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Episode 237: Slow Your Roll

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Stop that train!

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about some ideas for noticing and then battling the surfeits of negative thought that sometimes threaten to overrun us.

Also: talk of a cool new computer mouse, evolution in the comic book industry, and what constitutes "real camping."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Good morning, Mr. Man.

0:04.0

Good morning, Mr. Benjamin.

0:06.0

How are you?

0:07.0

Your call is important to me.

0:09.0

Hello.

0:11.0

It sounds like you would like to record a podcast.

0:16.0

If you would like to report a travel with your podcast recording,

0:22.0

Touch 1, 0, 9.

0:25.0

Can you hear that in the background?

0:27.0

Uh, right now?

0:29.0

Oh, sorry.

0:30.0

I should say, uh, in my background, you may hear a very loud drilling sound.

0:34.0

No, it sounds really good.

0:36.0

Mmm.

0:37.0

Hold on, hold on, wait a minute.

0:38.0

Mmm.

0:40.0

Okay.

0:41.0

Hello.

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Thank you.

0:43.0

You'll have reached podcast.

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