Squawk Box with Alexandria Crow
Squawk Box with Alexandria Crow
#35 - Eat the Cookie, Skip the Workout, the World Won't End
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#35 - Eat the Cookie, Skip the Workout, the World Won't End

Optimization culture, control freaks, and why your smartwatch is not going to save you

  • Famous podcast host: two glasses of wine, three days of suffering

  • Sir, that’s called being human

  • Checking sleep score at 6am (irony, thy name is data)

  • Optimization culture or extremely expensive anxiety

  • Have the diet coke or cookie. I’m begging you.

  • Rogue student post goes viral, comment section tells on itself

  • “You’re missing nuance” (I assure you, I’m not missing nuance)

  • Bill doing chaturangas nobody asked for, somehow not the emergency

  • Conformity with good playlists is still conformity

  • Yoga world: more perfectionists per square foot than anywhere

  • The trap where you optimize so hard you recreate the prison you left

  • Arjuna also wanted a guarantee before getting up (Krishna was not impressed)

  • Cookie eaten, workout skipped, world still spinning

  • Running a business is just yoga with spreadsheets apparently

  • Getting good at not being in control (hardest pose in the syllabus)

  • Expectations meet reality: that gap is the whole practice

  • Still on the journey, just further along and slightly less annoying about it

LINKS & SUCH:

  • The Rogue Episode - Click here to listen to the episode mentioned about going rogue.

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