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Back to Work

Episode 168: It's Okay for Cats to Wander Around on Planes

Back to Work

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Standing up to Attention Bullies.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the world's impossible expectations regarding each of our own time, attention, and access.

What happens when we tacitly allow the universe to ask us anything any time for any reason? How do we develop the sympathy to understand how vastly our schedules and priorities differ at a given moment?

Well. One possible solution is to learn to find the courage to not be terminally ""busy"" all the time. That's all on us.

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0:00.0

And the headline is, Wall Street Analyst,

0:01.6

officially declares the end of, quote,

0:03.2

limited access to email as an excuse

0:04.9

for anyone in happening Earth.

0:06.4

Good morning.

0:07.8

Good morning.

0:08.7

Good morning to you.

0:09.9

Good morning.

0:10.7

Good morning.

0:11.4

Good morning.

0:12.6

Good.

0:14.6

So you just sent me, can we just jump right into this?

0:17.2

Oh, God.

0:18.1

Can we just go right into this?

0:19.2

Because it's, I have so much prepared.

0:23.0

And then like two minutes ago, I got a link that changes

0:27.3

everything you said to me.

0:28.8

Why did I get the link?

0:30.8

Dan, you want to leave this one?

0:31.8

Oh, gosh, I don't, I don't know.

0:34.8

This is from, I don't know if I want to do this via Twitter

0:38.7

a few minutes ago.

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