Episode 65: A Light Dusting of Life

Back to Work

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

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2012

⏱️ 91 minutes

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TOPIC: Stressing Out About Stress

Dan and Merlin talk about what happens when stress meets stress, anxiety feeds anxiety, and 10 guys maybe try to jump you in the woods.

Which kinds of stress are simply unavoidable? Which ones are addictive? Which ones can be tolerated? And, yes, which kinds of stresses can be vanquished by firing your boss?

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0:00.0	What does that mean that you keep saying?
0:04.2	Irma Bomback?
0:05.2	Yeah.
0:06.2	Irma Bomback?
0:07.2	You're probably too young to remember this.
0:09.8	Irma Bomback had a series of very popular books in the 1970s.
0:15.5	The grass is always greener over the septic tank is one and another popular one was if life
0:21.4	is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?
0:25.0	I give you a minute because I think it's got a little bit of a clever turn in it.
0:29.2	You sound tired and sick.
0:32.1	Irma Bomback.
0:33.1	It's always saying, ladies, you look nice to say it's like it's all Irma Bomback stuff.
0:36.7	That's when you start talking about, isn't it crazy how you have to drive kids to soccer
0:43.0	in these shoes?
0:44.3	You know that kind of thing.
0:46.3	Yeah, I shave my legs.
0:48.4	No, anyway.
0:49.4	So yeah, apparently that's the only kind of joke.
0:50.4	So I make a seamless little fun Twitter sometimes and I realize it's an internet thing.
0:54.4	Is that when you're over at Evan Williams House, that Twitter, when you hang out with him
0:58.1	in this backyard, which is, hmm, hmm, oh, um, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a man, I'm
1:04.6	a Twitter.
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