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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 248: "Hubris of the Moment"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The John Signal.

The Problem: How would we even know?

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0:00.0

Hi John.

0:07.0

Hi, Hi, Merlin.

0:08.0

How is it going?

0:11.0

It's going good.

0:12.0

Thank you for letting me sleep in today.

0:14.0

Did you sleep in a little bit?

0:16.0

Yeah, you gave me a little buffer. I was up until

0:20.0

4.30 in the morning again because I made the wrong choices I had a piece of cake.

0:27.0

Oh no.

0:28.0

For late night dinner snack and I'm realizing that a piece of cake is like a piece of cake at 11 is going to sleep at 5.

0:38.0

Really? What why you think that is? Does the sugar stimulate you?

0:42.0

Well, it's always a chocolate cake and

0:46.2

and I just, I don't know, when I don't have it, I go to sleep

0:50.4

like a normal person and when I do have it,

0:52.0

I feel like I just ate you know a huge slice of chocolate cake

0:56.4

No, that's no good. You know that's a 5 a.m. type situation. Yeah, then I fly across the I fly across the night on my my wings of destiny. But uh, but uh, but I, so at five o'clock

1:10.0

of the morning I was like, I have to get up in five hours or in four hours to talk to

1:13.8

Merlin. But I wrote you a text, middle of the night texts, hey can I sleep in? You were like yes and

1:20.2

now here I am not with four hours of sleep but with six hours of sleep and I feel like

1:26.9

that there's a huge difference between those things. So thank you. There's a tremendous difference.

1:31.7

I told you before about my concept of like, I have trouble getting back to sleep sometimes and I,

1:36.1

I told you about my concept of bonus sleep, right?

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