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Episode 508: Oscarbation

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Habits, cycles, and patterns of thinking. Why it's difficult to rehearse success—but surprisingly easy to rehearse failure.

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0:00.0

Oh, hey, is that any better? Oh my God. Yes. Jesus Christ. Yes. Okay.

0:06.4

Say something again. Hey. Okay. Oh, man. It's so confusing because like,

0:12.2

Roderick is so quiet coming from you. And I ended up, I never had to ride this

0:17.9

before, but I feel like I changed it for every show now. I actually get that

0:21.4

scarlet focus right. That's what I use. Yeah. I need to get that. I need to get a new

0:27.2

computer. So I should also get a new computer. It's a real lady who's swallowed a

0:31.7

fly type situation. Right. No. Because I can't utilize all of the benefits of the

0:38.0

scarlet unless I have USB-C, which computer this computer doesn't. This computer's

0:43.9

older than it looks. You know, much like me. Yeah. Yeah. Is this the show? I think

0:51.3

this is the show. It feels like the show. This is the show. You know what this is?

0:54.6

This feels like the show unplugged. I like that. I can go on. We stopped doing

1:01.4

whatever we used to do. And now we just did. Do you get real? Yeah. Yeah.

1:06.6

Yeah. I have a couple that cost you $10,000. Just me singing that little. Yeah. I

1:18.4

wanted to jump in with a question or a thing that I had. A thing that I've

1:24.5

been dealing with that I want to I want to send this out to the world and maybe

1:29.9

they can help me with this. This is not just for me. This is for the world.

1:32.6

This is for the world. Yeah. You're going to need the world to answer this. I mean, you

1:36.5

feel like this is going to be one of those. We need all 13 doctors like type

1:40.1

situation. We're going to surround. We're going to surround the what's called

1:44.9

trough famedore. Whatever is planted is called. It's not transalore. But that's the thing.

1:51.8

The world is 13 doctors 12 no sir all 13 and they come their

1:56.2

Tartis and they and then they get the deluxe to shoot each other. No spoilers. This is

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