Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Designing a Life that Matters · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

You've got to get through this meeting.

I've got to get these people to agree.

I've got to sign this contract.

I've got to get these tasks assigned, whatever that might be, you know, as opposed to I get to participate in this process.

There's a lovely illustration that I think I have permission to use.

Our editor who's working with us on this book is, you know, she's working at home remote one day and her child is in the other room making a bunch of noise while she's about to go on to a Zoom call.

You know, and she started saying to herself, I've got to find a way to get this kid to quiet down while I'm working.

And then she suddenly remembered, oh, yeah, she had just read the got to get to idea in the manuscript and said, no, no, no.

I get to work at home now, which means I get to be in the presence of the effervescent sound coming out of this very alive child.

I still get to work in the presence of that.

I can put on my headphones and solve that problem easily.

I'm so lucky that I get to be here and be a part of that.

Now, how do I, I've got to find a way to shut the kid up.

And she said, and that took about two seconds to have that change of mind and everything changed.

So that's what we're looking for.

We're looking for, see it a different way and have a surprising change of your psychic experience of your own life.

Yeah, you know, I had this experience in my 20s in my career where I suddenly realized that I was living entirely in the future that I would never get to.

And then there was a time I was talking with an intensive care unit nurse about this problem of always the next thing, always the next thing.

You know, we get there and then get the next goal, the

And frankly, you're never really enjoying the meal.

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