Dan Coyle
speaker
378 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Like, as you know, right?
This is not, you know, we're not actually doing it for the readers.
So as I was, you know, going through life, I tend to be real to-do list oriented, real focused.
And Lisa Miller has this idea.
You usually go and it's based, it's connected to these attention systems that are in our brain, task attention, relational attention, right?
And we used to go through life focused on green doors that are open, red doors that are closed.
And we sort of see the world that way as a set of green doors and red doors.
Go this way, don't go that way.
Clear, boom.
And we react instinctively to that.
And Lisa's thought experiment is...
Why don't you pay attention to those ones out of the corner of your eye that don't look clearly green and don't look clearly red?
You know, the invitation from your neighbor that seemed like a doofus the last time you talked, the you know, the work thing that you don't feel like going to or the sport that you've never liked to try.
And and you start seeing your life not as a series of like straight lines, but much more of curvy sort of complexity.
And those yellow doors end up, you know, kind of I think of it as like a daily yellow door, like do one thing every day that's like, oh, that was something that I wouldn't normally do.
And it ends up.
Like all of this stuff, it's usually kind of a path toward community.
Most of these things are ways to connect to other people in a world, our world, which is very algo-oriented, and mixing it up a little bit.
One of the stories that Kurt Vonnegut used to tell was he would go downtown to buy an envelope, and he'd buy one.
and then the next day he'd go walk downtown, kind of like this downtown in Indiana, and he'd buy another envelope.
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