Merlin Mann on Anxiety, Relationships and Expectations
Merlin Mann returns to do a gradually deeper dive about anxiety, how thoughts effect our feelings and vice versa, relationships, expectations and much more.
Merlin Mann is an Independent Writer, Speaker, and Broadcaster at MerlinMann.com and Cohost of Back to Work Podcast on the 5 by 5 Podcast Network with Dan Benjamin. You can find Merlin’s previous appearance on this podcast here.
Covered in this episode:
- Back to Work Episode 153: ‘Anxiety’s a Goat‘
- Getting Things Done by David Allen ©DavidCo, 2001.
- The unknown inboxes out there that we don’t know about that keep us up at night
- The inboxes we have accepted
- Being sober about acknowledging the known inboxes we have in our lives
- Interruptions vs. Distractions
- How thoughts effect our feelings and vice versa
- The real inbox zero: What percentage of your brain is somewhere you don’t want it to be right now.
- Calendars 5
- Fantastical
- Omnifocus
- Mailbox
- Awayfind
- Sanebox
- Unroll.me
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