13 Life-Changing Ideas You’ve Never Heard Of - George Mack

Sign up and download Grammarly for FREE: George Mack is a writer, marketer and an entrepreneur. George is one of my favourite writers and probably delivers the highest insights-per-minute of anyone on Twitter. Today we get to go through some of my favourite ideas from him over the last few months on human nature, tribalism, happiness and politics. Expect to learn what the Busy Trap is and how to avoid it, the biggest differences between the US and the UK, the contrarian argument for why money doesn’t buy happiness, why strategic ignorance is so important, George’s favourite story about Charlie Munger, the lessons we both learned celebrating George’s 30th birthday in Miami and much more... - 0:00 The Busy Trap 07:51 How People Signal Busyness 15:10 Tactics to Get Out of the Busy Trap 21:34 Differences Between US & UK 32:50 Why You Need to Big Up Your Friends 41:35 The UK’s Biggest Strengths 45:40 Why Adults Don’t Really