You Gotta Put Down the Duckie if you Wanna Play the Saxophone

Bewildered

Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan

Business, Education, Courses, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been willing to “give up anything” for something you wanted? On this episode of Bewildered, we’re talking about the spiritual lesson that to be truly open to receiving something new, we first have to put something down. We share stories about letting go of things in our own lives and how that made space for wonder, awe, and our most precious experiences. It’s an episode full of laughter, insight, and inspiration to create more spaciousness in your one wild and precious life. Join us!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bewildered. I'm Martha Beck, here with Rowan Mangan. At this crazy moment in history,
0:09.2	a lot of people are feeling bewildered, but that actually may be a sign we're on track. Human culture
0:15.3	teaches us to come to consensus, but nature, our own true nature, helps us come to our senses. Rowan and I believe that the best
0:24.0	way to figure it all out is by going through bewilderment into the wildermen. That's why we're here.
0:32.3	Hi, I'm Martha Beck. And I'm Rowan Mangan. And this is another episode of Bewilded, the podcast for people who are
0:38.5	despite their best efforts still trying to figure it out.
0:42.3	Not ever finishing figuring it out, not ever.
0:45.1	We've always seemed to have new material, don't we?
0:47.5	Yep.
0:48.0	It's an asymptotic relationship with figuring it out.
0:52.9	Mm-hmm.
0:53.1	Sure we pause while everyone goes and finds their ancient dusty Oxford English dictionary?
0:59.7	An asymptote means you go half the distance to your goal every time.
1:04.3	You're always going half the distance to your goal.
1:06.5	Think about it.
1:07.5	And the crazy thing is you never, ever reach your goal because there's always a remaining distance. You only can go half.
1:13.8	You've been listening to Bewildered. I hope you've enjoyed the show.
1:19.0	Next week, we'll define another polyselebigrant.
1:22.1	What are you trying to figure out? Miss Fancy Pants, no asymptotic, anything.
1:28.6	What is bothering you?
1:30.5	I just wandered the world thinking about ascentotes.
1:33.3	What I'm trying to figure out is how to get a new nickname that's not Miss Fancy Pants, not asymptotic anything.
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