782: The Joy of Opting Out by David Cain of Raptitude

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🗓️ 31 January 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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David Cain shares the joy of opting out. Episode 782: The Joy of Opting Out by David Cain of Raptitude (Simple Living & Minimalism). David Cain is a writer and entrepreneur living in Winnipeg, Canada. On a particular boring day at his office job in 2009, he started Raptitude. His interest has always been human society and the internal human experience, and Raptitude became his megaphone for his thoughts about those things. It found an audience rather quickly and it’s been central to his life ever since. In 2013, he left his day job to write full time. The original post is located here: http://www.raptitude.com/2017/11/opting-out Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily episode 782, the joy of opting out by David Kane of
0:06.1	Raptitude.com and I'm Justin Mallich or narrator where I find the best blogs in the world related
0:12.1	to personal development, productivity and minimalism mostly.
0:15.8	I get permission from the authors and simply narrate them for you.
0:19.9	Somehow this idea has turned into five podcasts where we narrate blogs and this one specifically
0:24.6	won the podcast awards for best health podcast thanks to you.
0:28.5	I really appreciate your vote on that.
0:30.2	It means a lot.
0:31.2	Today I have a post from David Kane, an excellent writer that I got to meet at Finn Con in Dallas
0:35.7	a few months back.
0:37.2	So let's get right to today's post and start optimizing your life.
0:45.2	The joy of opting out by David Kane of Raptitude.com.
0:50.5	Sometimes improving one small seemingly obscure skill can make you better at dozens of things
0:56.0	at once.
0:57.4	One time at a backyard get together I was chain eating potato chips when a well-meaning
1:01.6	friend made a useful observation.
1:03.4	At a natural break in our conversation he said, you're a sucker for bowls of chips, aren't
1:08.0	you?
1:09.0	He meant no offense by this and I took none.
1:11.2	We are both observers of human behavior.
1:13.2	I knew I liked chips but I hadn't realized quite how unhinged my chip eating is compared
1:18.3	to the people around me.
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