Carl Honoré

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237 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

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You get people sitting around the table and saying, you know what?

It's okay if you don't hear back from me within an hour or two minutes instantly.

There are other ways of communicating, other rhythms, other timelines to play with.

So start questioning those expectations because most of them are not real.

And we are, in that sense, our own worst enemies because we set up this vicious circle.

And so one of my favorite examples of this comes from an entrepreneur I met a little while ago.

And when I met him, he said, you know, Carl, five years ago, my

My life was in total meltdown.

I was stuck in this never ending hamster wheel of instant response.

I was looking at my phone in the middle of the night, texting in the bathroom.

It was just crazy.

It was killing me.

My health was suffering.

My wife hated me.

I was making mistakes at work.

My company was tanking.

And he said, you know, I realized at some point that I just had to stop.

I had to stop looking at my phone all the time.

I had to stop expecting others to answer me instantly and expecting myself to do the same.

And so he said, I decided to push the nuclear button.

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