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Episode 410: The Childhood Cocktail

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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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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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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