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Episode 144: Habituate a Goat

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Business, Society & Culture, Barriers, Dan Benjamin, Careers, Communication, Merlin Mann, Creativity, Work, Productivity, Constraints, Technology

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2013

⏱️ 79 minutes

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TOPIC: Perception and Perspective.

In their second ever live, face-to-face episode, Dan and Merlin talk about goats, noise gate, and taking a step back for a better view of where you are.

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0:00.0

I wonder what the poor people are doing.

0:01.9

I like it when you visit San Francisco,

0:04.5

because it gives you a chance to be disabused

0:06.4

of your mini, the myths you carry around about this.

0:08.8

There's no myth.

0:09.6

If anything, this trip has proven every point that I've had.

0:12.1

I've seen, you know, we flew into the right airport

0:14.8

this time, and whether I terminal,

0:17.7

it's the jet blue terminal.

0:20.2

So it's not the regular airport, it's the other one.

0:23.4

Right, the international.

0:25.4

Oh, the international terminal.

0:26.4

Oh, no food there.

0:27.7

No food there.

0:28.5

It used to have a lot more food.

0:29.6

It's clean.

0:30.6

It's very clean.

0:32.0

It can be a little confusing because it has two sides,

0:35.2

which confuse people sometimes, but it's much, much cleaner.

0:37.3

The left side, the right side.

0:38.3

One goes left, one goes right, so what?

0:40.0

It's not like going to LA.

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