Episode 72: Rocky Balboa Moment

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

🗓️ 18 June 2012

⏱️ 87 minutes

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TOPIC: Confidence, Courage, and the Problem with Thinking

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about why we may or may not feel confident to do stuff. How do other people seem to get it so easily, and where do they find the courage?

Well. You walk through The Forum, you check the mics, and you never let thinking get in your way.

Too much thinking? UNACCEPTABLE!

Dungeon. Seven years. No trials.

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0:00.0	And let me know when you're ready. I'm here. Oh, we're ready. What? You let me know when you're rolling.
0:08.0	Oh, okay.
0:30.0	A taste of honey.
0:50.0	Where did you find this? Well, it's on the tumbler. I've retumbled from the tumbler. You can't put that up.
1:03.0	I think I'm in the copyright A&M records. You can't put that up. Really?
1:08.0	Was that fair use? Well, we're talking about it. We're reviewing it. Oh, you talking about the county fair? Yeah.
1:14.0	Yeah. That's a good song. I told you I was telling you my favorite is the casino royale. I know it's not a great movie, but that's my favorite.
1:21.0	Herb Albert. Is that him solo or with the Tijuana brass? Tijuana brass. Okay. He did go solo eventually. You ever heard him sing?
1:29.0	I don't I don't think I have. It's not great worth it. It's worth hearing.
1:35.0	Hmm. Once I have the Berk back rack box set and which is I think it's 116 CDs with a lot of key changes.
1:44.0	And his singing is Berk back rack. Another one. Not a great singer. I thought it was fine. Have you heard him? Sure.
1:53.0	Hey, call me. Call me on my phone. Call me on my phone right now. Right. Yeah. Right. Hang on.
2:03.0	I'll take a second. First. I lock the phone. Lock the phone. I endured my code. One, one, one, one.
2:14.0	Who changed my code? Okay. So I'm holding my phone up to the mic.
2:20.0	Unexceptible. Unexceptible. Unexceptible.
2:26.0	So you're saying that's that's the ringtone. You've assigned to me. For phone calls. I got a different one for text.
2:38.0	Excuse me. That's the one for phone calls. I got a different one for text. Yeah. What is the one for text? I'm like a tell you you have to text me. All right.
2:45.0	Oh, not right now. I'm busy. I'm busy doing a program. All right.
2:52.0	That's so old. People have been into this program. You were into this program for a really long time.
2:56.0	I've finally been introduced to lemon grab. And now everything's changed. It's all changed.
3:00.0	I'm sending people the dungeon all the time. I was trying to introduce you to it all along.
3:05.0	And you were saying, oh, no, no, no franchises. I don't want my kid to have any fun and no fun. No.
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