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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 273: "One Kilometer"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Johnroderick

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

You're the Goat.

The Problem: It was the first thing that John had ever finished.


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0:00.0

Hello? Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Oh, pretty good.

0:12.7

Oh, boy. Were you up making bacon? No, but I did, I went to sleep early and then I woke up

0:19.1

the middle of the night. That's how they get you. You know how that is? Yeah, it is. Oh no no no. Well, what's a housewide struggle for us?

0:26.7

Oh, the go to bed early and then get up in the middle of the night

0:29.0

Yeah, my wife really well because you know once your cycle is off and you're like, it's like it's 730 and I'm And you're like, you got a power through until 10.

0:38.8

Yeah, but I was like, I'm going to bed at midnight.

0:43.1

Yeah.

0:43.3

Like I keep planning like a normal.

0:46.3

Mm-hmm.

0:47.2

Like a square.

0:48.3

Like a square.

0:49.5

And like a regular.

0:51.0

And then at 2.45 a.m. I popped awake.

1:29.1

I was like, ha ha. There he is. Hello. Hello, everybody. Yeah, it's when I get up to urinate at some point during the night that all of my anxiety comes flooding through. And now I've made it a habit. So it's working out real nice and a regular. Oh, so you get up and you have a little bit midnight, midnight time, just you and your anxieties? Sure. For me, it's like between two and four. Get up, pee like a gentleman. I'd be once in the night, usually. And then at this point, I mean, I'm sure that'll change. I'll have many more opportunities for this in the future. But, yeah, that could be five minute to one hour or two longer, like,

1:34.5

the thing for me. You probably don't get that. You don't get that. Well, you know, it's hard.

1:41.6

The thing about anxiety is it's hard for me to, I think this is probably true for a lot of people. It was for a long time hard for me to know what it felt like,

1:46.0

because it would mask itself as other things.

1:50.0

And I think I still have that problem.

1:52.0

I can't tell when I'm, I don't, it's very rare when I can sit and say like,

1:57.0

oh wait, I'm feeling anxiety.

2:00.0

It's like it always comes, you you know it pads in on little cat feet

2:03.9

I wish I had the same thing in reverse where uh for the longest time I mean I've had a lot of

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