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Episode 19: Corner Casey Kasem

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

🗓️ 7 June 2011

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Merlin and Dan talk about mindful tool adoption, screwdriver museums, why Vi users may (or may not) be cannibalistic insects—plus debate on whether a home video of a toy horse falling down in someone's bathroom is about Humanity. Also, Dan effs with Merlin's head. Again.

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So that thing he said yesterday see that thing again. Would you say yesterday? You're really pretty and I like your shirt

0:41.4

Okay, okay, and you want to pour water on my head, is that right?

0:45.6

Not what one thing yesterday about how baptism damn look it up. I feel like you are an artist who

0:53.2

Has never discovered or for whatever reason has now has not yet found the true medium

0:59.7

That that you could truly excel in but because you're so talented and gifted that you

1:06.7

Anything you touch is it becomes your canvas and and that that at my analogy

1:13.2

I think was that if you you know if you gave Lance Armstrong

1:18.1

You know tax reports to do he'd probably do a great job on him

1:21.2

But it went it's like if he never discovered that how great he would be as as an athlete writing

1:27.8

You know, writing a bike and being a competitive racer

1:31.4

That yeah, he might excel at these other things with the same

1:36.2

Success but

1:38.7

Maybe that's the wrong word not success with the same energy with the same output

1:41.9

But only when when he's actually you know racing on a bike do you realize what his true potential is?

1:47.8

I feel like you have only skirted his scratch the surface of

1:52.5

the true artistic

1:54.9

Medium that you could excel in and when I see a video like this humanity horse

2:00.4

And you probably weren't even intending it to be there

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