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#714 Flipping channels during the commercial break and then flipping back just as the show’s coming back on

September 13, 2018August 8, 2018 Neil Pasricha

we dont have much timeYou played a risky game, friend.

But you made it.

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
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You know that person who makes you feel like your best self?

Hang out with them more.

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
14 Oct

These tougher conversations require calm minds, patient listening, and deep emotional reserve … but were coming up precisely when we had the least amount of any of those things.

Leslie came up with a phrase that helps us save them for a better time. https://x.com/i/article/2110199150591754240

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
14 Oct

I have been writing down 1 awesome thing a day for almost 20 years.

Awesome things can simple, free, universal, snappy, idiosyncratic, nostalgic, silly, joyous, poignant, or even bittersweet.

I have never been writing from a place of mastery – just one of looking and learning

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Neil Pasricha @neilpasricha ·
13 Oct

I recently read the 1995 classic ‘Thoughts Without a Thinker’ by Mark Epstein.

He writes:

“The thoughts in our minds keep endlessly chattering as if beyond our control.”

Here are a few of my favorite pages: 4

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