Political Gabfest - John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Power of Four Numbers
Political Gabfest
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🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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:
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.
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John Dickerson
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| 0:29.8 | Hello everyone. Welcome to episode four of Naval casing season one I'm John Dickerson |
| 0:35.0 | the entry that starts today's episode is 1016 it's from notebook 75, page 8, September 2021. |
| 0:45.0 | That's it, 1016. |
| 0:48.0 | And we'd like to thank you for listening on our next episode, |
| 0:51.0 | four random letters read aloud. |
| 0:54.3 | I kid. |
| 0:55.4 | This entry is found in the tight terrain of just a few pages of notebook entries that we've |
| 0:59.8 | been looking at in the first three episodes of this series of Naval Gasing. I almost |
| 1:05.0 | called it nasal gazing which is an entirely different podcast. It's more |
| 1:08.5 | probiscous forward. Though the collection of notebooks fills boxes we're sticking to this narrow territory |
| 1:15.3 | this entry is the one after those about our dog George that oriented our last |
| 1:20.8 | episode. We won't always go in order. We'll zoom from entry to |
| 1:25.3 | soon enough pinballing through time but I'm sticking to the chronology for |
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