Episode 23: Failure is ALWAYS an Option
Back to Work
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🗓️ 5 July 2011
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dan and Merlin determine that even the Chico Marx of notebooks is the right one if you're writing in it, failure is ALWAYS an option: fully committing didn't do Pickett any good, but you should commit to narrowing scope and deciding what success is. Why? Fact or Fiction: You can start a business on the side.
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| 0:25.0 | I have some very strange notebooks. |
| 0:27.8 | Who's the guy in the fly? |
| 0:30.6 | Jeff Goldblum. |
| 0:31.4 | And if you're talking about the 1986, |
| 0:33.4 | Jeff Goldblum. |
| 0:34.2 | Jeff Goldblum, Gina Davis, 1986. |
| 0:36.4 | Should I want to ask her? |
| 0:38.2 | You think David Kronenberg and special facts were very good. |
| 0:43.2 | If I want to watch it again, although the movie doesn't hold up as well, |
| 0:48.4 | it looked good. |
| 0:49.2 | Do you remember how easy it looked when it came out? |
| 0:51.1 | Oh, it's so good. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.4 | I have a page in my notebook. |
| 0:56.3 | I have this. |
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