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Episode 507: Voltron of Luck

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Discussed: the paths of thought and emerging from a rut the size of the Grand Canyon.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Oh, hi, Marilyn. How are you?

0:04.0

Oh, hi, Dan. How are you?

0:06.0

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Now, I have a question.

0:08.0

You guys see there. Is that supposed to be the first words that you say on the first of

0:14.0

the month or do you just have to say them sometime during the course of the first day of the month?

0:20.0

This is a good question. And it's something that I have wondered about the specifics, right?

0:26.0

I think if you're going to have a superstition, it's beneficial for it to be very rigid.

0:30.0

Well, you get to understand it.

0:32.0

Yeah.

0:34.0

Well, I mean, like, for...

0:36.0

Oh, I'm sorry. Pre-PC. Pre-PC. Say something, please.

0:38.0

Hi. How are you doing today?

0:40.0

Terrible. I can't hear anything.

0:42.0

Okay. Okay.

0:44.0

Okay. So, superstitions.

0:46.0

Those kinds of things, I think the specificity is important.

0:48.0

So, I also have wondered this.

0:50.0

Now, I'll make this quick.

0:52.0

You hope. So, first of all, there's things you're supposed to do.

0:54.0

You know, like, you throw salt over your shoulder, that kind of thing.

0:56.0

I think probably Heather Champ, I first heard this from her,

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