Episode 410: The Childhood Cocktail
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🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: dreams and whether people like hearing them; turns out: Merlin recommends a podcast episode about mental stuff; practice vs. rehearsal; visualization as a rehearsal thing; follow-up on science fair projects; our new, post-search-engine habits; Math is hard; Merlin didn't get Anna's emails; cool screen-grabbing mojo; and Dan reviews excellent listener book recommendations.
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- 363. Think Like a Winner — Freakonomics Radio — Overcast
Great athletes aren’t just great at the physical stuff. They’ve also learned how to handle pressure, overcome fear, and stay focused. Here’s the good news: you don’t have to be an athlete to use what they know.
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- The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree: Susan Cooper: 9781442489677: Amazon.com: Books
- Sub-Human (Post-Human): David Simpson, Autumn J. Conley, Jennifer Simpson: 9781478343981: Amazon.com: Books
- Wool: Hugh Howey: 9781476733951: Amazon.com: Books
- Amazon.com: So You Want to Be a Wizard: The First Book in the Young Wizards Series (9780152162504): Diane Duane: Books
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- Amazon.com: The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection Boxed Set (5-Book) (9781524771034): James Dashner: Books
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- Fablehaven Complete Set (Boxed Set): Fablehaven; Rise of the Evening Star; Grip of the Shadow Plague; Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary; Keys to the Demon Prison: Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman: 8601419663026: Amazon.com: Books
- The Land of Stories Complete Paperback Gift Set: Chris Colfer: 9780316480840: Amazon.com: Books
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- The Ender Quartet Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind (The Ender Quintet): Orson Scott Card: 8601419656288: Amazon.com: Books
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- Amazon.com: The White Tower (The Aldoran Chronicles: Book 1) eBook: Michael Wisehart: Books
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- Amazon.com: Redwall (9780142302378): Brian Jacques, Gary Chalk: Books
- Amazon’s Wish List with Stacy Mitchell — Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes — Overcast
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, Maryland. |
| 0:03.2 | Hi, Dan. How's it going? |
| 0:04.4 | I'm going fine. Just fine. How are you? |
| 0:07.0 | I'm confused and overwhelmed. |
| 0:09.7 | What's wrong? |
| 0:11.2 | I added a link to show notes. |
| 0:13.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.4 | And then I went to make sure I'd quoted the right text. |
| 0:17.1 | And I thought I was on the wrong episode |
| 0:20.0 | because it looks like there's 435 Amazon links |
| 0:26.7 | for books in the show notes. |
| 0:28.7 | 435? |
| 0:30.4 | I just a quick check. I was just a |
| 0:32.1 | satisfying. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm guessing this is going to be about Amazon? |
| 0:35.7 | No. |
| 0:36.7 | Those are the book suggestions that came in for my boy. |
| 0:41.1 | I only added, I don't think there's that many. |
| 0:44.5 | I think there's a few. |
| 0:45.5 | There's like 20. |
| 0:46.5 | Yeah. |
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