Episode 227: The Treasure Room
Back to Work
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ποΈ 30 June 2015
β±οΈ 82 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Learning to shut up and relax.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenges and benefits of getting out of your own head.
Links for this episode:
- Art Museum | San Francisco | International Art Museum of America
- The International Art Museum of America - Museums - SoMa - San Francisco, CA - Reviews - Photos - Yelp
- Inside Out (2015) - IMDb
- Life Is Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever β Lary Wallace β Aeon
Stoicism is, as much as anything, a philosophy of gratitude β and a gratitude, moreover, rugged enough to endure anything. - Stoicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection", would not suffer such emotions. - Stoicism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stoicism is essentially a system of ethics which, however, is guided by a logic as theory of method, and rests upon physics as foundation. - Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
- The Dalrymple Report
- Summer camp: Where kids grow up on their own and parents back home stay the same.
They are moments you experienced truly for yourself. In Homesick and Happy, Michael Thompson writes about a study where people were asked about their happiest childhood memory - The Practice of Loving-Kindness (Metta): As Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon
- Facets of Metta by Sharon Salzberg
- Dan's Wish List
- Merlin's Wishlist
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. Oh hi Merlin. Hi Dan. How are you? I'm good. How's everything with you? |
| 0:06.2 | Oh, everything is great great great great. Good. I'm clicking. I'm making an episode. |
| 0:14.9 | Doing things in the CMS. All your CMS are belong to me. |
| 0:20.1 | Have you been listening to to to beats beats one all morning? |
| 0:24.0 | Didn't just launch. Yeah. |
| 0:25.9 | Look an hour ago. I think so. I'll say no. No. I mean it's I just thought you know this is an |
| 0:33.0 | epic momentous time for us in sample is invented radio that you know. Well they did more than that. |
| 0:39.6 | They're really it's three three three things in one because they've invented radio. Yeah. Okay. Yes. |
| 0:47.4 | B is it's radio on the internet and then three it's all about music. Yes. So you see |
| 0:55.7 | see you got you got you got radio. Yeah. Internet. Yeah. Music. Are you getting this? |
| 1:00.4 | The intersection of those three things. Right. The intersection of liberal arts in 80 years ago. |
| 1:08.9 | Here we go. Who's the forever? Someone want my briny? No. |
| 1:12.4 | Briny. No. Yeah. Apparently they're looping. No one won. |
| 1:18.4 | That's a great track. Bong bong bong bong. |
| 1:23.0 | It's hard to sing along with some ambient music. I could probably sing you the whole thing |
| 1:27.6 | though. I know it pretty well. Do you want to hear a little bit? Yeah. Ready? Yeah. |
| 1:41.0 | It's only like 11 more minutes. I can keep going. Yeah. I mean I'm into it. I like it. |
| 1:45.2 | Yeah. I back when we used to use compact compact discs. I burned a CD of that on repeat |
| 1:51.4 | so I could just play it. Did you really? I love that tune. You know what's weird? It's like I |
| 1:55.9 | remember that. I remember making a tape or something of a song that I really liked. Then I just |
| 2:00.2 | put it on there three or four times. Just listen to it in a few times in a row. Oh yeah, absolutely. |
| 2:07.2 | Yeah. I did the same thing. My trick also if it was a short record. One of particular |
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