Episode 47: Utter Failure & Hotel Steak

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2011

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Resolving to skip the New Year's resolutions.

In the last episode of 2011, Merlin and Dan talk about fresh starts and modest changes rather than rehearsing for sucking. You don't need a calendar to tell you to change. Whether you want to give up nail biting, onanism, or drinking a gallon of vodka a day, you need a plan and a tolerance for failure. Plus, a little care never hurts.

How to do it? Keep it small, keep it time-limited, keep it action-oriented.

Happy New Year, jackals. We love you.

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0:00.0	Hello, hi, Merlin, man. Oh, hello. How are you? I'm fine, Merlin. Oh, man, there's a slight
0:07.6	tear in the fabric of time for a second. I had a blip. I was I was bolding some text and
0:12.8	I'm very confused. You should see my shoes in these shoes. I got a. I'm awesome. There's
0:23.9	a sorry at life thing I laughed at. It looks the first thing since like 1978. It was very
0:27.9	funny. First time you've laughed since 1977. No, you know what? Do you remember laughter? Does anybody
0:32.8	remember laughter? You followed? You might suggest this is a good beat. Yeah. I love your obscure
0:39.0	zeblin references. Don't be alarmed now. It's just a spring clean for the make queen. Can I just
0:49.4	give you a cut to one thing, Dan? Go ahead, Colin. Just tell you one thing. Thank you very much.
0:53.0	First time filler. Now there are two pests. You can go by. All right, but in the long run, there's
1:01.9	still time to change the road. We back in a minute. That one. I would see I would watch that if Dr.
1:07.6	Phil. I would still watch that. I would. If Dr. Phil did like a week of just giving advice based
1:13.0	on steroid heaven, I would totally watch that. Let me tell you one more thing, Dan, before we go,
1:17.1	we need to wrap this up. You need to look into her eyes, right? You give her two right here. Okay.
1:23.0	You tell her this as we wind on down the road, our shadows, taller than our soul. Okay. There is
1:29.2	lady. We all know who shines white light and wants to show everything still turns to gold when
1:34.2	all are one and one is all to be a rock, not to roll. Happy to hear everybody. How do you come up
1:41.8	with that stuff and then you go like something something something something hobbit. Always always
1:47.6	holds the mic in his left hand pretty much. Have you ever noticed that? I don't know if you mean
1:51.7	Dr. Phil or the Robert plan. You see that five's I did. It was five. I was like five subtle
2:01.4	indications. Robert plan is ready to have intercourse with you. I don't know. I haven't updated
2:07.6	the site in a while. Which site is that 43 planners? The five Q's Robert plan is ready to have
2:12.3	sexual intercourse. He gently inquires as to where you like to put the turkey baster. Repeatedly
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