Ep. 450: "The Dawn and the Dusk"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

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

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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The Problem: John made a divot.

(Recorded on Monday, January 24, 2022.)

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi John. Hi, Merlin. How is it going? Hey there. Hey, they're tiger. Ah, buddy.
0:15.4	Ah, buddy. Hey, little pal. Pal, Ranger. Hey, Ranger. I've never said that in my life.
0:22.7	Ranger. Oh, I used to think I used to think that I like learning things about myself. It's taken
0:32.0	a while for me to realize I do not like learning things about myself. Self-knowledge is for suckers.
0:39.2	Oh, yeah. Why have it? Well, it's not helping me. It's not helping me at all. No, no, no, no.
0:45.8	But I think to myself, you know, like a thing I realized in the last year. This has been documented
0:52.2	in the wisdom project. It's one on say that you've fixed a problem if you don't understand what
0:58.0	caused the problem and you don't or and or you don't understand what you did to make it better.
1:03.9	Because there's a lot of times in life where I thought I fixed something, right? And because I
1:09.0	didn't really understand what I was doing, basically, I just tried different things until it stopped
1:12.1	being broken mostly. Now, now related to that, another thing I don't like learning about myself is,
1:19.4	I'm not good at things. Oh, no, no, that's not I'm not fishing for compliments, although
1:24.6	it could show for me to host. Fishing for compliments put a great podcast. I'll put it on the list.
1:32.0	I got a running list. I got a running list. Okay, fishing for that's good for compliments.
1:37.3	Like bowling for dollars, right? Yeah. Hey, boy, I'm really not good at stuff. No, John,
1:43.1	you're so good at stuff. What are you talking about? Think about all the stuff you've done. You're
1:47.7	so pretty. Fish for compliments. Well, yeah, let me ask you. Yeah, please. What was the last time
1:55.5	you learned something about yourself that you were pleasantly surprised? Well, that would not be
2:04.2	four and a half minutes ago. Okay. For sure. Okay. Oh, no, no. I mean, you know, it's weird.
2:12.2	You know, life's not all beer and skittles, John. Hmm, beer and skittles. I don't know what it means,
2:17.0	either. It's something's probably English, but it's like a little torture or a lorry. But,
2:22.5	you know, I have like to think for a lot of my life, especially as a white man,
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