Episode 577: Transylvanian Meditation

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

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Considering the value of finding something new to suck at.

Runner-Up Titles

Stop Trying to Meditate and Just Breathe
I’m That Guy in My Own Head
The Confidence of the New Idiot

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Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day: Hagen, Steve: 9780804851183: Books
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0:00.0	Hello, hey, Merlin. How are you doing today?
0:04.0	I'm very well, Dan. How are you today?
0:06.0	And this fine Tuesday morning?
0:07.6	Pretty good. Pretty good.
0:08.8	Is this still more like there? No.
0:10.0	No, it's after Lun there.
0:12.0	It is.
0:13.0	Isn't it?
0:14.0	Yeah, I know it.
0:15.0	Are you okay?
0:16.0	You sound like you just got here with a sack of pennies
0:18.0	or didn't sleep. Are you all right?
0:19.0	I mean, no, I'm exhausted as usual.
0:22.0	Okay, good, good.
0:23.0	Later in the day we do it, the more tired I sound, I think.
0:26.0	Oh, so the mind, yeah.
0:28.0	No, it's mine.
0:29.0	It's your insistence.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:31.0	Yes, I've been thinking about a lot of things.
0:35.0	And one of the things, things are what I think about.
0:37.0	Yes.
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