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Back to Work

Episode 69: Seven Dwarfs of Bad Emotion

Back to Work

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

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2012

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Boogers and Expectations

Are you making perfect reports when your boss just wants them on time? Are you making crème brûlée when you should be jumping in a trench? Are wangs and boogers causing problems at work?

This week, Dan and Merlin talk more about expectations – whether you're willing to or not – and the risks of expectations of partners, bosses, and kids.

How can you handle expectations? There aren't a lot of easy answers. As you'd probably expect.

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0:00.0

Whoa, whoa, whoa, you know when you started going out with me, you knew what you were

0:04.7

in for.

0:05.7

I'm a wild car.

0:06.7

That's thing like this, it's so very hard to stop.

0:12.9

If you like, I'll tweet this to the people following me, and then the people following

0:24.0

me will clearly very see that they could listen live on the internet.

0:30.7

That's not a good show.

0:35.9

That's not part of the show.

0:36.9

You gotta be careful with those things.

0:39.0

I've told you about some of these.

0:40.8

For a long time in my band, you know, we're all really into KISS, and when we started doing

0:44.3

that Paul Stanley thing, whoa, that kind of like that.

0:48.0

Wow, I like, do you like cold gin?

0:50.9

I'm like, wow, you like never start doing that.

0:55.0

It's like doing the Eddie better than you're like, once you start doing it ironically,

0:58.6

you can never stop.

0:59.6

It's the same with the Morris.

1:00.6

The same with the Morrissey.

1:01.6

Yeah.

1:02.6

There is productivity.

1:03.6

Yeah, what we talk about.

1:05.4

How much of that is the expectation that others have of you, did you just create a topic

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