Episode 77: Sadness Harmonica

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

🗓️ 23 July 2012

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Motivation, Hardware Stores, and Fighting the Last War

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about motivation—how it changes, how it doesn't, and how it can be fueled by anxiety and cognitive dissonance.

There is also discussion of Merlin's pear tart problem, the challenge of the engineering triangle, and, yeah, a new t-shirt That's Fine for Merlin.

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0:00.0	People want to know that it's live before it's actually live.
0:07.0	Oh, wait, yeah.
0:08.0	I heard you talking about that with Marco.
0:10.0	That seems very confusing.
0:11.0	Yeah.
0:12.0	If I, like, if we go live, like right now, I'm taking the show live and I haven't tweeted
0:17.0	about it.
0:18.0	Yeah.
0:19.0	Now people are going to be mad.
0:20.0	I know.
0:21.0	If you're already talking, but then it wouldn't be kind of strange if there was silence
0:25.4	with the occasional, like, right.
0:28.4	It is a waiting.
0:29.4	We're waiting to have pre-show banter before, like organic.
0:34.1	This is how we actually talked to each other before the show starts because that's super
0:37.4	weird.
0:38.4	It is weird.
0:39.4	Yeah.
0:40.4	No, we should do.
0:41.4	Thank you.
0:42.4	We should let people know, like with you and I are going to have a call before the show.
0:45.4	We should let people know about that and then just have, like, basically, like an un-hold
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