Second Cup: Stop using the word busy

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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“Busy” is not a synonym for “fine.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:08.6	Good morning.
0:09.6	This is Laura.
0:10.9	Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.
0:13.4	Today's tip is to stop using the word busy.
0:17.2	Now, I know that busy seems like a useful way to describe our full and active lives,
0:23.1	but because I write and talk about time, I've become aware of just how overused that word
0:28.0	is.
0:29.3	Right back to the last conversation you had with someone about how life was going.
0:33.8	I'm guessing the conversation was something like this.
0:36.4	Hey Dave, how was your weekend?
0:38.8	Oh you know, busy.
0:41.1	Or Nancy haven't seen you in a while, how's life?
0:44.0	Oh busy.
0:45.8	Then you respond with how busy you've been as well.
0:48.2	It's kind of funny if you think about it, and one of the points of conversation is
0:52.2	to find common ground.
0:53.9	And if both of you are extremely busy, then you probably don't have time for each other.
0:58.3	So what's the point?
1:00.4	Of course, I know people tend not to mean busy in the sense that they have no time to
1:04.0	talk with the other person.
1:05.8	It's more a statement that you have a lot filling your time, which means that demand
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