Giving A Sh*t with Phoebe Robinson

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Short packets of content. That’s the world we live in. We've condensed and compressed so much of what we consume that our entertainment and our news seem to have lost any nuance or complexity. And that’s a problem, because our world and our lives are nuanced and complex. Phoebe Robinson is a comedian, bestselling author, actress and producer who tries to capture the nuance and complexity of life in her work. And it works. She’s funny, thought-provoking and full of heart. This is…A Bit of Optimism. For more on Phoebe and her work, visit: https://www.phoeberobinson.com https://www.tinyreparations.com

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0:00.0	We live in a world of oversimplification.
0:09.8	News is given to us in soundbites.
0:12.5	In fact, everything is given to us in soundbites.
0:15.5	If you can't do it in about 140 or 180 characters, people won't have the attention span
0:21.1	to listen or pay attention.
0:23.1	Things are getting shorter, smaller, and dumber.
0:27.2	Not for Phoebe Robinson.
0:28.6	She's a comedian, producer, actor, all around remarkable human being, who believes that
0:34.3	we need complexity.
0:35.6	We need nuance in the work that we do.
0:38.0	Why? Just makes it better.
0:40.4	It makes it smarter.
0:42.2	And it makes it more important.
0:44.2	This is a bit of optimism.
0:51.4	When your new book came out, please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes.
0:56.8	I didn't even have to open it.
0:58.3	I was like, oh, oh, she and I can be friends, right?
1:02.9	Because this is a complaint I have had with almost everybody I've ever dated in my life,
1:09.3	who comes in from the outside and gets on or worse in my bed.
1:13.2	Oh my god.
1:14.1	And I'm like, what are you doing?
1:15.3	They're like, I'm getting into bed.
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