Ep 48: Commit to Not Committing

Monocycle with Leandra Medine

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4.9 • 779 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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WEH-HEL-COME BACK! TO! MONOCYCLE! This week's episode reinforces the inauguration of Commitment Month on Man Repeller, a theme we take neither lightly nor literally. What you'll find once you tune in is a mangled narrative that extrapolates a couple key points from the "welcome" post that went live on Wednesday. The welcome posts are essentially our version of an Editor Letter, but the podcast episodes that often follow tend to delve a bit further into those letters. What can you can expect includes asking the following questions: Does Valentine's Day on Instagram make you feel alone? How far is too far to go with mindfulness? Is self-care (the worst term on earth!) truly for our betterment if we find ourselves overwhelmed by all THE THINGS we have to do? Can't we just live -- roll out of bed, maybe brush our teeth and get on with our days? There's more, but won't it be more rewarding to hear it for yourself? Chin chin and congratulations, people. We made it through January! Monocycle is edited by Nicholas Quazzy Alexander. Logo illustration by Kelly Shami; photo by Carlo Bavagnoli via Getty Images.

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0:00.0	Youhoo! Hello!
0:04.8	Hi!
0:06.7	Welcome back to Monocycle, a podcast by a man-repeller hosted by Leandra Medine, me, Leonardo
0:13.6	Medanda, or the artist formerly known as Malcolm Gladwell.
0:18.6	I believe that today marks the third day of February, which means one important
0:22.6	thing if you're a regular reader of Man Repeller. That thing, of course, being that the theme of
0:29.1	our month just changed. It's Commitments Month on Man Repeller. We never do anything so literally,
0:35.5	and so even though we're going to talk about relationships and we can have a conversation about Valentine's Day,
0:40.3	what I really want to commit to is just not committing at all.
0:43.3	I don't know if it's true for you, but I feel really, really overwhelmed by all the ways in which I am told that I can become a better person.
0:50.3	It's almost like I want to commit to not committing so that I can relax, or I want to commit to not being so anxious anymore, but then I get over-anxious about how many options there are to commit to not being anxious.
1:04.3	I've been thinking a lot about the concept of loving yourself, learning to love yourself.
1:10.2	Is it just me or have all the positive affirmations
1:12.6	that we're told we should impart on ourselves
1:14.4	become a little bit too aggressive?
1:16.7	They're almost more anxiety provoking
1:18.8	than just dipping into the comfort of how you really feel,
1:22.0	i.e. impartial towards yourself, not crazy about yourself,
1:25.9	but overall comfort with the conversation that's
1:28.0	going on in your mind. I don't know about you, but I've just been feeling so overwhelmed by
1:32.6	all of the ways that people are telling me I need to know how to love myself. I need to talk to
1:37.2	myself. I should, should, should, should, should. And so this month, I personally really want to
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