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Episode 236: Finished for Now

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2015

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Practice, practice, practice.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the perilous wonders of practice of all kinds.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

How's it going?

0:02.0

You're pretty good, pretty good, pretty good.

0:04.7

Pretty good.

0:06.7

I tried a new homeopathic remedy for the cold that I had.

0:12.2

And I don't know if it made it, you know, it's tough to say you some of the time.

0:17.6

I can tell you.

0:18.6

Okay.

0:19.6

Let me see if you clicked.

0:20.6

Yeah, didn't work.

0:21.6

It didn't.

0:22.6

Nope.

0:23.6

Nope.

0:24.6

Well, I'm sorry.

0:25.6

Let me tell you about the homeopathy.

0:26.6

Are you sure it was diluted enough?

0:28.3

You want to make sure it doesn't actually have anything useful in it.

0:30.9

I don't understand homeopathic stuff.

0:33.6

I don't understand how the philosophy behind it, it's a little confusing.

0:38.2

I think the philosophy behind it is not difficult to understand.

0:40.6

People want to believe in magic.

0:42.1

Yeah.

0:43.1

Well, I don't want to sound cranky.

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