#1037 - Life Hacks: A Christmas Special (2025)

Merry Christmas, everybody. For the people who joined the podcast within the last five years, the last few million, 3,000,000 subscribers, this is my living room in Newcastle, and this is Johnny, and this is George. And that's Yousef, and he's in Malaysia. And this is a Christmas episode. We've got one day to turn this around. So merry Christmas. It's Christmas day. Enjoy the turkey and the pigs in blankets. And we are gonna do some lessons and life hacks and fails from the last twelve months. It's kind of a Christmas tradition, I suppose. And also another part of the tradition Is it you go first, Johnny. So give us give us a life hack. Yeah. Alright. My life hack, which might not be allowed. We'll see if it gets past the the Chris rule. It's already been a life hack. K. Is that alright? Yeah. It was the best of once. Yeah. Yeah. It's the reason it's a life hack is I was speaking to a few friends about this, and neither of them had heard of it. And I was like, you know, I thought Chris is gonna be building my attention here. I know. Well, it's it's the Waking Up app by Sam Harris. Okay. K. Why is that bad? He's been sponsored. It's not. Have you been paid off by Big Sam? Big meditate big meditations come to you. I think well, do do you guys meditate? Yes. No? Yes. I think it is the well, so so the the hack specifically is download the app using the cut no. Download the app and listen to the fundamentals, like, theory series. And it's, like, five audios with Sam explaining why you should meditate. And I think that is the thing. I so I meditate every day this year. It's the first time it's ever happened, and it was that audio series. But that's not a meditation. That's not It's just buy in. Yeah. So the the app is also I think it makes it it's just like a daily audio you can follow. They're different every day. K. It's like daily programming. Master programming for meditation. But this was important because it got you to buy into doing Yeah. So there's there's, like, an analogy he uses in it, which is this this isn't word for word, but something like everyone's in a in a dream about being a human being. And it's like you're the dream is you're in a prison cell and everyone's trying to make the prison cell nicer by, like, buying things and moving around and changing where the windows are. And that's life. And meditating allows you to just wake up from the dream. And it's a completely different way of viewing kind of everybody's absorbed in their thoughts and their feelings and just being run by their mind. Mhmm. And meditating's just waking up from the dream. But that series completely changed how I feel about meditating. But …