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🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Wrestling with mysterious voices
Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.
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0:00.0 | Pemitodran was at a meditation retreat. It was a silent meditation for several days and she was |
0:07.8 | sitting a few cushions away from a guy who kept making a clicking sound. |
0:13.0 | Every couple minutes he would click. |
0:16.0 | It was driving her crazy. |
0:19.0 | She couldn't concentrate, she couldn't find her breath. |
0:22.0 | During a break, she stood't find her breath. |
0:22.6 | During a break, she stood up to go over to the gentleman |
0:26.7 | to give him a piece of her mind. |
0:29.5 | As she walked over, she realized that there was a radiator right next to him and he hadn't |
0:37.1 | been clicking at all. It was the radiator that was clicking. As you could probably guess, the rest of the day went just fine without incident because Pemma |
0:48.8 | didn't mind that the radiator was clicking. |
0:53.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
1:00.0 | We'll be back in a second to talk about the noise in your head, but first, here's a message from our sponsor. |
1:12.0 | Often too often I play Scrabble against my iPad and sometimes it cheats it plays a word like FedEx |
1:20.0 | FedEx which is worth 16 or 18 points is not a valid Scrabble word as far as I'm concerned, |
1:26.0 | but the current dictionary says it is. |
1:28.0 | I don't get very upset at my Scrabble game because I understand what the computer is doing. |
1:34.4 | All it's doing is going through the dictionary and laboriously matching whatever words |
1:39.4 | it has against whatever spots are available. |
1:44.0 | Chess on the other hand is different. |
1:46.5 | When the iPad moves against me in chess, I say things like, |
1:50.8 | oh, he wants me to move my night. Who's he? Does it really want me to do anything? |
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