Episode 87: Nothing to Declare But My Coconuts

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

🗓️ 2 October 2012

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

TOPIC: Grit, Confidence, and Intuition.

This week, Dan and Merlin begin a conversation on what researchers and educators are learning about why students of all ages do or don't succeed. Yes, it's about intelligence and other cognitive skills, but it's also about tenacity, courage, self-restraint, and resolve.

It's really about grit.

See our show notes for lots of links to the stuff that inspired our topic, but definitely tune in for Merlin's slight addendum to the formula: mixing in our growing confidence in our own intuition.

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0:00.0	You gotta explain or I'll be insane.
0:02.0	DOOM, DOOM, DOOM.
0:03.5	DOOM.
0:04.5	DOOM.
0:05.5	Hmm.
0:06.4	Huh.
0:07.4	Huh.
0:08.4	Hmm.
0:09.4	Hmm.
0:10.4	Hmm.
0:11.4	Hmm.
0:12.4	How you doing?
0:13.8	Me?
0:14.6	Is this the show?
0:15.8	Yeah, I mean, we need some kind of a signal,
0:17.8	some kind of an audible signal to let me know
0:19.5	that this is now the show.
0:21.3	How about when you hear the sound of your own voice
0:23.4	talking, it's the show?
0:26.2	Well, that's a pretty broad heuristic, damn Benjamin.
0:30.9	It's the sound that I hear quite a lot.
0:32.8	And, you know, as people are all too aware,
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