Episode 81: LAMP for Your Productivity
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2012
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Honesty and Sociopathy Go to Work
Merlin and Dan talk about the cultural divide between you and your work. Coping with work is a little like being a sociopath so you better make sure you're taking away the right lessons and being honest about the right things. Anything else is a little dishonest.
You don't need to quit your job, but you made want to at least resign your certainty.
Nice!™
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| 0:00.0 | Uh-huh, nice! |
| 0:05.3 | Hello? |
| 0:06.0 | Merlin! |
| 0:06.9 | Hey, Dan, how are you? |
| 0:09.0 | Woo-hoo! |
| 0:10.0 | What's up? |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah! |
| 0:13.3 | Oh, that's not really a response, is it? |
| 0:15.3 | Just a little, the little sound, no. |
| 0:17.3 | Err, I'm, uh... |
| 0:19.5 | I've had way too much coffee, but... |
| 0:21.5 | Do you normally have coffee? |
| 0:22.5 | That's part of your morning routine. |
| 0:23.9 | Wake up... |
| 0:25.3 | Pour some... |
| 0:26.8 | Hot coffee. |
| 0:29.0 | Yeah, it's the back... |
| 0:30.0 | So back, look out at the beautiful skyline |
| 0:32.0 | in San Francisco and watch the... |
| 0:34.0 | the bees and the... |
| 0:36.0 | the little ants on their way to work. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, at summertime, which, as you know, |
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