George Mack is a British entrepreneur, writer, and marketing strategist best known for popularising the concept of 'High Agency' - the belief that you control your own destiny - and for building The Ad Professor into a platform reaching 300+ million people. Through his Substack newsletter (70,000+ subscribers), podcast appearances on Modern Wisdom and My First Million, and a Twitter following of 300,000+, Mack has become one of the most influential thinkers on mental models, decision-making, and entrepreneurship online. He co-founded the marketing agency Multiply, which has worked with startups backed by Stripe, Y Combinator, Sequoia, and LVMH, and is known for viral ideas like the 'Cocaine Phone vs. Kale Phone' two-device productivity protocol.
On the milestone 1,000th episode of Modern Wisdom, host Chris Williamson sits down with actor and author Matthew McConaughey for a wide-ranging philosophical conversation filmed against the virtual backdrop of the Interstellar corn fields in Alberta, Canada. The two explore belief, faith, forgiveness, masculinity, the difference between a nice guy and a good man, the Icarus myth in reverse, and McConaughey's new book 'Points of Prayers.' McConaughey champions the idea of modeling the rise not the result, argues that peace requires rage to reach, and redefines vulnerability as saying your truth in spite of the consequences, especially when they're scary.