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Episode 227: The Treasure Room

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

4.7 β€’ 2.3K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 June 2015

⏱️ 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.

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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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