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Episode 192: Party City Trophies

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2014

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Reinforcement, Aikido, and Fear

This week, Dan and Merlin try to tackle positive versus negative reinforcement.

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0:00.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

0:07.0

Hello.

0:08.5

Good morning, Merlin.

0:09.5

How are you?

0:10.5

Good morning.

0:11.5

How are you?

0:12.5

Pretty good.

0:13.5

You know, I have...

0:14.5

I have some kind of cold.

0:15.5

Oh, no.

0:16.5

Yeah.

0:17.5

I feel like I sound a little...

0:18.5

a little weird.

0:20.0

Mmm.

0:21.0

You sound kind of like sad, Charlie Brown music.

0:23.2

That's how I...

0:25.1

That's how it feels.

0:26.2

Yeah.

0:27.2

Yeah.

0:28.2

This is interesting. It's an interesting turn of events because instead of my kids giving me the cold

0:33.0

I have a cold. I'm trying not to give to them. How do you go about that?

0:40.1

I try to I'm trying to be a less affectionate parent. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That's probably good in general. You think no more hugs

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