Episode 20: Muscle of Failure

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2011

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Merlin and Dan talk about getting started, putting on your shoes instead of shopping for pedometers, false dilemmas, doing as much work with your hands as you've done in your head, why you should leave some water in the pump, meta-fiddling, and getting better.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm a serial entrepreneur.
0:03.2	How are you?
0:05.2	Fine, how are you?
0:06.0	Good. I'm just, I'm finally set up here.
0:08.0	Oh, my tea is hot. I've hot, hot, hot tea.
0:10.4	I'm going live right now.
0:12.0	No, I'm going live too. I'm, you know me, ABC.
0:16.2	My Christ, that's hot tea.
0:21.4	Get a hard, hard, hard, hard mixurator.
0:27.3	How's it going? Good week?
0:29.2	Good week. Yeah, how about you?
0:30.5	How are you, John? How's your week going?
0:33.6	Pretty good. Pretty good.
0:34.6	Pretty good. I complained about who'd listen.
0:36.5	No, I, good, nothing. I got no complaints.
0:38.5	Question a lot of Star Wars.
0:40.0	A lot of Star Wars.
0:42.2	Today at Brannow, they told me, I went to Brannow to get my coffee.
0:45.5	Brannow coffee.
0:46.6	A terrible street between, you know, what is it?
0:50.4	Twenty, twenty second, twenty first.
0:53.1	I should go there.
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