#150 - A Pep Talk for Being Stuck

The Lazy Genius Podcast

Kendra Adachi

Arts, Education

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

These are weird, scary, surreal times, but, honestly, I am grateful for how this global crisis has already affected how we see. Here are five things to remember when you’re stuck at home…or maybe when you’re just stuck.

People and Resources Mentioned in This Episode

The Incomparable Mister Rogers, who tells us to look for the helpers
Seth Godin, who reminds us the ocean is made of drops
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who encourages us to scatter joy
Ingrid Fetell Lee, who wrote the book Joyful
Myquillyn Smith aka The Nester, who asks us what we will wish we would have done when this is all over (here’s a link to get on her email list)
And as Emily P. Freeman reminds us, let’s do the next right thing in love.
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0:00.0	Hi there!
0:02.0	You're listening to the lazy genius podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Kendra Dachy and I'm here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and
0:09.8	lazy about the things that don't.
0:12.0	Today's episode 150, it feels appropriate to have a number like 150, land on an episode
0:21.8	and a world like today.
0:23.8	Here we are.
0:24.8	Today is a pep talk for being stuck.
0:28.1	For those of you listening to this in the far away future, you dug this out of the
0:32.1	ground and are studying ancient modern civilizations, we are on the front end of a worldwide pandemic.
0:40.3	At least it's the front end of where I am in the US.
0:43.6	I got an email from a long time lazy genius follower named Natalie who lives in Italy
0:49.2	where things are more progressed, far more progressed than they are here.
0:54.2	So it's different across the world.
0:56.6	We are in a time where things change so quickly just from one day to the next.
1:01.3	I'm recording this on a Thursday before the Monday that it releases and it's crazy to think
1:05.9	how many things could change in the US and the world in four days.
1:09.9	So these are weird, scary, surreal times.
1:14.2	But honestly, I think this is a pep talk that's valuable in situations outside of this one.
1:19.5	But I am grateful for how this global crisis has already affected how we see.
1:27.0	So today I want to give you five things to remember when you're stuck.
1:32.0	Stuck at home.
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