Episode 3: The Second Arrow
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🗓️ 1 February 2011
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discuss ADD, Buddhism, mindfulness, concentration, and insight.
Links for this episode:
- Best of Wikipedia
- Mindfulness In Plain English
- Mindfulness in Plain English [Amazon]
- Red Barber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Webstock 2011 — 14th-18th February 2011
- Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Insecurity (9780394704685): Alan W. Watts: Books
- Bacon Ray - "Tomfoolery" 7-inch (1995) [DL B2W's theme song, "Plica Plica"]
- Anne Lamott: Put the puppy back on the paper | 43 Folders
- Hillbilly Excel - 30 Seconds with Phone Guy - "It's all buttoned up…"
- Book: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life [MDM: "...book with brown and green cover..."]
- Merlin @ Webstock 2011: Keynote + Two New Workshops
- Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade (Side 2 of 4) ["Punch it!"]
Webstock 2011 will be the mostest bestest scientifically proven amazingest conference ever. In the history of the world. Fact.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Like like everybody I've ever talked to on the phone I feel they need to tell you that |
| 0:09.9 | that is not me urinating that is water for tea as far as you know yeah that's important |
| 0:17.3 | to clarify that I couldn't I don't think we would have heard the sound unless you put |
| 0:21.2 | your mic up to it that way or whatever you did to pick it up every that every that don't |
| 0:24.8 | think of an elephant book you know it's like the problem is that now you're thinking |
| 0:27.5 | about be urinating right so let me clean your palate hang on that's better there we go |
| 0:32.5 | I was already thinking about you urinating even before you brought up the topics that's |
| 0:37.1 | so funny I've been I've been googling all morning for pictures of you urinating and |
| 0:40.2 | I don't feel like five yeah there's not not as many as you think you should drink more |
| 0:44.6 | water and I definitely need to die right now or got a kind of yellow quality yeah well |
| 0:52.8 | let it all this out sure how about rabbit rabbit rabbit rabbit you're supposed to say that |
| 0:59.1 | on the first day of the month but it's supposed to be the first thing that you say when you wake up |
| 1:04.9 | that on the first day of the month I've done that like once ever and it was like I had to put a |
| 1:08.9 | note on the ceiling just because I wanted to get it right once did it change anything I don't know |
| 1:13.2 | I picked that up from Heather champ she just always do rabbit rabbit and I I'm not good I'm not |
| 1:17.5 | good I'm not good at well you know this is the third time first time I've ever done three podcasts |
| 1:22.2 | in a row so you know knock on rabbit but I would in a row what do you mean you have not this |
| 1:27.7 | isn't the first time I don't know I don't know uh three weeks in a row they're on the same day |
| 1:32.0 | that's pretty good you you this is the turning point though this is the show everybody who was |
| 1:36.9 | pessimistic about this was saying oh I give it three shows yeah so we'll see if we do a fourth |
| 1:43.9 | yeah gosh I hope we do I love just putting it up just putting up the whole thing yeah how are |
| 1:48.4 | you Dan are you are you well today yeah everything you know seems to be working |
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