But this can be good too. You deaden pleasure, but you also deaden negative emotions like anxiety. If there's something that makes you anxious, probably the more you do it, the less anxious you're going to feel.
But it's just novel enough that you can have this big stress reaction. So the deadening can be helpful. But often we experience it as oh, I don't enjoy my cup of coffee in the morning anymore.
I don't enjoy. I'm driving to work, I don't even see the beautiful scenery. Because it just deadens , speeds away. Yeah. One of my favorite parts of the book was about abstaining.
the kitchen or they're biting into an Asian pear and they're planting seeds. So, it's just coming in, just like the osmosis experience of being in a fast-food joint, it affects you or it deadens you, let's put it that way, that's what's happening, I think when you eat like that and this experience in the garden is awakening the kids. They're just feeling
John knew that. Producer of the record knew that. And so I hit a deadend .
I came up in public radio trained by old-school journalists who taught me the art of neutrality. You neutralize your opinions, deaden your emotions, and you can get through most conversations without rolling your eyes. Generally, it worked, and it built me a strong reputation for fairness. But, when the subject matter felt personal, neutrality felt phony.
But in retrospect, does it really matter? But there's so much in the culture that is deadening .
to um and I think what I'm offering has more of validity more power and more possibilities than the Obscure jargon ridden politically topheavy discourse that deadens so much of the humanities and some of you might have experienced it as undergraduates or in graduate school I think it's time to look at the
But not generally like a look at that cool thing you should like publicists, but a don't be distressed by that thing we did publicist. But two, it also really deadens flavor.
Am I here today because I really asked a perfect question and somebody gave me a perfect answer? And there's a lot of use of these computers in ways that are mind-deadening .
sports he played like ping-pong and tennis and he didn't have any in cars or anything he had like shitty used cars my whole life and his jobs were kind of uh somewhat deadend you know I think one of them he said I computerized the specification department at play Tex
And you don't have to use decision making, you don't have to use self control. However, the downside of habits is that they speed time and they deaden . So you know, your first month on a job lasts longer than your fifth year on a job.
So if you're doing something for the first time, it's this spontaneous thing, it's going to be more intense. Whereas if it's something that you're doing every day, is going to be deadened . But this can be good too.
And they're like, this story-- that idea is good, but they did so badly. as a reader, as a consumer, is terrible, can be kind of deadening .
and nodded. She got it, then, that I'll tell the truth. And I made the biggest mistake in the debates you could possibly make in a political debate. I was asked a question on TV in a debate and I simply said, "I don't know." There was like this deadened pause of two seconds and the crowd erupted into cheering and applause. And then when that was subsided, I said, "But if it's important, I'll learn." Well, I think that people appreciated
human beings like lightbulbs. "Oops, a lightbulb burnt out. Go to the closet; get another one. 'Screw' it in." [audience laughter] Now, there's a notion out there that this kind of job is sort of inherently soul-hollowing -- inherently deadening -- but that's not the case. So let's talk about a different way.
What happens? Zappos comes out of nowhere to be one of the highest customer-service-ranked companies in any industry in this country -- higher than the Four Seasons. Okay? Taking this job that we think is inherently deadening , infusing it with some autonomy, boom! People perform, because we're not innately passive and inert. Let's talk about mastery.
So yeah, there's not a problem with it, but I see what you mean. Otherwise you would have a problem. It goes all the way through. And it's thinner there, though, because you want more resonance. You make it as, it's like a game. The part that's hidden inside the box, you want, I think, as thin as possible cause you don't want to deaden the vibrations. Female audience #4: I wanted to know more about raising chickens. My sister-in-law raises chickens and always mentions to me, when we scrape plates, like, "Oh, you wouldn't have