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Episode 254: Fixed Points in Time

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2016

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Budgeting the Primary Secondary Project

This week, Dan and Merlin do a deep dive on a very old and very thorny topic: managing time.

Thing is: this is not about bookkeeping—it's about accounting. Being honest, humble, and diligent in mindfully applying your time and seeing how it went.

(This is a good one.)

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0:00.0

Hello?

0:02.0

Oh good morning sir, how are you?

0:04.0

Good morning, I'm very well.

0:06.0

How are you?

0:07.0

I'm doing good, doing good.

0:09.0

Tired again, but other than that, you know?

0:12.0

Yeah.

0:13.0

Yeah.

0:14.0

You just don't get a break from that to you.

0:15.0

Well, I had a little bit of a break, but now it's back to no break again.

0:19.0

Yeah, I don't know if I'll ever get enough sleep.

0:21.0

Why do you hit a certain age you just can't?

0:24.0

I found myself occasionally around six o'clock at night just saying to my wife,

0:28.0

who works way harder than me and gets less sleep for me.

0:30.0

I'll just say, you know, I feel like if I slept for a week, I could reboot.

0:35.0

I just need to go somewhere where they could just knock me out for a week.

0:38.0

Like, is it a physical kind of tiredness or a mental or a combination?

0:43.0

Oh goodness.

0:44.0

I sometimes think that the physical part is secondary to my utter mental exhaustion and emotional exhaustion.

0:50.0

I don't know.

0:51.0

Yeah.

0:52.0

Yeah, I don't know.

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