John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Meaning Behind All This Navel Gazing

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this week’s essay, John discusses instinct versus obligation, his daughter’s wit, how he has changed since episode one, and more. Notebook Entries: Notebook 58, page 10. September 16, 2021 “You don’t measure your life the way you measure your writing.” - Nan Notebook 75, page 46-47. September 2021 When your dog dies and son goes to college and you are confronted with your life’s work it all boils down to one alarm: the clock is ticking. If a scream is better than a thesis, I was hearing some kind of scream, but what was the thesis? References: Everything Is Copy – HBODocs The Power of Regret – Daniel Pink The Mezzanine – Nicholson Baker “The Creative Process” – James Baldwin Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion “Three Paths Toward the Meaning of Life” - Arthur Brooks for The Atlantic Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	Hello and welcome to Naval Gazing, episode 9 of season 1.
0:38.0	Notebook 58, page 10, September 16, 2021.
0:44.1	You don't measure your life the way you measure your writing.
0:47.2	Nan.
0:49.3	Nan is our youngest, who I encountered in the kitchen,
0:52.4	fresh from the Garrett, where I had just
0:54.4	pawed through the box of notebooks for the first time. The exercise you
0:58.3	experienced in episode 8. I was lolling around with a head full of frothy ideas trying to figure out just what to make of that experience
1:06.9	Lily padding through periods of my life on the orange carpet.
1:10.6	There had been something transporting, curiosity poking, inviting about the exercise.
1:16.0	There was something in this material.
1:18.0	I should do something with whatever was there.
1:20.8	But what should I do?
1:22.4	It was in this frame that Nan discovered me.
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