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Episode 172: Somewhere Between a Habit and a River

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 May 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: How to undig a river.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about an email message from a listener who's having trouble getting away from his inbox long enough to do what he needs to, introducing a mindfulness exercise that may help point to a deeper problem.

(This is a good one)

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0:00.0

You got a role for your tent pole.

0:02.4

Save versus collapse.

0:05.6

Hello?

0:06.4

Oh, hi, Merlin Man. How are you?

0:08.1

I'm very good, Dan Benjamin. How are you this morning?

0:10.4

I'm okay. I'm all right.

0:14.1

Me too.

0:15.2

Yeah.

0:16.0

Me too. I had a weird night last night.

0:18.6

What happened? What was the first thing that happened?

0:20.6

Well, I mentioned this on the tutor, but I um...

0:24.7

I watched a lot of Deadwood.

0:27.6

Oh yeah.

0:29.7

And I read old D&D books.

0:33.4

Whoa, which ones?

0:34.8

That's it.

0:35.9

Well, truth be told, I um...

0:38.8

went out and dug up some...

0:41.4

I don't know the technical term for this PDFs of um...

0:46.3

Player Handbook, DM Guide, Monster Manual, and Deities and Timigots.

0:49.6

Which are the four that I...

0:50.7

The main ones.

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