John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Power of Four Numbers

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🗓️ 27 April 2024

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In this week’s essay, John discusses the art of attention and how to develop the skill of slow-looking. Notebook Entries: Notebook 75, page 8. September 2021 1016 Notebook 1, page 54. June 1990 - Magna carta 1215 at Salisbury - Girls skipping - The Haunch of Venison - Chris References: Georgia O’Keeffe Museum A Little History of the World by E.H Gombrich Artist Jeff Koons “The Art of Divination: D.H. Lawrence on the Power of Pure Attention” by Maria Popova for The Marginalian “Gabfest Reads: A Woman’s Life in Museum Wall Labels” for Political Gabfest One Woman Show by Christine Coulson “Grammy-winning artist Jason Isbell talks about the craft of songwriting and his latest music” for CBS News A Journey Around My Room by Xavier De Maistre “Just think: The Challenges of the Disengaged Mind” by Timothy Wilson, et.al for Science “Our Rodent Selfies, Ourselves” by Emily Anthes for the New York Times One Man’s Meat by E.B. White Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Email us at navelgazingpodcast@gmail.com Want to listen to Navel Gazing uninterrupted? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock ad-free listening to Navel Gazing and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/navelgazingplus to get access wherever you listen. Host John Dickerson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Must remember, do not forget.
0:07.0	Remind me to bring photo ID.
0:11.0	Reminder, set. Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote.
0:17.0	All right, love.
0:19.0	However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote on the 2nd of May.
0:24.0	Find out more at electoralcommission.org. UK slash voter ID.
0:29.0	Hello everyone. Welcome to episode 4 of Naval casing. Season 1. I'm John Dickerson.
0:38.6	The entry that starts today's episode is 1016. It's from notebook 75 page 8 September 2021. That's it.
0:49.6	1016. And we'd like to thank you for listening on our next episode, four random letters read aloud.
0:57.0	I kid.
0:59.0	This entry is found in the tight terrain of just a few pages of notebook entries that we've been looking at in the first
1:04.7	three episodes of this series of Naval Gasing. I almost called it Nasal Gazing, which is an entirely different
1:10.8	podcast. It's more probiscous forward.
1:14.4	Though the collection of notebooks fills boxes, we're sticking to this narrow territory.
1:19.0	This entry is the one after those about our dog George that oriented our last episode.
1:25.8	We won't always go in order.
1:27.7	We'll zoom from entry to entry soon enough, pinballing through time, but I'm sticking
1:32.3	to the chronology for now. There is a
1:34.4	benefit in being forced to make meaning out of chronological order, forcing yourself
1:39.6	to look longer than you might otherwise have. That is the topic for this episode,
1:45.0	finding wonder through noticing longer. So far in the notebook entries from this period in the fall of 2021 have given us only things that are not there
2:00.5	Our son's interruptions ears ears of corn, the early morning rattle of dogs leash.
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