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Saving Time Is For Suckers with Jenny Odell

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Importance of Accepting the Now What

I think either being blindly optimistic or just kind of resting in despair, those are both kind of a way of pulling back from the actual details of a situation like as it's unfolding right now. I sometimes, what was the phrase again, say it again in Tagalog? Baha'la Na. Yeah. What a, that's such a beautiful sentiment. And I find myself adopting that point of view sometimes where I think a negative way that it's put in English is it is what it is, which is that people often hate to hear that. But that is a perspective I try to take sometimes. You can never sort of like rest, you know, or feel like you have

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