Episode 66: Horseradish on My Raccoon

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

🗓️ 7 May 2012

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: The Pete Campbell Problem

Ever notice how you never really "arrive?" Or, have you ever noticed that right when you think you've "arrived," you don't stay arrived for very long—but now have a whole big bunch of new stuff to do? Yeah, us too.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about expectations, the wrong kinds of ambition, and the unquenchable lust for prestige and respect. Good practitioners practice, great leaders lead, and crummy managers just get their fingers all brown from digging around in your chocolate bag.

How to see yourself more as your team does—and less as That Guy who deserves more everything.

Because there will always be more "everything."

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0:00.0	I ate a steak, I had a steak earlier.
0:03.1	A steak?
0:04.0	I'm starting to have steaks in the hole.
0:05.2	I make them the night before.
0:06.5	Not steaks all the time, I don't want to sound you know.
0:09.4	I always make two steaks.
0:11.3	But you know, I got to eat.
0:13.4	I don't eat for the show sometimes and it makes me weird.
0:16.4	I also have a pinch nerve.
0:17.4	Is that why you're so weird sometimes?
0:20.2	I don't understand what that means.
0:21.3	I had a steak, but I still got a pinch nerve.
0:23.9	It was a good steak.
0:24.7	I had a Costco ribeye.
0:26.6	It was good.
0:27.3	Might be a strip.
0:28.2	It was a very large strip or a very under-fated ribeye.
0:31.6	You're saying you had this for lunch?
0:33.4	Well, I got what it down.
0:34.7	I didn't get your message about starting a little late,
0:36.3	so I kind of ate it fast.
0:38.7	Got some horse radish in my nose.
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