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Episode 230: My Emotional Reservoir

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2015

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

With Merlin on sabbatical, Dan is joined by John Roderick to talk about being a candidate, taking care of yourself, managing introversion, trying on ideas without fear, the Thirty Years War, and the struggle of being a generalist.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:01.8

Good morning.

0:02.6

How are you?

0:03.8

Oh, way up there in Seattle.

0:07.5

I'm well.

0:08.8

It's very early.

0:10.5

Is it?

0:11.8

Yeah, but I'm good.

0:13.6

Good.

0:13.9

How are you in sunny Texas?

0:16.0

It, you know, it's like getting up.

0:17.9

We got, I got a thing on my phone this morning that, uh, that told me that it was going

0:23.5

to be, uh, up to 105 today.

0:27.8

It might, it might so that I should reschedule strenuous activities and not to them

0:32.4

trying to part of the day.

0:35.4

So, um, you know, I'm doing what I got to do to make it.

0:40.0

Oh, that's awful.

0:40.9

Yeah.

0:43.6

That's terrible.

0:44.3

Yeah.

0:44.6

So you said you were in unprecedented traffic trying to, to get here for the show.

0:50.2

Do you want to hear about it?

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