions. Otherwise the whole point would be that would be ridiculous.
Think of the rate that you'd be accumulating things at now. Right. So how how long do I have to continue this for? So the idea is things should should serve a particular purpose in your life and a lot of people have a lot of bloated stuff. There's an article of a guy that has 22 possessions. And they'll all be they'll all be mint, won't they? Yeah. It's like a really expensive set of hard-wearing boots, a MacBook Air,
um like a I could give it to a charity shop or sell it. eBay, whatever. Or eBay. Fair enough. I just think it leads to a more streamlined existence. space will be it'll be tidier, mentally Really most people go like, "Oh, I'm going to have a big a big sort out, big tidy up." I'm like, "Bollocks. Just throw one thing away per day." And then before you know it, 6 months You're not batching You're not batching
your projects there very effectively the way You're It's a habit. It's a process goal rather than outcome goal. Mhm. Okay. You go You didn't like it, but it's it's a good one. Life hack, also a fitness tip. Best thing that you can do for your upper is get a pull-up bar in your house. The pull-up is like the squat of the upper body. And if you just have it in your house, especially if you rent somewhere and you're like, "Oh, I can't
I can't drill into the walls of the door cuz I don't know what will be annoyed." Just get one of the lever ones that you just hook it on. And you pull on one side, it's completely stable. If you have a cantilever, isn't Can cantilever.
Cantilever. cantilever cantilever forced down is a lie. cantilever without a you. Um So you get one of them. Every time you walk past it, do five pull-ups. Or like Let's say okay. max out one max out So yeah, pick the max number of reps you can do, divide it by two, and do that many number of reps. So if you can do 10 pull-ups in one set, do five. If you can only do three, do one pull-up. Mhm. If you can't do any pull-ups, jumping
pull-up jump to the top, let yourself down as slow as you can, all the way down. Don't do any of this kind of oh, I'm done. Like jump to the top, let yourself all the way down. That's what Johnny would do in a CrossFit class. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if you're going to if you're going to waste your time, might as well have fun wasting your time. Um you could buy the V-Taper program. That is a program that we have, which I
did, and I'm People think I'm lying about this. It added 25 kg to my bench press in 8 Johnny saw it happen. I watched it. To some people, that might not sound like a lot because they're making noob gains. I see. It went from 115 to 140. But you'd already got close to peak I was yeah, and That yeah, that was after a lot of training, wasn't it? It was. That was after six seven years six seven years of training.
Um added an inch or an inch and a half to my chest and back. Big difference in the photos. Probably got slightly leaner, if anything. So It's a hard program. It is a hard program. propelfitness.com/ search on the the search bar for V-Taper. Yeah, I'm going to optimize. Doesn't know that you are out. V-Taper, and then credit card we'll just create They will buy it by the time this is up, unless they didn't get it up right now.
So, my one, um Anker USB hub. Anker-lever Anker-lever without a U. [ __ ] hell. Turkey brushed. Um so everyone will know that almost everything in their home or their bedroom, especially, is charged by USB. And I I recently got a lamp which is charged by USB. Yes, no that's awesome. Toothbrushes charged by USB. I've got a USB lamp in the [ __ ] I think it just plugs into a USB. Mhm. Well, the charging thing so it's a
battery-powered moon lamp and then the other end of that um so you've got even charge it just needs to always be in the USB. That's the millions of dispersed products which require a USB plug to fit Get Anker make one I think the one I've got is an eight stack so it's a like a little rectangle but that big maybe few inches by few inches by USB thick and it's got eight of them. No, not that one. Surely it's similar. Similar but not
it's not that one is it? and it's just going to fix all of your problems. Everything comes out of one area you're never going to lose plugs again. One thing is plugged in you don't need a multi-socket and it it's just fantastic. It's been an absolute game-changer. Have you got any wall sockets that have a USB slot? No, cuz I've got this. Okay. They're very very stupid aren't they? Yeah, I've got one. I use it for my lamp that needs
to be permanently plugged into a USB. So you've bought a lamp and then bought the socket for the lamp. Or were they were they coincidental? Coincidental, yeah. But like you can also use it obviously for for It's like Philips Hue isn't it? So you have to buy switch for your smart lamp for your smart life. Uh shout out to Michael Caju from Brew Strength for making me jealous of his USB hub while I was in Texas. I got back and I was like
need one of them. It's fantastic. Yeah, so there's never enough USBs is There is now with this hack. So, what's next, Johnny? Oh Christ. get a monthly massage. Where from? Where do people go if they don't have someone good cuz finding a massage therapist is Oh yeah. I was going to Yeah. You said If you're in the northeast, for um for serious, I am quite limited on availability but weekends Give me a shout. the affiliate scheme is
one It's like snowball over again, isn't Well, that's it. You you have to listen to normally a lecture sometimes. three times speed. I'll give you a discount if I can listen to a lecture on three times speed. Would you? Yeah. I'll give you £5 off. Otherwise, you can listen to whatever of your choosing. For a £5 surplus. So, what you think for a £5 surplus, you can pay You can pay to listen to your own music.
if it's silent? Is that just the price?
The midpoint. Yeah. 250. But so it's what it it's it puts you in a volume of of tissue work that you would never put yourself through yourself. It hurts so you would never do it yourself and it just prevents things from getting too out of hand. And once a month isn't so frequent that it's like financially insane. I mean, once a month is still quite a bit but I think for the return, worth it. Nice. Scott.
Get a shoehorn. Oh. So, ah So, I did uh analysis of this which is like Let's say you wear a lot of Converse and Vans and the any shoe that's just a little really to try and get on. Brogues. Brogues are Yeah, massively. If you Or if you get painful heels or blisters on your heels, you need to protect them. So, if you spend Let's say you take your shoes on and off average three, four times a day, takes
you 15 to 30 seconds per shoe. Let's say 15 seconds. That's 30 seconds per time multiplied by four. That's two minutes per day. Multiply that by 365. Alfred. That's 730 minutes. That's 12 hours of time, Jesus. That you're putting your shoes on. Per year? Per year? That you're putting your shoes on. What can you get that down to with a shoe horn? Hang on, I feel like my math is wrong. Yeah, cuz that doesn't seem that bad,
really. And also like not something to be proud of. minutes. It's two minutes a day, though. Just two minutes times 365. 730. That's correct. Okay, yeah. Fine. So, you can get one of these online. are you saving? What are you What are you saving by using them? So, shoe horn. Okay, so so that's 12.1 hours. Let's say your your hourly rate is £10 an hour. You're saving £121 over a year of human man hours. Imagine how
much profit potential you could But you don't put your shoes on instantly with a shoe horn. You put them on more quickly. Yeah, we need to work out the saving time. So, let's say you save five seconds. Okay. I I think you probably cut it down to a quarter. Yeah, 25 seconds a year. your finger jammed in it? Yeah, you save your thumb skin as well. Everyone wants a bit of nice thumb skin. Thumb skin. I agree. So, eBay, 70p, free
No, man. You don't want you Or you could do what these two did, which was the most beautiful gift I've ever received for my birthday. They got me a proper weapon of a shoe horn, like What is it? Probably 50 inches long? And it's like cold rolled steel or something. It's lovely. We also got him some ham. And you ate it? Was it It was Parma ham. Haram. And a Thomas the Tank Engine card. Yeah. Uh that leads quite nicely into uh
two that I want to do, which are more uh I guess friendship based or conceptual First one is tell your friends that you miss them. So, this is something that I read in the 6-Minute Diary, which you'll have heard me speak about a lot, and is potentially an upcoming life hack on this episode, where it says, "Your friends would appreciate you telling them that you're thinking of them." And so many times you'll think
about someone that you care about, whether it be a friend or a family member, and you won't do anything about it. You're like, that is the lowest hanging fruit of a nice gesture. You You send and receive shite messages on a hourly basis on your Just when that happens, now whenever I get a pang of thinking about someone, I just tend to tell them. I try my best to go, "Thinking about you, man. Hope you're good." Or
send a message to my mom or my dad, or ask how the dogs are, like. And it's just It's a nice little rule of thumb, the same way that some people have got like trigger numbers, like wherever they see the number 21, it reminds them to be mindful, or whatever it might be. That's kind of the same thing for me. Um And on the side of that is be the guy who organizes stuff or to go, who organizes stuff for your friends. So, I've got a
lot of mates who complain that their friends never want to do things. Like that they just doss around, or they always just go to the pub, or do whatever. But the power is in your hands to do this. And if you continue like I managed to get you to go to Iceland. Yeah, you are definitely that person. Thin end of the wedge. Yeah, you don't You don't need to do that. So, what What Chris did, um we we So, me and Chris were wanting to go to
Chris and I. Chris and I. I took the I I took the plunge. I was like, "Okay, it'll be a nice thing." I got the jitters on the way, but um Johnny was like, "Oh, no, I really can't afford to go to Iceland at the moment. It's going to be 9 and 1/2 thousand pounds for everything." And so, Chris per thing bought him him. per thing. Yeah. bought him the plane ticket to Iceland. And then, you're you're the dick if you don't go.
Cuz that was Someone's got you a plane in sterling. That was in sterling, so cuz fine. But then, that's the reason it's thin end of the wedge is because that's really just cranking the door open. But the real cost of Iceland is once you get there and you buy a ready meal from the supermarket and it's 9.5 You can sense the So, Chris and I just lived off Domino's the whole time. Which was 9.5 thousand
pounds per pizza. It was cheaper. Domino's was like standard price, wasn't it? Domino's was Was it? Domino's is a franchise. The the most affordable thing, like you'd been better off just having Domino's for every There's a man who built his house out of them. It's cheaper than bricks. I Yeah, fine. Well, it would be. That's the thing that Well, that's another life hack, like you you're an idiot if you pay full price for Domino's
cuz they've constantly got discounts. Two for Tuesdays. On Pizza Express. We ordered Pizza Express models, didn't we? We ordered uh the protein half a grand of Domino's to a staff induction a couple of weeks ago. That's a lot of Domino's. With vouchers as well. Two for Tuesdays. Good god. That would like bust a shop. We had to do that We had to ring them in advance. Mhm. Or like the day before and go,
"Just to let you know, FYI, you're about to have the mother lode sent sent your way. Shove this like right in your dough. Book Friday off as a holiday cuz tomorrow I'm hitting your weekly revenue target. Damn right. Uh Johnny. I'm never ready. You catch me off guard every time. I'll have one ready for the next time. Quick fire life hack. Oh, yeah. This is a biggie. It is. Self-monetize.
I had an example of a guy who Okay, so step back. If we assume that AI, machine learning, etc. is slowly taking over a lot of jobs. So, let's say by in 20 years time, a good chunk of jobs that are have a fairly manual component to them will be largely automated. So, you need to not wait until that's happening to go, "Oh [ __ ] I'm unemployed. I need to find something else to do." There's an example of a guy who I heard in a
podcast recently who used to work in the same area I used to work in. So, he used to work for a big four accountancy firm. Saw what was happening. He was like, "Literally, they are hiring less people per year because of all this automation." Left and started selling a product online using online marketing, etc. of just how to get a job at one of these firms and earns more per year than when he was working there, which is a
bit matter. But, like he just the point the point of self-monetize is like everyone has a something that they could just coach or offer. Just start doing it as a side hobby. This is the guy from ClickFunnels, Not him. No, but that's that's one of the things that he says everyone's an expert in so if you want to get expert secrets, let us know. We'll send you a link. Speak to the guys. Um That's a really good point. I like it. I
like I saw some guy that I started following on Twitter the other day came up with an unbelievable side business that everyone could do. Search local businesses on Google or Facebook. When you view the page, look for the ones that say, "Is this your business? Claim it." Then call that business and say you're not doing online marketing, your competitors are taking your money away from you. Very easily learn online
marketing and do the marketing for them. There you go. There's probably a 20 grand a year business just in your back There are there are so many things that like So, if you are a 20-something year old like or 30-something, whatever, like you're fairly familiar with Facebook, social media, etc. There are so many business owners who are 50-something who have no interest in learning, weren't raised with that level of technology,
and you can just provide a service online in your pajamas. I'll teach you how to tweet face and you can do it You book the whole thing. You book and it's a that is a side income that in some cases can eclipse what you currently earn. It's a good point. It's like you probably have an expertise in at least two or three things that you may be not even consider you wouldn't even consider to be an expertise in like
the guy on how to get a job at the company that he works at. That's not something that immediately comes to mind is like oh hang on I I've got a job here so therefore I know how to get the job here. Exactly. What can so do we say when we're teaching PTs how to move online is just staying one chapter ahead of the people you're helping. So there's a in the film catch catch me if you can't he pretends to teach a class he
teaches a class by just reading one chapter ahead of where the class actually is for a whole term. And like if you're if you know a little bit about something more than someone else you can help them So you're an expert. Where you where you are exactly. And actually that person probably doesn't want someone who's 10 steps or 20 steps ahead cuz it's unrelatable yeah. That's that's good man. Don't wait until
AI takes your job to get another income. Did you see I did a tweet today I think one of you guys replied to it about self-driving cars? Yeah. There we go. So there was this this statistic that I was listening to about self-driving cars will save 1 million road deaths per year. And people are still arguing over which group of pedestrians it would hit if it was presented with this existential As as though humans make the optimal
decision. That's the ridiculous thing in And this this is what I said the perfect thing that I said on the message the tweet was we would sooner die of our own than live at the behest of a computer. Well so the the other the response was after September the 11th many people decided to drive interstate cuz they were afraid of September the 11th happening again which ironically it's so unlikely that the same
terrorist event is going to happen why do you think the most security is going to be immediately after an airplane incident? Exactly. And and terrorists don't like they don't have a reason let's double down on the motorways. I'm just convinced that the motorways are going to be where it's at. Look, John John Half the security on the Exactly. So, my life hack on the note of you saying having a trigger number that reminds you to do
So, you can do digital or analog. The digital version is an app on iPhone called Alarmed. So, alarm D. That just allows you to set and the the image is actually like a a little bit of string around someone's finger. That's what people used to do. So, you can wear a ring or you can wear a bracelet or something that also reminds you of that. Every time you become aware of it or you notice it on your body or you set alarm to go off at
certain intervals throughout the day. You can do the the habit that you're looking to instill. For me, it's deeper breathing. So, I've got the deep breath alarm on this now. And it makes a really unintrusive like And it's quiet enough Sorry, what does it do? Right, it's nice. It's lovely. And so, it doesn't vibrate or anything. It's just enough to for you to notice it. Other people won't even register.
And that's just a way to focus on the breath. Yeah. That's a really nice way to do it. I might do that for making sure that my posture and Exactly. Yeah. Alarmed, very nice indeed. Um, what am I going to do? Okay, so video guy Dean will love the fact that he's got some partner footage for this. But I recently decided to purchase a pregnancy pillow.
So glad we could Congratulations. Yeah. Um, as you will see here. Let me show you pregnancy pillow. Pregnancy pillow. I mean, first off it's dogs. always smells fantastic. It's dogs. All right, there's so that's another life hack for next time the smell of this room and how it happens. John, I mean Chris, that is not what I was expecting. Looks like this little man. Do you want to go? They look like legs.
Do you want to go? You go. Get in get in the middle and then you're going to be on top.
Do you know what I mean? This sleeping environment here Chris is fantastic. Being slowly eaten by this mattress. How was it using pure comfort? I can't describe how it feels like your body just goes And we're back. Oh thank god. Yeah, I know. Awful when we go away. It's just blackness. Lose all sense of time. How long have we been gone for? That's the thing I don't know. We'll never know. Someone may have
tampered with me and my watch. Yeah, it's gone. It's gone. And we were gone.
Pregnancy pillow. It's essentially a huge U well as you've just seen in the footage, it's a big U-shaped bastard that lives in your bed. And as opposed to having a normal pillow and not not being able to support yourself when you roll over, if you're a slightly heavier guy like we may be. It means I don't like I like sleeping on my side but I don't like folding over without support underneath and I never
really knew what I was missing until I had a pregnancy pillow. So being able to put something that's both between your legs and that your top arm can rest on takes so much of the pressure off like chest already sat over a computer all day opening up your scapula, opening up your back and closing off on your chest and then you go to bed and mimic the same position. The idea is well but that by having your legs slightly apart
if you didn't have that, your spine sags because you've got your head elevated and then the rest of your body is down like that and then your legs are together so your spine is laterally sagging down. Whereas if you have your legs slightly apart, it just straightens things up a bit. And then if you do Johnny's tip from Life Hacks 104, I 105. Is it 105 where you have in that position, you have the pillow
like this. Don't forget don't forget the towel roll. be a towel otherwise it doesn't Oh, the towel roll inside wedged between the gap here. Yeah, imagine my hand is a towel roll. Imagine my hand is not my hand is a towel roll. This hand is my hand. Isn't that lovely? Are you sure? Sitting how I'm sitting? What's this? That's my hand. This is a towel. Okay. And then if you can't if you don't have a pregnancy pillow, just
I mean you need No, the another pillow. I have a three pillow set up Would you not consider pregnancy pillow? I'm a bit worried about the heat. I'm well up for a pregnancy pillow, but it contravenes my estrogen experiment at the moment because it's made of So Can we polyethylene, one of those two. It's the it's the complexity of that sentence. Like I know obviously I know exactly what you mean, but I know what
you mean. It's true actually that sentence it contravenes my estrogen experiment because yeah, like Well, there's another podcast estrogen experiment? What happened How do you spell estrogen? With an E. No, no. Let's do British O O E. Is it strogan? What happened when I lit some candles when we all came round to my house? I cried. upset, didn't you? You got upset because it was going to ruin your experiment.
Trying to improve your free Is it your free? Is it not the net? For me, it's my free. Is that the Well, that is the net, isn't it? Total and free. My total's normal, my free is subnormal. Um so creap.com/estrogen and I'm just normal. Going to make those two links before this goes up. Your testosterone. My testosterone. Yeah. Through the roof. Who So, who just did one? You did. What did I do? Pregnancy pillow. So, it's it's really
nice. You can get one on Amazon. The link will be in the show notes below. And it's like 20 quid for like a like a smaller one. I'm going to upgrade to the one that you sent me. That's nice. 50 quid, but it looks worth it, to be the problem with my one is I have a pregnancy pillow and then I need to put another one on top. Cuz it is thin on the ground, isn't it? So, You need two pregnancy pillows. How
would you Who's the guy Who's the guy that did the Top deal. Who's the Who's the guy that did the sleep Kelly Kelly Starrett was the one. Actually, that was linked in Life Hacks 105. Check that out. And he did the sleep posture thing, right? How would you utilize a pregnancy pillow with that? Would you just go one arm under, one arm over? Yeah. He talks about to either if you're lying on your back, pillow on the hamstrings. If
you're lying on your side, pillow between your legs. Yeah. Um and then he has the sort of that display, which is what kind of what a pregnancy pillow is already doing. Um as long as you are not doing cuz I think what he's trying to get away from is people go like this. Mhm. And then that you know that you're like sat on your shoulder lying on your Or like that. Or like that. As soon as you as I mean even if you don't have a
pregnancy pillow, you're not prepared to make the move, your partner's going to say that what the [ __ ] have you made this barrier between us in the bed for. You're not pregnant. You travel a lot or you whatever it is you You're not a woman. You're pregnant. Your legs are long. Um even if you're not prepared to do that, you can quite easily like just getting used to slotting that bottom arm underneath a pillow
and pushing the pillow in between yourself and your shoulder. Like even just when you told me that, I was like, "Why have I not been That's what I do currently cuz my pillow doesn't compress very much. But I'm going to go for the next stage and do the rolled up towel, I think, cuz You sleep on the floor, though. I do sleep on the floor. That sounds like I'm just I know that you want you wanted me to
mention that as well. To the listeners at home, it'll be a joke that you should sleep on the floor. Johnny and Chris made a funny exaggerated because he's an Arab No, you actually do. I do. And I'm considering getting some wooden pallets. Just How long did we fight with you to try and get you to get a bed? And you could have had 90 days times three when you bought your house to to when you moved in. Mhm. So, I've done
four months now of sleeping on the On a mattress topper. On a mattress topper just to stop the joints from Yeah, so I I did it as a journalistic piece and I'm writing an article video about it coming out soon on preppy fitness.com {slash} sleeping on the floor. I think she should call it {slash} floor. Floor. Fine. I love making these links on the fly, but it just means creating more work for Sounds great. Sounds good. So, all of
the links that you say don't exist? Not yet, but they will. Yeah, so they do. They do exist now. Don't give away the scheduling. So, okay, so next overall, are you going to sleep on the floor forever? No, there have been some benefits, some downsides, but you'll have to see the article and the video to find out why. Nice. No spoilers. Mhm. Europe. Man, you weren't ready. Cuz we get sucked in a direction. No matter what
we're going to be talking about sleeping. Johnny just got completely sucked off into sucked off in a sucked off. Did I? I said to you Sucked off in a direction. Which direction? Look at this up. Sucked off. So, you know what? Actually, I'm going to do give up coffee. Give up coffee. You're going to give up coffee or you're going to do giving up coffee? So, I've already given up coffee for like a month of it. Not anymore. Not
anymore, you haven't. And you haven't even had your fit aid. You nearly went out of your mind. You nearly went out of your mind for some reason. Cuz I was going to call it fatigue. All right, and you Okay, so how much coffee were you How much coffee were you having before? How much on average? Five cups a day. At Just flat teaspoons big heap teaspoons? I have an espresso machine, the little Yeah. But, like so I'd have like two at
Morning. And then sometimes I like go out, maybe have two in a coffee shop. Lunchtime? Yeah, and the trouble is Reckless. Yeah. Well, that Looking back Looking back now it is reckless. What was interesting like it resets not only your sensitivity to caffeine, but also your sense of like, "Whoa, that's loads of caffeine."
So, um I was on holiday with my girlfriend ordered my second So, at breakfast I ordered my second cafetière, at breakfast. Cuz I'm like, I used to have this I may have even said it on this podcast. I used to have this attitude of like, "Anyone who gives up coffee has just [ __ ] got nothing to do. Like, go find me someone who drinks a lot of coffee, I'll show you someone who gets a lot done. They've got a big
to-do list. Like, they're probably quite an ambitious person." Long penis. Big penis. Massive deadlift. All those things. And uh Biggest bench press. And uh And so I just almost almost wore it as Yeah. badge of honor that I drank a lot of coffee. And it There's a very There's a culture around that, certainly in the fitness industry, of like, you know, how I feel on a Monday without coffee, etc., etc. Um
So, she said, "I bet you couldn't go without coffee for 30 days." And my immediate like, "Fuck you, yes I can." kicked in, and before I knew it I'd committed to it. So, the first thing I like mate tea, you know? Well, first thing I did was I Amazon bought a So, I was like, "Right, I'm going to get really into tea. I like tea, it's mint." So, I ordered like uh yerba mate, puer uh sencha green tea. And I was making
these concoctions and like, "This is tastes awful." Trying to convince myself that it was that it was fine. Remembering that we're all sat in a WhatsApp chat listening to you and Jordan Ayers discuss the finer points of how to get off being on coffee and drinking something that you hate. It's like it's it's two Alexes talking about how to like how to boil down methadone to make it like So, that it's
not methadone anymore. Yeah. Yeah, so um the the weirdest thing about it was but I think because I had I was still having some tea, so I was allowed any tea I wanted. Um just no coffee, so I couldn't have decaf. So I was trying to get myself away from seeing coffee as like my my Yeah, cuz tea has more caffeine than coffee apparently, but it's just that you don't that it doesn't can't diffuse properly.
so I think I probably my caffeine intake went down from probably 600 mg a day to less than 100 mg a day. And some days, nothing at all. For someone that doesn't know what 600 mg is, Like it's not very A shot of espresso is roughly 60 to 80. Usually 60. So otherwise that is pointless. An alcohol is 140. Yeah, so that that's like a that's a decent like a nice standard dose. Okay, so what were the effects that 30
days of no caffeine elicited? Um sleep. So I was expecting some sleep benefits, few headaches, like but feeling a bit frustrated and generally underwhelmed. And Underwhelmed. Underwhelmed. Where's the underwhelmed? I can't find it. Sleep was improved an unbelievable amount. So like I think we were recording a podcast one evening after I'd been doing it for about a week and I was like I can't keep my eyes open. It
was like half nine. Um falling asleep. So how long does it take until you you start you you saw the sleep improvements? It was almost almost instant. You said it was a weekend that that that we were doing a podcast, but just generally at like 9:30, just Oh, I see. So you mean to say sleep improvements, you mean you're tired at in the night time. Tired tired in the evening without having to like try and wind down. Cuz I
think around that time I was going back onto coffee. I had I had another two like a two or three day cuz I'd been off coffee for a few years now, like cold turkey. And I had a two or three days of like I'm going to, you know, ease myself back into coffee and just having one in the I never used to fall asleep during the day and once I started doing that I noticed that I would in the afternoon I was falling asleep. Have a slump. And I
think it's because there's a a carryover effect reducing my sleep quality in the night time subsequent to that and then you're more tired during the day and then you're having to just stumble your way into like having more coffees to keep yourself propped up. And then there was a time when you had a slightly two heaped teaspoon Oh. Of coffee. Heart rate just a hundred the whole day. That was my messaged me and Johnny just
saying guys had a heaped teaspoon of coffee this morning. Cuz that would have been like still way under a hundred milligrams of caffeine. Probably. They've gone from like 65 to 80 or something like that. Ruined me. So I I've got the data to show for as well. can include I'll I'll see if I can find the screenshot. So I've been back on coffee for two weeks. And I went to the morning the morning of me having my first
coffee, the day before, I realized that someone had stolen my data online. Oh. So I started getting letters. And I was like for [ __ ] sake. All right, okay. So I've got to deal with but I was like no bollocks, I'm going to the coffee shop. So I like delayed dealing with this. Went to Ouseburn Coffee. Anyone's been there in Newcastle? Love it. Um ordered an AeroPress coffee. So this this used to be like bread and butter
for me. Like this used to be just like Whereas this was like the you almost had to get the little axe out and break the thing. And um the so extremely productive morning. Like almost painfully productive The next day had one and I was like right, want more of that. Had a second one. Massive mistake. Oh. Massive mistake. So we you and I were on a coaching call at the time. And I remember sitting there thinking,
like I've literally overdone it here. You can't go back. There's nothing you can do. undo button with coffee. It's horrible. And you feel it take you away and you're like, [ __ ] This is going to be my system for 8 hours. Cuz that's that's the difference like with heroin. If someone overdoses on heroin, you can give them naloxone, which is fantastic because it just instantly reverses it and people will just come
out of that slump and like they'll hate you for it cuz they'll they'll have been having a nice time. a trip. Yeah, but caffeine, I feel like No effects. You've just got to ride it ride the wave. I love caffeine. I was a proper and I like love coffee as well. So, I normally have no time for people who advise these sorts of things. Especially cuz you You're not like me. You don't like I had three decafs today, actually. Did
you? People made me them. So, Right. It's like, right. But you you wouldn't like save up save up for a nice coffee or buy like nice coffee beans. I don't know. So, I I'm like that was like that. So, giving it was really difficult to do. But definite benefits. So, now what's your relationship with coffee now? I never thought I'd hear you say this. Like I I feel like this this is a He's going to relapse. He's going to relapse.
Maybe I will. The real Johnny's tied up somewhere and this is like this is the Android that's like having seen the having seen the effect of having two and realizing that I had blunted that is such a strong like, [ __ ] me. Like I need to be careful with this stuff. So, are you going to start using it strategically after the 30 days is up? The 30 days is gone. Right, okay. So, you're back at it. Just at 1:00 in the
Fine. So, this was actually in the what is it? George? We have a podcast about this and like Johnny has a protocol on how to reset your coffee addiction without just going cold turkey cuz there what I did. There is real caffeine withdrawal effects. Like you will get headaches and everything and it's not psychogenic. It's like it is pharmacological effect of it. I actually found switching to tea easier than
using decaf. Right. Okay. But I think just because you aren't like having a [ __ ] version of something. You're like Decaf is zero caffeine, isn't it? Or is it still has some in? Right. Yeah. But also like it's not as nice if you like Yeah, it's less than two. Okay. If you like coffee, it's It's just not as nice. It's just a knock off But like experimenting with different teas and it is an interesting experience.
But also a complete waste of time. Yeah. Well, I did something called I did a video of the standard fitness morning routine which I like to call the anxiety cocktail because what people do is they'll get themselves out of bed. First thing they do, check the newsfeed on check if they've got neurotically check if they've had any likes or anything, skip breakfast. So you want to externalize you want get outside of
yourself as fast as possible, don't you first thing in the morning? So you want to sensitize yourself to other people's approval and and make sure to prime your body for stress. So you do that and you skip breakfast so make sure that you're getting yourself into the most sympathetic dominant glucagon dominant state that you can. you've got the cortisol awakening response. You've got a natural surge of
stress hormones coming in, peaking at around 45 minutes. That's the perfect time to have a big cup of coffee so that so that when that starts to get absorbed, it just doubles on that stress response. You get all of that stuff. And then you go sit over a computer hunched over and multitask and only look at things that are 30 cm away Artificial light. and artificial light. Make sure to hammer that. And that is how
don't turn your notifications off on your Oh yeah. So have notifications coming in all the time making you flip between tasks. And that is how to engineer anxiety in yourself. And um I I mean check out the videos on our Instagram but I look at the you look at the rate of anxiety searches on Google from 2004 to now and it's doubled. And we wonder why. I did a an interview today with Recovery for Life, which is a
substance abuse and mental health in Newcastle. They help people out of substance They don't give them mental health problems and substance abuse That would be awful. It'd be a poor business model. Like the hate crime charity that funds hate crimes.
Rapist for a charity. No. All right. Okay. The rapist charity. What was that thing that I sent you? The the strength the rapist. Strength The strength the rapist. Like the pediatrician that got a brick thrown through his window. Is that the people that read The Sun newspaper? Terrible. Uh have you done Is that That's not your one. No. What's your one? Mine is and Shell, BP are all going to be upset at
me for this cuz it's not really safe, and I This is a life Making your own fuel, eh? No, no. This This is a life hack. I do. Importing it from Yemen. Yeah. I'm not saying I mean it it's certainly The Yemeni fuel is The it it's against the regulations of these places and it's just what I do. I'm not saying you should, but when it's a cold and you want to fill up your car with or when I want to fill up my car with
I put the thing in, take the cap, squeeze it underneath the handle, and then get back in the car. And then the petrol Hands-free filling. Hands-free. It will fill up and it will stop on its own accord. You can then get back out. You know where you want to go. Unhook it. Any city center Shell between the hours of 12:00 and 5:00 on a weekday. Is there a dude doing it? Full Um Really? Attendant, yeah.
All right. How much do you want, mate? I just don't care. Fill her up. You know what I have really changed my opinion of? The frequency of filling my car. Full tank of gas. You going full tank? Yeah.
So So there's an interesting story. argue about this on one of the earlier life hacks? [ __ ] right did we. The story of why is that I got started on a petrol station. Oh. No, you want to minimize the number of times. So I got started on in my local petrol station. Oh, I remember about Who am I? I don't have a started me I'll explain. So the the way the format of the petrol station is ridiculous. Format. There's a a mini Tesco.
And the pumps are just off the road. So you come off the road and you're immediately in a pump. So that means that the queues for the pump on the road move out onto the road. So I had filled up. This was like 5:30. Going into the um walking into the Tesco. And as I'm doing that a guy's like honking his horn. Parked behind me. Turned around and there's a guy like gesturing. And I just went like that. Like I don't know what you
You know, [ __ ] off. I'm just going to get my petrol. Walked in. So I was with my girlfriend at the time. She filled up at a separate pump. Also had [ __ ] from someone separate. What? Both walked in. I know, ridiculous. Both walked in. And I'm standing in the queue and this guy just runs into into Tesco. Are you for real? Who the [ __ ] do you think you are? I just remember it must have looked really weird to him because I I didn't I
was just confused. I was like the problem is, Johnny, you you have very irreverent body language.
And so I think and unintentionally It's casual It's casual to say the least. I'm very uh confrontational So yeah, so people either see you as unapproachable or aggressive. escalating the situation. So it didn't mean So there I'm sure there was just pure frustration going on. He said, "What the [ __ ] you doing? Who do you think you are?" He He said, "Why didn't you move out?" And or what and started shouting this. And I said,
"Because that's not what people do at a petrol station." Wait, so that doesn't help things But so there's a there was a security guard And he did nothing. He did nothing. Absolutely nothing. So I'm like I'm still queuing while this guy is just on the other side of the tiny barrier that exists in to to order queues. And he saw that as being a glass wall that he couldn't go past. So he's like getting like really
but standing still sort of a meter away from me. And I'm trying to ignore him. Get to the front of the queue. Go to the the guy. Pump number. It's the same law that governs when you have a ninja film and there's two people fighting in the middle of a circle and everyone around the outside is like that.
But they're not. They're not helping. Yeah. And the And the guy behind the till was like, "Calm down, mate. Calm down. Don't do anything." I was like, "It's okay. I'm not I'm not I'm not about to fight that Why is that on you to come out? want to go home and put my socks on. And uh And I So I I then left. Started walking out and and Becca's like just shell-shocked by the whole thing. So she ran after her
And I was kind of like looking over my shoulder. And the guy again like followed me but stayed a distance behind. And then I just got in my car and drove off. Aren't people bizarre? It's all because you didn't move away from the feels He felt like I should have filled up and then moved my car forward into space I've never seen anyone do that. that would have blocked someone else coming around and it would have been
But so what What I think he got annoyed about was me doing that. But all I was trying wanted was like, "I don't know what the [ __ ] you're doing. If you've got something to say, get out of the car. Well, that's what he did. But then he didn't say what he he like he only after the fact did he like not excuse me, would you mind, but like you want to say mate, there is a queue, there is a fixed rate of processing
here. You're going to have to wait the same amount of time. Do you remember when uh But anyway, so now I fill up my now I fill up my car. Nice. Do you remember when that guy got upset because I got near his beer in Nando's? I remember that. We your reaction was was very good to that I thought. Cuz the guy I can't remember what he said to you. Wait, so I was walking down a set of steps in Nando's and we'd been for
food. This guy was sat down with his family at like 3:00 in the afternoon on a Saturday having a beer like as you do when you're a dad with your daughter. I we went down and I was the closest to the table as you walk in tandem. You weren't lurching over the table like At least 2 ft. I was at least 2 ft away from his beer. Right. And as I walked past he said, "W- watch it, mate." And I turned around and looked at him as
he was sat down. just looked. He said, "Y- you nearly hit me beer." Just went And walked off. Yeah, he like okay or something. Yeah. Oh. Um right, what was the life hack out of that? Fill up your car with the full No, that wasn't that wasn't even a life It was you So, I am I know, yeah. going to do So, when you go No, you said one, didn't You just did one. What So, you've gone No, I see that wasn't That wasn't
yeah, yeah. This is what happens. This is why I don't have a life hack ready. Yeah, I see Okay, I'm going to I'm about to go now, right? I'm about to go now. I'm going to video guide in compare. I'm going to go now and then you're going to go You're going to go after me, okay? Got it. So. Oh, this is a good one. Can I have a go? That's what happens in this Lots of fluid rushing around. It's the high
pressure, isn't it? Yeah. Turgid. I think if I squeeze it enough it will That's not cuz you've got good grip strength as well, man. Probably not enough to pop that. Okay. So, when you go away on holiday, especially if you're going away on a party holiday the best way That's how you party, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. The best way to make sure that your luggage is not wasteful and also to remove any What 4 liters of shampoo? from one
I'm so glad you raised it. And to get it confiscated by the Scottish woman at the checkout and then woo her into letting you take it, but then on the way back get stopped by some angry German woman at the airport who won't let you take Chris tried to take 4 kilos of Tresemme shampoo to Iceland. For a 3-day trip. Well, it was the only size I had. Fair enough. I mean, I had nothing to decant it in. It was all brand new
unopened. I didn't have any shampoo. It was an awkward time of batching and I was bulk buying. Anyway, more awkward was the shower. It's not like eggs, didn't it, in Iceland? And you had to kneel down. You did have to kneel down. Well, you had to you had to lie, didn't you? You just flat. I had to lie and just lather myself in egg Make you warm water. So, when you go away on 4 kilos of Tresemme shampoo would make it better.
When you are going away on holiday, plan your outfits for the night time in advance. Ideally, if you can plan the day time as well, but rather than just arbitrarily throwing volumes of clothes, underwear, socks, trousers, etc. So, perfect example of this, we went away to Vegas for my business partner's stag do. I was rooming with a guy. The guy who I was rooming with planned his outfit for night one, night two, night three, and
night four in advance, including accessories, so a handkerchief or a tie, a shirt, cufflinks, whatever he needed, and then he got there, laid them out, first one, second one, third one, fourth On an evening time he knew exactly what he was going to wear. First advantage, which is huge because you don't actually you've outsourced the decision-making not only to a time when you've got a little bit more awareness, but also to
one where you're not on [ __ ] holiday, supposed to be enjoying yourself. And then secondly, he had no wastage of clothes, everything got worn, nothing got wasted. And that was it. Like it is it's an unbelievable tactic and I I can't believe I guess I bet that girls do it. Actually no, I bet that girls are not loads of stuff, don't they? So I try and do it, but I what I'm what's happened to me a couple of times is um
something's got dirty or like something's happened and then suddenly the whole thing's out of sort. Throw it into disarray. You know what you need to do? You need you need two neutral pieces of buffer you do. Pale blue shirt, pair of blue jeans, floating t-shirts that could be used. Yeah, couple of pairs of pants, spare pants, couple of pairs of spare socks, and that's it. But like the key bits, like you if you if you get
your blazer dirty, like whatever, go go in your shirt, you'll be fine. Go topless. Uh go topless, yeah. Get your top off. Topless. Topless. Taps off. Right, is it me? Yeah. You weren't ready. Can't leave without a use. It's the filler. Keep doing it. Um Oh, that feels like a turkey breast. Um one all. Okay. Spend time by Ooh. Nice. It's funny cuz there are people that spend the only time they spend by
themselves is when they're physically Like probably with a partner next to them. Mhm. Mhm. So spend time by yourself. Do you mean spend time alone with your own thoughts because you can be by yourself in a car driving, but listening to the radio or podcast do. So yeah, I think with people being on your phone and talking to people, you're still not by yourself. Good point also. Yeah. So, for for people who are kind of
interested in self-development, it's probably that it's probably meditation is a good way of you are completely by yourself at that point and all that exists is is you and your thoughts. But I think just trying to take time away from uh trying to impress other people, you know, I'm thinking of the standard kind 9-5 worker life. Mhm. Um cuz I just think you can stimulus you you things build up in you
and that are left unchecked. Especially if you work with people, cuz then you're sat in other people's energy field constantly Yeah. Um with a crowd of people and you accumulate emotional fatigue as well where if you're in a customer-facing or even if you're not, but particularly customer-facing or client-facing service delivery type jobs, you have to maintain this kind of saccharine smile all the time or a
professional face that wears you down over time and then by the end of the day that has to be shaken off and it can only really be done when discharge with yourself for some time and it's it's the reason why like, you know, you have the the standard someone comes home after a a hard day at work or a day working where they have to talk to people and the partner's like, "Oh, how's it going?" You're like, "I don't
want to talk to anyone. Leave me alone." You need that time. And they're the last person that you want to vent on. So, it's it's one thing I get a benefit I get from the gym, even though I get a criti- criticized that I'm not very social. Like, I quite like it's just like me, a difficult task, my thoughts. It's not complicated. You do have your You do You do have your I do have my phone. I do. That's so for me to upgrade that,
the gym experience, yeah, leave the phone behind. Use If you need track your lifts, use a whiteboard if you're at a proper good gym or I still haven't done that. That was life hacks 101 and I still need to Put your phone away, man. Well, when you give your phone and you get their iPod Shuffle? Yeah, I think I'll I'll need to replace it with a new So, one of the problems is is using obviously a modern phone for a lot of
people is their music. Bluetooth headphones, where they take notes. Sat nav. Yeah, Bluetooth Bluetooth Bluetooth headphones fixes the music problem. Notepad and pen fixes tracking lift.
I So, the timer on thing I like you've said a model for people who maybe aren't doing as much introspective work. But then moving forward, if I we've mentioned this before, I can't remember where, if you were told to go and sit in a room for 30 minutes on your own and you couldn't meditate with nothing, nothing to do, no I would say even for me as an only child who spends the vast majority of his time
on his own, that'd be pretty testing. So, that you know moment Yeah. You know the provision of moment the I don't think Did you you did. So, on the phone boot camp thing of that, that was one of the tasks and I ended up doing it. Did you? 30 minutes in a room without meditating? No, just sit in on a chair. What happened? You just sit and think. Like you just What do you think about? You do it in the house.
Yeah. Is it annoying to be lost in thought when you spend a lot of time sat on your own in silence trying to not be lost in thought when you meditate? I don't I'd say at the time I didn't give it that much thought, weirdly. I was like, I'm just going to sit there for half an hour. It's not that long. Becca came in and what are you doing? She's used to it now. Like weird [ __ ] that I do. So, like Were you facing the wall as well, facing
the corner? So, it's just just sat. I think I Yeah, just sat looking at the ceiling.
Fair enough. Well, I like that. Interesting test. Spend some Spend some time I mean, you can double this up. There's so much low-hanging fruit for stuff like this. You can double it up with going in nature. Mhm. Like add that on top. Go barefoot. Yeah, time alone in nature, barefoot. Lovely. Like so much low-hanging fruit from one thing. through this. I have no attraction to the nature thing. Oh man, it blows my I don't know why.
So, apart from the beach, I like the beach. Every every morning and every evening now, I'm doing probably maybe between 2 and 5 minutes of just standing outside and just even if it's rain even if it's been it's been absolutely pouring down before first thing in the morning, go outside stand in the rain. So, I should say for for those who want some kind of reason to do this, that there are physiological
benefits to being at the beach, breathing the the the the the negative ions that are released from the salt in the sea or from some kind of pheromone-like compound that trees release. So, if you go into nature around lots of greenery, they have some kind of tranquilizing effect. You also looked you did a meta-analysis on earthing. Yeah, I mean I mean to call it a meta-analysis is a bit of a stretch, but
it is true. I did I I looked at a lot of the research on grounding, yeah, and that that does as hippy-dippy as it sounds have some Standing on grass in bare feet. So, I'm I think the main thing that I've recalled is all The main thing for me aside from believing any of the woo stuff is I just like to be outside for a little bit first thing in the morning first and last thing at night after a shower, hot shower, and then outside. At
the moment, it's really cold, but for some reason just being able to look up at the sky, see the stars, see the moon, feel the wind broadly, it's really really grounding and it's very present you you're forced to with zero distractions, you're forced to only experience the sensations which are occurring then and there. So, it's quite a nice what I Thinking about it, I think what has pissed me off about the whole thing
is a business coach that told me to do it. Yeah. Isn't it horrible that people can spoil things for you like that? Like Aubrey Aubrey Marcus, I would love to try bone broth. Mhm. But he's just annoyed you. Aubrey letting his bird get blasted all over by her boyfriend. Blasted. I saw that. Flying off to Texas to get pasted by some [ __ ] job. salt and water, salt and lemon and water in the morning. Yeah. Yeah, but Aubrey
says it. Give it a shot. His wife's getting But he also talks about destroyed by some 21-year-old.
But you don't you don't know what he's up to. Listen, Aubrey's in hospital with a half a face. Oh, is he? What's he doing? Crashed his car, got half a face. Unfortunately, he still went to Burning Man though, didn't he? Go on, Aubrey. Right, let's go on. So, in last life hacks episode 105. we covered Toby, which is a Chrome extension that allows you to put a bunch of stuff It sounds lame, but it to put a bunch of
different things into this like so you can have a reading queue, a listening queue, a watching queue. And so it allows you to capture things that people send you and arrange them in a certain very clever bookmark manager. Very yeah, really really good for that. And it allows you to have one across the top that's like frequently visited websites. And also you can save sessions. So if you have multiple sessions open,
multiple tabs open, you want to resume that later, you can save it all down and call it the name of a certain project. So you can have like if you're working on project for one thing and that requires four websites to be open, you can save it all on there and so on. So that's Toby. It's only available on It There isn't a phone equivalent. And so I needed something that allows me when I don't have my laptop and I want
to work through the queue of articles that you guys have sent me. Mhm. Um and I want to read them to be able to quickly access them without thinking like, "Oh, where was it?" Scroll back through the messages or any any of that nonsense and just be able to quickly resume that. So I use Pocket for that. There is an equivalent app called Pocket is great, but they updated it last week to include a text-to-speech
I thought it already had that. So, um so they've made it more natural-sounding now. Before it was like So, they'll voice it'll speak a webpage at you. Yeah, but with a with a with a sort of Siri-like voice, so it's it's it's a bit more natural. So, now I'm able to read articles that people have sent me on the drive to work in the morning. That's cool. Read, listen. Listen. Yeah, which is is a paid version, but
What's the upgrade? What do you get? You get Yeah, more than three highlights per um and no ads, yeah. I remember thinking into Pocket cuz I had when I was doing lots of commuting, I remember thinking, "I wish I could read articles. I wish I could have them read to me." Yeah, I'd get it now cuz it's um so there's a Mac version and a phone version, they It might even mean that if you haven't got Toby or Pocket yet, start with just
Pocket cuz See if you can expand out. I love Toby. It's Well, you know what I'd love to know, whether lots of other people have that need. Capture I think the only reason that you would have that need is articles and things to read later. The only reason you would have that need is if you like to read stuff. Like if you're not First off, if you're not getting sent or find discovering it a lot yourself. And then secondly, if
you're not actually bothered about reading it. If loads of your friends send you [ __ ] that you that you don't care about, not a problem. Yeah, if your friends send you something, you just delete. Yeah, yeah. It's delete friends. It doesn't matter. Yeah, exactly. Remove the friend. I think what I normally do when people send me stuff, if it's an article, is I'll skim skim it. But it like books or podcasts, I'll do
the full thing. And so, I have a process that I audible and podcasts, but articles I tend find have capture and process. Yeah, so I have a on Wunderlist, I have a I have a reading list and a listening Okay, for for those two Uh that's a good one. Let's go. So I'm going to go with 6-Minute Diary because Johnny, you have recently Still doing it? Did it Did it today? Still going, man. So, 6-Minute Diary, anyone
who's been listening for a little while will have heard me bring this up before. It is a daily journal, 3 minutes in the morning, 3 minutes in the evening, prompted questions that uh they gear towards things that science says makes you happier. So, gratitude, um long-term goals and instant shading a daily habit. And uh looking for areas of improvement. That's broadly where it works from. Before you start it, there's a 60-page
buy-in, which for anyone who does CrossFit will know what that is. It's a a moderately large hurdle cuz it's small text and big pages. There's a lot of reading. Take It'll take you a few days to get through the 60 pages depending on your reading speed. And it's There's like 40 references, I think, in that. So, it's very impressive. The It's not just Someone hasn't just put together sp- some space for you to write some
gratitude and good deeds and stuff. There's a lot of thinking behind the book. The quotes that are done every day are pretty You know what I think's the best part about it for me is the weekly questions. Are they awesome? Mhm. So, yeah, every um every day you do 3 minutes in the morning, 3 minutes in the evening. Some days it takes a little longer, But um broadly, I think that's probably not far off how long it takes. And it
encourages you uh Susanna Halonen, the What Science Says What Science Says Makes You Happier podcast that I did with her, on that she said that gratitude is the foundation for happiness. And this is a really good tool to develop doing some gratitude. I've never once kept up with a journal before, but I have done with the 6-Minute Diary. And yeah, every week there are some fairly probing questions that force you to do some introspective
work. So, if you've never actually got round to doing any self-inquiry and some introspective stuff, I think this is a really good place to start. If you think, "Oh, well, meditation might be a bit woo-woo for me." or you struggle to slow yourself down a little bit, I think it's a first step into introspective work. It's £19 on Amazon. And it'll be It's on It's got Amazon Prime and it's fantastic. So, I bought
one for my sister. No way. She She bought one for two of her friends. Are you kidding? Since you got That's fantastic. Yeah. I I think it's It's what I like about it is for me to sit and explain to someone, like, I think you should be doing some introspection and try gratitude and it's It's like they don't listen. If you just buy them something, it's a nice gift and that intro takes it takes them through
It takes them through the benefits. And it's so low commitment. Yeah. It's It's It's a good It's It does tick a lot of boxes cuz it's the right price point for a good present for someone. Like, 20 quid is a good good price point to get someone a present. It's a low investment in yourself. It lasts for 5 months. And they've just released the 6-minute Diary Pure, which is like a It's the 7-month one.
So, between the first one that you get with the intro bit and the second one you get a full 12 months. Right. between two, but you don't need to buy in again on the second one. Yeah. Got it. No, same thing. We've got 2 months extra that 60 pages are taken up with 2 months. Of course. And um yeah, I I honestly could not recommend it more. The thing that I've still not done, but I really want to do is the bit the I think the
first task they tell you to do is send There are loads of services that you can do to send send an email and it'll send it back to you. Send it back to you. Yeah. So, it says, like, send an email to yourself in 5 months' time of like stuff you're worrying about, what you where you think that'll where you'll be Mine came through to me. I sent one about 5 6 years ago. Oh my god. And and it came through to me the other
I forgot what it said. I think it was nothing nothing very profound then. No, it it would have I think it was like the struggles that I had at the time and all that stuff and I looked back and I was like Really? Yeah, which was nice. [ __ ] So have you sent have you sent another one? No, I should do. Should do it. We should all do it. Mhm, fine. That'd be a good thing to do. And so should you indeed. Um so Johnny,
you're up next. Should we do one more round each? Or have you got some you've got a couple of quick ones if you want to do a got any quick ones. I've got loads of quick ones. Um so this is a this is a bit bit nasty. But um Oh dear. So it's related to some of the stuff that if I've been considering with the weekly questions in the 6-minute diary. Mhm. Um but just uh so in in keeping with the idea that
everyone is caught up in the so the struggle for happiness and feeling better earning more blah blah blah. Mhm. Um asking yourself very probing questions to try and just check that you're on the right path for you and you're making decisions that are right for you. So things like um uh like if I died tomorrow, would I be happy with how my life has been so far? Do I feel like I'm making the right decisions? Do I feel like I'm setting
good examples for other people? When am I truly happy? When am I truly sad? Um where am I sedating to try and get away from the critical questions or the critical things that are really bothering me. And that that it's linked to spending time alone and thinking about these things cuz I I think that stuff people talk about self-development and think that that means that they should start reading or that they should
start meditating. But actually just sitting and thinking about those that are often very very to to think about. Like am I actually happy with how my life is now? Like, do I spend good chunks of my time in a good mood or in a bad mood? Who is it that promotes those things? Who is it that that worsens those things? The clue's in the name, right? Self-development. It's an inquiry of the But, it's that stuff's not an app, and
it's not trendy, and it's really [ __ ] to sit and think. what the the about page of the new Modern Wisdom website, which will be up at some point. It is said in that, um introspective work is an ugly business, and for every one rock that you turn over which is clean underneath, there's 20 which are filthy, and something terrifying is hiding below. And you're like, that's exactly that's the That's the accurate proportion as
well. Yeah. If you do a little bit of self-inquiry and nothing comes up, you're like, bloody hell. And all that you can be certain of is that the next 19 are going to be [ __ ] [ __ ] So, related to that, um asking yourself, like, why am I posting on social media? Why am I drinking? Why am I bitching about this person? And just sitting and thinking cuz there's always like a in everyone's experience, like,
the real why behind something. Um I just think I think there's a a tendency for I don't want to think about that cuz it's uncomfortable, so I'll just do this other thing instead. Is there a guiding principle or a guiding mantra that people can use to bring themselves back to finding the truth and to avoid hiding or to avoid taking the first easy answer that comes to mind when they ask themselves those
your worry. Yeah, so one one way to really leverage power of the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is simply every thought that you're not looking at right now. It's not some mysterious thing. 95 95% of our actions every day are just unconsciously. So, there there are deeper levels below that, which maybe we're not aware of until we start to until we start to more digging deep, but the unconscious mind is very good at
pulling together lots of cross correlations of unrelated stuff and processing large volumes of data while you are not paying attention to it. The brain's always kind of just sifting things over and dealing with that. So, if you ask yourself a question that you're not immediately sure of the answer of, you can ask yourself before mull it over for a while, hold it in your consciousness, and then drop it and
go to sleep, and then just sleeping and allowing it to process on its own, but with the conscious running intention to answer it, will then start to bring up more and more answers. And you'll have definitely experienced this where you'll have had a problem that you just didn't think about for a while. A few days later, the answer pops into your head because it's just been processing in the background. Or you read a book
and then actually concepts from the book start to make a bit more sense after you've had a couple of nights sleep and it comes together again. Greg what's his name talked about this, Greg Potter, talked about this as well, same concept. So, ask before bed, especially the probing ones and the ones that may be uncomfortable to answer. I mean, if you want to double down on that as well, you can like start taking a dream journal,
in the mornings, don't move. Like, once you wake up, and I know it's hard to remember to do this, but just stay in the same position and try and verbally recall as much of your dream as you had as you can. And then do that for a few days. Once you've done that, you get into the habit of teaching your brain to remember your dreams, write them down, and sometimes symbols do come up in dreams and they're
usually quite obvious. Is dream symbology is there much research behind that? Not not the like So, some people have gone full woo-woo and taken like, if you see a spider, it means this, and if you see cabbage, it means that. But I think ultimately, you you will be aware enough of that. If you write it down and give it a few hours, You know what's You know what's really painful as someone who first off tries to promote
reduction in tech use and secondly is working hard on his own. I have a lot of dreams that I mean on my That you write on your phone? That I am on the Oh, man. Which is like being tortured while you're asleep. That's the my equivalent of being tortured while I'm So, a way to lucid dream is to like check your phone or your watch, look away, and then look back, and if the numbers are scrambled or they're
Mhm. Think three hands. Think three hands. Yeah. But then if you're so good at looking at your phone in your dream, that actually it you can have a full WhatsApp group chat. Well, that's exactly what it is. Then that's That's like the the bi- bypass thing for the breaths that I've managed to do with into automatic thinking and you Well, I'd be able to get to I I think I'd definitely given a full day
be able to get to 1,000. So, there's a way I found around that. Okay. So, what I've started doing is start at the bottom of my left nostril, right? So, this I mean this is this is this is like Crayola meditation, so forgive me. So, breath focus on just above my left nostril, 20 breaths. And then I move slightly around my left nostril, and I change when I count the breath. So, it might be like one, two. To keep yourself aware.
Well, one. You got a massive PB on the 284. 284. Yeah. You got to ask me. Um but so then every 20 breaths you move the location, Mhm. and just change when you when you note the breath. Like breath one. Are you doing one one? In and out is one breath. Yeah. Yes. And what's so weird is I can move all the way around my nostril and it's laser focus on my left nostril and I'm like so aware of my left nostril. Switching to
my right nostril isn't close to Cuz I'm like I'm like no, no, that's my That's still my left. And then I have a bit of right, bit of Bit of right. Well, the I've got it on my mind. the right hemisphere of your brain is responsible for viewing and sensing everything on the left hand side of your body. All right? And the other way And the left hemisphere is responsible for And the left and right are also
responsible for different thought patterns. Different things. So I wonder I wonder if perhaps the left side of your brain is struggling a little bit more with the mindfulness. So what it feels like is just cuz by the time I change nostrils it's like 150 breaths of just all I've been thinking about for like 15 minutes is just this nostril. And it feels like changing is quite challenging. But it's a big old wall to
get over. The thing that you said after his retreat of like people getting really caught up in the complexities of meditation and the guy just kept saying Focus on your [ __ ] breath. Tip of your nose. Yeah, the teacher was very good at like for 5 days um there's there's a daily meeting with the teacher and everyone gets to go up and speak to him for 5 minutes and and people will have these like really
little stories about like and the only practice you have in the first 5 days is is focus on this part. And and breathe. That's all you do for 10 hours a day. Oh, but I'm experiencing this thing and I'm struggling with here and I I'm getting this tingling sensation and he'd be like just focus on the breath. Keep your attention on the nose, on the and on the exhale and between the You have three jobs.
That's a man who's done it before, isn't Yeah. to death. What did What did Maybe What did Maybe 20 say? Maybe 20 didn't say anything. He talked to no one. So when when whenever he was called up he'd be like I love Maybe Maybe 20. deep yeah. So for anyone who doesn't know the story about when Yusuf went away on a meditation retreat, he sat down opposite an Indian man. Yeah. On the first day before they put down the
noble silence. Um and there was a there was an Indian man in a um skirt and I was like, "Hi. is this your first retreat?" He was I was like, "Oh, okay. Have you been on any before?" He was like, "Maybe 20." I'm like, "Wow, this guy." "Maybe 20, man." I want to be friends with him. Can we follow him on Twitter? At maybe 20. Think about this. At maybe 20. If he has Cuz he has to change it. All the time.
We better get him now. I think he's maybe 21 now, isn't he? Oh, yeah, he must be. Is it Bearing in mind that every retreat is 100 hours and this man's done 20. At maybe 20. Is there someone called at maybe 20 on it on the Twitter game? Spent at least at least 700 months. Maybe 20. Well, he's on 21 now. Assuming he has no practice outside of meditation retreats, which is very unlikely. Yeah, true. Maybe 20. 700 months.
Time and attention. Cuz this the reason that I count my breaths, derailing this, but the reason I count my breaths is cuz of your podcast with Daniel Ingram. Oh, so I don't need to listen to He he said which is like, "Give me a which is what I was like, you said just for [ __ ] ask him like, "What how do I start with meditation?" And he was just saying, "If you just sit for 20 minutes and you kind of like vaguely focused, like that's an
okay session. If you get to 100 breaths, good session. Try and get to 1,000. Just use it as a way of measuring pro- It's It just makes sense to me. It's how I do everything else in my life. And it's very transparent, very measurable. I tried the one where you do This is what I do and this is a headspace one. Breathe in and out for one up to 10. Down, resting to the legs. count to 10 and then stop the focus on the breath,
completely quiet the mind, completely blank the mind and allow all thoughts to just be reflections in the pool. So, you're not actually focusing on anything. And that's a really good one because that's as much silence as you can get without attaching yourself. Cuz when you're focusing on the breath, you are still focusing on the thought of this is the sensation. This is the number. So, it doesn't feel
like that because it it's sensation sensation and it's almost like thought gone. Sensation sensation sensation thought no [ __ ] off But without without without the sensation at all is what this next bit was. It was it was I feel like we're getting Can you focus on nothing? It's Is this floodlight versus spotlight There's There's a third method so you I don't know if you want to get into this yet. Spot Spotlight is you have an
object of meditation and you're focusing on that. Floodlight is that you have open focus and you are you are the point of awareness that anything is going Any sensation you That's what you focus on. Um so floodlight there is no object. You are just You have open focus. The third one is the self-inquiry which is similar to floodlight but you are turning the the subject of subject of consciousness back
on itself. Like who is it that's Yeah. Who is it that's hearing the It's weird because conceptually like you can't taste your own tongue or feel your own finger or um see your own eye. I can. Of course I can. Of course I can. Of course I can.
Um I Chris can't believe it's not butter as well so Yeah, you said that before, didn't you? Yeah, earlier on. It's on the life hacks. He He thinks Marmite's okay. Yeah, so One of the few. Mine it So, did we do sinus rinse? No. Last time? No. I am obsessed with the NeilMed sinus rinse. I got this from Dr. Clay Height who's a natural bodybuilder old T-Nation guy. He He advertises He's a Clay likes lifting weights.
So, I have a confession. I used mine. And I didn't record me using it. Oh, no. So, nothing dramatic happened. Didn't it? Well, I've got a video of dramatic things happening using my sinus rinse, so I can I can send it to Video Man Dean. And he can decide whether to play nice. What is it? So, what it is is a your nose. And and it it's it's recommended by ENT, ear, nose, and throat doctors as well often
because if you have chronic sinusitis, um lots of sinus infections, atopy, hay um any of those kind of things where your sinuses are blocked Atopy? Atopy. Like so, if you get a general constellation of like eczema and hay fever and itchy nose and all that stuff go and just check this out. What What's the video of me doing it? You'll be like, "Oh, I want to do that." It's a bottle, squeezy bottle of saline solution.
And you squeeze it into your nostril. Comes out the other nostril and clears out all of the gunk that's in your nose at the same time. Do it in the morning. Rest of the stuff, too. Position your tongue and your So, you have to Yeah. Do you mind? Go for it. you said you told me about this, right? I ordered some. I stand in my bathroom. Salt. Read the back. Do not use tap water. So, I cast back to Iceland. I
used tap water. If you use tap water, it's not the sort of thing that he would I'll just use bottled water. Bottled water. Put the salt in. And then it's like, "Point up nose and squeeze." Never do it without the salt as well. It knacks. Really? Yeah, with with the salt, perfectly painless and lovely. But without the salt, it's like like you've done a back flip in a pool and you know you like Yeah. All right. I see. horrible. So,
I'm There I am. Bottle in my nose and I'm thinking like rationally, what do I understand about my nose? Like I think that this goes up and then probably in. And then I imagine down. Somewhere and I know that I breathe that goes in my lungs. Yeah. I don't want water in my lungs. Yeah. But it says come out the other nostril and I'm thinking well can that happen? Mhm. But here we go. So you like you have to bend down and I
suppose that's what prevents it from and you squeeze and there's a delay. You like squeezing There's like There's that happens like You feel your face fill up and it just shh and you're like You got it the first time. People don't always get it first time. Oh, really? They just People just I'm so used to just You You were good at it though just following instructions. Things Things that feel a bit unusual,
bit strange, going to do it anyway. You ever had an enema? No. Would you? Yeah. Would you let us video it? Uh not the first time. From the top half. Caffeine enema. Ben Greenfield's big into them. They're quite a caffeine enema? Just just coffee in your bum. Okay. I I'm not convinced. As soon as you say coffee Maybe two and two. Maybe Maybe two and two. I I think it's a very pseudo-scientific thing, but people love
Why is it good having stuff put up your bum? I don't think it is. I think it Ruining healthy bacteria and [ __ ] Is it good to have anything put up your bum? Any liquids put up your bum? Like should people have water put up their bum? Saline? Is it good having anything up your bum? So is it enemas Just a saline up your bum and all the poo come out. Yeah, I mean I think unless there's a problem and you need you need to, I would stay
away from putting things in your bum. I mean I think that's a safe Several million years of evolution would have programmed something in. There's a guy we know a guy we know who owns a business that's just putting poo up people's bums. Poo? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Poo? Like People with problems. He puts poo up. Proper poo. They don't have right the poo that's right poo. Never got the proper proper poo. And so he
gets people who have got the good poo. And he puts the poo there put the good poo up there. Johnny, I would pay you to to teach medicine. Just like if So what you have to do is like read the textbook, process it into Johnny, that kind of speak. Right. How much would I have to pay you to let me put someone else's poo in your bum? Without medical supervision? No medical supervision. So So hold on. So do I need the poo in
my bum? No. So you're just putting it in my bum. As you are right now. How are you going to do it? Well, however I'm advised by the medical It's a proper procedure. But it's someone else's poo. 250 grand. 200 So you wouldn't do it for 100 grand? 100 grand? 100 grand? You wouldn't put someone else's poo up your bum? So I understand that when I say yes, you'll go 90. Cuz this is what I did to I do it all the time. For the sake of
this podcast, 250 grand. Once we stop recording yourself out of the market. Once we stop recording you and I can have I think you've priced yourself out of the market. I think you've priced yourself out of the market. There is no market. This is the market. And if you want to put poo in my bum I don't think you're going to find a buyer for that. But then Chris is the only buyer. I'm not I'm not selling. I'm
not doing it. I'm not doing it. You are selling cuz 250 grand. It's like someone coming up to you and saying, "I want your house." Mhm. Like there's there's a there's a level of hassle associated that's irrelevant of the price. Right, but you just factor that into the price. So which I've done. 250 grand. Mate, you are overpricing your ass. In your opinion. Fair enough. Fair enough. I mean, you're the master of
your own. If you want to put poo up my bum, there's the number. How much would you How much would I have to pay you to put your own poo back in your bum?
What using a tool or just trying to scoop it? I'm I'm I'm doing it this time. No. You're doing it. But it's your poo and you know it's your actually doing this? You're going to be Right, I I see. Plot thickens. He's playing with the variables here. He's going to get is it medically supervised? Yes. exact same It's everything that you like are your mates that are doctors or Not by him. Not by him. Right. Um
he's not there. He's gone. I'd do that for I'd do that for 50 your own poo back in your So, 200 grand is the differential between someone else's poo and your poo. 200 grand? What are you worried about? Just These are just arbitrary figures, Chris. And what am I worried about? I mean, you've just removed your What am I worried about someone else's poo and that Yusef has just said I would stay clear of putting anything up me
bum. Video man Dean's thinking like, I've I've brought extra batteries. I'm in charge. It's not Well, what I really want to know here, guys. Like to What I really want to know is how much would it would you have to be paid to have someone else's poo put up your Is the person whose poo it is Fine. Well, yeah, and how much? Uh 50 grand. And how much for your own poo? 1,000 POUNDS.
IT CRASHED. THAT'S A BIG THAT'S A BIG discount there, mate. I'll take it. Cuz your factor Your factor of differentiation is much greater than mine. Yeah, well, to be honest, I'd I'd have to I'd do a bit of reading. Give me 2 hours and I'll come back with a revised offer. I'm I might lower it. I might drop it to 2 grand. Why would you lower it? Like, there's no incentive to lower it. If he's agreed to pay it. I haven't
agreed to 50. I've agreed to 1. Cuz I've turned I'm quarter of a million quid. Cuz I'm a bargain. You are You are a Plus, let's be honest, it would be more funny if it happened to you than me. It would. It would make for good content, wouldn't it? It would be fantastic content. Right, my final one. What am I going to do? Okay. So, I've mentioned this on the how to get lean for your summer holiday podcast,
but didn't go into it with quite so much detail or as much further. Um skyr and natural set yogurt. I swear every life hacks you say skyr.
And and it's always like, oh. That's a new one. I feel like every time you get annoyed, and I'm like, Chris. Honestly, mate, I couldn't agree more. Do you remember when uh just after just shortly after I nearly died and my ascent of cold the with you and I got back to the Was this when we got flat drenched? This was the first night. Yeah. The night after I'm very honestly close to death. Got back, and I had I had bought
strawberry skyr, and I just remember this is honestly I was like upset I'm alive. that I wouldn't be able to replicate it. It was so nice. I think we'd all convinced ourselves that because it was Icelandic like cuz Icelandic people are really good at convincing you that if something's Icelandic, it's worth 9 and 1/2 thousand pounds and it'll be really nice. Well, they just call every even the butter The butter is
Icelandic Icelandic butter. Icelandic water. Coffee and see you like, oh, Icelandic butter. That Eating it with a spoon you like The skyr was brilliant. Bloody lovely. What's What's crazy to me is that Arla, the dairy company, So, I don't like them have much have managed to buy the word skyr. Yeah, that is interesting. Because that's like someone owning yogurt in China. So, I bet the Icelandic people
are just like, It's like someone We don't care. We have enough skyr over here for all of us. As I've experienced firsthand, their skyr is superior. It's head and shoulders above the Yeah. And so, So, you it wouldn't bother you if it was in the name on it are unbelievable as well. It's a protein supplement essentially. It is? If you owned a company, for for argument's sake, was like the name of a fruit, and you made bikes,
and then another company that was also called the name of that fruit was able to sue you because they had a monopoly on a fruit, you'd think that was ridiculous. And yet can own skyr. Looking at the type of dairy product.
I still don't know if I'm at liberty to to say If we say any of these words If we get a cease and desist We will. We always do. So, I What do you think about Fage? I've not had that. I don't even know what it is. F A G how it's pronounced? Fage, yeah. F A Total Total yogurt. You must have done. No. You will have seen it. It's like the emperor of the dairy world. in the supermarkets. It's like the big
It's five quid. Total. Yeah. Yeah. What about Fage? What's that? That I didn't get. Fage Total is Fage yogurt. So, the that that zero not the cuz some people buy the two or the full. If you buy a full-fat yogurt, it is it's like being punched in the stomach. It's just full-fat calories-wise. It's unbelievable. Coke argument again, isn't it? What are you drinking full-fat Coke for? You had it before Double Deckers.
I have it with Johnny had a uh kilo thing of yogurt with four Double Deckers in it. Got to hit my macros, man. Um Was this when you were So, the The great thing about No, I was cutting at the time. The great thing about both of them, Double Decker is a 250-calorie serving of mainly carbs and fat. Fantastic. So, if you know A complete macro meal if you put four Double Deckers in. A tub of Total yogurt is roughly 50 g of
protein, little bit of carbs, zero fat. Mix them together, what have you got? You've got a creamy Double Decker-based I'd rather have like a fish and chips. Me, too. Was that available at the time? Fish and chips. I was in I was in Tesco. I was in Sainsbury's. I see. Trying to trying to make ends And instead of making ends meet I just fit my fitness bill need yogurt and double decker. I really agree. I think Tesco own brand
low-fat yogurt low-fat Greek style yogurt is So you want that one scoop one scoop of protein powder some blueberries a little bit of mixed Don't need the carbs. What do you mean you don't need the carbs? It's not It's not a man carb. This is a man who just ate a Soreen and dipped into a pot of yogurt. I don't think that would happen. Yogurt is the is the blank canvas of my life. Like I so many things go with
yogurt for me. I dipped I dipped Soreen in yogurt. If I don't know what to have it starts with What cheese? It's the It's the cheese of the sweet world isn't it? You know what I mean? Like it's really everything is cheese and a savory yogurt. It's just cheese just unfortunately they've tried to make high protein low-fat cheeses and it just doesn't cut it. I've seen it that blue stuff. It's not very nice. Tastes like tasteless
Parmesan. It's got the texture of Parmesan without the the rich flavors. [ __ ] it man. How do you feel about Um good. Yeah. I like it but I'm having to limit it because of my estrogen experiment. There's a lot of things I can't do with my estrogen experiment at the moment. What does it feel Principally can't touch receipts. How many weeks? 6 weeks. How many How long has it been going on? I'll retest my hormone levels.
Yeah and then we'll find out. I think what will happen is it'll be slightly but we'll be looking at two isolated sets of data that anything could be influencing. And you will just not touch receipts. want to get back to using shower gel. Yeah. Cuz currently you're using Ecover washing up liquid. You're using in a ceramic Can we in a ceramic pot. Can we just say the sentence again of what you're doing in the show. So, I use e-cover
washing up liquid. I'm not using shampoo cuz that's another experiment writing about it. Um I didn't go for the apple cider vinegar thing cuz I think it would make your head stink. I'm glad that there's lines in the sand about what's too weird. Yeah, I think so. Um cuz it's all under like what might the GMC take issue with. Um what if you just stayed at home all day, didn't have to go anywhere, I think
you'd you'd be using apple cider vinegar right now. Got rid of lavender spray or lavender products. Uh normal candles had to get beeswax candles. Edamame beans. Edamame beans not allowed. No no cologne. No fragrances. Minimize uh dairy, fat. Switched my toothpaste. So, you can have low-fat. You can have fatty yogurt. Yeah. I've had a non- I'm using a non-fluoridated toothpaste called Euthymol, which is like the 1930s one
that's like It's really It just tastes of cloves. Almonds have cloves. Almonds have It's really like No Yeah, like you can't touch carpets or vinyl floor. Like what other floor is there? Um Like this This will be That's vinyl. Yeah. Not touching receipts and the e-cover washing up liquid and a steel protein shaker. Wow. That's mad. The steel protein No, the my steel protein shaker is It's better than the
normal one. Yeah. So good, man. Pisses all over normal ones. Anyway, thank you very much. What have we got Um how to run your own business and the dangers that are associated with going on your own, strength training, uh truth as a superpower, relationships 103. What else have we got? got a whole bunch of questions that we need to go through. I think we should just do a Q&A. We should do another interview video, Mandy. Video Guardian?
What about Video Mandy. All of the The MD. The MD. Yeah. The MD. VGD sounds like it. BDE, big dick energy over there. Right, okay, bye then. Thank you. Okay, bye then.