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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 186: "Electric Papers"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Self-help, Merlinmann, Thelongwinters, Johnroderick, Roderick, Winters, Long, The, Philosophy, Society & Culture, John, Merlin, Mann

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2016

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

beyond kissing

The Problem: Како сте?

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0:00.0

Hello. Hi John. I'm. Hi John. Hi Berlin. How's it going? Oh. fine, I'm just fighting a thing, I'm fighting an interior thing.

0:18.0

Oh no, sometimes those are the most difficult things to fight.

0:22.6

Mm-hmm.

0:24.6

No, no, you're you getting ill?

0:27.0

Well, you know, I haven't been getting ill lately,

0:31.0

and I'm gonna stick with that. You You know I have a good friend that that the claims that she never gets sick and and when I have personally witnessed her being sick,

0:43.0

she denies that she's sick.

0:44.8

And that's such a flip from most people,

0:48.8

or I don't know, from a lot of people

0:50.3

who are always getting sick when they're not.

0:53.1

She never gets sick when she is.

0:56.1

And I've started to kind of adopt that mentality.

0:58.8

I'm not sick.

0:59.8

I don't get sick.

1:01.1

I'm actually pretty interested in that because I have met people like this and

1:04.5

I it's hard to tell whether it works or not it's one of those things like you know

1:07.7

scaring the alligators away but like I've met people who seem they're so fixed in their insistence that they aren't

1:15.7

sick and don't get sick that they sometimes seem to actually beat it back and I

1:20.0

wonder if that works. I wonder that too what about the corollary the corollary is we constantly think

1:26.2

you're getting sick and then you do get sick now I believe that can be a thing oh that

1:29.6

happened that used to happen to me all the time you remember when I would come on

1:32.0

this program I'd be sick all the time you used to be

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