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Episode 575: You're Being Scared Wrong

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

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

DISCUSSED: Dan's new tenants flip him the bird, and Merlin has strong feelings about email.

Runner-up titles:

  • Glass Surfing
  • I Don't Believe in a Lizard Binary
  • A Game Stop and a Bathroom
  • A Mother Son Relationship That Is Weird
  • The Allergies of Childhood
  • Medium-Sized Important Breakthrough
  • The Cultural Installation of Fear

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:02.0

Hello, Berlin. How are you doing?

0:04.5

There's banging.

0:05.5

There's banging.

0:07.0

Yeah, it's not the civic municipal banging

0:11.8

that we had for a while.

0:13.0

No.

0:14.7

And only just started.

0:15.7

When I got through the office this morning

0:17.3

and so far it sounds like

0:20.9

two men with rubber mallets hitting copper pipes

0:25.9

and another one spinning a lawn mower in lazy circles.

0:30.9

I don't know what's happening feet from where I am.

0:34.9

But it's gonna be fine.

0:35.9

And probably this day it makes me feel vulnerable.

0:37.9

Well, I mean, I don't blame you.

0:40.9

I mean, it is a whole-

0:41.9

You know, I can't control my environment.

0:42.9

When you can't control your environment,

0:44.9

this is why our sweet lizard,

0:46.9

most nights he comes out and he hangs out with us

0:49.9

in the evening.

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