The perils of mindreading (E)

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Wrestling with mysterious voices

Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.

You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.

To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button.

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0:00.0	Pemechadrin 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 been
0:37.2	clicking at all.
0:38.8	It was the radiator that was clicking.
0:42.4	As you could probably guess,
0:44.0	though the rest of the day went just fine
0:46.0	without incident
0:48.0	because Pema didn't mind
0:50.0	that the radiator was clicking.
0:53.0	Sir John of Glasgow on Echos,
0:55.0	and you could an episode of Special
0:57.0	of Des Archiv dachimbo.
0:59.0	Often, too often I play Scrabble against my iPad and sometimes it cheats it plays a word like FedEx
1:11.2	FedEx which is worth 16 or 18 points is not a valid
1:15.6	Scrabble word as far as I'm concerned but the current dictionary says it is. I
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