Mike Carruthers
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How and Why Optimism Works & Why a Little Defiance is a Good Thing
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Thank you so much for having me. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin. Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming, and even still there are no guarantees. Which is why when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids. What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff.
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Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly. Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. So Schumann, a lot of people I've heard say, I'm not an optimist or a pessimist, I'm a realist.
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And an optimist is just somebody who looks at the bright side, thinks everything's fine, but I take a more critical view of the world. I'm a realist.
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I've often heard the advice that people say, if you want to be more optimistic, stop watching the news because the news by its nature tends to be bad news. You know, if it bleeds, it leads. And if you watch that, you get a very skewed vision of the world as being a bad place and horrible things happen and horrible things are likely to happen.
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And that if you want to be more optimistic, just don't watch the news. Do you think that's a fair statement? Can watching the news affect your level of optimism?
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Isn't it true, though? I remember hearing that there are a lot of parents today, for example, who are very concerned about the safety of their children. Don't let them walk alone. Stranger danger. Always walk with a friend. And yet, statistically... The world is a safer place than it's ever been.
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And that just random acts of kidnapping children are so amazingly rare that it really isn't something to worry about at the level that people worry about it. It's just their exposure to these anecdotal stories in the news where it occasionally happens or it seems like it happens that riles up people's sense of fear.
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um that doesn't really help me you know when i hear about an act of violence in my neighborhood that is much more relevant to me than what the crime statistics show for the last 30 years well it is the subtitle of your book about optimists are the ones who change the world and you know when you think about it it is the optimists who the ones who see the possibilities who do change the world that if you're pessimistic and you think well that'll never work
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well, then you're unlikely to go try and do something. But if you're an optimist, you're more likely to give something a try. So in that sense, optimists change the world.
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So do you think it's possible, and is it worth it, to try to increase your level of optimism, or does the needle not move much? I mean, you are who you are.
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How and Why Optimism Works & Why a Little Defiance is a Good Thing
Well, this has been a really great conversation about optimism and the benefits and the reasons why trying to look at the world through a more optimistic lens can really pay off. I've been speaking with Shumit Paul Chowdhury. He is author of a book called The Bright Side, How Optimists Change the World and How You Can Be One. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes.
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Shumit, thanks.
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There's a lot of value given to the idea of being agreeable. People like it when you're agreeable, compliant, you go along with the group or the consensus. But what about those times when you're not in agreement and you don't want to be compliant because you know it's wrong, but you stay quiet anyway because, well, to speak up would be considered defiant.
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And whereas being compliant and agreeable is usually considered a good thing, being defiant is often thought to be a bad thing. But sometimes speaking up, being defiant, is the right thing to do. So what do you do? Well, that's what Dr. Sunita Saw is here to talk about. She is an award-winning professor at Cornell University and an expert in organizational psychology.
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She's author of a book called Defy, The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes. Hi, Sunita. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So I think everybody can relate to this issue, this dilemma of not speaking up, not being defiant. Who hasn't been in a meeting and thought, oh, God, that is a really dumb idea. I really should say something. Or a similar situation where you don't speak up, even though you know you're right. What fascinates you about this topic?
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Well, what you just said is so interesting to me because I You're so right. I mean, when you think about the good kids, they're the ones that do what they're told. We equate that with goodness and compliant is good and defiant is bad. And people kind of just accept that. I mean, this isn't really a topic that people... This is like one is good and one is bad.
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But when you stop and think about it in the frame that you just framed, you're right. I mean, if people aren't speaking up, what are the consequences of that?
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So let's talk about why people have trouble speaking up, saying no, being defiant. What is the fear of what might happen?
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Hi, welcome. We're going to start today by talking about Dalmatians. You know, the dogs, Dalmatians. I imagine you've probably wondered why they're so synonymous and closely associated with firefighters, fire trucks, firehouses. Well, that tradition dates back more than a century. And today their role is much more of a mascot than anything else. But back in the day, they played a vital role.
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Again, I guess I'm like, why is that? What is it we're so afraid of by speaking up what we believe to be correct?
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Well, it also seems like when I think about times where I haven't spoken up, a big part of the reason I don't speak up is self-doubt. Like, well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they really are doing it correctly and I'm incorrect.
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In the 1700s, Dalmatians were the preferred breed for aristocrats. They served as carriage dogs. You see, Dalmatians get along really well with horses and form strong bonds with those horses. So they were used to keep pace running alongside or behind the horses on long carriage rides.
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There's a difference between that's not the way I would do it and you're doing it wrong. I just may have a different way, but doesn't mean you're wrong. It just means that's not the way I would do it. So maybe it's not worth speaking up because there can be two paths to the same end.
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How and Why Optimism Works & Why a Little Defiance is a Good Thing
When you use the word defiance, though, there's something about that word that not only implies that I don't agree with you, but it's not that it's a violent word, but it implies almost disobedience. Like it's not just saying you're doing it wrong or this isn't wrong and this is how we should do it. It's condemning and, you know what I mean? Defiance is a strong word.
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In the days of horse-drawn firefighting wagons, Dalmatians were really well-suited for that job because horses are afraid of fire, and they were less likely to get spooked or distracted when they were escorted by one or more of their canine buddies in the midst of a chaotic fire scene.
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What about, though, I mean, I can imagine as you're talking about this, about the people speaking up every time they hear something offensive or every time that that's the person I don't want. I don't want to be the killjoy who's outraged every time anybody does anything that might possibly be offensive or incorrect or maybe different. Boy, I don't want to be near that.
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I don't want to be near that person, nor do I want to be that person.
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Now, if you've ever heard that Dalmatians are kept at firehouses because they're deaf or unaffected by sirens, that is an old wives' tale. There are some hearing issues associated with that breed of dog, but it is their loyalty and gentle disposition and proud history that has earned them a spot at the fire station and on the fire truck. And that is something you should know. What is an optimist?
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Which, according to you, not many of us seem to do.
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Well, that's what I mean, yeah.
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There's some clear evidence.
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Well, why is that? I guess, you know, in order to get up in the morning, you have to think good of yourself. You can't think you're not or you wouldn't get up. I mean, so I imagine we're all deluding ourselves a bit, some more than others.
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And so how do we do that? I mean, if you're someone whose tendency is to be compliant and go along and have a really hard time speaking up and saying, hey, wait a minute, how do you get good at that?
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I think there is this image, though, that you can't be defiant and polite at the same time. That defiance is not the opposite of polite, but they're not compatible. But it seems like that's not necessarily true.
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Well, I really like this idea of taking defiance out of the closet and really reframing it, not as a bad thing, but as something really quite necessary in so many situations. And it doesn't mean you have to be a jerk about it. It's just a matter of speaking up and doing what's right. I've been speaking with Sunita Saw.
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She's an award-winning professor at Cornell University, and she's author of a book called Defy, The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Sunita, thank you. Thanks for coming on today.
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In the cold of winter, it can be difficult and expensive to try to keep warm. So here are some suggestions. Use a humidifier in your home because humid air feels warmer. Make sure all the heat vents are clear of obstructions like furniture and rugs. Otherwise, the heat doesn't get into your room even though you paid for it. Run ceiling fans in reverse.
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Is it someone who simply looks for the good in everything, who sees the bright side, who finds the silver lining? Are you born an optimist or a pessimist or do you become one or the other as a result of your life experience? Are other animals optimistic or is this a human characteristic? Is it worth trying to be more optimistic?
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That pushes the warm air back down from the ceiling. Use rugs on bare floors and always wear something on your feet like socks or slippers, because if your feet are warm, you feel warm all over. Go upstairs if you haven't upstairs, because heat rises, so it's usually warmer up there.
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And if you're cooking, leave the oven door open after you're done to let the heat into the house and help heat things up. And that is something you should know.
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And while you're staying nice and warm inside your home this winter, maybe you could take a few moments and share this podcast with someone you know, a couple of people you know, tell them about it, so they too will listen and become regular listeners, hopefully just like you. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Well, here to discuss the science of optimism is Shumit Paul Chowdhury. He is a former editor-in-chief of New Scientist. He trained as an astrophysicist. And he is author of a book called The Bright Side, How Optimists Change the World. Hi, Shumit. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, Mike. Thanks for having me. So what exactly is optimism? I mean, it's not an emotion.
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What about that idea, that attitude towards life that is often associated with optimism, that things have a tendency to turn out okay? Because as I look back at my life and the lives of people I know, that often seems to be the case. Not that things don't go horribly wrong sometimes or that things don't work out the way you had hoped they would,
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but that often things have a way of turning out okay. And is that a good way to approach life?
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Today, on Something You Should Know, why are Dalmatians associated with firefighting, firehouses, and firefighters? Then, some interesting things you never knew about optimism.
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Is optimism or your level of optimism, is that set at birth or is it formed and moved around over time based on your experiences in life?
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One of the things I've always wondered about optimism is, is it, in a sense, a self-fulfilling prophecy? Meaning that if you have an optimistic view of the world, you're looking and noticing the good things that happen that supports your optimistic view of the world, that good things happen.
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And if you're a pessimist, you tend to notice the bad things that happen and that supports your pessimistic view of the world.
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Also, the best ways to stay warm in the winter cold and a new way to look at defiance and the power it can give you.
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Curiosity Weekly from Discovery makes sense of some of the biggest questions and ideas shaping our world. It's all about new discoveries happening in science and tech. They have expert guests that make it all make sense. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed. Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids.
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What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff. Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. Think about all the online businesses selling products, ones that you probably buy. Mattel, Gymshark, Untuckit, Magic Spoon, all solid businesses. But a key ingredient to any successful online business is the business behind the business that makes the whole selling and checkout process work.
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And for millions of businesses, that business is Shopify. Shopify is the number one checkout on the planet. And the not-so-secret secret is something they have called ShopPay that boosts conversions up to 50%, meaning way less carts going abandoned and way more sales going...
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Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash S-Y-S-K, all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash S-Y-S-K to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com slash S-Y-S-K. So Adam, those three universal factors you mentioned, being a visionary, being an exemplar, and being a mentor.
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It's kind of hard for me to get my head around exactly what you mean, so could you attach those three things to some real people who exhibit those, who illustrate those, so I can get a better sense?
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Also, two little things that can have a huge impact on your relationship and the rules of how life works and the amazing ways species of all kinds depend on each other.
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That's a great story. And a great example of those three things that I think people can get a better sense of what that is. But you had said a few minutes ago that you can be inspiring one day and infuriating the next day. But when I think of inspiring people, while I'm sure that's true of them, it doesn't seem like it's true a lot.
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There's something about their character, the way they carry themselves, that seems inspiring much of the time. It isn't like it's on and off a lot.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time consuming. And even still, there are no guarantees. Which is why when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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When you talk to inspiring people, people who are considered by others to be inspiring people. Do they say typically, yes, I work at this, this is what I try to do, or do they say, you know, it's a gift, I couldn't tell you how I do it?
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And when you look at people who are considered inspiring, do they have other things in common that aren't necessarily related to the inspiration, but they tend to be, I don't know, they tend to be men or they tend to be women or they tend to be older, they tend to be younger. Are there any demographic-y kind of similarities or it's all over the map?
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Well, this is great insight into what makes someone inspiring and information I think we could all use in our lives. I've been speaking with Adam Galinsky. He is a social psychologist and professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School. And the name of his book is Inspire the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others. There's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes.
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Adam, thanks. It's a pleasure to have you on.
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Nature has rules and ways of enforcing them. In fact, everything in nature is regulated. And it is those regulations that allow all the creatures and other forms of life to exist on planet Earth. Those rules essentially explain how life works. And here to discuss this is Sean B. Carroll.
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He's an award-winning scientist who is vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He's author of a book called The Serengeti Rules, The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters. Hi, Sean. Thanks for coming on today. Hi, Mike. Thanks for having me.
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So to help us all understand what we're talking about here, let's start out with one of those rules, one of the rules that explains how life works.
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And this impact that these creatures have is good, bad, both, or you can't?
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But nature, by its nature, is pretty efficient, right? I mean, if you're a creature and you're meant to stay, you stay, and if you're not, you go.
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And what are some of the, just to get a flavor of this, rather than drill too deep, what are some of these other rules that you've uncovered that would help people understand what this is and why it's important?
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
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Well, you had mentioned before, like the proliferation of deer in many states. We have them here. We have them in our front yard this morning. And there's an assumption, and you tell me if this is true, that one of the reasons that there are so many deer is, you know, we don't really hunt them as much as we used to. And probably also people think they're cute and like to feed them.
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And that's partly why they have proliferated. True?
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You know, I got a cold about three weeks ago, and it still hasn't completely gone. I still cough, like three weeks later. And I've come to find that so many people have this, whatever this is going around, the cough and cold that will not die. So if my voice sounds a little froggy, that's why. But the show must go on. And we start today with fast food advertising.
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know for a lot of people you see deer and you think oh that's wonderful that's nature but it's it's really a uh a big difference from from the way things were say a century ago well maybe i don't want to hammer the deer thing too much but you would think that at some point there would be too many deer for the food that's available and that that would start to level out the population
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My sense is there's a tendency to look at, you know, what humans have done to mess things up. But do other creatures mess things up?
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I bet you've seen a lot of billboards all over the place for fast food restaurants. And maybe you've wondered, well, do those ads really work? Well, a UCLA study a few years back found that areas with more outdoor advertising dedicated to fast food and soft drinks were more likely to have overweight residents.
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And so what are some other of the rules of life that people are probably unaware of?
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Fast food restaurants, after television, fast food restaurants spend a lot of money on billboards, bus ads, and other outside advertising spaces. And there's more psychology at work here. Wendy's, McDonald's, In-N-Out Burger, Burger King, all have the same basic color scheme. Why? Because red and yellow make you want to eat more.
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It's really fascinating to hear. I've been speaking with Sean B. Carroll. The name of his book is The Serengeti Rules, The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Sean, this was really great. I appreciate you explaining all this.
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What's really important in keeping a relationship happy? Dr. Carl Pillemer decided to find out. For his book, 30 Lessons for Loving, he asked 700 married people who had each been married an average of 43 years, and two answers emerged from his research. Number one, learn to talk to each other and talk a lot. Not necessarily in the touchy-feely way, just talk. And secondly, think small.
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While we tend to focus on big problems and decisions in a relationship, it turns out that what makes a relationship work or not are the hundreds of little interactions that happen during the day. The trick is to make as many of those interactions positive. For example, be polite. Often we get comfortable in a relationship and we stop being polite to one another. And pay compliments.
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Do little surprises for your partner. This pattern of doing small things every day is what keeps relationships alive. And that is something you should know. Our podcast is produced by Jeffrey Havison and Jennifer Brennan. Executive producer is Ken Williams. That's the end of this episode. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Red causes you to eat faster and more forcefully, according to a University of Rochester study. And several studies have found that the color yellow stimulates appetite by causing your brain to secrete serotonin, the happiness hormone. And that is something you should know. In your lifetime, there have been people who have inspired you.
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A parent, a teacher, a boss, a co-worker, someone who has made you feel inspired, given you that sense that you're worthy, appreciated, competent, capable, and can do so much more. So what makes a person inspiring? Do inspiring people deliberately try to inspire others? Or is that just the kind of person they are? Do inspiring people inspire everyone? Are they always inspiring?
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How can you be more inspiring? That's what Adam Galinsky is here to talk about. Adam is a social psychologist and professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School. He's author of a book called Inspire, The Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others. Hey Adam, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So I love this topic because I've often thought about what makes somebody inspiring. And I think everybody has seen somebody, met somebody who they thought was inspiring. But I don't know that I've ever thought, why is that? What is it that makes them inspiring? I just know they are. And then I wonder, well, are they inspiring just to me? Or are they inspiring to the world? So what is it?
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What is that thing?
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someone that inspired you right and i asked them to be like a scientist what was it about that person that filled you with that ineffable feeling which i imagine most of us have felt right i mean most of us have somebody in our life that inspired us to create those feelings and so what did you find
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You know, I often wonder that the people that I find inspiring, I wonder how often, how much of the time are they inspiring? Because it would seem that it would be hard to burn that flame continuously to always be inspiring. That doesn't seem possible. So, right? Yeah.
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And so what does it mean to try to be inspiring? Because you do things like what that you may not be doing now?
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So what does it mean? Give me, if you could, an example, like a person or maybe yourself or someone you know, what that reflection process goes like. I don't know what it really means to reflect on my values other than to think about them. I don't know what the difference is.
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Today on Something You Should Know, how billboard ads for fast food restaurants influence you more than you realize. Then, what makes someone inspiring and how we can all be more inspirational.
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And that's it?
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We're talking about what makes inspiring people so inspiring and how you can be more inspiring. My guest is Adam Galinsky. He's author of the book, Inspire the Universal Path for Leading Yourself and Others. I really love it when I find a great new podcast. And then, of course, I have to share that with everyone. And what I really want you to listen to is Curiosity Weekly.
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So Andrew, besides smoking being the obvious bad thing for your longevity and exercise being good for your longevity, what else is there?
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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I think people believe, and probably because we see evidence of it, that there is a bit of dice rolling in all of this. That, you know, people get cancer very early for no apparent reason. Or then there are other people who lead a rather unhealthy life and live to 105. And that perhaps genetics plays a big part in this.
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effectively impervious to these bad lifestyle habits and allows them to live long enough anyway so for most of us the best advice is to carry on with this stuff because unfortunately we haven't got those you know centenarian genes that are going to allow us to power through anyway there is a ceiling though as i've under as i've understood it when i've read about this is you know people are getting older on average but the oldest of the oldest don't get a lot older
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But no matter how hard you try, I mean, the parts of the human body can't last forever. Eventually, they're just going to wear out.
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And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.
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But do you think that there's a lot of dice rolling going on here? And that, well, you know the saying, when your number's up, your number's up. And that so that people kind of... throw caution to the wind and say, I'm just going to live my life because, you know, I could go to the gym, but then, you know, how many years am I spending at the gym to add, you know, how many years to my life?
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So I guess what I'm wondering is, are people doing themselves a disservice by believing in this, when your number's up, your number's up?
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One of the one of the criticism or not criticism, but one of the complaints people have about this whole idea of longevity and increasing is, you know, you get the extra years, but you get them in your 90s and in your hundreds. It would have been so much better to get them in my 30s or my 20s when I was young and could enjoy them more.
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Yeah, well, and the situation we have today is a whole lot better than it was 100 to 300 years ago. We're living longer and living healthier, so it just keeps getting better. Andrew Steele has been my guest, and the name of his book is Ageless, The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old, and you will find a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks for coming on, Andrew.
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Thank you.
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Loneliness is a feeling I suspect everyone has felt, and everyone knows it doesn't feel very good. Feeling lonely around the holidays is perhaps the worst. And since this episode is publishing on Thanksgiving, I figured it would be a good time to tackle the topic of loneliness. And most importantly, things we can all do to get rid of that feeling and keep it away.
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There is no one better to discuss the topic of loneliness than Dr. Edward Halliwell. Ned is a psychiatrist who wrote a great book some years ago called Connect, in which he really explored the topic of loneliness and the need for connection. He also has written several other books about distraction and ADHD. His latest is a bestseller called ADHD 2.0. Hey Ned, thanks for being here. Hello, Mike.
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Nice to be with you. So what is loneliness? How do you define it? How do you look at it?
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But then again, that's the thing about podcasts. If you're listening to this in the middle of the summer, well, that doesn't make any sense. So forget I said Happy Thanksgiving. We start today with touching. You know, I have this sense that people don't touch as much as they used to. Probably COVID had a lot to do with that.
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I love that definition that you're feeling what isn't there, because as soon as you said that, I could feel it. I mean, that's exactly what it is. It's that absence of something that you want or need or miss or something.
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So help me understand why, what it is about loneliness that makes it so dangerous. Is it the loneliness itself, or when you are lonely you tend to do bad things like drink more, smoke more, eat more, or is there something inherent about loneliness that is harmful?
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Yeah, and anybody who's ever had a dog knows that that relationship is very fulfilling. But it's still a human-dog relationship. It isn't the same as connecting with people.
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And maybe from that, this overall concern we have about germs and the spread of illness. But it does seem that people don't hug or shake hands as much as they used to, which can lead actually to something called touch starvation. It's a condition that happens when you don't get as much physical contact as you're used to, or you don't get any at all.
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Today on Something You Should Know, are you getting touched enough? I'll tell you why it's so important. Then, a lot of things can accelerate aging, and there are so many simple ways to fight back.
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But what is the reason, do you think, that people have such trouble connecting with people? Because, you know, there's a lot of people. There's like billions of them. So you would think that connecting with people would be easier than it apparently is. Why do some people find themselves lonely?
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And so you said a few moments ago that you need to connect and that one thing you could do is, you know, talk to the cashier at the store or wave to the person next to you. That's not really a connection. That's just a kind of a polite, hi, how are you? See you later. So how does that help?
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I remember hearing, and maybe it was from you when we've talked in the past, that that intense pain that loneliness causes is evolutionary, that we're not meant to be that way. We can't survive if we're all alone, and that that's a motivation, a push to get rid of that feeling, and the only way to get rid of it is to go connect with people.
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You know, this episode is publishing on Thanksgiving day, 2024 and holidays, especially Thanksgiving, the winter holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, the holiday season, can somehow make loneliness even more acute because you're remembering maybe people who have died or people who have left your life.
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Human touch is a huge part of how humans interact with others. We shake hands, we high-five, we hug, we bond through physical touch. Your skin is the largest organ in the body, and it sends good and bad touch sensations to your brain. When you engage in pleasant touch like a hug, your brain releases a hormone called oxytocin.
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And if you don't have replacements for that, something to, yeah, replacements for that, it can be really hard this time of year.
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That is some really great advice because everyone who has ever, and I assume it is everyone, has ever worried alone knows that when you bring somebody else in on your worry, it somehow lightens up.
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I've heard it described as a paradox, really, that we are, with social media and the internet, we are more connected than ever. And yet a lot of those social media kind of connections aren't real connections and exacerbate the problem of loneliness because you're connected, but not in the way that people used to be connected. What do you think about social media connections? Is it that?
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Is it exacerbating the problem?
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This makes you feel good and it firms up emotional and social bonds while lowering anxiety and fear. So for all these reasons, and probably a lot more, we need to find more ways to touch again. And that is something you should know. I bet there have been times when you have been alone with your thoughts and you have wondered to yourself, I wonder how long I'll live.
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It would seem that because loneliness is so painful, And a lot of people suffer that pain in silence. It must be because, at least in part, that it's just so difficult to get up and go try to connect with people. It's just really hard for them to do. So what's your advice for those people who would love to connect but just don't even know where to begin?
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Sure. Of course.
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This happens often, I think, when someone close to you dies, especially a family member. I know some people believe that, hey, when your number's up, your number's up. And I guess to some extent that's true. But since, as the saying goes, all we really have is time, what can we do to prolong our time and live a happy and healthy life in the process?
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You know, I like to think, I know it's not a two-way connection, but I like to think that people listening to us right now learning about this is kind of a connection, and it can help ease that pain of loneliness.
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Well, anyone who knows that feeling, and I assume it's everyone who has had that feeling, that deep sense of loneliness, knows how horrible it is, and I think this is such an important conversation to have. Edward Hallowell's been my guest. The name of his book is Connect, which he wrote several years ago, and I promised him I would mention his new book, which is about ADHD, called ADHD 2.0.
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And you can find a link to those books in the show notes. Thanks for coming on, Ned, and talking about this. It was good to hear, and it was a lot of really good information. Thank you.
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Now that cooler weather is here, more and more of us are actually driving around on under-inflated tires. That's because when the temperature drops outside, the air pressure goes down. So it's really worth stopping into the gas station for a quick air refill. Driving on under-inflated tires is less fuel efficient and it can even be dangerous.
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When your tires are low, there's much more wear and tear on the tread, and you're more prone to blowouts because there's more friction between the tire and the road surface. And that is something you should know. And that brings us to the end of this episode of Something You Should Know. A reminder, please, to tell someone you know, tell a couple of people you know about Something You Should Know.
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Maybe it'll come up in conversation if you share something you learned in today's episode. But invite them to listen. I would appreciate it. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Also, why you need to check your tires now that the weather has turned colder. And loneliness, especially during the holidays, can be so hard to deal with. And it's bad for your health.
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Well, as it turns out, there is a lot of really interesting research going on that I really think you want to hear about, because it goes way beyond the, you know, exercise, eat right, see your doctor, and that's about the best you can do. Andrew Steele is a biologist, he is a science writer, he has his Ph.D. in physics from Oxford, and he is author of a book called Ageless.
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in which he looks into the latest cutting-edge research on longevity. And he has found some really interesting stuff that could actually affect how long you live, because this new research could lead to treatments in our lifetime to extend our lifetime, which is pretty cool. Hey, Andrew, welcome. Hello, thanks for having me. So define what you mean by aging.
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And first of all, I've always had trouble with that term because it implies that you can stop time almost and that, you know, people get old. I mean, that's what people do. My car gets old, the trees get old, everything gets old. So what are we talking about in your view when we talk about aging?
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I was surprised when you said that your chance of death at age 36 is one in a thousand. That actually seems high to me. So one out of every thousand 36-year-olds will die this year?
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And as you get older, as you say, your risk of death goes up exponentially. But at the end of the day, I mean, everything gets older. My car gets older. You know, the trees outside get older. And eventually my car breaks down. One day the trees will die. One day I will die. Everything gets older and goes away.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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And the goal is what? Because one day your day will come. I mean, you can't put off death forever. So is the goal just to put it off as long as possible, put it off as long as possible and be healthy? What is it that we're trying to accomplish with all of this?
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And isn't the prescription for doing that just lead what we've been taught is a healthy lifestyle to eat well, sleep well? Isn't that the prescription?
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And so that would mean what to me? What would I be doing? Where do I go get these drugs?
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What is the connection between how you look, how young you look, how healthy you look, and how you age internally? Is there any connection or those are two separate topics?
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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What do we know about the things that people do in their life that are the worst? Whether it's drinking or stress or whatever. What are the things that are killing us slowly?
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We're talking about longevity, what we can all do to live longer and healthier. And my guest is Andrew Steele, author of the book Ageless.
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And there usually is another way.
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the knife because sometimes it just doesn't dig in it slips to the side and that's where it gets us exactly or the other thing is you know what i i tend to cut myself in the kitchen more likely right after the knives get sharpened because i've i'm used to them not being that sharp and then all of a sudden they're slicing through things like my finger like never before
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So we hear a lot about, especially for older people, slips and falls, you know, in the bathroom or wherever. And is that really the domain of older people? Or it seems like anybody can slip and fall.
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It really surprised me what you said at the beginning, that things are becoming less safe, that there are more accidents, because that's not what I sense from the world. It seems like we're very safety conscious. You know, people wear helmets today for things they never used to. The playground equipment is safer, that there are more restrictions, safety restrictions on all kinds of things.
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Cars are built better. So if things are getting worse, where are they getting worse? And what would surprise me to know where safety is not working?
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Are we, though, making some progress in some areas that, for example, it seems like because cars are so much safer than they used to be with airbags and the way they're built, that we're not seeing the injuries and the deaths in car crashes like we used to?
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It is often said that we live in a fast-paced world, but there is one thing that you cannot speed up, and that is wisdom. Hi, and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. In middle age, something happens to your brain. According to imaging science, the mature brain is not inferior to a younger brain, it is just wired differently.
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Well, I still find it surprising that we're seeing more and more accidents. But as you say, things like the phone and other distractions probably play a big part in that. And that paying attention, paying attention could go a long way into preventing accidents. My guest has been Steve Kasner. He's a research psychologist, NASA scientist, and author of the book,
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Careful, A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds. And if you look in the show notes, you'll see a link to his book at Amazon. Steve, thanks for coming on today.
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I'm sure there have been times in your life when you have done something really courageous, something that took real bravery to pull off. There are likely other times when you couldn't quite muster up that courage, and maybe now there's a twinge of regret about it. If only I had tried.
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I remember a previous guest here said, and I always remembered this, that people are much more likely to regret things they never tried than the things they did try and failed. Still, some force holds us back from doing something that we think we really want to do. And here to talk about what stops us, what that force is, and how to push past it is Jenny Wood.
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She's a former Google executive, speaker, writer, and airplane pilot. Her writing has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Inc., and Forbes. She's author of a book called Wild Courage. Go after what you want and get it. Hey, Jenny, welcome. Good to have you on Something You Should Know.
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So explain what wild courage is and how it's different than regular courage and why we're talking about it.
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As a result, it's capable of triggering a new form of intelligence that we're just not capable of when we're younger. In fact, when a mature brain is challenged, it begins to produce a type of intelligence that for thousands of years we have called wisdom. In other words, the brain is wired in middle age to start to produce wisdom and continues to do so in old age.
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So when I hear the term wild courage, when I think of someone who has wild courage, it's a certain kind of person, that it's a kind of person who's really out there, who's very extroverted, who really doesn't care what other people think. He's just out there making things happen. And, you know, that's not who I am.
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And so it seems like wild courage is more of a personality trait than it is something you could learn to do.
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Well, it seems like you're making my point by telling that story because I can imagine a lot of women particularly, but people in general, listening to that story and thinking, I could never, ever do that. Walk up to a guy, a strange guy, and offer to give him my business card. I would never do it. That's not who I am.
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And no matter how smart you are, that wisdom will not come to you when you're younger. It just cannot. Put simply, as people age, they become wiser. Of course, it doesn't apply to everyone. Oscar Wilde once said, With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. And that is something you should know. Doesn't it seem like our world is safer than it used to be? Cars are built safer.
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Is it part of the process of Because I don't know how much people know this, but I think people know this, and we've talked about it here before, of how people looking back on their life don't regret the things they did that didn't work out. They regret the things they didn't do. They wish they had, because you never know.
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Is it important to embrace that, or that's nice to know, but that's not part of this?
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Why Accidents Happen & Where to Find Courage When You Need It
Playground equipment is safer. Bikers and skiers wear helmets when they didn't used to. Your stepladder has multiple warnings all over it. Safety seems to be a big concern. Still, accidents happen. And there is this perception, at least, that some people are more accident-prone than others. So what does the research say about our safety-conscious world? Are we safer than ever before?
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When accidents happen, why do they happen? The answers might surprise you. Joining me is Steve Kasner. He is a research psychologist who studies the accident-prone mind. He is a NASA scientist who also flies jets and helicopters and rides motorcycles and skateboards. And he is still around. He's author of a book called Careful, A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds. Hi, Steve.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks. Glad to be here. So are we safer than ever before? Because it seems like we're safer than ever before.
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Today on Something You Should Know, where does wisdom come from? And more importantly, when do you acquire it? Then, why do accidents happen? Some explanations may seem hard to believe.
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And are the statistics backing that up, that there's a lot of phone-related, or maybe somebody gets hit by a car, you don't say, well, it's because they were watching their phone.
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So what's the solution here? I mean, it seems like you're not going to take people's phones away, and that's one of the reasons they have them is they can do all this multitasking. So I guess it's survival of the fittest.
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Besides the phone, though, when I think about accidents, accidents that I've had or accidents that I see other people have, it does seem that a lot of the time one of the ingredients in that accident is somebody wasn't paying attention.
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Yeah, I remember when I got my first car that had a backup camera, and I think other people have this same experience, that I didn't trust it. I knew it was showing me what was behind the car, but somehow I still had to look back over my shoulder because that's what I've been doing since I started driving. But now I really don't look back over my shoulder.
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Also, why you simply cannot rush wisdom. And would you like to be more courageous? You may need to be a bit more reckless.
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I've gotten to rely on that camera and perhaps that's not such a great idea.
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Is it true that a lot of accidents and injuries that happen to people happen in the home?
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And where in the house are they happening?
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Why is that? Why are ladders, I mean, obviously you're climbing up into the sky, yes, but there's also 400 warning stickers on every ladder that gives you a sense that there may be some danger here and to pay attention to what you're doing.
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We're talking about accidents and safety, and my guest is Steve Kasner. He is a NASA scientist and author of the book, Careful, A User's Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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So Steve, what about this idea that there are just some people who are injury prone, that accidents are just more likely to happen to them?
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But there's a general sense, I think, that men are more risk takers and therefore more likely to be hurt in accidents. And they use more power tools perhaps or whatever. But do the statistics hold true for that?
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And so what do you do differently or what do you recommend people do differently? What are the big things to be really careful of that maybe people don't think about?
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So I wonder how the speed of change... influences all you're talking about. And what I mean by that is, you know, when I was growing up, I copied a lot of what my father did. I would watch him and then do that. But today, there are people doing things that I don't even know what they're doing because it's some new gadget, some new technology.
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I'll bet you think, I bet most people think, that eating raw vegetables is healthier than eating cooked vegetables. And while that may be true some of the time, it's not always true. Some vegetables are actually better for you when you cook them. Carrots, for example. Boiling carrots until they're tender boosts their concentration of carotenoids, it's a cancer-fighting compound, by 14%.
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So it's hard to copy it because I don't know what it is that the speed of change is messing with your theory somehow.
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I could never do that. But it is interesting to think how much we're influenced by other people when we like to think we're not, because I think we like to think we're not.
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What else do you think people would be interested in hearing about regarding this whole idea that so much of what we do, we copy, we imitate other people?
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However, frying carrots has the opposite effect. Mushrooms. A cup of cooked mushrooms has about twice as much potassium, niacin, zinc, and magnesium than a cup of raw mushrooms. Spinach. Spinach is packed with nutrients, but you will absorb more of the calcium and iron if you cook it first. Asparagus.
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Well, this is certainly a topic I haven't given a lot of thought to, but it's actually quite fascinating to think how much of what we do, we do by imitating others. Our Alexander Bentley has been my guest. He is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee. And the name of his book is I'll Have What She's Having, Mapping Social Behavior.
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And there's a link to his book in the show notes. Professor, thanks for coming on.
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Every day, I imagine, you have conversations with people. You do it because you have to. No one probably taught you how to have a good conversation. You just do it. And your ability to be good at it will impact your success in all walks of life. Your career, relationships, friendships.
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People have to like talking to you or feel comfortable talking to you or feel like they get something out of the conversation. And here to make sure that happens is Dr. Allison Wood Brooks. She's a professor of business administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow at the Harvard Business School. And she is author of a book called Talk, The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves.
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One study found that cooking asparagus raises the level of six key nutrients, including antioxidants, by 16%. And tomatoes. Whether they are baked, fried, or turned into spaghetti sauce, heat increases the levels of lycopene, which has been linked to lower rates of cancer and heart disease. And that is something you should know. I'm sure you like to think of yourself as an independent person.
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Hi, Allison. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So as someone who has conversations for a living, I certainly enjoy this topic. And I find it interesting that most of us were never taught about conversation. Still, some people are, they're so good at it, and other people are so not good at it. And I wonder why that is.
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Well, it's interesting that as much as we all do it, no one ever said, well, let's talk about how you're doing it. Let's have a class in how to have a conversation. You just do it and kind of learn as you go and do the best you can, but no one ever teaches you the principles of a conversation or how to make it interesting. I certainly never got that kind of education.
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Well, and the other really interesting thing that I don't think is a good thing is because there's so much electronic communication, we have fewer face-to-face conversations. And so people aren't as good because they don't have the practice. They don't know how to do it.
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So this is probably an unfair question because it's too big, but I'm going to ask it anyway. What's a good conversation look like?
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I remember hearing somebody say something about Bill Clinton, that he is a great conversationalist because when you talk to him, you feel like you're the only person in the world, that he makes you so the focus of his existence for the few minutes he's talking to you, that everybody walks away from a conversation with him feeling terrific. And we've all had those people.
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You talk to them regularly. And you walk away, you feel better about yourself. You feel smarter. You feel, you just feel terrific. And then the other side of that is you walk away from some conversations and feel horrible.
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You do things because you choose to do them. No one's telling you what to do most of the time. Generally, you do what you do because it is what you choose to do. Humans have big brains. We think independently. We're wired to blaze our own trail. Well, not always. Here's an example of what I mean.
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So let's talk about that then. What does it mean in a conversation? What does it mean to listen well?
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Today on Something You Should Know, some vegetables actually get healthier when you cook them. I'll tell you which ones. Then, why do you do the things you do?
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So one of the tricky parts of conversation seems to be ending it, especially if it's not going well or you get one of those people who answers with one word answers and you find yourself in a conversation that's going nowhere. How do you, what do you do?
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You go into a restaurant with a group of people and the waiter finally gets to you and says, What do you want? And you say, I'll have what she's having. Well, why not get something you want? The fact is we look to others and we follow their lead a lot more than we think. It's what explains the spread of culture, fashion, language, ideas, and behavior. We do what we see other people do.
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what i'm curious like when you are in a conversation with someone what what are the things that bother you if if it's not going well what are the things that really like oh here we go oh no you know what's funny when i talk to people myself i truly honestly have a mindset of um how can i make this good
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I like that. Yeah, that's a great idea. That brings up, and this is probably my own failing, but I realize that most of the conversations, like if I'm at a party or something, I mean, I'm never going to see this person again. I'm never going to remember what they said. It's like, why make the effort?
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And here to explore this topic and explain why it's important to understand is R. Alexander Bentley. He's a professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, and he's co-author of a book called I'll Have What She's Having, Mapping Social Behavior. Hi, Alexander. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Great to be here, Mike.
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I mean, not always, but I mean, sometimes you get worn out of small, this is all small talky kind of stuff. And it's, you know, I much more enjoy conversations like this where we have a very specific topic that we're talking about and I can try to ask good questions and listen to your answers. But if I'm just meeting you at a party, it's going to be, how are you? What do you do? You know, and...
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And those kind of conversations are fairly forgettable. And so why put the effort in?
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So before we get too far into the details here, why is this important and what's the big aha here?
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Yeah, I know you're right. I think it's more weariness, like when you're at a networking event or something and you've had, you know, 10 or 12 of those shallow conversations, you just kind of run out of gas. It's like, I just, I'm done. I'll try again tomorrow, but I just, enough's enough.
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Lastly, I want to ask you about, you just used the word, you know, connect with someone. And everyone's connected with someone. And you sort of know what that feels like. But what does it mean to connect with someone? And do you think that because I feel like I've connected with someone, how likely is it that they feel the same way?
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Well, I enjoy having a conversation about conversation, because it's something we all do every day, and yet we don't talk about doing it. We just do it. But today we talked about doing it while we were doing it.
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I've been talking to Dr. Allison Wood Brooks, who is a professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, and she's author of the book, Talk, The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves. If you'd like to read it, there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. And Allison, thank you so much.
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One of the things I really appreciate about a snowfall is how quiet it is afterwards. Why is that? Why is it so quiet? Well, partly because fewer people are out doing things because of the weather, but there's more to it. It's the arrangement of the snowflakes.
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As the snow falls, it piles up loosely with a lot of air spaces in between, and those air spaces absorb the sound in much the same way as holes in an acoustic ceiling tile do. As sound travels across a layer of fluffy snow, the pressure of the sound waves pushes air down into those spaces between the snowflakes, so the sound waves lose more and more pressure.
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So by the time the sound reaches your ears, you hear a softer, more muffled sound, or maybe no sound at all. Experiments show that a loud bang like a firecracker in the summer makes a quiet hump noise in a winter landscape covered with new snow because of the effects that I just described. And that is something you should know.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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And just to make sure I'm on the same page with you, that I know what you mean by that, can you give me some examples of how we look at other people and follow what they do?
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Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Also, why is it so quiet after a snowfall? Then the fascinating anatomy of a great conversation. It's probably not what you think.
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And the example of the title of your book I love because I've always been fascinated by when people say that, I'll have what she's having. Because there's a whole menu of things you could have. it's so easy to say, well, I'll just have what he's having. And I wonder, well, why not? Why do that?
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But I will almost never. Just out of principle, I will never have what she is having or he is having just because I don't, there's something about that. It's like too easy. And yeah, I want to, so I just out of principle, don't do that.
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Well, is anything ever completely independent? It seems like everything is is shaded a little or a lot by what's come before.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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But our inclination to imitate other people, We don't imitate everybody. There must be a hierarchy of people. There must be maybe it's our friends or people that we work with or, you know, our family. There are more people I'm more likely to imitate than others, I suspect.
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Here's something that happens, and it's not exactly imitating or copying other people's behavior, but I imagine it's part of this same discussion, and that is recommendations. If you needed a dentist and you said, hey, Mike, I'm new to town, I need a dentist, can you recommend one? And I gave you the name of my dentist, That's probably going to carry a lot of weight with you.
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You're going to probably call that dentist. But the reality is that I'm no expert on dentists. I don't have a lot of experience with them. And so I don't know. Maybe my dentist is a great dentist. Maybe he's not. But the fact that I recommended it to you will carry weight with you.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster.
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which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you.
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Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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So, Professor, I understand that we copy, we imitate other people, and there are really good reasons for that. But I'm wondering, how much do we not do that? I mean, I like to think that many times I make my own decisions to do things or not do things. Where I'm not copying other people, I'm making an independent decision.
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Is looking it up on Google the same as I'll have what she's having?
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Today on Something You Should Know, if you want to get to know someone better, there's a simple technique that works really well. Then, protecting yourself from the constant threat of scams and identity theft.
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That's preposterous that… Isn't it? That an identity thief could put information in your medical records and they protect his privacy.
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Yeah, well, it's understandable somebody in that situation might panic and send money. And in fact, I think, wasn't there just some woman, I think she used to be a police dispatcher who got scammed or that they attempted to scam her and they showed up at her door to get the money and the police were there and tackled them in the front yard.
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Oh, what about, you know, there are these services people can buy that are supposed to protect your identity. Are they worth it? Do they do a job? Is it at least a minimal level of protection or is it really good or what?
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Isn't it true that a lot of identity theft still happens by people going through your trash? Yeah.
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And I don't put my trash out until the morning, until I hear the trucks coming, just for fear that somebody could go through that at 2 o'clock in the morning and take their time and maybe find something I didn't shred.
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Well, there is obviously a lot to know if you want to protect yourself. And if you do want to know more, you can check out Steve's website, scamicide.com. There's a lot on that website you'll find helpful. The name of the book he wrote is 50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age by attorney Steve Wiseman. And there are links in the show notes to both of those resources I just mentioned.
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Thanks for coming on and sharing all this, Steve. Appreciate it. Terrific. Great talking with you. You know, we have had several experts on this podcast talk about the risks of being overweight and the heavier you are and the longer you remain that way, the more substantial the risks. But losing weight on your own, well, that is so difficult and often unsuccessful.
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Hey there. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Have you ever been taken by a scam artist? I have. And fortunately, it hasn't happened very often, and it wasn't very much money. But I don't think I know too many people who haven't fallen victim to some scam sometime, somewhere.
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But a key ingredient to any successful online business is the business behind the business that makes the whole selling and checkout process work. And for millions of businesses, that business is Shopify. Shopify is the number one checkout on the planet.
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And the not-so-secret secret is something they have called ShopPay that boosts conversions up to 50%, meaning way less carts going abandoned and way more sales going... So if you're into growing your business, your commerce platform better be ready to sell wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling. On the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere in between.
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The fact is, businesses that sell more sell on Shopify. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout Mattel and Gymshark and millions of other companies use. Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash SYSK, all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash SYSK to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com slash SYSK. Negotiation is one of those things.
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We don't talk about it a lot on this podcast because I think people's impression is that negotiation is a very businessy topic or it means we're going to talk about how to negotiate the price of a car, that kind of thing. But the fact is we all negotiate all the time every day. And there is a very different approach to negotiation that I have found fascinating.
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It comes from a guy named Barry Nailbuff. Barry is an entrepreneur and professor at Yale School of Management, and he's the author of a new book called Split the Pie, A Radical New Way to Negotiate. And I really think you're going to enjoy what he has to say and his approach to this topic, because it is different than what you've heard about negotiation before. Hi, Barry. Welcome.
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Which is why I think you're going to find the conversation with Steve Wiseman coming up in just a moment really interesting. First up today, you probably think that one of the best ways to get closer to someone you would like to be closer to is to do something nice for them. Do them a favor. Make some nice gesture. Well, it turns out that you're better off asking them to do you a favor.
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Thanks for being here. for inviting me. So start off by explaining how your approach to negotiating is different and what it is people sometimes miss about what you think a negotiation is. Sure.
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So explain the pie, because I think of a negotiation as, I want this, you want that. I don't see it as a pie to split. So explain that.
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So let's get specific with a real example that would explain what you just said.
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See, I would have thought he would have said, okay, well, if you're going to pay them $1,300 to take the domain away from me, give me $1,200 and you can have it right now. And you would have said, okay. But you didn't say okay.
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A study in the Journal of Human Relations revealed that when someone gives you their time or advice or does a small favor for you, a connection is made. And it's a more powerful connection than if you were to do them a favor instead. I'm sure you know from your own experience that it feels good to do someone a favor. So when you ask them to do a favor for you, you're making them feel good.
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Well that's a great example, a great story, and I like how you appealed to his sense of fairness with whatever sense of fairness he had. by pointing out your sense of fairness, but not everybody will agree with that. I mean, people come into negotiations often wanting to get as much as they can possibly get, and that's kind of the job of negotiation in many ways, to get as much as you can get.
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And so you're right.
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So every negotiation has to start somewhere, somehow. And often I think people throw out a number. You know, that's the starting point. That's where we begin our discussion. Is that a good way to start, do you think?
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Something that often seems to derail negotiations is emotion, personality, ego, wanting to win or feeling the other person is trying to cheat you. And those emotions get in the way.
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And then it also opens the door for a return of the favor, in the form of lunch or a cup of coffee. And presto, you've got the opportunity to get to know each other a little better and to get a little closer. And that is something you should know.
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Why would you want to do that? What would be the benefit to you to make the points for the other side? Seems like you're helping the other side get what they want.
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And so when people... enter into these kind of discussions, negotiations with other people, what do you think are the things that derail? What do they do wrong? What are the mistakes they make?
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And so how would you do that otherwise? If someone says, well make me an offer here, I'm selling this thousand dollar thing, but without mentioning the number, I'm selling this thing, what will you give me? And you know it's worth a thousand dollars, wouldn't you want to try to get it for less?
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I think it would be hard to find someone who has never been scammed, or never had their identity stolen, or their credit card compromised in some way, or been taken for a ride by some scammer out there. Scams are everywhere. A lot of them are online. But they're not all online. And most all of them are designed to separate you from your money.
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that you keep the discussion strictly on what it is you're negotiating and what the value of this thing is to you and what the value is to them? Or should you bring in other things like the reasons why you want this? Is that relevant to the conversation? Or is it better to just stick to what you're talking about and don't elaborate too much?
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Also, a simple way that will help you remember names a lot better. And a look at some common negotiating techniques that don't work, like starting with a low-ball offer.
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What about, though, if I'm selling something? I just did this not long ago. I had a piece of equipment that was no use to me, no value to me. It was a piece of recording equipment that is obsolete. Nobody wants it. Except collectors. Collectors collect this type of equipment. Consequently, it has value to them. It has virtually no value to me other than I know it's worth something to a collector.
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But I don't want to tell that person it's worthless to me. I want them to pay me what it's worth to them.
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And I know a lot of people believe they're too smart, too sophisticated to fall for a scam. But as you're about to hear, some very smart, sophisticated people have been victims right along with the rest of us. One of the leading authorities on scams and identity theft is attorney Steve Wiseman. He also wrote a book a few years ago called 50 Ways to Protect Your Identity in a Digital Age.
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What else do people maybe miss? Because it often seems that people, when they talk about negotiation, what they're talking about or what they're thinking about is money, that it's all about the money. But as you just said a moment ago, you like to think there's more than just money. So what else are people missing by thinking this is just dollars?
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Talk about what happens when you're in the position of you don't know as much as the other guy, that he's more of an expert on whatever it is you're negotiating and you feel kind of stupid. How do you work that to your advantage if you can?
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And that way you get a piece of the bigger pie. And it's all about splitting the pie. It's really a unique way to look at negotiating. I've never really looked at it this way before. Barry Nailbuff's been my guest. He is an entrepreneur and professor at the Yale School of Management. And his book is called Split the Pie, A Radical New Way to Negotiate.
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Hey Steve, welcome to Something You Should Know. It's great to be with you. So I'm kind of curious how you got interested in scams and identity theft and these kind of crimes in the first place.
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Appreciate you being here. Thanks, Barry. Have you ever heard of the baker-baker paradox? Basically, it's the result of research that says it's much easier to remember a person whose profession is a baker than it is to remember someone whose name is Baker. Why?
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Psychologists believe it's because when people hear about a man who works as a baker, it conjures up images and tastes and smells from our past and creates a very vivid impression. On the other hand, the name Baker doesn't mean much. There's nothing about a generic name to latch onto so people forget it more easily.
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The lesson here is that when you meet someone, find something visually memorable about them that connects with their name. When you meet Mr. Baker, imagine he is a baker. When you meet Bob, imagine his head bobbing up and down like a fishing bobber on the water. That kind of thing. You get the idea. It sounds silly, but it's very effective if you want to remember names.
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A while back, we had Ramit Sethi on as a guest, and he's one of the smartest people you'll ever know when it comes to everyday money matters. And he was here talking about money and couples. As it turns out, he has his own podcast called Money for Couples, which if you're part of a couple, then I highly recommend you listen to this podcast.
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Because when you do, instead of fighting about money, you and your partner will discover how to start building a rich life together. Money for Couples is a podcast full of real-life, actionable advice like how to pay off your debt and still enjoy your life, how to build a shared financial vision, how to spend extravagantly on what you love and cut back on what you don't.
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And you'll learn from real-world stories of couples facing the same money challenges as you. All of the episodes are helpful, but if I had to pick one or two, there's one called, We Make $300,000 a Year But Spend Like We Make a Million. That's a situation I think a lot of people can relate to. And another is called, We've Saved for Retirement But Have No Money to Spend Now.
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Money for Couples is the name of the podcast, hosted by Ramit Sethi, and all you have to do is search for Money for Couples wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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I have a sense, and I'd like you to comment on this if you agree or disagree, that there's this kind of general perception amongst a lot of people that scams are for idiots, that I'm too smart to be scammed. And if you're dumb enough to read and give money to the Nigerian prince because he sent you an email, well, that's your problem. But I'm way too smart.
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Okay, so because this is such a big problem and can come at you from lots of different directions, Where do we start? What should we be? What should I be on the lookout for?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming. And even still, there are no guarantees. Which is why when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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I want to go back to what you said a few minutes ago about scammers getting into my computer through my smart TV. Can you go into a little more detail about that? Because I hadn't heard of that before, so I'd like to know how that works.
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See, I would bet that most people, or at least a lot of people, don't even know that their router has a password or that their smart TV has a password, let alone would they know how to change it.
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So a lot of these scams are under the radar. It isn't a matter of appealing to your stupidity or your greed or whatever. You wouldn't even know what happened.
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Anniversary savings await you for a limited time only at Dell.com slash deals. That's Dell.com slash deals. I really love it when I find a great new podcast. And then, of course, I have to share that with everyone. And one I really want you to listen to is Curiosity Weekly. Curiosity Weekly from Discovery makes sense of some of the biggest questions and ideas shaping our world.
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It's all about new discoveries happening in science and tech. They have expert guests that make it all make sense. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed. Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids.
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What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff. Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. So Steve, I want to talk about medical identity theft, because I'm not sure people even understand that that's a thing. And you say it could actually be fatal.
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My guess is, as wonderful as those recommendations are, people just don't do them. It would be very hard for me to imagine, to alter my use using those suggestions you just made, I'll just take care of it myself. And I imagine most people don't follow those recommendations.
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Well, I've had that.
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Even though you're not on it, it's just not in the room, so you can't be. Well, what is that? Right.
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Well, one of the big concerns about screen time that you hear was probably the first big concern is about kids and video games and all of that. Where are we? What does the research say about all that? Is it horrible or not or what?
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Here's something I think a lot of people wonder about, because for decades, people have gone to bed, watched TV, and then gone to sleep. I haven't heard a whole lot about that being a problem, but there's a lot of caution about looking at a screen like a phone or a tablet before bed that that screws up your sleep. What's the difference between the TV and the screen, the computer screen?
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I think everybody knows that it's a bad idea to go grocery shopping when you're hungry because you're going to spend more money and buy more junk. But there's more to the story. Hi and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know.
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But it's a topic I think that everyone's concerned about, how much time we're spending on screens and what we're not doing because we're spending so much time on screens. Jackie Nisi has been my guest. She's a psychologist, an assistant professor at Brown University, and she writes a popular weekly newsletter called Techno Sapiens.
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And if you'd like more information to that, there's a link to Techno Sapiens in the show notes for this episode. Jackie, thank you for coming on and talking about this.
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Not only does research support the fact that grocery shopping when you're hungry will cause you to spend more money, you probably have personal experience in that regard. But it turns out that shopping for anything on an empty stomach is a bad idea. Researchers at the University of Minnesota found that hungry people spent 64% more money at the mall on anything than shoppers who were not hungry.
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How the human body works is so fascinating and so complicated from how we use food for fuel, how and why we age and can't live forever, why we sleep, why we have to sleep, yet sleep leaves us vulnerable to so many things. how our immune system keeps us alive, and how evolution changes us ever so slowly.
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Here to explain some of these intricate bodily systems and how we can keep them working smoothly is Dr. Dara Ennis. He is a scientist and researcher who has worked at both the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow. He is author of a book called The Body, Ten Things You Should Know. Hi Dara, welcome to Something You Should Know. Well, thanks very much for having me.
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So the human body, our bodies, like every other living thing, gets older and ultimately dies. From a scientific point of view, why must that be? Do we know why that is? Because it seems like we certainly live longer than we used to, but ultimately we die, right?
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But even people who get older and die from diseases that are normally associated with old age die at different ages. Some people die in their 70s or their 80s or 90s, and some people make it even longer than that. So there is a clock because ultimately nobody gets any older than whatever the maximum age is, but there is a clock.
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It's never forever, is it?
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No. So let's talk about blood and how blood gets circulated all throughout the body and how that all works.
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Apparently, hunger kicks in that human desire to hunt and gather. And since few of us are hunting and gathering in the traditional sense, we go shopping instead. Also, be aware of the scent of cinnamon. It seems that that makes you want to spend more money. And if you're a woman, a University of Texas study found that women want to buy more stuff when they're ovulating.
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uses that to pump something that long it's it's massively more efficient evolution beats engineering every time so it seems like a big question but since you tackle it this whole idea of about getting and using energy how food becomes energy how we spend energy i i never really i get i get that it happens but i'm not sure i have any idea how it happens
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So you've mentioned a few times how, you know, this is amazing and this is really efficient. And my guess is that the systems get that way over time through evolution. But I don't know that we really understand. I don't think evolution works the way people think it does.
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Well, that phrase you used about evolution throws it away. I think that's where people get confused that it isn't like one morning, the heavens say, well, you know, we're not going to need a tail anymore. So let's just knock that off. Cause we don't need that. Um, it doesn't work that way.
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So that's another time to avoid going shopping. And that is something you should know. A very big concern today is screen time. How much time you or your kids have a computer or a tablet or a phone screen in front of your face. And the assumption is that you're probably spending too much time looking at screens. And what you really need to do is cut back and spend less time with screens.
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So it must do something really, really special for us to devote that much of our life to it.
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So here's, I'm so glad you tackle this in your book because How many times have we heard about how the body defends itself, that you have an immune system in it, but nobody knows what that means or how it works. It's just, well, you know, I didn't get a cold and he did because my body defended itself, but how? I don't know what that means.
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But is it your immune system when you cut yourself and the cut heals?
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But what is too much time? What's the actual harm? Does screen time affect everyone the same way? What does the research say about how screen time impacts people? The answers to those questions just may surprise you. And here to reveal all this is Jacqueline Nisi.
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But going back to catching a cold, there are some people who seem to get sicker more often than others, exposed to more or less the same things. And my wife who works in a hospital, she never gets sick. And so the assumption is, well, she doesn't get sick because she's been exposed to so many illnesses that she's built up this immunity to it. I don't know if that's true, but she never gets sick.
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What's one thing about the body that you think people maybe don't understand as well as they should, or there's a lot of misinformation about it? I mean, you're out speaking to people all the time. What is it you think, if anything, there is confusion about?
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She is a psychologist and assistant professor at Brown University, and she writes a popular weekly newsletter called TechnoSapiens, which provides tips to manage your screen time. Jackie has published over 50 peer-reviewed publications related to technology use. She's testified before U.S. congressional and state legislative committees on issues surrounding technology and mental health.
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And lastly, what happens when we die?
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Well, I know I've certainly learned a lot and understand things about how the human body functions that I didn't know before. I've been talking with Dr. Dara Ennis. He is a scientist and researcher and author of the book, The Body, 10 Things You Should Know. There's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Dara, thanks for coming on and talking about this.
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Of course you know that talking on a cell phone when you're driving is a bad idea because it's very distracting. But it turns out that driving a car while your passengers are talking on a cell phone is also very distracting. In fact, listening to anybody talk on a cell phone is distracting because you're only hearing half of the conversation.
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It's called a half-a-log, and it reduces your cognitive function. So, for example, if you're driving in your car, and someone else in the car is talking on the phone, it's almost impossible to tune it out, so your brain is frantically trying to make sense of a conversation where you're only hearing half of it.
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The researchers that did the study point out that when we overhear a conversation normally... We actively try to predict how the conversation will go. And when you only hear one side of the conversation, your brain has to work harder to do what is, you know, pretty much impossible.
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So with less of your brain available to focus on driving, you're more at risk for an accident, which is a good reason for everyone in the car not to talk on their phones. And that is something you should know. Something You Should Know is produced by Jeffrey Havison, Jennifer Brennan and our executive producer is Ken Williams. I'm Mike Carruthers.
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Hi, Jackie. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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So you hear all the time, people talk about all the time about how we shouldn't be on screen so much, that, you know, get off your phone, you're on your screens too much and all that. Because why? Because what do we know are the real risks, the real dangers? We hear it's bad, but I never hear like how exactly is it bad?
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Today on Something You Should Know, how hunger affects what you buy. Not just groceries, everything you buy. Then, some facts and myths about screen time and video games.
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Your Brain on Screens: Myths and Facts & How Your Body Keeps You Alive
That's certainly true that if you're on your screen, you're not doing something else. And what else could you be doing?
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Well, there's a big problem because that drives me crazy, and I'm sure it drives a lot of people crazy, when you don't have someone's full attention when you're talking to them and they think it's fine for them to talk to you. and be on their phone scrolling or texting to somebody else. I find that so rude, but it's not just rude. It's like, well, I guess it is just rude.
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It's like, you're not important enough to get my undivided attention.
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Well, I think everyone would agree with what you just said, because there are times when everybody, I mean, probably even you, likes to just scroll mindlessly through some social media something for a few minutes. But it's like junk food. It doesn't satisfy anything other than in that very moment, but there's no other satisfaction to it.
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What did they do instead? Were they just sitting there with their thoughts or were they reading a book or what were they doing?
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Also, why listening to other people talk on their phones can drive you nuts. And the amazing ways your body works, your heart, your immune system, your brain.
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Well, that's the thing is... Scrolling on your phone is a solitary activity, and you can see lots of people together, but they're all on their phones. And so they're not really together and taking advantage or getting the benefits from the socializing part of it. They might as well just be home in their room.
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You know, I'm really curious to know because we often talk about how other people inappropriately use their phone or they're on screens too much. But how do people feel about their own use of screens and their own time on the phone? Do they think, yeah, I probably am on it too much, but, or do they think, no, I've got this under control. It's other people who have the problem.
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How do people feel about their own participation in this?
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and yet probably don't do much to remedy a concern that they admit they have.
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I want to ask you if you think that we're at the point now where phones, screens are becoming, I don't know, a crutch or a habit, maybe. I'm speaking with Jackie Nisi. She is a psychologist and assistant professor at Brown University, and she writes the weekly newsletter Techno Sapiens.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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So Jackie, it does seem to me that, especially with young people, that picking up their phone is a habit. It's like they can't not do it. Go to a doctor's office and people are in the waiting room. And I actually went to a doctor not long ago and was struck by this woman who was sitting there reading a real book about
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But in the old days, you know, doctors used to put magazines in their waiting rooms because that's what people did to pass the time. Now it's just habit. You sit down, you whip out your phone, and you stare at it until they call your name.
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So that's a good, probably a good place to start is to start thinking about why you're using it. But what else? Because that's a great idea, but it's a little vague. It's like, well, be more mindful. Yeah, I know, but I'm sitting here and I have nothing to do, so I'm going to whip out my phone. But what's the plan? What's a way to approach this?
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Why We Like Cute Things & How to Have a Great Conversation
Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. Think about all the online businesses selling products, ones that you probably buy. Mattel, Gymshark, Untuckit, Magic Spoon, all solid businesses. But a key ingredient to any successful online business is the business behind the business that makes the whole selling and checkout process work.
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Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash SYSK, all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash SYSK to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com slash SYSK. So Joshua, what about the history of cuteness? Has cuteness always been a thing? Has it always been important? Has it always been as big a deal as it is now? My guess is that's probably not the case, but you tell me.
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So does cuteness perpetuate itself? In other words, when you see a character in a movie that's very cute, and then Seems like there's more of those kinds of characters in movies because it seemed to work the last time. And then there's more cuteness and more cuteness. Like it kind of builds on itself.
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Is it fair to say that cuteness appeals to women more than men or not?
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Are we being manipulated by cuteness much in the way, you know, people say sex sells? Does cuteness sell? Are we suckers for cuteness?
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So you said a few minutes ago that there are so many ways to look at this topic of cuteness. And for someone who doesn't study cuteness, I can't imagine what some of those ways are. So what's one of those ways?
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Because based on what you're saying, there's a lot we now know about cuteness. I'm wondering how tech is incorporating, if at all, this whole concept of cuteness, and if so, how?
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Right. Well, certainly you wouldn't feel all that threatened by a cute robot where you might, with a robot that talks like this, you know, a cute robot, well, okay, I'll play with that. Exactly. So we respond to cuteness almost instantly because it has this, which you describe as the baby scheme. It looks like a baby or has elements of the look of a baby.
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Do babies respond to cuteness to other babies who are cute?
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Yeah, and there have been, I've heard people say that, you know, maybe dogs can try to use it too, like when they've done something bad, they do that cute, you know, sad face thing. It's hard for me to imagine that's a deliberate use of cuteness.
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But are they using it deliberately or are they're just cute? So, you know, it's hard to get mad at them because look how cute they are.
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So lastly, one last thing about cuteness that I probably don't know that would surprise me or interest me or fascinate me or whatever.
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Well, who knew there was so much about cuteness to talk about? But it's interesting to hear that there is so much to talk about. I've been talking with Joshua Paul Dale. He's one of the leading experts on cuteness. And he's author of a book called Irresistible, How Cuteness Wired Our Brains and Conquered the World. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes.
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Joshua, this was really interesting. I know more about cuteness than I ever thought I would.
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When you think about how many conversations people have every day, you would think we're all experts at it by now. And some people seem to be. We all know people who are brilliant conversationalists, while others of us aren't quite so good at it. For one thing, most of us never learned formally how to make a conversation. It's just something you learn as you go.
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So today we're going to discuss what makes a good conversation and a good conversationalist with my guest, Alison Wood Brooks. Alison is a professor at Harvard Business School, and she is author of a book called Talk, the Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves. Hi, Alison. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So as I said, conversation is something most of us just learn as we go. Seldom do we sit down and talk about the science of conversation. We just do it. So why are we talking about it?
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So what makes a good conversation?
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But in addition to those goals, and I get that, obviously, if you don't reach any of the goals of the conversation, I guess that means it didn't go very well. But we've all had those conversations that almost regardless of whether we hit the goals, You walk away going, wow, what a great, that was such, that was, I really enjoyed talking to that person.
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And we've all had conversations with people that are, what was that about? I mean, that was the, what a waste of time that was. And I want to try to understand, like, what happened that people walk away with those different kind of results?
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I want to talk about small talk. People have very definite opinions on small talk. Some people hate it. Some people relish in it. I don't personally mind small talk except when you're in a situation where that's all there is. You're just kind of going from person to person and it's... Hi, how are you? What do you do? And that to me gets old pretty quick.
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And sometimes those conversations are fueled by alcohol and they just never really seem to go anywhere. And you wonder, well, you know, what's the point of small talk?
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And as I record this, I have to tell you, I am so glad this last 10 days is over. We were right at the edge of the Eaton Fire, one of the two first big fires in California. It burned literally right to our backyard, but we are okay. And I had a cold, that nasty cold that's going around that just will not go away. The cough keeps lingering.
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Yeah, I know you're right. I think it's more weariness, like when you're at a networking event or something and you've had, you know, 10 or 12 of those shallow conversations, you just kind of run out of gas. It's like, I just, I'm done. I'll try again tomorrow, but I just, enough's enough.
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I want to ask you about, you just used the word, connect with someone. And everyone's connected with someone, and you sort of know what that feels like, but what does it mean to connect with someone? And do you think that because I feel like I've connected with someone, how likely is it that they feel the same way?
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It's been a tough couple of days, so I'm glad we're pretty much at the end of it. Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. We're going to start today talking about one of the pitfalls, big pitfalls, of email and texting, for that matter. And it has to do with sarcasm. For people to understand another person's sarcasm, they have to share context.
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I remember hearing somebody say something about Bill Clinton, that he is a great conversationalist because when you talk to him, you feel like you're the only person in the world, that he makes you so the focus of his existence for the few minutes he's talking to you, that everybody walks away from a conversation with him feeling terrific. And we've all had those people.
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I know those people that you talk to them often, And you walk away, you feel better about yourself. You feel smarter. You feel, you just feel terrific. And then the other side of that is you walk away from some conversations and feel horrible.
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And every time I talk to someone or I listen to someone talk about conversation, communicating with other people, how to be an effective communicator, they all say listening is one of the, if not the most critical parts of communicating. And yet I don't think people think about that, that they think it's, I've got to say what I need to say and get them to understand what I'm saying.
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If two people are about to walk out into a rainstorm and one person says, gee, what a lovely day for a walk, well, everybody gets it. Everybody understands the sarcasm because they all share the same context. But in an email or a text message, the person may not share this common ground, so any sarcasm could easily be misunderstood. In fact, it might even be offensive.
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One of the tricky parts of conversation seems to be ending it, especially if it's not going well or you get one of those people who answers with one word answers and you find yourself in a conversation that's going nowhere. How do you, what do you do?
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I'm curious, like, when you are in a conversation with someone, what are the things that bother you if it's not going well? What are the things that really like, oh, here we go. Oh, no.
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Studies have been conducted and have shown that sarcasm in email is often taken literally. And that can lead to a lot of trouble. Emoticons can help, but many of them are ambiguous, hard to see, and can look unprofessional. So as a general rule, sarcasm in an email or a text is extremely risky and probably better left to vocal communication, where it's much more obvious.
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Well, when you think about all the conversations we have, most of them are unplanned, they just go as they go. It's fun to take a look at the anatomy of a conversation and why some go really well and some go not so well. And I appreciate you explaining all this. Alison Wood Brooks has been my guest.
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She is a professor at Harvard Business School and author of the book, Talk, The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves. And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Alison. A good conversation about conversation.
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If you drive enough, sooner or later you will see someone on the side of the road with a blown tire. And you've probably wondered, well, I wonder what causes that? Maybe they hit a nail or a piece of glass or something. Well, the biggest reason for tire blowouts isn't that. It's underinflation.
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When your tires are underinflated, the sidewalls become weak and the tire is more likely to blow out while you're driving, which can be very dangerous. Another big reason tires blow out is overinflation, which can cause your tires to pop like a balloon, again with very serious consequences.
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The best advice is to make sure to check your tire pressure once a month and follow the inflation recommendations in the car owner's manual, not the inflation number on the side of the tire. That's the maximum pressure that the tire can take, but not necessarily the ideal pressure. And that is something you should know.
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If you enjoy this podcast, you can share your thoughts by leaving a rating and review on whatever platform you listen on. Apple Podcasts, Spotify, CastBox, whichever one, please leave a rating and review. Appreciate it. Thanks. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thank you for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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And that is something you should know. Human beings are suckers for all things cute. A cute baby, a cute puppy, a kitten, a bear cub, a cartoon character. They all grab our attention because they're so cute. So what is cute? What makes something cute? Does cute sell? Marketers use cute characters a lot to sell products. Does it work?
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Well, as you might imagine, cute has been studied, and one of the experts on cute is Joshua Paul Dale. He is a professor in the Department of English Literature and Culture at, I think it's pronounced Chuo University in Tokyo, C-H-U-O. He's been featured as an expert on cuteness by media outlets such as the New York Times, CNN. National Geographic, The Guardian, and Discover Magazine.
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He's author of a book called Irresistible, How Cuteness Wired Our Brains and Conquered the World. Hi Joshua, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hello Mike, and thanks very much for having me. So what a fascinating topic, because... Everybody seems to be attracted to things that are cute. But you wonder, like, what is it about something that makes it cute?
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Because you could look at a cute puppy, right? And they're just adorable. But in a few weeks, few months, not so cute anymore. So what happened? We all know cute when we see it, but what is the definition of cute?
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So what are the elements of cuteness? What must something have in order for people to look at it and go, oh, look how cute.
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And what does seeing or observing or experiencing cuteness in the world do for me? Why do I like it and what does it do for me?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why sarcasm and email really don't mix well. Then, why we love cute things and why cuteness is so powerful.
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The word cute, though, Seems to have been hijacked for a lot of things. Like you will often see someone try a clothes on and go, oh, that outfit, it's so cute. It looks so cute on you. Well, does it look cute on you? It doesn't look cute. Certainly not the way you're talking about cute. It's come to mean something else. I'm not sure what that means.
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Are we suckers for cute? In other words, if there are two similar items for sale and they're the same price, everything's similar, but one of them's got this cute baby puppy face, Are we more likely to buy it?
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Well, that brings up an interesting question because we know what a cute voice sounds like, but a cute voice doesn't have any of the characteristics that you talked about because you can't see it. So what makes a cute voice cute?
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What about cuteness with other species? Because if you see like little wolves or little bears, they're adorable, they're cute, they're very cute. Is it having the same effect on other bears? Like, oh, isn't that cub so cute or not?
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So why do you care about this? Why is this worth studying? Other than I can certainly see from a marketing point of view, wanting to understand how to use cuteness to sell stuff. But I assume your interest in this is not that.
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Also, the biggest reason car tires blow out and how to prevent it. And the anatomy of good conversation and why every conversation is important.
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We're discussing cuteness. My guest is Joshua Paul Dale. He's author of the book Irresistible, How Cuteness Wired Our Brains and Conquered the World. Thank you so much for having me. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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So when I think of old school board games, I think of chess. Chess has been around, I don't know, how long has chess been around?
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So if the queen could only move one square, so can the king. So what was the difference?
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I mean, I'm no great chess player, but I know enough about it and have played it enough to think that that game where the queen can only move one square would be just so dull. And when you allow her to go where she can now go, that's a game changer right there. I mean, it makes the game so much more fun. Absolutely.
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What's the connection between chess and checkers? And I ask only because they're played on the same board.
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What about Backgammon? You know, there was a time, I think it was in the 70s or 80s, Backgammon was so hot, at least here in the US, and now you don't hear much about it. I mean, we have a Backgammon set. I can't remember the last time we got it out and played it.
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Backgammon seems like a game that should not have fallen out of favor because it has so many things that people seem to like in a game. It has skill. It has chance. You get to move around the board. It seems like it should still be more popular than it is.
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Yeah, yeah, right. That's a good way to put it, that you can get really, really good at it, or you can be a novice and still enjoy it. And I guess maybe that's kind of the magic of a game where anybody can play and develop in that game.
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Well, here's an interesting question. Do happier couples have more sex or does having sex make for happier couples? We'll start with that question today. Hi and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. You've likely heard from books and self-help experts that increasing intimacy makes couples happier. Simply put, having more sex will lead to more happiness. Well, maybe.
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Have there been, I've been trying to think as we've been talking, any games that have come out, I may not have my finger on the pulse of this, but games that have come out lately that have been big successes. The last game I remember that was a big phenomenon was Trivial Pursuit. And I can't remember since then any big, huge, successful game.
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But there do seem to be, just mostly, it seems like a lot of the same games that I played as a kid, kids today would play. Once you're a hit, you seem like you're a hit for a while.
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Well, I have played board games all my life, and it is really fun to hear the backstories and realize how old some of these games are or variations on the games. It's fascinating. Tim Clare has been my guest. He is an award-winning writer and author of the book Across the Board, How Games Make Us Human. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes if you'd like to read it.
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Tim, thank you.
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I can't imagine there is a single person listening to this podcast who does not know that physical activity, exercise, is good for you. That the human body is not meant to be sedentary. We need to move. Still, many of us do not follow that prescription. Part of it, I think, is how we define exercise, how we look at it.
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You know, you did something wrong in gym class in junior high school, and the gym teacher demands 20 push-ups, sending the message that exercise is punishment. It's painful. It's hard. And the benefits of exercise, they're off in the future somewhere. So you're doing something difficult for some future reward, And maybe we need to reframe this whole thing.
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That is what Katie Bowman is here to discuss. Katie is the author of 11 books, and she speaks frequently on the topic of movement and exercise. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping. She's been on the Today Show. She's been on Joe Rogan's podcast. And her latest book is called...
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I know I should exercise, but 44 reasons we don't move and how to get over them. Hi, Katie. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So the reason people are often told that they should exercise, where they should get their motivation from, is that exercise is good for you, that it has health benefits, and that in and of itself is reason enough to get up off the couch and go do something because it's good for you.
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There's something called reverse causality, and that may explain this relationship between intimacy and happiness, according to research at Carnegie Mellon University. What they found in surveying couples is that happier couples have more sex. In other words, it isn't the sex that makes couples happier. It's that happiness is causing couples to have more sex.
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So do you think, because I've seen this in cases where there is that, well, but I could get hit by a bus tomorrow. So why waste all that time exercising when, you know, when your number's up, your number's up and it just doesn't matter?
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What often happens is people with the best of intentions will start to exercise and stick with it for a little while and something happens and they stop. You know, they join the gym for New Year's and then by February they're done. Something derails them. What tends to derail people?
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One of the things that I noticed, I work out pretty regularly. I go to the gym at least four times a week and have for years, many, many years. But I early on realized and saw in other people that There's an over-promise in the physical education world that if you go do your exercise, you're going to look like that model on the cover of Muscle & Fitness magazine, and you never will.
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And you get discouraged because you don't see the results, you don't start to look like those people, and you either have to come to terms with that, that that's never going to happen, or you say, well, since it's not going to happen, I give up.
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And in fact, simply having more sex did not make couples happier, in part because the increased frequency led to a decline in wanting and desire for the enjoyment of intimacy. The authors of the research noted that the desire to have sex decreases much more quickly than the enjoyment of sex once it's been initiated.
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not to mention the mental health benefits that have been pretty well documented, that exercise is good for your mental health as well as your physical health. But you would know, and I think this is the big question people have, is we know that a lot of people try to exercise and give up. So the people who don't give up,
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But what works in terms of, you know, if you say, okay, I'm going to start moving and I'm going to go to the gym five days a week. Yeah, I doubt it. Not for long. What works in terms of actually what it is you do to start the ball rolling and keep it rolling?
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So instead of focusing on increasing the number of intimate encounters, couples may want to work on creating an environment that sparks their desire and makes the intimacy they do have more fun. And that is something you should know. People like to have fun. It seems we're wired to have fun.
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I don't know what the statistics are, but I'm sure a large number of people with the best of intentions, I remember earlier in my life, bought some sort of exercise equipment, a treadmill, a stationary bike, something, a Bowflex, and put it in their home. And just like on the cover of your book, it soon becomes a clothes hanger, a place to put junk, and people give up.
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But they've made a financial investment in it. And it's right there. It wouldn't take much to get on that and push the start button, but people give up.
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But people paid a lot of money. That home gym equipment is not cheap. So at one point, they were pretty motivated, and then it just kind of evaporates.
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And there is one very specific type of fun that people have always liked, continue to like, and will continue to like, and that is playing games. Specifically, games on a tabletop. Board games, chess, checkers, Parcheesi, backgammon. Games where you move pieces around a board have been played for thousands of years. So what is it about these kinds of games that have made them so popular?
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I wonder, too, how many people give up because they think they're not doing enough. You know, if I go for a walk around the block after dinner, that's not really doing much, so I'm not going to try. And it probably isn't doing that much, but is it better than nothing, or is it nothing?
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And as quickly as you can, what are all the ways my body needs to move?
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There is a point in time, because I imagine a lot of people think, and it's very discouraging, that this is not fun, I don't enjoy this, and this is always going to be not fun. But there does come a time, at least I would think for most people who exercise... that they kind of can't live without it anymore. Like if I didn't exercise, I'd go nuts.
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And I don't remember how long it took to get to that point, but do you know how long it took?
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And even with the introduction of video games, board games continue to be very popular. Here with some insight into this is Tim Clare. He is an award-winning writer and author of the book Across the Board, How Games Make Us Human. Hey Tim, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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There is that feeling. I mean, I've never seen anybody walk out of the gym and go, oh God, that was horrible. Even though it probably was horrible, but the feeling of having completed it is a great feeling and it stays with you for a little while. I mean, it's not, it's like, I crave that feeling at the end. I don't crave necessarily doing the exercises, but when it's all done, I feel pretty good.
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Well, I think it's great that people like you continue to try to motivate people, help them find whatever motivation will work because the benefits of exercise are so great and we are not moving enough. I've been talking to Katie Bowman. She is author of the book, I Know I Should Exercise But 44 Reasons We Don't Move and How to Get Over Them.
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And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Katie, I appreciate you coming on and talking about this.
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While the advice to follow your passion may sound good, a lot of us don't really know what our passion is or what our calling is, or at least we're not sure. So here are some ways to determine whether or not what you think is your calling really is. First of all, it could be a calling if it keeps coming back, no matter how much you ignore it.
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A true calling tends to come at you from multiple directions. Gifts, talents, dreams, body symptoms, synchronicities, the books that mysteriously make their way onto your nightstand, the way events and opportunities unfold in your life. Also, there's a feeling of rightness about it. It just feels right. You may not be able to explain it, but you can't deny it either.
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Your enthusiasm for it tends to sustain itself over time. It doesn't really peter out. You even feel a kind of affinity or affection for all the mundane tasks involved in bringing these passions to fruition. And they all have mundane tasks. It will scare you. If a passion feels safe and easy, it's probably not a passion. If it's scary, it means you're close to something vital.
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And that is a passion. And that is something you should know. If you found this episode fun, entertaining, and worthwhile, I hope you will share it with someone. It's easy to do by using that share button that's on the app that you're listening on. And it helps us out. It helps us grow our audience, which is what we're trying to do. I'm Mike Carruthers.
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Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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So there does seem to be something very human that we like to play these kind of games, whether it's rolling the dice or dealing the cards or moving your pieces around the board. Human beings like to play those kinds of games on the top of a table, right?
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Today on Something You Should Know, does having more sex make couples happy, or do happy couples just have more sex? Then, why humans love board games, chess, checkers, Monopoly. And what happened to Backgammon? It used to be hot, then not.
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You know, I remember hearing that, for example, children play ball because they like to play ball. But another reason was that back when human beings were hunter-gatherers, that children playing ball was a way to train them to hunt. It was playing ball in and of itself, but it had another purpose. And I wonder, do board games have another purpose, or is it just the game?
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Yeah. But that's interesting that, as you point out, kittens, if you stop them from playing, it has no impact on their development.
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But it does seem, just common sense-wise, that... having to play games requires that you develop some sort of ability to negotiate, deal with conflict, things that you're going to need in life. I mean, it seems to make sense, but, but as you say, you can't randomize the test. So it's just going to have to be more of a theory than anything else.
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Also, how to figure out your life's calling. And exercise. We all know it's good for us, so why do so many people not do it?
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Well, I have no reason to doubt what you're saying. But you know what comes to mind is an example of a game I find excruciating is Monopoly. That when it's over, it's over. I am so glad this is over. It's gone on forever. And I'm sick of it. And I don't feel joy at the end of that game. I feel relief that it's over. So maybe it helped me be a better negotiator and buy real estate and all that.
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There is that, God, please stop. Please, could this be over?
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We're talking about why it seems the world loves board games. And my guest is Tim Clare, author of the book Across the Board, How Games Make Us Human.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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So, Tim, Parcheesi, Monopoly, a lot of other games that I can't remember the names of, but I know I've played, have one thing in common, and that is this race around the track. There's a track around the edge of the board, and we're all going around in the same way. What is it about that that seems to show up in so many board games?
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I don't know if this is something you looked into, but it's a question that I've wondered about. Do we know how video games have impacted the use of and the sale of board games? Has it made an impact or not?
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So, Arvind, because of your work, you're steeped pretty deep into AI. But for the rest of us, for people who, you know, we understand sort of what it is, but how do you think I could use AI or the average person could use AI in a way that would be really helpful?
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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And so when you say that, you know, it would be worthwhile to use some of these tools and see what they can do, like what? Like if I type a question into Google, am I using AI or is that a different technology? Like what are the AI tools or are they embedded into everything?
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And so I think when people use like ChatGBT or Gemini, there is an assumption that whatever it tells you is probably right. Is it probably right? What's the accuracy rate?
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And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.
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So where is the snake oil? What's the snake oil part of this that has you most concerned?
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Is it just a matter, though, of over time it will kind of work itself out, it'll get better because the more people use it and the more practice it gets, basically, the better it gets?
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Well, I appreciate all you've said. It's helped me get a better understanding of what AI is and what it does and doesn't do. And I'm sure other people listening feel the same way. My guest has been Arvind Narayanan. He is a professor of computer science at Princeton and director of its Center for Information Technology Policy.
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And he is author of a book called AI Snake Oil, What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. And thank you again for coming, Arvind.
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Most of us learned in school about the first Thanksgiving. How pilgrims and Native Americans came together for this big feast and they ate turkey and pumpkin something or other and they gave thanks. And I have to admit, I don't remember too much of what I learned about the first Thanksgiving. And in fact, I wonder how much of what I did learn was in fact fact or fiction.
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Here to talk about what really went on at the first Thanksgiving and how some of our customs around this holiday actually came later is Leslie Landrigan. She's been writing about New England history for over 10 years, and she's author of a book called Historic Thanksgiving Foods and the People Who Cooked Them, 1607 to 1955. Hi, Leslie. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So it seems like there's always been this fascination about what they ate at the first Thanksgiving. I'm not sure why that is, but is it a mystery? Is it a theory? Do we really know what they ate?
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And do we know why that first Thanksgiving, like how these people came together and did they call it Thanksgiving? And like what's, as briefly as you can, what's the quick story of why these people came together? Yeah.
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You know, I don't know why, whether it's because I have this job or I have this job because I like to do this, but I love to uncover fascinating facts about things that I never knew before. And I have uncovered some and would like to share them. And these first facts are all about photography.
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And what was the magic of pumpkin, just because there were so many? I mean, that wasn't something that came over from England, right?
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In addition to a pie, what do you make out of pumpkin?
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Well, if you ever eat pumpkin, because we feed our dog pumpkin on recommendations of the vet, and it isn't much. I mean, without spicing it up, it doesn't really...
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It's pretty bland.
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Right. That's why the dog eats it.
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In 2024, by the time this year is over, an estimated 1.94 trillion photographs will have been taken worldwide. Globally, we capture 5.3 billion photographs daily. That's 61,400 per second. The average American takes 20 photos a day. And there are now approximately 14.3 trillion photographs in existence. And now to completely change the subject, you've heard of Wild Bill Hickok, right? The cowboy?
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At the center of today's Thanksgiving dinner is typically a turkey. Was it their center of the table?
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So can you run down, without going into, you don't have to stop at any of them and go into any detail, we can do that later, but just like, what's the menu look like at these early Thanksgiving-y kind of dinners? What's on the menu?
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Today on Something You Should Know, some fascinating facts you never knew, including one weird one about Wild Bill Hickok, then a top AI expert on the amazing things AI can do, and the false promises, the things AI cannot do.
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What about potatoes, stuffing, and gravy?
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You said the sweet potato didn't come here until the 1700s, but I thought you said that it was at the first Thanksgiving, which would have been before then. No, no, no.
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So there are some foods that I think of as New England-y foods that are often associated with Thanksgiving. And those would be cranberries, apples, things like that. Were those there or not?
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Well, Wild Bill Hickok had a brother. And you know what his name was? Tame Bill Hickok. When George W. Bush was president, he and Saddam Hussein both had their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker. And there is a Mexican language. It's called Zouk. But the language died out in the mid-20th century. Only two people on the planet can speak it.
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Were the early settlers here, the pilgrims, were they big on vegetables, meaning did they have peas and celery and carrots and things like that?
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So talk about the people, because you mentioned the one woman who was kind of the Martha Stewart of her, or bigger than Martha Stewart. But I imagine that there are other people in this story that kind of steer the menu a bit, or the legend of the menu. Yes? Yes.
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So you have this image that we got in school of, you know, the Native Americans and the pilgrims coming together as some sort of like community dinner and that they're all getting together. Mm-hmm. and sharing their food. Is that what this was? Was there a lot of, let me help you cook that, or here's how we do it here as Native Americans, or was there that kind of relationship?
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And those two people are feuding and refuse to speak to each other. And that is something you should know. There is so much talk today about artificial intelligence, AI. And my sense is that AI has been around long enough that the people, the experts who talk about it, presume we all know what it is and how it works.
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So the natives and the pilgrims have this big meal together. But was this like a special occasion? They came together, had this meal, and then they went their separate ways? Or did these people mingle together all the time?
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What else about this holiday, or the first Thanksgiving anyway, or the early traditions of Thanksgiving, do you find people still don't understand or maybe is a bit of a myth or anything like that?
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But the idea of Thanksgiving, as you say, came later. So what did they view it as? When they came together, they're coming together saying, hey, thanks for coming to our what?
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Well, it sounds like the Thanksgiving we have today that we celebrate in our homes with our family and friends is very different than those early Thanksgivings and, frankly, seems a lot tastier. But it is fun to hear you talk about what those real Thanksgiving meals were like. I've been speaking with Leslie Landrigan.
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She is author of a book called Historic Thanksgiving Foods and the People Who Cooked Them, 1607 to 1955. And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Leslie, thank you.
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Why is printer ink so expensive? A lot of people ask that question. And according to Consumer Reports, there are actually some good answers to that question. You might not like them, but they're good answers. For one thing, the engineering that goes into printer ink today is really expensive.
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But I'll tell you, and maybe it's just me, but my understanding of AI is pretty elementary. I get it, but I don't really understand how it works or what it does or what it doesn't do on any kind of deep level. In other words, there's a lot more about AI and the different kinds of AI that I don't know compared to what I do know. And I suspect I'm not the only one.
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Today's printers have to fire thousands of drops of ink per second, representing four different colors with tremendous accuracy, and that ink needs to be quick-drying, water and smear resistant, and avoid making the page curl up. It also has to prevent the tiny little ink jets from getting clogged. All of that costs a lot of money. Turns out that a lot of ink gets wasted.
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Well, it's not wasted, but it's not for printing. Printers use ink in two ways. First, of course, the ink is used to print documents and images, but the inkjets also use ink just to clean the printheads. According to one expert, it's typical for an inkjet printer to waste as much ink on maintenance as it does on printing documents. Another reason is, in essence, you're paying off the printer.
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Think of the price of the printer as a down payment. It's theorized that some printers cost more to make than the price they sell for. But the printer companies make up the difference by marking up the ink. And that is something you should know. For a successful podcast like this to stay successful, we always need new listeners. Because, as you can imagine, listeners come, listeners go.
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And so we constantly need to attract new listeners. And you can help by telling people you know about this podcast and suggesting they give a listen. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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So, given how much AI seems to be creeping into our lives, I wanted to find someone who could help bring us up to speed on the latest in what AI is, what it does, and what it cannot do. And here to do that is Arvind Narayanan. He's a professor of computer science at Princeton and director of its Center for Information Technology Policy.
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He was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in AI. And he's co-author of a book titled AI Snake Oil, What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference. Hey, Arvind, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, Mike. Thank you for having me. So on a very fundamental, simple level, what is AI?
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Also, the real reason printer ink is so expensive and a look back at what they really ate at the first Thanksgiving.
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So you mentioned some different kinds of artificial intelligence just now. Can you go through and just explain what each one of them does? Or is that just too complicated to do?
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And so when it's predicting the next word in a sequence, where is it pulling from to come up with that word?
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And so now talk about predictive AI and what that is and how it's different and how it works and all that.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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But all it's doing is it's predicting based on the past, right? I mean, that's pretty much it.
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What about this whole idea, though? We hear about AI and people throw that term around so much that AI can, you know, fake things and it can create images of people that aren't real. It can replace, you know, actors in a movie. I don't get all that.
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There have been very prominent people who have sounded the alarm that AI is dangerous. And we've heard things about how, you know, what if it develops a mind of its own? There's all this stuff that's very scary sounding. And I just don't know, is that real? What is the big concern that people like Elon Musk and others have? What are they worried about? What's the problem?
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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I'm speaking with one of the smartest guys I've ever met when it comes to AI. His name is Arvind Narayanan. He's one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in AI. And he's author of a book called AI Snake Oil. What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference.
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So when you just said, like, when you were a child, if you were anxious and neurotic, well, why were you anxious and neurotic? Do we know where those things come from, or they just...
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Why is it that some people are just luckier than others? That's the topic we're starting this episode with today. Hi and welcome to Something You Should Know. How lucky you are probably depends in large part on how you define luck. But we know that people who consider themselves lucky do have some interesting characteristics. Anxious people tend to be more unlucky.
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So everything that happens to you is part of your personality, but your personality also affects everything that happens to you.
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Has anybody looked at when people try to change their personality, it's kind of a big term, but how many times does it take? How successful are people? Is it 3% of people who try succeed or is it the other way around? I mean, is this a daunting task or is this something that if you put your mind to it, it's not that tough?
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I want to get a better sense that if you try to change your personality, are you always trying to change your personality? Are you always pushing against the grain that here's your personality and this thing you're doing is not your personality? Or does it become your personality? Do you become more neat, more on time, more extroverted, and that's now who you are?
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And my last question is, and it's maybe a personal question to you, but also if there's research about this, when people decide that they're going to make a change in their personality or attempt to, is it because something happened or is it just a decision one day kind of out of the blue?
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In one study, people were asked to read a newspaper. Some of the people identified themselves as lucky, while others said they were unlucky. On one half page of the newspaper, it said in large letters, Tell the experimenter you've seen this and win $300.
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Well, as I think you said, you can change your personality, but you have to work at it. You have to do something every day. But I think that comes as good news to people because, I mean, I've always thought your personality is your personality, and that's who you are and who you're going to be for the most part.
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And I think it's liberating to know that if you really think it's something to change, then... Then change it. I've been speaking with Olga Kazan. She's a staff writer for The Atlantic and author of the book, Me But Better, The Science and Promise of Personality Change. And there's a link to her book in the show notes. Olga, appreciate you coming on and talking about this. Thanks.
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Something interesting to me, not sure why, is trash. It's interesting because, like most everyone else, I sort my trash, put stuff in the appropriate bins, and then put it out on the curb, and it gets taken somewhere. It goes to a landfill, or the recyclables get recycled somewhere, probably not too far away, and it's all very efficient.
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The people who said they were lucky were more likely to have seen that, while the unlucky people seemed to demonstrate more anxiety, which detracted from their powers of observation, which made them less likely to see that. Serendipity seems to matter a lot. Chance meetings with strangers and old friends increase the likelihood that good things will happen.
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And yet, as you're about to learn, it's not all that efficient. Some of the recyclables that you go to the trouble of separating out end up in the landfill with the trash. A lot of it cannot be recycled. Some of it gets shipped to other countries for all sorts of reasons. And plastic presents a whole set of problems that a few decades ago we didn't have to deal with.
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Here to explain what really happens to your trash is Alexander Clapp. He is a journalist and writer based in Greece, and his reporting has appeared in the New York Times and The Economist and other places. He's the author of a book called Waste Wars, The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash. Hi, Alexander. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you, Mike. Thank you for having me.
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So I put my trash and my recyclables and my yard waste, I put them in their bins, and I like to think good things happen to them. But, you know, it's all very vague. Like, I hear that some of the trash goes to other countries and that that causes environmental problems, and I don't really know what happens.
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Well, that's not what people had in mind. Because when you think of recycling, you think you're doing a good thing, that you're helping the planet and all that. And in fact, perhaps not. And I had heard that for a long time, China used to take a lot of our recyclables and or trash and don't anymore. So now a lot of it does end up in landfills because nobody really wants it. That's right.
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So you have to put yourself in situations where those encounters are more likely to occur. People who do tend to be luckier. Attitude helps too. A positive go-getter attitude is more likely the attitude of a lucky person. And even lucky charms seem to work. Why? because people believe they do. And that is something you should know.
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And so what's the future of this? I mean, it sounds like, you know, here, you take it, I don't want it. No, no, you take it, I don't want it. And nobody really wants it. So where's this headed?
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That comes as a surprising statement, I think, to many people because the whole point of plastic was, well, not necessarily the whole point, but in addition to the convenience that it provides, that you could do something with it. You could recycle it into something else and that, see, isn't this great? And we've got nothing to worry about.
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If plastic is so not able to do what it was promised to do, why doesn't there, at least from my perspective, doesn't there seem to be a shift away from plastic, maybe back to glass bottles or maybe to other kinds of packaging? I don't see any change. If anything, it looks like there's more plastic than ever.
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But here's the thing, though. There are so many, well, I don't know how many, but there are a lot of products that exist as plastic that seemingly can't be anything else. I mean, your credit cards can't be anything other than plastic, it would seem to me. I don't know what else they could be. There are other products. I'm sure we could think of a bunch of them if we sat here long enough.
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Today on Something You Should Know, the interesting things lucky people have in common. Then, there are strategies to change your personality. And do the people who make the change like the change?
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I would imagine, if you thought about it for a moment, I would imagine there are at least parts of your personality you would change if you could. Maybe you've thought, I wish I could be more like that person. You know, more outgoing or less critical or whatever it is. But you probably think that changing your personality seems almost impossible.
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Then what do you do? It's a really good question.
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And yet they're not, or they're not like they used to be. I remember seeing a picture of a store shelf of soda from the 50s, and it's all glass bottles. And today, there's not a single glass bottle.
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But there's no uproar. I mean, well, you're uproaring a little bit here, but there's no big, like, I did an interview that's always stuck with me. It was just a couple of years ago of someone from Consumer Reports that said that we all ingest about a credit card's worth of plastic every week. I think it was every week. That's right. That's just frightening. But there it is.
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What does the plastic industry say about this? I mean, or do they just sweep it under the rug? I mean, do they have a counter argument to all of this of why we need all this plastic or do they just pretend not to notice?
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When I think of plastic, I tend to think of consumer items, bottles, things around my house that are plastic. But is that the real problem or is it other kinds of plastic, industrial plastic or something else that's the real problem?
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You are who you are and you can't change it a whole lot. Or can you? Maybe you can, according to my guest, Olga Kazan. She is a staff writer for The Atlantic, and she has also written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. She's author of a book called Me But Better, The Science and Promise of Personality Change. Hi, Olga. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So changing your personality or parts of your personality seems daunting because I believe, and I think most people believe, your personality is your personality. And yes, you can change it a little bit, and it probably changes by itself over time. But ultimately, you are who you are, and that's it. That's who you are.
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Also, what your handshake might reveal about your risk of illness. And what happens to all the plastic you think you're recycling?
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And were happy they did it?
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Well, I guess one thing I'd like to get a better focus on, a handle on, is what is your personality? How do you define that?
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So can you run down the five traits of personality?
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Well, here's the thing that I find so fascinating about this is you, as part of your personality, would you say that whether you're, say, a neat person or a slob or somewhere on that spectrum, that's part of your personality, yes?
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And so how many times have people, maybe more so people who are messy, say, I wish I were neater? Well, there's nothing stopping you from being neater. No one's saying you can't be neater. People lament that they wish they were neater, but they don't get neater. So what's that?
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That's interesting because I would think if you have a driving urge to change something about yourself, It's always fascinated me. Well, then just go do that. People make it sound as if it's not possible. Like, oh, I wish I could be more like that. Well, give it a try. Why not? But there's this invisible wall that I can't get there from here.
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So what do you do about that?
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It would seem that something like introversion would be hard to change. I know nothing of the science, but that feels more hardwired than anything. That if you're introverted and you do what you suggested or what you did, of going out and taking an improv class and really getting out there, that you would come home and go, oh my God, that was exhausting. I mean, I don't ever want to do that again.
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That it just feels wrong. No?
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So when you came back from that improv class, did you go, wow, that was great, or wow, that was, or what did you, how did it feel?
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We're talking about how to change parts of your personality. And my guest is Olga Kazan, author of the book Me But Better, The Science and Promise of Personality Change.
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So Olga, I think what you said before is really important that people may want to change their personality. You know, I wish I had more friends. I wish I was more outgoing. I wish I was not late all the time. But if you don't know the steps to take to get from here to there, then you're really stuck.
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Do you think, or does the science say, or do you think, that personality changes much over time? And I guess what I mean by that is, you know, it's kind of like you look at yourself in the mirror every day for 80 years, you don't notice the change, because you're seeing yourself every day. But I wonder if the same thing is true with personality.
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Are we very different at 80 years later, or is the core of our personality still the same?
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Today on Something You Should Know, the hidden dangers of women's shoes, then the surprising ways data can help you make better choices from finding a mate, being happy, or getting rich.
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So, Seth, we've talked about this on this podcast before. Isn't being out in nature a real contributor to happiness?
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Maybe on the flip side of that, you talk about the misery-inducing traps of modern life where maybe these are the things people are doing or buying to seek happiness that don't deliver.
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What in all the data that you looked at, what, if we haven't talked about it, surprised you the most or that you found the most interesting?
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I know you found some surprising data on parenting that I think any parent would be interested in hearing about what affects how their kids turn out.
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What does the data say about the role of luck in your life? Because it seems to me it plays a bigger role than a lot of people think it does.
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Well, you talk a little bit about the outsider's edge, which is this concept that, you know, people who aren't in the know on something have an advantage because they bring like this fresh thinking that they're not. What is that?
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What are some of the other myths that you uncovered?
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Well, I always enjoy these conversations that explain how the data either confirms or denies the conventional wisdom. And as you just pointed out, how the data proves that a lot of conventional wisdom is a myth. It's always fun to hear that. Seth Stevens Davidovitz has been my guest. And the name of his book is Don't Trust Your Gut, Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life.
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And there's a link to his book in the show notes. I appreciate it, Seth. This was great. Thanks so much, Michael.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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Hi. I'm one of those people that doesn't really like wearing shoes all that much. Around the house, I pretty much wear socks, and I'll admit that I'm not wearing shoes right now. And I may be on to something because wearing shoes can be dangerous, especially high heels. In fact, in one survey, over half the female population in the U.S. say they have been injured as a result of wearing high heels.
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When you think about weather, you probably think of things like temperature, rain, wind, snow, those kind of things, because those are the things we're familiar with and have experienced. Hey, Tristan, welcome. Thanks for coming on. Sure. Thanks for having me on.
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I guess because we're in it all the time and we see weather forecasts on TV, we think we have a pretty good working knowledge of weather, right?
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Yeah. Well, not only have I never noticed that, but as you say, you know, it's counterintuitive to think that under a tree would be warmer. You would think that, that out in the sun you would be warmer and under the tree it would be colder, but, but the reverse is true. And yeah, these are things like you would never, well, how did I not notice that?
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And according to data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, there have actually been injuries associated with wearing high heels that resulted in trips to the emergency room. In fact, between 2002 and 2012, there were 123,355 high heel related injuries seen in the emergency room during that period. That's about 12,000 a year.
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So tell me some of the ways that trees help. You said that the southern side of a tree is bigger. What do you mean?
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So let's talk about clouds, because I mean, you walk outside, you look at clouds, there they are. And we sometimes see images in them, and some of them look different than others. So give me the ABCs of clouds.
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and it was people between the ages of 20 and 29 who were most likely to suffer an injury. Now, some historians suggest that high heels have been around for nearly 300 years, and medical professionals have been warning about the dangers of high heels for roughly the same amount of time.
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So this might be fun, maybe. Let's take a walk down an imaginary street or imaginary path and tell me some of the things that you would notice that tell you where you are or where you're going or help you navigate.
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When you see weather, when you see it rain or snow or it's real windy, is that telling you something?
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60% of women claim to regret at least one purchase of shoes, most women only wear four pairs of shoes regularly, and 25% of their shoe collection have only been worn once. And that is something you should know. You make a lot of big decisions in your life based solely on your gut. What feels right? Mostly because there really isn't much else to go on.
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Let's talk about wind. What makes the wind blow, and why is wind so interesting?
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And so why doesn't the pressure all just equal out and be done with it? Why does it change?
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What is dew and frost?
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So you use your own judgment to decide things like who to date, who to marry, what career path to follow, figuring out what makes you happy, how to be a good parent. But what if there was some objective data on these topics that could really help you make better choices? Well, there is, according to economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stevens Davidovitz.
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So what's one more way that you can navigate in the world through looking at nature?
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Also, how working too much makes you boring and forgetful. And so much about weather you never knew and how weather affects everything, even how trees grow.
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Well, it's funny, as you're talking, I'm looking out the window and looking at the tops of trees and looking at the south side of the trees that I see. It's really interesting. I know that when I drive the next time, I'm going to be checking out some of the things that you've been talking about. Tristan Gooley's been my guest.
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His book is called The Secret World of Weather, and you'll find a link to his book in the show notes. Thanks for being here, Tristan. This was fun.
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When holidays or vacations or weekends roll around, are you one of those people who can really dive in and enjoy that time off? Or do you find ways to keep doing your work? Well, if you like to keep working on your days off, listen to this. It turns out that working too hard and putting in a lot of overtime in order to climb the ladder can actually mess things up for you in the future.
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According to a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, too much work over the years can leave you absent-minded, dull your creative edge, and leave you more prone to dementia. In the study, the people who worked the most overtime hours saw a significant drop in reasoning power and vocabulary skills by the time they hit their early 50s. So, when it comes to overtime, maybe less is more.
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He's author of a book called Don't Trust Your Gut, using data to get what you really want in life. Hi, David. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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And that is something you should know. Supposedly, the best advertising is word of mouth, and that is certainly the case when it comes to this podcast. The people who listen tell their friends, and then they tell their friends, and that's how we grow our audience. If you would like to help, please share this podcast with someone you think would enjoy listening. I'm Mike Carruthers.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice.
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So I really like this idea, this idea of like using data and algorithms to make better choices, which we generally don't do. So explain how you came up with this idea.
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To which some might say, well, maybe some of these big questions are not better served by data. Maybe the old-fashioned way of trusting your gut and doing it the way grandma did it is better. So as you look at the whole thing, when the dust settles, do you come away saying data's a better way, or it's too individual, or data's not a better way?
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Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
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So let's dive into some of these specifically. And I wanted to maybe start with wealth, because I think there's this kind of skewed view of the best way to get rich and the best way to be wealthy. So what does the data say?
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Well, I imagine a lot of it has to do with what kind of business you run or own, because there are plenty of statistics about how most new businesses fail. Restaurants go out of business a lot of the time.
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So I guess mainly because these things are so visible, a lot of young people think the path to wealth is being an athlete or being a celebrity on YouTube or trying to be a Kardashian or something like that, that I imagine the odds of that are pretty low.
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Well, isn't that true of any business? The people who, no matter what business, the few that are the real high achievers are the hustlers.
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So let's talk about happiness, because I think people have a sense of what happiness is and where it comes from. What does the data say?
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Well, that's too simple.
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We're talking about data and how it can prove or disprove conventional wisdom and help you make better choices in life. Seth Stevens Davidovitz is my guest. His book is called Don't Trust Your Gut.
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I'm speaking with Peter Bregman, and we're talking about how to change other people. Peter is a well-respected consultant and coach and author, and the name of his book is You Can Change Other People. If I asked you what's one thing you'd like to do right now to improve yourself, your health, your well-being, I suspect near the top of that list is drop some weight.
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Additional taxes, fees, and restrictions apply. See Mint Mobile for details. So, Peter, so far we've used this example of you and your daughter, but that kind of relationship is a very close relationship, and as your daughter, she respects you and cares about what you think, I imagine. So, what about, though, in a work situation where you've got somebody who needs to change?
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Maybe they're a member of the team, and... But they don't see a problem. They're hard to align with and be an ally for to solve a problem if they don't see the problem.
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For example, they have the Internet's best converting checkout, 36% better on average compared to other leading commerce platforms. They have this thing, it's the Shopify Bundles app, where you can create and sell product bundles with ease. So you sell more. They also have something called the Shopify Collective.
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I wonder what it is that if people want to change online, why they need somebody else to help them change, why they need that ally? What happens there that people just don't do it on their own?
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Yeah, well, that makes perfect sense that, you know, you're too close to the problem. It's your problem. It's always easier to help other people. It's always easier to solve somebody else's problem than your own.
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How do you start this process? How do you approach someone who you would like to see change and get them to buy into this?
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Well, yeah, that's a kind of a good way to feather the nest there and make it so that that conversation goes so much better. But I think you have to be very careful not to slip back into critic once the conversation starts. Seems like that would be very easy to do if you're not careful.
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But it does get back to the idea that you can't change people who don't want to be changed. You can't solve a problem that the person doesn't think exists.
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When I think about trying to get someone else to change, I've always thought of it more of as a, you know, I'm right, you're wrong conversation. kind of problem, that you need to do this because I said so. And what you're talking about is a very different approach that aligns the parties and probably has a lot better chance of success. Peter Bregman has been my guest.
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He is a consultant and coach and author. The name of his book is You Can Change Other People, and you can find a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you, Peter. Appreciate the insight.
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How often have you heard people make a claim about something and say, but it's scientifically proven. There's real science here. Often it involves food, nutrition, or some other health claim that must be true because of the science. Well, not so fast.
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Here to give us all a better understanding about what is and isn't science, and how that word science gets misused in order to mislead, is Dr. Joe Schwartz. He's director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society. He's the author of several books. He's been a guest here before, and his latest book is called Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex, Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life.
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Hey Joe, welcome back. Merry Christmas. Hi, Michael. So let's start with superfoods, because I hear that expression a lot that, you know, blueberries are a superfood or, you know, pick your food, but that a lot of foods are labeled superfoods.
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Hey there. Welcome to Something You Should Know. When you listen to music, there's a pretty good chance that you listen on headphones or earbuds. I think I, whenever I listen to music, practically, I'm listening on headphones or earbuds. And the question is, does listening to music on headphones or earbuds cause hearing loss? Well, it does for a lot of people.
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So talk about this term biobase. We hear this a lot about fuels like, oh, we need more biobased fuels because that's better for the environment and we're going to run out of fossil fuels. What about that?
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You see, according to experts at Harvard, regardless of the source of the sound, hearing loss is the result of three factors. Volume of sound, the duration of the sound, and how far away the source of the sound is from your ears.
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Well, if you're listening to music on headphones, the volume can be pretty loud, the duration can be pretty long, and it would be hard to be any closer to your ear than headphones get. So you see the problem. There's an additional issue. Portable music devices have updated over the years to adapt to higher qualities of digital sound.
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Talk about the science of old book smell. Anybody who has opened an old book, maybe in a library or something that hasn't been opened in a long time, there's a very distinctive old book smell. And you talk about that.
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What's the science behind duct tape or the science about duct tape?
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I mean, I get press releases all the time about, you know, this is the end of the world kind of thing. And I think people don't really know much about it or really know how big a concern it is. So clear that up.
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With old audio devices, when the sound got too loud, the music didn't sound right. The bass would often distort and it would just sound horrible in your ear, so you would naturally lower the volume. But now, with digital sound, you can turn up the volume and it doesn't distort, so there's a tendency to turn up the volume.
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Just be aware that listening to loud music for long periods of time on headphones or earbuds will take a toll on your hearing. It pretty much has to. And that is something you should know. I'm sure you've heard the common wisdom that you cannot change other people. That generally people don't change. And if they do change, they have to change themselves.
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Well, great, Joe. It's always a pleasure to have you on. I enjoy listening to your scientific explanations because they're unique and they make you think. I've been speaking with Dr. Joe Schwartz. He is director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society. He's the author of several books. His latest is called Superfoods, Silkworms and Spandex, Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life.
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And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes if you would like to buy it. Thank you for coming on again, Joe. Always a pleasure. I appreciate that very much. Thank you. You've probably heard the theory that having a pet dog is somehow good for your health. And you may have wondered, well, how? Like, how does that work? Well, here's one way it works.
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Scientists took a look at 421 heart attack victims, some dog owners, some not dog owners. They found the dog owners were far more likely to survive the heart attack than the non-dog owners. Dog owners are less obese and more active physically and socially. Another study found that pet owners have to go to the doctor less often than people with no pet.
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The study looked at kids, too, and those kids with pets had stronger comforting and empathy skills and a better sense of overall well-being. So those are just some examples of how having a pet dog is good for your health. And that is something you should know. I assume you've enjoyed this podcast since you made it all the way to the end of the episode.
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And so since you did enjoy it, perhaps you could tell someone you know and ask them to give a listen and help us grow our audience. I'm Micah Brothers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. There is a fascinating and unique podcast I'd like you to check out, as I have. It's called Only One in the Room.
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A few years back, Laura Cathcart Robbins attended a writer's retreat where out of 600 attendees, she was the only black one. So later she wrote about her experience and the article went viral because people understand what it feels like to be the only one in the room. Only one in the room is for anyone who has ever felt alone in a room full of people. I bet you've had that feeling.
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That trying to change other people is a waste of time. Well, meet someone who disagrees with that. Peter Bregman. Peter is a well-respected consultant and coach who has authored several books, one of which is called You Can Change Other People. And as he'll explain, it's not about manipulating people. And, well, I'll let him explain it. Hi, Peter. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Today on Something You Should Know, the problem with listening to music with headphones and how to solve it. Then, can you really change other people? Sometimes, if you know the process.
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So since there is this common belief that you cannot change other people, explain why you can and why you would and why you'd want to, and what's the point of all of this?
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It also seems though that one of the reasons people don't change is that when you try to change somebody, you're trying to change them to fit your needs and wants and desires. It may have nothing to do with them. You want them to do what you want to do.
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And so we've been talking so far in kind of the abstract. Can you give me an example of how you would change somebody so I get a better sense of what you're talking about?
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Also, you've heard that having a pet is good for your health. So how does that work exactly? And some everyday science explained on things like plastics, old book smell, and superfoods.
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And so it would seem that if the answer is no, if permission is not granted, that's pretty much the end of that.
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So clearly in a situation like that, the person you're trying to change has to value what you have to say. In this case, your daughter obviously is going to value what her father has to say, but that isn't always the case. People have varying feelings about the people in their life who are trying to change them and may not respect what they have to say or advice they have to offer.
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What about the momentum of this? It seems like you could have this conversation with your daughter, but a week later, there might be another plate of cookies again.
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What about though, when you're in a situation with someone and let's just change the nature of the conversation, you walk in your daughter's eating the last cookie of this plate of cookies that she's been up till, till four in the morning and she doesn't see a problem with it. Why don't you just get off her back?
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So Chris, when I think about my dread list that I've just been compiling in my head here, I think about what a weight off your shoulders that would be instead of carrying around these thoughts of these things that you keep putting off doing.
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You say not finishing things is one of the great joys of life. And I have a hard time grasping what that must mean.
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You know, I've only walked out of one movie, I think, or maybe two, maybe two, but, but it's a weird feeling because of what you just said, because, well, I paid for the ticket. Am I cheating myself? But I, I don't like this movie. I, I don't get it. I don't know what's going on. I don't know who that guy is. And, um, yeah,
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It's a weird feeling because you're like, yeah, okay, I'm claiming my time back. But what about that movie?
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So Chris, how does time perception fit into this discussion? Because, you know, I think it's pretty well established. People agree that as you get older, it seems that time goes by faster. And that is our time perception.
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If somebody's feeling time anxiety, how do you put your toe in the water? If you really want to get a handle on this, where's the best place to start?
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Talk about the difference between leisure time and more structured work time, say. Because there is this theory that you should schedule your leisure time, but there's resistance to that. I don't want to schedule all my leisure time. I like to have some time to do nothing or whatever. What do you say about leisure time?
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Well, I must say that does sound like a rather odd thing to do to just go wander around an airport. But hey, if that's what makes him happy, who am I to say?
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Yeah. Well, I feel better hearing you say that really everybody suffers from some time anxiety to some extent and at some point in their life. So, you know, there's comfort in numbers. But also, you've given some great ways to combat time anxiety, which is a waste of time. Chris Guillebeau has been my guest.
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He's author of a book called Time Anxiety, The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live. There's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Chris, hey, thanks. Thanks again. I'm sure you'll be back. Thanks so much, Mike.
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If I were to ask you to make a list of the most interesting body parts, ones that would warrant a discussion on something you should know, my guess is that the neck would not be very high on your list. But that is probably because you don't know much about the neck. It is the highway or the tunnel between your head and your body. And if you're a giraffe, well, that's a pretty long tunnel.
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A lot goes on in your neck, and here to explain what it is is Kent Dunlap. He's a professor of biology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he teaches physiology and anatomy, and he's author of a book called The Neck, A Natural and Cultural History. Hey, Kent, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here. So why the neck?
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I guess we have to start there because, you know, I've done thousands of interviews and never once has the topic of the neck been pitched to me or come up in conversation. Your neck's just your neck. So why are we talking about the neck?
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Well, then the giraffe must have a really big chapter in your book.
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Well, I'm glad we don't do that. I'm so glad. So you said that it has fascinating biology to it and fascinating cultural aspects to it. Can you just give me, before we dive deeper, but just like an example of what you mean by both of those things?
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And it has things like the larynx in it and all that, but does it have other functions that I might not be aware of or that are not obvious to me other than holding my head up?
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Who wouldn't want to be more persuasive? And in a moment, I'll tell you how. Hi and welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. If you've ever tried to persuade someone of something and they don't like your idea, you probably think it's because they don't like your idea. But not necessarily.
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For things to pass between the head and the body... And it goes through the neck. Where is that? My sense is that it's in the back of the neck, like things come up from the spine, as opposed to in the front of my neck, where it doesn't seem like there's a lot going on there.
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My neck is pretty good at turning, like I can turn my head. I can't turn my head all the way around like I see many birds do, but I can turn pretty far, and how come that doesn't bother anything in my neck?
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Let's cross over to the cultural part for a moment. Is a neck a neck, or do we maybe unconsciously look at someone and we don't think, God, they have a beautiful neck, but there's something about the neck that's appealing? Is there any of that going on?
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But when we're looking for a mate, do we take the neck into account? Is there attractive and unattractive necks, even though I don't consciously think about that?
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Well, we've been talking, what, about nine minutes, and this is the longest conversation and the longest time I've ever spent thinking about the neck. It's just not something I think about. But what about the human neck versus the neck of other animals? Like, are they more spectacular than we are when it comes to our necks?
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The human neck, though, is somewhat fragile, right? I mean, if you break your neck, that's not good.
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They don't like you. If you listen carefully to how people respond, you can determine which of those three reasons the person is using and then address that to try to change their mind. It takes careful listening, but it can greatly improve your ability to persuade other people. And that is something you should know. When I say the term time anxiety, you know exactly what I mean.
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Well, you know, I never thought so much about, but you just mentioned it a moment ago, about how we decorate the neck with necklaces and ties and priest collars and things like that. That's a place where we kind of announce our status in some ways.
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And what else culturally is interesting about the neck? Because when you think about it, Your neck is really right there. I mean, you don't hide it much. You decorate it. But it's there for everyone to see. So it must have other cultural significance.
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Isn't that interesting how we tend to turn our neck? But it's not like I do it deliberately.
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Do people study the neck? It doesn't seem like it to me. I don't hear about a lot of neck research going on.
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See, I never think of a whale as having a neck.
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It's that constant hounding voice in your head telling you you've got too much to do. You don't have enough time to do it. You're going to be late for that thing you need to get to. Time is your enemy. Well, what if all of that is just a myth? What if that pervasive sense of time scarcity stems not from a lack of hours in the day, but from your unrealistic expectations and misaligned priorities?
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And we have expressions like pain in the neck, like why, why that?
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Let me ask you, you're a professor, you teach biology. There's lots of parts of the body you could have taken a closer look at. Why the neck for you?
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You said in the beginning, and I've been thinking about it as you've been talking, that the giraffe has, you know, a six-foot neck, that to get air and blood and nerve endings and whatever else you have to get through that distance is, that's remarkable, right?
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Well, this is more about the neck than I thought I would ever know. And I'm glad you came on because I would have never thought to like seek this information out, but it's really interesting. I've been speaking with Kent Dunlap, who is a professor of biology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. And he's author of the book, The Neck, A Natural and Cultural History.
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There's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Great, Kent. Good job. Thanks.
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Do you use bleach to clean inside your home? If so, you might find this interesting. There seems to be a connection between passive exposure to bleach and increased infections and respiratory problems in children. Researchers looked at 9,000 children in the Netherlands, Finland, and Spain. At the time of this study, use of bleach in homes was common in Spain, 72%, and rare in Finland, 7%.
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And all Spanish schools were cleaned with bleach while Finnish schools were not.
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After taking into account influential factors like passive smoking at home, parental education, the presence of household mold, and use of bleach to clean school premises, the findings indicated that the number and frequency of infections were higher among children whose parents regularly use bleach to clean their homes in all three countries.
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What if, in fact, the world won't end if you don't get to that thing? You don't have to get it all done when you think you do. Here to talk about this, and he's got the proof to back up what he says, is Chris Guillebeau. He's been here before talking about how to start a side hustle and how to launch your own small business. And he has a new book out, and he's really done the research on this.
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This is what is called an observational study, so no big conclusions came from it, but there does seem to be a relationship between the use of bleach to clean homes and childhood illness. And that is something you should know.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
The book is called Time Anxiety, The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live. Hi, Chris. Welcome back. Always good to have you on Something You Should Know. Hey, Mike. Thanks for having me back. So I don't think I've heard the term time anxiety before I saw it on your book. But as soon as I saw it, I thought, well, yeah, I have that. That's me.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
Today on Something You Should Know, a way to instantly be more persuasive in any situation. Then, how to stop that feeling of time anxiety and take back control of your time.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
I have a problem that everything is equally urgent. It's got to get done right away. Time's running out. And if that's wrong, tell me why I'm wrong.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
So when I think about this, the symptom or the experience that I have that I don't like and that I think a lot of people have is you wake up in the morning and you know you have some things to do. And in my head... They have all equal importance. And yet in reality, they do not have all equal importance. They, and some of them could probably disappear.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
And, but I feel that wave of, oh my God, there's so much to do.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
Well, another part of it, I think it's part of it, is this idea that people are expecting me to do something. They're waiting to hear from me or that the ball's in my court and I need to hit it back. And maybe they're waiting for me, but probably they're not sitting around going, God, where is he? I really haven't heard from him.
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Also, if you clean with bleach in your house, you need to hear something. And your neck. It's a biological wonder, and it says a lot.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
So I buy into all of that. And then when you say, and somehow we have to let that go, therein lies the problem. Sure. How? Yeah.
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Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck
I wonder how much, and you know, this gets more into the psychological part of all of this, but how much... of a person's day is taken up with things that you do because you don't want to face your marriage or your troubled child. So you fill your day up with things to keep you away from that because that's a problem.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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My God, that is the best piece of advice I've heard in, I don't know how, have a to dread list. Yeah. I'm speaking with Chris Guillebeau. He's author of a new book called Time Anxiety, The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live.
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How You Are Being Psychologically Targeted & The Extraordinary Power of Curiosity
We're talking about psychological targeting. Sandra Matz is my guest. She's a professor at Columbia Business School and author of the book Mind Masters, The Data Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior. Thank you for having me. It's a bit similar to something you should know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed. Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids.
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What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff. Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. Think about all the online businesses selling products, ones that you probably buy. Mattel, Gymshark, Untuckit, Magic Spoon, all solid businesses. But a key ingredient to any successful online business is the business behind the business that makes the whole selling and checkout process work.
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And for millions of businesses, that business is Shopify. Shopify is the number one checkout on the planet. And the not-so-secret secret is something they have called ShopPay that boosts conversions up to 50%, meaning way less carts going abandoned and way more sales going...
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So if you're into growing your business, your commerce platform better be ready to sell wherever your customers are scrolling or strolling. On the web, in your store, in their feed, and everywhere in between. The fact is, businesses that sell more sell on Shopify. Upgrade your business and get the same checkout Mattel and Gymshark and millions of other companies use.
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Also, do you love your snooze alarm or hate it? There are some things worth knowing about it. And curiosity, it's a powerful tool and there are a lot of ways to make it work for you.
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Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash SYSK, all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash SYSK to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com slash SYSK. So, Sandra, when a camera captures me walking down the street, does my image get recognized? Do they use facial recognition and they know who I am?
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And then does that image get paired with all this other data as part of a package of information about me?
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The companies that do this make money because they then sell the information to other companies? Is that the business model?
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There seems to be like two competing thoughts here that... People are afraid that all this data is being collected about them, but then it also seems that people kind of have thrown their hands up and said, well, there's nothing you can do, so let's not even worry about it. Should we be worried about it?
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What about the people who think, because they say so, that they're off the grid? They're not shopping online. They're not doing things. They're not using email. So nobody can track them, to which you would say...
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming, and even still there are no guarantees. Which is why, when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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See, I've always figured, I mean, obviously the credit card company knows what I bought because it's on the statement, and whoever I bought it from knows I bought it from them. But the credit card companies then sell that data to somebody else?
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That is very surprising because then you would think somebody would come out with a credit card that says, you know, use our credit card and we won't sell your data.
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So you often hear the advice that you have to protect your data, but I don't know how to do that. I mean, what does that mean to protect our data?
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And you see, Indeed has this thing called Sponsored Jobs. So your post jumps to the top of the page for relevant candidates. So you can reach the people you want to reach faster. And it works. Now here's what I think is the magic of Indeed.
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Given where we are, what is it that you recommend people do or what is it you do maybe different than what I do to protect as best you can your own data?
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Yeah. There does seem, you know, there just does seem to be this whole feeling of, well, there's nothing you can do. And the symptom of that to me has always been like, you know, people have these smart speakers in their house listening all the time and nobody seems to care. Yeah.
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Well, this whole subject of psychological targeting is something I don't think people truly understand or don't understand it in the depth that they probably need to. So I really appreciate you explaining all this. Sandra Matz has been my guest.
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They take this process of hiring, which is something you probably don't do a lot or feel really skilled at, and they guide you through it so you end up with the right person for the job quickly. Plus, with Indeed-sponsored jobs, there are no monthly subscriptions, no long-term contracts. You only pay for results. There's no need to wait any longer. Speed up your hiring right now with Indeed.
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She's a professor at Columbia University Business School, and she is author of the book Mind Masters, the data-driven science of predicting and changing human behavior. There's a link to her book and to her TED Talk on psychological targeting in the show notes for this episode. Thank you, Sandra.
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Are you a curious person? Are you interested in what other people believe and what they have to say? Being curious is probably a good trait to have for a lot of reasons. That's according to my guest, Scott Shigioka. He has turned curiosity into a calling. He's a leading expert on curiosity and has taught courses on the topic at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Recently, he took a 45,000-mile trip around the U.S. for over a year just so he could be curious about people different from him from all walks of life. Scott is author of a book called Seek, How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World. Hey, Scott. Hello. Thanks for being here.
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So I think I know what curiosity is, but I'm curious how you define curiosity.
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And we should do this because why? What are the benefits of being curious?
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You said that curiosity improves relationships. But I'd like to hear how that works. I mean, how do you know that? How do we know that curiosity improves relationships?
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That conversations are not couched in curiosity as much as they're couched in anger. And curiosity seems like it might be a better, kinder way to do it, but that's not what we do.
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Well, isn't that a great story? Because wouldn't it be great if everybody was able to do what you did and get out of your, you know, take the blinders off and go look at the rest of the world with that kind of open attitude and curious attitude that most of us don't, we never think to do that.
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Hi there. You can probably hear it in my voice. I have a nasty cold and it's making me sound funny. But, you know, the show must go on, so let's go on. Here's something you've probably wondered about. Because you know that all food has calories in it, but the act of eating the food must burn calories. But how much? Well, it actually depends on what food you're talking about.
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You know, I've always thought, and I learned this at a fairly early age, that curiosity is really a gift you can give. Because when people are curious about you, it makes you feel good. It makes you feel heard. It makes you feel as if what you have to say someone finds important. And so often we think we know it all and we dismiss what other people think and say.
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And yet, just to turn that around and just... Tell me what you say. Why do you think that? I mean, asking those kinds of curious questions makes people feel good.
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I have a couple of people who have been in my life who I always, I just always have had this, I love talking to them because when the conversation is over... I feel so much better about myself. I feel smarter. I feel like I'm really, you know, because of their curiosity about me and wanting to hear what I have to say makes me feel good.
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life i guess it's because you know if if people ask me my thoughts they must care what i think maybe what i think is worth saying you know there's this thing that goes on in your head that you know i'm i must have something to say and i i don't know what it is but it's just it feels good and and and it fosters a better conversation
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When you burn some of the calories you eat simply by digesting them, it's called the thermic effect. Overall, it's about 10% of the calories that you consume are burned up through digestion. However, fats have only about a 3% thermic effect. That means if you eat 100 fat calories, you'll only burn about 3 of them from digestion. Vegetables and fruits have a thermic effect of about 20%.
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What's a good way to start being curious and that pays dividends like, oh, well, this is good. This is better.
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Proteins have a thermic effect of about 30%. If you eat 300 protein calories, you'll burn off 90 calories while digesting them. You may be able to increase the thermic effect. One way is by increasing your muscle mass. People with more muscle mass burn more calories digesting food than people with more body fat.
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And lastly, you've already given some examples specifically about this, but I think a lot of us hate that shallow, you know, how are you doing? What's going on? Hey, what's up? So what else can you say? I mean, how else do you get over that, past that facade into something much more real?
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Well, I like those questions a lot more than, hey, how are you? What's going on? What kind of work do you do? Seems like curiosity can be powerful if you're willing to maybe dive a little deeper than that. I've been talking with Scott Shigioka. His book is called Seek, How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes.
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There is also reason to believe that not eating two hours before you go to bed and chewing your food carefully and thoroughly can amp up the thermic effect. And that is something you should know. I'm sure you've heard conversations about how companies keep personal information about you. We've talked about that here.
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Hey, Scott, thank you for coming on. This was great. Awesome. Thanks so much, Mike. If you're one of those people who uses the snooze alarm occasionally, that's probably no big deal. But if you hit the snooze alarm five or six times in the morning, you're doing yourself a disservice.
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It seems the sleep you get in those short intervals is not very good sleep, so you might as well just get up and get the day going. By the way, your snooze alarm is most likely nine minutes long. Not ten. Nine. Why?
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Years ago, mechanical clock engineers had to configure the clock gears, and they had two choices to set the snooze for either a little more than nine minutes or a little more than ten minutes. Clockmakers decided on the 9-minute gear, believing that 10 minutes would be too long and allow someone to fall into a deep sleep.
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Of course, clock manufacturers today have the option to set snooze buttons for any length of time, but most of them stick with the 9-minute custom. And that is something you should know. As always, your continued help in spreading the word about Something You Should Know really helps us grow our podcast with that word-of-mouth marketing, and we really appreciate it.
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So please share this podcast with people you know. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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And you probably think or I've always thought that it's stuff like credit card information or what products you've purchased or perhaps somebody is tracking your activities online. But as you're about to hear, It is far more than that.
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With every app you get or credit card you get or website you shop at, somewhere in the fine print, you agreed to allow many of these companies to not only track what you do and what you buy and other various personal information about you, You also give them permission to sell that information to pretty much anybody who wants to buy it.
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So your very personal data is out there, and people are using it to do something called psychological targeting. And this should be a concern to you and everyone else, as you're about to hear. From Sandra Matz, she is a professor at Columbia Business School and has an excellent TED Talk about psychological targeting.
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She is author of a book called Mind Masters, the data-driven science of predicting and changing human behavior. Hi, Sandra. Thank you for coming on and talking about this.
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So first, I guess we must define psychological targeting and what it is so we know what we're all talking about here. So help me understand it as briefly and as simply as possible.
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And so can you give me like a real world example of how this works?
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So you're saying that instead of just gathering that data that points to a problem like kids suffering from depression, rather than sell those names to those contacts to advertisers, the other thing you could do with that data is to help those people.
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So when I think of psychological targeting, I don't know all that much about it, but I think of more of things like if I'm searching online for a ski jacket, all of a sudden I'm going to see lots of ads for ski jackets and that that's psychological targeting.
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So my example is psychological. I mean, if I'm looking for a ski jacket, you can use that information to send me ads for ski jackets. I'm being psychologically targeted.
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And what happens to that data? I mean, who's doing this and how are they storing it and where is it going and who gets access to it?
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But what kind of data is it? I mean, is it a profile? Is it a report that, you know, Mike Carruthers likes ski jackets, but he also is a funny guy? I mean, what does it say?
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And so since you study this, is this a good thing or a bad thing?
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Today on Something You Should Know, how many calories do you burn just eating the food you eat? Then you're being targeted based on the data collected about you. And there is a lot of data collected about you.
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You had said that, I think you had said a moment ago, that the average person generates how much data in a day or an hour?
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Well, how am I doing that? I don't feel that busy. I don't feel like I'm generating all that data. How am I doing that?
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The Science Behind Your Intuition & How Things Get Made
We're discussing intuition with my guest, Elizabeth Greenwood. She's author of the book, Everyday Intuition. What psychology, science, and psychics can teach us about finding and trusting our inner voice.
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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So Elizabeth, the term women's intuition, everyone's heard that. But do women have some sort of special intuition that men don't have? Is women's intuition a thing?
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You said a moment ago that intuition and anxiety, two different things, can feel the same. And I'm not sure I understand that. So can you explain that a little more?
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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But it would seem that those things would be a piece of the puzzle of intuition, that your past experiences... shape your intuition to some extent, that you've had that experience of being in that car accident, of not being comfortable around strangers, that that's a piece of it.
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One of the things that I guess people struggle with when you talk about intuition, the question becomes, do you or don't you trust it? If you can't trust it, what good is it? And if you do trust it and it's wrong, what good is it?
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Well, that's certainly true that dating is probably a really good, because what else do you have to go on? You go on a first date with somebody, there's not enough data there to decide really whether there should be a second date. But there may not be enough data to really suggest that we should move this forward other than gut feeling. Well, that's exactly right.
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Well, think about it. Intuition is something everybody has experienced. I can't imagine anybody not having that gut feeling about something at some point in their life. Yet it's really hard to know what to do with it or not do with it or is it real. And I really enjoyed talking to you about it because it's clarified a lot of things for me. I've been speaking with Elizabeth Greenwood.
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And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.
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The name of her book is Everyday Intuition. What psychology, science, and psychics can teach us about finding and trusting our inner voice. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Elizabeth, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for being here.
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Open your eyes and look around, and unless you're standing out in the middle of nowhere, you can probably see things that were manufactured, designed and made by someone or some people somewhere. And when you start to think about all the things that are man-made, that are manufactured, it's really staggering and something worth discussing. And the perfect person to discuss it is Tim Minshaw.
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He is an engineering academic who works at the University of Cambridge. He also delivers outreach programs to raise awareness of manufacturing among primary and secondary school children. And he is author of a book called... How Things Are Made, A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing. Hey Tim, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, Mike. Thanks for having me here.
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I love that we're talking about this because, as you say, we are literally surrounded every day by manufactured items, things that somebody created and made somewhere, somehow, and yet it's also very invisible. Like, we don't think about all the things we have that somebody actually sat down and planned and designed and made, and yet... The things that we manufacture in our world make our world.
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Well, I think one reason that manufacturing things is somewhat invisible here in the U.S. and perhaps in Europe as well is that we don't see it. I mean, so much of the manufacturing has left and gone to Asia and India and that we don't see it. So we don't think about the process of manufacturing and all the things that go into it.
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If you're one of those people who needs coffee to get your day started, it turns out there's a little bit of science to it. Esquire Magazine You should wait 15 minutes after waking up to drink your first cup of coffee, they say. Given your body's desire to get more sleep, what's known as sleep inertia, it's natural to wake up tired. But this usually wears off in about 15 minutes.
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So I want you to tell the story about something that people really never give much thought to at all, but is actually a big player in this story of manufacturing that you're telling. And that is the shipping container, that thing you see on the back of trucks and on railway cars. That thing has changed the world and people don't know the story.
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So just how old is the shipping container and what was used before it?
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You know, I don't think I've ever heard the story of the shipping container. I mean, I've noticed that it's pretty cool that the same container can be put on a railroad car or the back of a truck, but I didn't know it was as revolutionary as you're describing it.
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What gets mind-boggling to me is, like take a car for example, and we talk about manufacturing a car, but in large part, manufacturing a car is really taking little components or big components That have themselves been designed and manufactured by somebody brought together in in a factory and then assembled and then put into a car to make the car. And that is part of manufacturing, right?
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So you mentioned toilet paper, and I'd love to get some more examples from you, some actual things that get made that people would be surprised to realize what it takes.
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If you've already had your first cup of coffee by then, it can lead to you consuming more caffeine than you ultimately need. You should take an hour and a half, at least an hour and a half, break between cups of coffee. Many people drink a cup, don't feel anything, so they drink another cup, and then they start to feel it. But that's not because the second cup is kicking in.
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Another part of the manufacturing process that is really invisible, but is an important part of the process, is whatever it is you're making, you're probably always looking to make it better, make it smaller, make it more efficient, make the process of making it more efficient. You're always trying to improve on your improvements.
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Something manufactured that everybody interacts with every day is clothing. Clothing is manufactured.
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That's the first cup of coffee. Caffeine takes about half an hour or so to reach its maximum effectiveness. So that kick you're actually feeling is coming from the first cup. After another 30 minutes, the second cup kicks in, and now you've got a lot of caffeine in you. And try not to drink too much coffee.
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Well, ever since I saw your book, I've become much more aware and see things everywhere and think, you know, how did that get here? Who made that? Where was it made? It's such an interesting way of looking at the world. I've been talking to Tim Minchall from the University of Cambridge, and he is author of the book, How Things Are Made, A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing.
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There's a link to his book in the show notes. And Tim, thanks so much for coming.
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200 milligrams of caffeine is what you'll find in most 12-ounce cups of coffee, and this amount will bring most people to their peak performance levels for about two hours, at which point the caffeine begins to slowly leave your system. Anything more than 200 milligrams in a two-hour time frame can result in diminishing returns. And that is something you should know.
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Having your car break down is the worst. And yet, most of the time, it is preventable. According to Walt Brinker, author of a book called Roadside Survival, the majority of times that cars break down is tire-related, usually a flat or a blowout. And that is usually because of under-inflated tires. Take care of your tires, and they will take care of you.
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Another big reason people break down is they run out of gas. Also preventable. But still, it happens, and even if you go get a gallon of gas at a gas station to put into your empty tank, it often won't start. Why? Because you're pulled over to the shoulder, your car is often not level.
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It's leaning to the right, and the gas pulls to the right side of the tank and can't get to where it needs to go. Walt says the solution is to rock the car while someone turns the key to try to start it. And still another reason a car breaks down is it just stops working. And Walt finds that very often it's just a case of the clamp on the battery terminal comes loose. So check that.
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How many times have you heard the advice to go with your gut, use your intuition? What is your intuition telling you? That's putting a lot of responsibility on your intuition. But what exactly is intuition? It's not a thing. There's not a spot in your brain where your intuition lives.
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today on Something You Should Know. If you drink coffee to get going in the morning, there's some science to it you need to know. Then your intuition, that gut feeling, what is it and how does it work? For instance,
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And if you type in a search engine, the case against intuition, you will see a lot of people have concerns about the reliability of what is called intuition. The dictionary definition of intuition is the ability to understand something immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. You know, that gut feeling.
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But critics say intuition can be used to justify pre-existing beliefs rather than arrive at objective truths. Some say it can be just a justification to come to a quick decision rather than taking the time to deliberate and think something through. And the fact is, intuition can be wrong. It can be right. but it can be wrong. So how valuable is it?
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Let's dive a little deeper into intuition with someone who has studied it, Elizabeth Greenwood. She's a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, and GQ. She is author of a book called Everyday Intuition, What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice. Hi Elizabeth, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So let me start by saying that I use my intuition. I get gut feelings, but I'm also suspicious of them. I worry sometimes that intuition might also just be a knee-jerk reaction or a shortcut to a decision that really should take more thought. just by saying, well, it was a gut feeling. And I get it. I get that we all have gut reactions to things.
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And I think of it more as your collective wisdom telling you something more than anything else.
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The idea of intuition, though, most people have is not what you just said. It's some sort of mystical, magical, you know, women's intuition or, you know, my intuition told me to do this thing and the car didn't hit me. It's more magical than that.
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Also, why your car is most likely to break down and how to prevent it. And how things get made. And a lot of things get made.
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So why not just call it collective wisdom? Why give it a name like intuition, which adds that magical thing to it?
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Can you test for it? Can you and I take a test, the same test, and see which of us has more or better intuition?
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Well, that's really interesting because there's something to that, that you're somehow intuitively going from one deck and not the other deck. But people will often say, since we're in kind of the card game gambling mode here, you know, I went with red because my intuition told me to. Yeah, maybe. But gambling, just random gambling like that doesn't seem intuitive. It seems like luck.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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Right, there is that let's go back and rationalize or figure it out. But people will go, they'll say, you know, I went to that liquor store to buy the lotto ticket and that's why I won. Well, a lot of other people went to that other liquor store because their intuition told them to and they lost. That's the way people do that go back and rationalize thing.
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That, you know, the reason I won the lotto is because my intuition told me to go to that store.
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But but you don't hear the other people saying, yeah, my intuition told me to go to the other store and I didn't win a thing.
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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So, Godfrey, one of the criticisms of marijuana has always been that it is a gateway drug, that people who end up on harder drugs will frequently tell you that they started with marijuana. And is that a fair criticism?
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Yeah, what about the munchies?
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Since the rules have changed and loosened up, I would assume that attitudes have as well. Have there been surveys? What do people think about this topic? Is there still a big push to keep it outlawed, or have people said, yeah, whatever?
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Yeah, well, it sounds like what you're saying is much like someone in your position would talk about alcohol. Like it's not going to go anywhere. So it's here. So let's maybe take a more grown up approach to it rather than try to hide it under the rug and pretend it's horrible and not here because it is here and people use it. A lot of people use it.
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And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.
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Talk about what marijuana does to people, particularly for people who have never smoked it. You might assume that it's analogous to drinking alcohol, but when people drink, people react differently. There are mean drunks and happy drunks. What is it that marijuana does to you, or is it like that where it depends on who you are and it does different things?
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For those people who haven't tried it, what would they get if they did?
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Well, I have certainly learned more from this discussion about marijuana than I ever knew before. I'm not someone who partakes, so I haven't had the big urge to understand it and research it and learn more about it. But I know an awful lot of people who take it and who like it, so I'm glad we had this discussion so I could learn more about it. Godfrey Pearlson has been my guest.
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He is a psychiatric researcher, physician, and neuroscience professor at Yale University and author of the book The Science of Weed, An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis. And there is a link to his book in the show notes. Thank you for coming on today and talking about this, Godfrey.
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I can't imagine not having had that feeling at some point in your life. And that feeling is what we're about to discuss with Ilana Redstone. She's a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois and author of the book, The Certainty Trap, Why We Need to Question Ourselves More and How We Can Judge Others Less. Hi, Ilana. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So let's start by you expanding on what I just said about the certainty trap and what it is exactly.
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If you're looking for a really good podcast episode to listen to, I'd say you've come to the right place. Welcome to Something You Should Know, and we start today with apologies. Perhaps you have apologized to someone today or someone has apologized to you for some reason. It's a proven fact that women apologize more than men. So why would that be?
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Being certain about some things seems like it would be a good idea because you can't wonder and think, well, what about what on everything you have? I mean, I'm pretty certain my pen is blue. I'm not really going to debate that with you.
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It does seem, though, that human beings are kind of wired to make judgments about things and people. And we size up people and we make judgments about them and the things they're saying. And that kind of seems like human nature.
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So help me understand the moral outrage part of this, because you could take a politically charged topic like abortion. Somebody could be pro-life. And somebody could be pro-choice, and they could be very convinced that they're right, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're outraged by the other person.
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You believe what you want to believe, I believe what I want to believe, but I'm not outraged by your wanting to believe what you believe.
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Well, a study in the journal Psychological Science found that over the course of 12 days, women apologized 217 times. Men apologized just 158 times. The authors of the study concluded that men were actually just as willing to apologize as women. The difference was that men had a higher threshold for what bothered them. We tend to apologize for something we feel might be offensive or hurtful.
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So interestingly, when I first saw your book and this topic, I didn't think it was about that. I thought it had more to do with more everyday, day-to-day stuff, that we judge other people and the things they say, not about politics so much. And it starts in school, like the kid who doesn't have such nice clothes. People make fun of that kid and bully him or her.
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And then take what they say with a grain of salt because they're not as cool as the cool kids are. And it's more that than it is these very specific, highly charged political conversations.
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Today on Something You Should Know, the interesting reason women apologize a lot more than men. Then, an objective look at marijuana. What it is, how it's changed, and who uses it.
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Yeah, that makes sense. My example that I was thinking about was, because I see this all the time, of people who are so dismissive of, say, the homeless guy who needs five bucks for whatever he needs it for. And people don't even see those people or dismiss them. because of their appearance, because they're homeless. They make assumptions about them.
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And I'm more the person that goes up and talks to them and gives them a little money and tries to hear their story a little bit. But most people are very certain that that is the dregs of society and stay away.
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Right, it's always before you have kids, right?
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Men and women in general have different levels of sensitivity. A woman might snap at a friend and feel bad and then apologize, while a man might just think, eh, no big deal, he'll get over it. And that is something you should know. Say the word marijuana to people and you'll hear a lot of opinions.
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And doesn't it seem that lately, like in the past, I don't know, 10, 20 years or so, there's been more of that certainty and less of the open-mindedness? That, you know, before, two people on opposite sides of an issue and opposite sides of anything could still talk and be friendly, but now we've thrown in this moral outrage piece that...
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prevents that from happening because you're wrong and I'm right, rather than we just disagree.
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What I see, and you see this in politics mostly, or at least most clearly, is when a person holds a position and then someone who disagrees with that position not only disagrees with the position, but then attacks the person for thinking what they think. That because you think that, you're an idiot. And God, it didn't used to be like that.
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Well, what I wonder is what is the motive here? Because no one actually believes that if I'm morally outraged and call you an idiot for thinking what you think... I'm not going to change your mind. If anything, I'm going to make you dig your heels in more. So what's the goal here? Why the moral outrage? It doesn't work.
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Somebody can't post something on Facebook and attack a whole group of people and go, there, that should fix that. They'll change their minds now. No, they won't. Nobody will.
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Some people believe it's benign, nothing wrong with it, it's less dangerous than alcohol, and after all, almost half the states in the U.S. have legalized recreational use of marijuana. Other people will say it's a gateway drug, it damages your brain, and affects your behavior in a negative way. I'm sure you've heard all of this before, but what is the objective truth about marijuana?
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Yeah, but to what end? But nothing comes of it, so big deal.
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Yeah, well, I think you're probably right about that because when I become dismissive of you— people get defensive and dismiss back. So now the dismisser is dismissing the dismisser. It's a lot of, and it just churns the pot. It just churns and churns and makes it worse.
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In the certainty trap. I mean, what is it you would like to see people start doing?
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What does the science say about it? That is what Godfrey Pearlson is here to reveal. He is a psychiatric researcher, physician, and Yale neuroscience professor. He's also author of a book called The Science of Weed, An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis. Hi, Godfrey. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Mike, very good to be with you. Thank you.
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Yeah, that makes sense. And I really appreciate having this conversation because it makes you think about what you think, about what other people think, and how to bridge the gaps and understand. I've been speaking with Ilana Redstone.
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She's a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois and author of the book, The Certainty Trap, Why We Need to Question Ourselves More and How We Can Judge Others Less. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Ilana.
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If you have central air conditioning or forced air heating, there's a pretty good chance those systems are not filtering out all the junk in the air that they should, according to Jeff May, who's author of a book called My House is Killing Me. In surveys, many people don't use the right kind of filter or change the filters often enough.
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The cheapest and easiest way to improve the air quality in your home is to get a really good disposable filter. The best kind is a pleated filter rated MERV 8 or higher. Jeff says you can get them at most big home improvement stores or hardware stores. And he recommends that you don't pay extra for the filters that are washable and reusable. Stick with disposable.
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Experts say there's no way to really get those other ones clean. Replacing filters every three months will give you cleaner air and save you money. Dirty filters force your system to work harder. And that is something you should know. You know what would be great? It would just be great if you would just take a moment...
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So we have two words that get used a lot referring to marijuana, marijuana and cannabis. And they're two different words, so I suspect they mean two different things. But could you clear that up for me? Are they synonymous or do they mean different things?
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Also, something important your furnace really wants you to do, and the dangers of falling into the certainty trap.
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So how long? Oh, before I ask that, let me just mention that as you're listening to this, as Godfrey is speaking, if you hear these little pops and clicks, it's in the audio. We have tried everything to get rid of it. Can't get rid of it. It's not too bad or distracting. So but but that's what it is. And we're moving on with it.
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So Godfrey, how long has marijuana been a thing in society where, hey, you know, these kids over here are smoking it? I mean, when did it become kind of not mainstream, but the fringes of mainstream where people started using it to get high and those were those kids and it came with a label? When did all that start?
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So do you have at your fingertips or off the top of your head, you know, the numbers of like how many people use marijuana or have tried it or, you know, just kind of to frame the picture here?
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Before we go any further, I want to try to get a reading on you. Just for transparency's sake, I think it would be good to know that, yes, you're a researcher and a scientist and all that, but where do you stand on this issue? Are you pro-marijuana? Do you think it's not so good? Are you somewhere down the middle or where?
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The image of marijuana has certainly changed over the last several decades when, you know, in the 50s and 60s, it was associated with hippies and it had this kind of horrible connotation that if you smoked marijuana, this was horrible. It was illegal. You could go to jail. It's going to ruin your brain. And over time, it's gotten much more socially acceptable, right?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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But if it was so bad then, why is it not so bad now?
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What are the dangers of marijuana? Because we've heard for so long it's a gateway drug that, you know, usually you look at people who are on much more serious drugs and really hooked. They started with marijuana. What are the real dangers to marijuana use?
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I've heard that the marijuana that kids smoked in the 60s is very different and much less potent than the marijuana today. Is that a fair statement?
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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so it sounds like because we also hear about medicinal marijuana that kind of legitimizes oh well maybe there it could be good for you but it doesn't sound like it's good for you i mean all that all things being equal you're better off not smoking it than smoking it doesn't do anything for you i i'd actually push back on that because if if we think about other substances that tend to be abused
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But if you're just hanging around with your buddies saying, you know, why don't we smoke some marijuana? Or, you know, maybe we should just go read a book. You probably should go read a book.
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We are talking about marijuana, and we're talking with Godfrey Pearlson. He's a psychiatric researcher and author of the book, The Science of Weed, An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis.
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When I think, and I think when most people remember their childhood or remember the past, they tend to remember it fondly, that they remember the good times. And yet when we look in the future, we tend to worry about it. We worry about the bad that might happen in the future, but the past we think of fondly. Is that, you think, a fair statement?
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Why are things we buy priced so strangely? Why is it $19.99 and not $20? Why is gas $3.259 per gallon? Well, let's talk about that. Hi, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. We all know that $59.99 is closer to $60 than it is to $50, right? Or do we? Economist Tim Hartford describes something called the left digit effect.
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So we've up till now been talking about memory as something really to observe and to notice and to look at, but not something that we control. Do we control it? Can we make it better? Can we do things to manipulate our memory or to remember things better? Or is it just something to observe?
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I wonder if ever a memory researcher has asked a group of people, is there something about your memory that seems really unusual to you if people have something? Like I can remember every phone number I've ever had since the time I was five years old. And I'm not a numbers guy. I'm not a math guy.
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That's the theory that consumers, we can't be bothered to read the whole price. We just see the five at the front of $59.99 and we think more like $50 than $60. Which is exactly why retail stores price things this way. But it gets more interesting. Two professors of marketing conducted five experiments and found that different prices are evaluated in different ways.
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I don't work with numbers and I don't remember other numbers, but I can remember every phone number I've ever had. And I don't know why.
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Yeah. Well, it is your life. I mean, your whole life is a memory. I mean, and how you choose to remember it.
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Well, it's kind of refreshing to hear because you know how people complain about their memory and they don't remember. And as you've been pointing out for the last 20 minutes, that's okay. You're not supposed to remember everything. And not remembering everything is perhaps a much better way to go. Jillian Murphy has been my guest.
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She is an associate professor in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork. And she's author of a book called Memory Lane, The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember. And you can find a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Jillian, thank you for coming on and talking about this.
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For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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For instance, consumers are more inclined to buy luxury or recreational products if they have rounded prices. So, for example, consumers prefer a $40 bottle of champagne rather than a bottle priced at... $39.72. However, for purchases that are more utilitarian, like, say, a calculator, participants were more likely to buy at the higher non-rounded price, like $29.99, instead of $30.
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When you think about your relationships, whether with a lover, a friend, a relative, whoever, would you say that you love well, that you are good at the art and practice of loving? Or perhaps you tend to hold on to things. You hold grudges. Maybe you can't let things go. How can all of us be better at our relationships? By loving better. Here to discuss this is Young Pueblo.
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He's been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Mornings, and a lot of other media outlets. He is a mediator and best-selling author. His latest book is called How to Love Better, The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion. Hi, Young. Welcome. Glad to have you on Something You Should Know. Hey, Mike. Thank you so much for having me on.
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So explain what you mean by loving better. Better than what? What does that look like to love better? What does it feel like? What is loving better?
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Do you understand the value of letting go? People would say yes, that yeah, there's no point in holding on to things. It isn't that they don't believe that it would be helpful. They just don't know how to do it. How do you not hold on to something that you've been holding on to because your tendency is to hold on to things?
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So I think, you know, certainly in any relationship, whether it's a love relationship or, you know, family or whatever, that when there are arguments, when there are fights, things get said and things happen that are hard to take back and that many of us anyway don't fight well, that we don't understand things.
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What we're really doing, we just kind of want to make our point and have everybody agree. But so seldom does everyone agree.
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In another experiment, participants were told that a camera had been purchased for leisure, like a family vacation, or other participants were told it was for a class project. And the participants preferred rounded prices if the camera was for a vacation and non-rounded prices if it was for a class project. And that is something you should know.
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And when you figured that out, was it a moment where you went, oh, I get it? Or was this... Because no one would disagree with being able to hear the other person and understand and put your... Nobody disagrees with that. It's just so hard to see it in the moment.
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Today on Something You Should Know, why are things priced at $19.99 instead of $20? Then, human memory. Your memory is inaccurate a lot of the time.
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What a great idea. I mean, I'm going to do that. I mean, that's such a simple thing to do to just check in in the morning and see how each other feels. And then because you don't know. And so you start making assumptions that based on absolutely nothing that could set off all kinds of problems. It's so unnecessary. Yeah.
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Talk about impermanence because I think that's an important part of your message here.
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A topic of never-ending fascination for me is memory. Because who you are, what you think of yourself, how you relate to others, all these things are the result of memories. Without memories, who would you be? And yet our memory system is severely flawed. We don't remember things the way we like to think we do. Not even close.
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What do you do, though, or what do you recommend people do, though? Because this must happen even to you, who works at this, clearly has a plan, where you just disagree. You just disagree that you want this and she wants that. And it isn't like we're working on it together. We're in opposite ends of the spectrum here. Now what?
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How do you decide who wants it more?
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So you talk to people about this a lot. And I'm wondering, like, what do people say to you? Yes, but... And then here's my problem. Here's the big thing and something that perhaps you hear over and over again that people get stuck on.
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And that has ramifications for all of us, which you're about to discover from my guest, Jillian Murphy. Jillian is an associate professor in the School of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, and she is co-author of a book called Memory Lane, The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember. Hi, Jillian. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Really, the biggest question you get is, should I break up with my boyfriend?
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Yeah, I would think you'd say, if you're asking me, probably so. Yeah, I would think so. If it's gotten to the point where you're asking me, yeah, I'd break up.
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Well, you said the question you used to get was, you know, how do I let go? Which, you know, I think we did talk about it before, but that is so key because it is so, I think, so hard in a relationship to truly let go as opposed to, yeah, I'll let this slide, but I'm really marking on the scorecard here that, you know, one for me.
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And to accept what is, is to do what? Is to just say, well, that's the way it is, and breathe it and eat it and sleep it and just move on? Or, I mean, what is it to accept what is?
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So I imagine we should probably start by talking about what memory is and all that, but I'm going to jump over that. We'll come back to that later because there's something I've always wanted to know about And I think most people want to know is, you know how some people are labeled as, oh, he has such a great memory. What is that? Why do some people have great memories?
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Well, within this conversation, I think everyone listening has heard themselves in here somewhere and gotten some ideas on how to do love better. Young Pueblo has been my guest. He has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, CBS Mornings, and other media outlets. And his latest book is called How to Love Better, The Path to Deeper Connection Through Growth, Kindness, and Compassion.
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And you'll find a link to his book in the show notes. Young Pueblo, thank you. Thank you for being here.
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So if you or your kids have allergies or eczema, it could be your dishwasher's fault. Here's the theory. Dishes washed in a dishwasher are sanitized. Dishes washed by hand are less effective in reducing bacteria. So children in homes without a dishwasher are exposed to more microbes.
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This plays into the idea that growing up in a squeaky clean environment can increase the risk of autoimmune conditions like allergies because the immune system doesn't have anything to do. Exposing your children to many different types of bacteria is what keeps the immune system working properly. And a survey of parents of over 1,000 children between the ages of 7 and 8 support this theory.
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The risk of developing an allergy was further reduced If a child ate fermented foods like sauerkraut or produce that had been bought directly from a farm, fermentation of food is a bacterial process, and food from a farm is likely going to have more bacteria than processed food. And that is something you should know. A successful podcast can only succeed if listeners help spread the word.
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which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you.
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Or is that just they remember some things really well? Or do some people really have great memories?
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Yeah, that's what I'm talking about is that because, you know, I've gone to like reunions and stuff and people say, you remember that time when we did the thing? And then a couple of years before that you did that. And I don't have. And then when they say it, it starts to it starts to trigger something where I go, oh, yeah, actually, I do. But they remember the details.
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Like you said, they remember the shoes and the thing. And I wonder, how do you hold on to that?
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So let's get back to a more realistic fundamental question, and that is, what happens when I recall, when I remember an event, when I remember a conversation, when I remember something, what's going on there? What is happening that makes me remember what I remember, whether it's true or not?
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Yeah, it feels like I mentally thumb through and find the file of that memory and I pull it up and go, oh, yeah, so we went to that. We went in theater number seven and I got popcorn and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, that's what it is.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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I remember hearing, of course, it's my memory that remembers this. But I remember hearing somebody say, and that this is why memories distort, is that when you remember something, You're remembering the last time you remembered it, rather than the actual event. You're remembering the remembering, and over time, the remembering of the remembering distorts.
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Yeah, I had an experience not long ago that many years ago when I was in college, my roommate made this appetizer, this dip. And it was so good that I've made it and I've given the recipe to people and I make it all the time. And I'm very true to the original recipe. He came over once, years later, and brought the dip that he said was the original recipe. It was nothing like the original recipe.
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And he told me I was wrong, and I told him he was wrong. And I know I'm right, but I think he knows he's right.
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We're talking about how memory does and doesn't work. And my guest is Gillian Murphy, author of the book, memory lane, the perfectly imperfect ways we remember.
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So, Jillian, when we look back at our own lives, and theoretically we would be the best witness of our own lives, do we remember it pretty accurately or do we remember it in a more adaptive way, a way that serves us?
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
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So Adam, one of the questions that I've always had is, Why is fast food typically unhealthy? It's deep fried, it's high fat, it's white flour, and that there hasn't ever been a healthy, I guess some regional ones, but there haven't been any real breakout healthy fast food places.
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And I can imagine the argument is, well, you know, we serve what people want, but do they want it because that's what you serve, right?
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Well, it is interesting. You're right. When you think about people who like salad, they don't go, hey, I got an idea. Let's go to McDonald's and get a salad.
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Something some fast food restaurants do that I want you to comment on is like Taco Bell. They have nacho fries, right? but then they don't have nacho fries. And McDonald's has the McRib, but most of the time it doesn't have the McRib. And I know that people get really upset about that. I like nacho fries at Taco Bell, and it's always a disappointment when you pull in and they don't have them then.
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What is that? Is that just to create buzz, create controversy, get people upset?
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If you have a car, it has a color, and we're going to start today talking about the color of your car. Hi there, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. The most popular car color is white, and there are a lot of good reasons for that. White cars stay a bit cooler in hot temperatures, and white cars require less care to stay looking good.
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What else about the fast food business do you think people would be fascinated by?
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I mean, what was the statistic you gave? More people eat at fast food restaurants in a year than use the internet. So it's something we all relate to, and I find it interesting to hear the stories and the history behind the whole business. I've been speaking with Adam Chandler, and the name of his book is Drive Through Dreams, A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast Food Kingdom.
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Actually, Adam has a new book out that we're going to have him back on to talk about called 99% Perspiration, A New Working History of the American Way of Life, which is really interesting. And we'll have him back on to talk about that pretty soon. Adam, thank you. Appreciate you spending the time with us. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
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But there are some other interesting facts about car colors. If you want your car to not be stolen, a very bright color such as yellow is probably as effective as an expensive security device. Unusual colors like orange, brown, green, even red cars are also less likely to be stolen. Why?
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What does success mean to you? Often, we think of success as being about the outward appearances. The awards, the money, the nice car, the good grade on a final exam, job title, plaque on a wall. All of those things may be fine. But perhaps a broader, more interesting view of success could help us all. And here to explore that is Steve Magnus. He is an expert on personal performance.
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He wrote a book called Do Hard Things, which he was here talking about in a previous episode. He has written for The Atlantic, Runner's World, and Sports Illustrated, and he's been featured in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, amongst others. His new book is called Win the Inside Game, How to Move from Surviving to Thriving and Free Yourself Up to Perform.
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Hey Steve, welcome back. Thanks so much for having me. Really excited. So let's start right out of the box here with an example of how you look at success differently.
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And is it your sense that most people are that way, that most people are very narrowly focused like that?
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Well, because thieves want to steal a popular color because it makes it easier to unload the car after they steal it. Some drivers believe that bright or light-colored cars are safer because they're easier to see. That may be true, but it doesn't make much difference at night, and there is actually very little research on that subject.
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If you've always done that, though, if that's kind of your inclination, how do you start to move away from that? How do you start to do what you're talking about?
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So can you give me like a specific example of that? I, you explained it well, but, but just like, so to shift the goal from, you know, result oriented to the process.
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One Australian study said a white car is maybe a little less likely to get into a crash during the day than other colors. It is an urban myth that red cars cost more to insure. According to the Insurance Information Institute, car color is not a factor in determining rates.
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If you do like an unusual car color, remember that that affects the resale value because the number of people with your similar unusual taste may be limited. And that is something you should know. America has a love affair with fast food.
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And while one can argue the health consequences of that love affair, today we're going to look at fast food from a more fun and historical point of view and look at why fast food is such a dominant part of American culture. An expert on this subject is Adam Chandler. He's a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Wired.
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And he has written a book called Drive Through Dreams, A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast Food Kingdom. Hi, Adam. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me, Mike. I'm happy to be here. So it's probably difficult to be really precise about when fast food began because it really depends on your definition of fast food. But people have a sense of what fast food is.
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Well, it's a very different and eye-opening way to look at success that I find illuminating, and I'm sure everyone else does too. I've been speaking with Steve Magnus, and the name of his book is Win the Inside Game, How to Move from Surviving to Thriving and Free Yourself Up to Perform. And there's a link to his book in the show notes. Steve, as always, great, great to have you on. Thanks.
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Today on Something You Should Know, things you've probably never considered about the color of your car. Then the fascinating story of fast food and things about it you never knew.
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While dogs are the most popular pets in the U.S., cats aren't far behind. There are 80 million dogs and about 74 million pet cats. Here are some things about cats you may not know. Cats sleep about 70% of their lives. Adult cats meow only to communicate with humans, not with other cats. Male cats are typically left-handed or left pawed. Female cats are generally right pawed.
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It's restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King and, you know, fast food restaurants. And so when did that start? concept, in your view as a historian of this, when did that concept start?
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Cats are not able to taste sweetness in anything they eat. A typical house cat can jump five feet high, which is about seven times its own height. There's research that shows owning a cat can reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack by a third. And every cat's nose has a unique ridge pattern. It's much like a human fingerprint. And that is something you should know.
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Please take a moment and leave us a rating and review. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience.
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Also, some facts about cats that will surprise you and the fascinating characteristics of highly successful people.
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Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice.
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He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts.
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Well, that brings up a good question. When you look at pictures of city streets in Europe and Asia, you see in and amongst the local businesses, you'll see the McDonald's and the Kentucky Fried Chicken. So is fast food as big a thing elsewhere, or is it, as I sense it is, a much bigger deal here than anywhere else?
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And yet I think most people think of fast food as being something that started maybe in the 50s or so. So it seemed like there wasn't a lot of progress between the early 20th century and the 50s and 60s. There was White Castle, but there was no other McDonald's or Jack in the Box or nothing.
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I would imagine most people think that McDonald's is certainly a major player in the development of fast food. They seem like like they're in the hall of fame of fast food, that something about McDonald's really jump-started the business. Is that a fair assumption?
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one of the things that i think of when i think of fast food and it's it's there's a scene in the movie the michael keaton movie about mcdonald's i forget the name of the movie sure the founder yeah where he goes into the McDonald's for the first time and he orders and they hand him his food.
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And he said, well, wait a minute, that it was pre-prepared and that that was the definition of fast or part of the definition of fast food, that you didn't come in, order it and then hang around and wait a while. They just handed you a bag because there were 50 hamburgers behind them and they just threw them in the bag and said, here you go.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. Which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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Well, it's still even, you know, like when you go to the drive-thru at McDonald's and there's some snafu and they make you go park in that other parking space, like sending you to the corner because you have to now wait for your food because there are people behind you and we've got to keep the line moving and... And people hate that. They're like, but I want my food now.
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I don't want to go park over there and wait. And how long do you wait? Like a minute? But it's the expectation that I want it now.
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So fast food has a reputation about its healthiness that I want to ask you about. I'm speaking with Adam Chandler. He's author of the book Drive Through Dreams, A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast Food Kingdom.
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True Stories Behind the Greatest Christmas Songs & The Downside of Renewable Energy
One Christmas song that's fairly popular that I am not a big fan of, because I think it's cute the first time you hear it. It's not so cute the 700th time you've heard it is I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.
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Well, and the Chipmunks Christmas song would fall into that category. But it's such a novelty song. Yeah, I guess you still hear it a lot at Christmastime. Yeah. But, you know, again, I can hear it once a year and that's plenty for me.
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So I want to go back because we talked about White Christmas, which came out in the 40s, Bing Crosby and all that. But there's also I'll Be Home for Christmas, which is kind of similar in its theme and its time. And the same guy sings it. So sort that out.
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know for people who weren't feeling great at the holidays who were feeling like we're feeling hopeless that things weren't going to work out you know he he was really the soundtrack to that and really told people it's okay to feel that way so when rock and roll showed up it it produced a couple of christmas songs like rocking around the christmas tree and jingle bell rock that said hey rock and roll is you know part of the culture now
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And she was only like 13, right?
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And I remember reading in an interview with Brenda Lee that when Home Alone came out, and Home Alone features that song, that that was a real shot in the arm for the song.
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Well, as we were talking about before, you know, the all-time great Christmas songs, they don't let many new members into that list very often. But sometimes there's like the little flurry, and it happened like in the 80s with Wham and the Eagles. Their Christmas songs are now classics.
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And the Eagles?
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Well, I must admit, I always like hearing stories behind popular songs. They're just so interesting to me. And apologies to anybody who, if we didn't get to your favorite Christmas song, we only have so much time and there are so many songs. I've been talking to Annie Zaleski.
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She's an author, editor, and journalist, and one of her books is called This Is Christmas Song by Song, the stories behind 100 holiday hits. And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Great. Annie, thanks. Merry Christmas. Thank you so much. This was fun.
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Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers. Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. So let me ask you a question. Do you think you're pretty good at predicting how things will turn out? Most of us subconsciously predict how happy or unhappy we're going to be in the future. According to psychologist Art Markman, we usually get that wrong.
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Over the last several years, we have developed new technologies that reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. Solar, wind, batteries. And while all that may be a good thing, these new technologies require other natural resources. Not fossil fuels, but other things, like metals.
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And this is also a concern, and will continue to be a concern as these new technologies use more and more of these natural resources. Here to explain what this all means and why we should be concerned is Vince Beiser. He's an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Wired, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harper's.
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And he is author of a book called Power Metal, The Race for the Resources that Will Shape the Future. Hey, Vince, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hey, thanks, Mike. It's great to be here. So let me first have you explain the problem because it's a problem I don't think many people think about.
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You know, we think about fossil fuels and developing new technologies that eliminate the need for fossil fuels, that that's a good thing. But there is another side to the story. So go ahead and explain that.
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mayhem and murder yes sir well we'll need to hear more about that in a moment but the the underlying reason for that because you would think well you put a windmill up and it makes the thing go around and and you get energy from that what could possibly be the problem what's the problem with all of this
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Why have we not heard about this before? I've never heard that this is a concern. I have heard things about, you know, that a lot of technology uses silver and that, you know, we had to mine that. But I've never heard murder, mayhem and what you're talking about.
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For example, a kid might think his life will be complete if he just gets that one toy for Christmas. An adult might think they're going to be so much happier when they get that new car, or be devastated if they lose that job or that relationship. But our long-term happiness predictions are usually way off.
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Today on Something You Should Know, just how good are you at predicting your own future? Then, some wonderful stories about your favorite Christmas songs, including White Christmas, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, and Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song.
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Why don't we just recycle this metal? When your computer is obsolete, you take it down somewhere and they take whatever metal they put in it and put it in a new computer.
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Dr. Markman says it's probably best to remember that there are a lot of factors that affect how happy we're going to be in the future, and that no one single event will have that big of an influence on that happiness. And that is something you should know. Unlike any other holiday, Christmas brings with it its own music. Lots of music. Songs and carols that we listen to over and over again.
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So I'm listening to you and thinking, why have I not heard about this before? If this is such a problem, the hunt for all these metals and the damage that's being done, how come I haven't heard this before? Well, let me ask you this. People who may not agree that this is such a big problem, what do they say? The people who disagree that this is this huge problem, what is it they would say?
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Maybe you've noticed how some radio stations switch to an all-Christmas music format and seem to do it earlier and earlier every year. And why do they do it? Because listeners like it. People love Christmas music. And while some new songs get added to the mix every year, it is the classics that we're drawn to. And those classic songs all have stories.
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Why do we have to use those metals? It would seem like, you know, there would be some sort of synthetic something that could be used instead. What is so special about nickel and cobalt that you can't create in a lab?
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As we mine this metal and create these new technologies and manufacture this new equipment to have new alternative energies, are we making a difference? Are we using more and more of it?
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Joining me to reveal some of the interesting backstories to many of your favorite Christmas songs is Annie Zaleski. She is an author, editor, and journalist with a focus on music and pop culture, and she's author of a book called This Is Christmas, Song by Song, the stories behind 100 holiday hits. Hi, Annie. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Wow, that's pretty impressive.
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Well, it seems a lot of this is about education, that people have to understand the problems that you're talking about with these metals, just as they have to get on board with these new technologies of wind and solar and electric cars. And you had said earlier, you know, everybody should get an electric car.
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Well, not everybody wants an electric car, at least not now, because the batteries don't hold a charge long enough or the cars are too expensive. People have to want electric cars. They can't be forced to buy them.
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Well, I really appreciate you explaining all this. As I've said a couple times, I just haven't heard a lot about this, but it makes a lot of sense, and we are going to need these metals, and it's important for people to understand, you know, they've got to come from somewhere, and where do they come from, and what happens if we don't get them? I've been speaking with Vince Beiser.
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So let's start with why you like Christmas music so much and why you like going and investigating all the stories behind the songs.
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He is an award-winning journalist and author of the book, Power Metal, The Race for the Resources that Will Shape the Future. There's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Vince. This was very enlightening.
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Have you blinked lately? You see, thanks to electronic media, cases of dry eye are reaching epidemic proportions. Now, it's normal to experience the burning and the dryness associated with dry eyes as we age, but today much younger age groups are complaining of the same symptoms.
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You see, we tend not to blink much when we're on the computer or driving or watching TV, and it's taking a toll on our tear ducts. Dr. Robert Latkani, who's author of a book called The Dry Eye Remedy, says we all need to take blink breaks twice an hour during screen time. Just shut your eyes for about 10 seconds and roll them around a bit to get them lubricated.
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I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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So let's start off with White Christmas because it's been around a long time. It's a perennial favorite. Everybody seems to like it. What's the story with White Christmas?
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Also, why you're probably not blinking enough. And how the push for renewable energy and digital technology has a serious downside.
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Was it was it written for that purpose? Was it written with soldiers in mind that one day they'll be home for Christmas or was it just it just fit at the time?
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So my favorite Christmas song that I love to hear, when I hear it on the radio, I think, okay, it's Christmas time, is Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song.
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You know, what's interesting to me about that song is there have been a lot of really good covers of that song. I mean, a lot, and some of them are really good, but they just don't quite do it the way Nat King Cole did it.
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And also, I think it's such a big part of it, he has that, I don't know what that is, that haunting thing in his voice. You know, Sting kind of has that same thing. There's a hauntingness about it that just makes the song. And you know, another song, when I hear it at Christmas, or when I hear it anywhere, it gets stuck in my head for the rest of the day, and that is Blue Christmas by Elvis.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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I've certainly noticed, as I'm sure everyone has, that the Christmas classic songs stay forever. And there aren't a lot of new songs that really stick the way White Christmas or the Christmas song do. But a few have. And recently, like Mariah Carey, I mean, she's criticized for that song, her Christmas song. But it has stuck. And it probably will stick for a while.
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Well, it also seems like other songs like Blue Christmas that when you hear it, it gets stuck in your head for a while until some other song comes and bumps it out. But it is infectious in that way. It gets in your head. And you know what other song that's actually pretty new that I get stuck in my head all the time? is Underneath the Tree by Kelly Clarkson.
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I mean, I just hear it and I can't get it out of my head. And I like it, but God, I wish I could think of something else.
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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Let's get back to some of the classics. Have yourself a merry little Christmas. I mean, that's been around forever. Well, I don't know if it's been around forever. Has it been around forever?
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We're talking about the interesting backstories to some of your favorite Christmas songs. My guest is Annie Zaleski. She's author of the book, This is Christmas Song by Song, the stories behind 100 holiday hits.
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So Annie, Merry Christmas Darling by the Carpenters, when that came out, I think it just instantly became a hit and it has sustained for all these years. And it's, I mean, it's her voice. It's just the way she sings is like an angel.
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Because the brain can only do one thing at a time.
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uh add up they cost something they're not free let's talk about managing acute stress i know you have some techniques that can help and you know who doesn't face that from time to time where you're really under the gun and some some help would be great
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What about getting motivated? Because that's something I think everybody struggles with. You know, I don't really want to do this. I just don't have it in me. And eventually maybe you get it done, but maybe not well. And what about that?
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See, I would never think to do that because I would feel guilty like I'm, you know, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm off listening to music and that's kind of like pleasure and recess. So shouldn't do that.
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So how in the world could the clothes you wear make you measurably smarter, stronger, and give you better posture? Well, you're about to find out as we begin this episode of Something You Should Know. Hi and welcome. So if you want to be smarter... you wear a white coat. You just have to make sure it's the right kind of white coat.
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One thing I think a lot of people struggle with is remembering names when you first meet someone. Somehow the name just evaporates. I don't know why. I have that problem. And you have a way to help prevent that, so I'd like you to talk about that.
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Well, what's great about a podcast is they stay up for a long time, and this episode will stay up for a long time, and people can come back and re-listen to these techniques you've given, and on Apple Podcasts, read the transcript as well. So this will be very helpful for a lot of people. Therese Houston has been my guest.
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She's a cognitive scientist at Seattle University and author of the book, Sharp, 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science. There's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Therese, thank you for being here.
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Whether you own a dog or not, you certainly see them everywhere, you likely interact with them to some extent, and you notice how different they are. Some are very well behaved, some seem out of control, and a lot of them are somewhere in the middle. Some dogs are mellow, others are hyper. Dogs come in a wide variety of temperaments and intelligence.
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In an experiment, volunteers were given an intelligence test while wearing a white lab jacket. The group who believed the jacket belonged to one of the doctors scored higher than the other group who were told that the jacket was a painter's smock. The study had some other interesting results. Women wearing a white blouse looked and felt more innocent. Men in black t-shirts were a little stronger.
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And since we are around dogs so much, how can we best get along with them and train them? Here to discuss that is Annie Grossman. She's a journalist turned animal trainer who has written about dogs for the New York Times and the Boston Globe and other publications. She runs the School for Dogs, which is an acclaimed training facility and retail store in New York City.
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She's host of a podcast called How to Train Your Dog with Love and Science. And she is author of a book with that same name, How to Train Your Dog with Love and Science. Hi, Annie. Thank you for coming on Something You Should Know. Thank you so much for having me. So I guess I'd first like to know, what's your philosophy about dog behavior and training dogs, getting them to do what you want to do?
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Where do you come in on this topic?
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So what do you mean by managing or manipulating the environment?
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So what do you do then? If your dog is one of those dogs that jumps on everybody who comes over and you're having a party, what do you do? Do you put the dog in another room? What is it you do to manipulate the environment?
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People had more energy when wearing bright colored clothing. And those who wore formal attire had better posture, grammar, and more poise. And that is something you should know. Some days just go better than other days. On some days you're on top of the world. Everything goes well. It's a great day. Other days, you struggle. Things don't go your way. The motivation's not there. You make mistakes.
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It doesn't really address, though, the issue of, or maybe it's not important to, of why the dog is jumping on everybody when they come over.
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I would suspect one of the most common problems people have with dogs is barking, incessant barking. The dog barks at everything, at everybody. Anyone comes to the door, the doorbell rings, a car goes by. Bark, bark, bark, and people don't know what to do.
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If only there was a way to smooth things out, to make the day go better, go more your way. Well, there are some things actually, proven techniques to help you in the moment so you have a better day and better outcomes throughout the day. Here to explain what they are and how to use them is Therese Houston. She is a cognitive scientist at Seattle University.
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Thank you.
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She was the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. And she is author of a book called Sharp, 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science. Hi, Therese. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Thank you.
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So you have an interesting message because, you know, I have good days and bad days. I think most people do where, you know, you're just on your game. Things are going great. Other days, just kind of struggles to get through the day. So what's your message here?
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Well, this is great because I think when you have a dog, you see the world through your human lens. And you sort of think the dog does too, but the dog has a whole different perspective on the world and what motivates and doesn't motivate them. And it's really good to dive into this. Annie Grossman has been my guest.
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She is a journalist, an animal trainer, and she is author of a book called How to Train Your Dog with Love and Science. She's also a host of the podcast How to Train Your Dog with Love and Science. And there's a link to both the book and the podcast in the show notes. Thank you, Annie. Thanks for explaining all this.
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Bad breath is something I think we all worry about from time to time. And there are some things about it worth knowing. First of all, there is a myth that bad breath originates in the stomach. But actually, there isn't really any constant airflow between your stomach and your mouth. Bad breath is pretty much all in your mouth.
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A stuffy nose can cause bad breath because when a cold prevents you from breathing through your nose, you're forced to inhale and exhale through your mouth. which dries out the tissues and reduces the flow of saliva, and that's the mouth's built-in cleanser. The less saliva, the more bacteria, the more odor. Mouthwash containing alcohol is a problem.
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It promises to kill 100% of the germs in your mouth, but what they don't tell you is those germs repopulate in less than an hour, causing rebound bad breath. Some alcohol-free mouth rinses can be beneficial, and the results last longer. Eating cheese or other dairy products can help neutralize acidity and cut down on bad breath.
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And the side effects of many drugs like anti-anxiety drugs, antidepressants, even allergy medications can produce dry mouth and hence bad breath. And that is something you should know. So do me a favor right now, right here, while we're at the end of this episode. On whatever app you're listening on, there's going to be a share button on there.
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And just hit that share button and send this episode to someone you know that you think would enjoy it as much as you did. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Well, that's a great idea because how many of us have had days that just didn't go so well, didn't turn out too well, even with the best of intentions. But maybe you have to be more than just intentional. Maybe you have some things you can do that will help you have a better day.
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Today on Something You Should Know, how the clothes you wear can change who you are in a big way. Then, how to have a great day every day.
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So dive in and pick one that gives people a sense of what you're talking about, and let's do that one.
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Sure, absolutely.
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I guess more relaxed. I mean, I took my mind off of what we were doing and got my head into that, and it just kind of slowed everything down because I was working on breathing rather than anything else. Yeah, it feels good.
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Well, that was pretty simple and fun and easy. Let's let's do another one.
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Also, some facts and myths about bad breath to help keep you minty fresh. And understanding dog behavior and how we sometimes unknowingly reinforce the bad behavior.
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Oh, that's cool. Well, I want to try that later. That's an interesting, I had never heard of that before. So that's great. It is.
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Well, that's good to know. I wouldn't want to find that out the hard way. Well, I want to get to more of your proven techniques to help people have a better day. I'm speaking with Therese Houston. She is a cognitive scientist at Seattle University and author of the book, Sharp, 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science.
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So, Therese, I know you talk a lot about multitasking, and I know there are people who believe they're very good at it. And then I've also heard that it's not really a thing, that it's a myth, that multitasking is really switching back and forth between two or more things, but not really doing multiple things at the same time. So what's your take on that?
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Sure, go right ahead.
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
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A, B, C, D, E, F.
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1A, 2B, 3C, 4D, 5E, 6F.
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Yeah, it is. But it is misleading because I do feel like I'm just doing one thing. I'm doing that task.
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Well, you know, I've never really thought about this before, but there is an expectation. Like if you go to, into a fancy restaurant and there's music playing, it's likely something classical-y, or if not real classical music. Because what I'm thinking about is there's a grocery store not far from here that I go to now and again,
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And they don't play the music you would expect to hear, which is why I noticed it. I can't tell you what the other grocery stores play, and they're all playing music. I don't even notice it. But this place plays oldies from the 60s, and I love it, and I notice it.
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But there is this expectation that you will hear certain music in certain places, and you will not hear certain music in other certain places.
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I'm always interested in how people get to like the music they like. And I imagine it has a lot to do with just the music you're exposed to in your home growing up or whatever. But I remember...
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because I come from the radio, the music radio business, worked in music radio for a long time, and remember program directors at radio stations talking about this, about how they would play a song, they would choose whatever song, new song that they're going to play. If you play a song over and over and over again, people get to like it. It becomes a hit.
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That's how hit records become hit records, is if it's played enough, people become familiar with it, and that familiarity turns into liking.
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on repeat and they were then having these associations maybe whatever they were doing and creating these positive memories while they were listening to it whether it was intentional or not maybe you can explain this phenomenon to me and i bet it's something that's happened to everyone listening to us talk right now if you were to say to me okay here is a song and you name the song and it's a song i know i've known it all my life
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What are the lyrics? I couldn't tell you. I probably don't know the lyrics. I might know a few of them, but I don't know the lyrics. But if you play the song, I'll be able to sing along with it and not miss a word. So I did know the lyrics, but I couldn't tell you what they were unless I had the song playing with me. What's that?
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So do you know which side of your face is your good side? The one you like to point towards the camera when someone's taking your picture. Hi, and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. If you've never taken the time to really determine which side of your face is the good side, I can tell you that it's probably the left side.
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One question that I've always wondered about, and I think every parent and every student has wondered about, is, is it a good idea when you're studying to listen to music or is silence better?
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Well, it's really eye-opening to realize how much music we're exposed to, much of it just in the background. But as you point out, there's no such thing as just in the background. It all affects us in different ways. And I appreciate you explaining this. Sarah Layla Sherman has been my guest, and the name of her book is Resonant Minds, The Transformative Power of Music One Note at a Time.
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There's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. And Sarah, I thank you for coming by.
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I imagine, like me, that if your doctor prescribes you a medication, you don't question it very much. You figure the doctor knows what he or she is doing. They wouldn't prescribe something if they didn't think it would work or if it wasn't safe. And you may or may not worry about the cost, depending on whether or not you have insurance.
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And in any case, you figure it's probably necessary, it's most likely the best thing out there to treat whatever is wrong with you, and so you go with it. If that is pretty much the way you operate, it's pretty much the way I operate, then my guest you're about to meet would say, you're making a lot of assumptions that you shouldn't be making and potentially putting your health at risk.
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And it just might be worth hearing what he has to say. Jerry Avorn is a medical doctor and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. He has built a leading research center at Harvard to study medication use, outcomes, costs, and policies. He has written or co-written over 600 papers in medical literature, as well as opinion pieces in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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Researchers from Wake Forest University studied the faces of male and female college students and took note of their personal preferences, and they almost always said the left side. The researchers say there's a reason most of us are drawn to the left side. That side of the face is controlled by the right side of the brain, which governs feelings.
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He's author of a book called Rethinking Medications, Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take. Doctor, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you for having me. So first, explain your overall view on medications and what you think people might want to consider when the doctor prescribes them something to take.
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And we should be concerned about this. Why? And here's why I ask. I would assume my doctor is not giving me a pill that doesn't work. He must know why it works. He must think this is a good thing. My insurance is going to pay for it. So why do I need to listen and worry about any of the things you just mentioned?
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But even if the FDA doesn't do that, I would think my doctor has experience with his own or her own patients that would indicate, yeah, this seems to work in a lot of cases. So let's give this a try. And, you know, my other patients aren't dead. So, yeah, let's go.
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I know there have been individual cases of drugs that have been approved for use, put on the market, and then pulled because something was wrong. And that does happen. But generally speaking, and my assumption is that once drugs are approved, they've been tested rigorously enough... that if they're approved, they're probably okay.
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As a result, the left side of your face will usually show a greater intensity of emotion. This is also a difference that painters have seemingly known about for centuries. Go to any museum and you will notice most portraits depict a person's left side. And that is something you should know. Whether you realize it or not, music plays a role in your life. You hear music more than you think.
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But from the patient's point of view, because I don't know if my doctor is going to prescribe a drug that's relatively new, it's been around for 50 years, should I be worried? And you can find plenty of examples like the one you just gave of pretty much disaster stories. And there are plenty of other examples, as you said, of great drugs that do wonders.
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So I don't, as a patient, know where should my worry be placed. I've heard, interviewed a doctor here that said, you know, they don't take a drug that hasn't been around and approved for a long time just to avoid the kinds of things you're talking about.
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Get in your car, go to the store, go to the mall, go to the doctor's office, watch TV, go to the movies. There will be music playing in all those cases. And then there is the music that you intentionally listen to because you enjoy it. Well, what effect does all this music have on you? And can you use music in an intentional way to actually help you to improve your life?
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As a doctor, maybe not you because you're so into this, but generally speaking, A doctor begins prescribing a new drug. He's got to feel pretty comfortable or else he's gotten a good sales pitch. What does it take for you or other doctors to say, here's this new drug, this drug company's been asking me to prescribe it, and so I'm going to start prescribing it because now I know what?
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When you get pitched by a drug company, a rep comes in and tells you, do they not volunteer and do you typically not ask, what's this going to cost my patient?
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Well, you said something about how a lot of the drugs that you see on TV for eczema and whatnot aren't any better or probably very little better than what we've already got. Is that a fair assessment of what you said?
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Or maybe music is just something pleasant to listen to to fill up the silence. Well, I think what you're about to hear about music and how it affects you is going to surprise you. My guest is Sarah Layla Sherman. She is a musician and educator who has pioneered innovative approaches to use music as a tool for mindful learning and personal growth.
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So why do they come up with these new drugs? Is it just kind of like introducing the new model car? We just need something a little more fancy and expensive and to kind of churn interest up again?
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So clearly, you're not a big fan of the way the drug approval process works. But the process that's in place had to have been approved by somebody or some people. If I were to call them and say, defend it, defend the way things are done now, what would they say?
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But your analogy of the court system is different in that theoretically approving drugs is not an adversarial situation where you have defendants and plaintiffs. It's we're all in this together to see if this drug works.
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She's co-author of a book called Resonant Minds, The Transformative Power of Music One Note at a Time. Hi, Sarah. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So what's the way now?
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So put this in some perspective, because you've been talking about some instances and some procedures and some things that are in place that might tend to make someone think, well, you can't trust drug companies. So what's a consumer to think?
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So let's start with how much music do we hear? How much do we listen to?
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Well, so much of what you've said I've never heard before, and maybe I have tried to ignore it, too, because I want to believe that if drugs are available, they've got to be safe, they've got to be effective. If a doctor's prescribing it, he must or she must know what they're talking about. There's all this gray area, but I appreciate you explaining it. Jerry Avorn has been my guest.
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He is a medical doctor and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and the name of his book is Rethinking Medications, Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Jerry, thanks for coming on and sharing your expertise about this.
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If you remember the good old days, you probably don't remember them very accurately. It seems that people who long for the good old days have a very idealized memory. According to some research at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, people have a tendency to block out their negative past experiences while we fondly remember the good times.
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The research shows that we cherry-pick our memories and leave out the unpleasant ones. While we look at the past through rose-colored glasses and remember the best moments, we look at the present for both the good and the bad. So naturally, the present never seems as good or as enjoyable as the good old days. And that is something you should know.
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So when I hear you say using music in an intentional way, I think of the music like, you know, when you listen to those meditation tapes and there's, you know, whatever that fluty sound is. To me, that's music for that. But I don't know what that music is. I have no interest in listening to it any other time in my life. That's just, you know, music to be mindful by. But...
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Today on Something You Should Know, which side of your face is your good side? Are you sure? Then you're exposed to more music every day than you think, and all that music affects you.
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Give me can you give me an example of using music in an intentional way?
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It's a good question, but it's almost as if if the music wasn't there, I'd think something's wrong. This person doesn't know what they're doing because they're not playing the mandatory flute music that I so expect to hear.
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But context seems to play an important role in it. And, you know, for example, going back to the masseuse and the meditation music and all that. So if you walk into the masseuse's place and, you know, the candles are burning and the lights are flickering or whatever. And, you know, and she puts on Def Leppard instead of the fluty, you know, waterfall music.
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Even if I like Def Leppard, this is not the place, right?
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I was surprised by your statistic that I think you said 70% of people listen to three to four hours of music per day. That seems like a lot.
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Also, why do the good old days seem so much better than the present? And the prescription drugs you take, you'd like to think they've been tested by the FDA?
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You know what I really hate is the hold music. You know when they put you on hold for 20 minutes, but they play the same 30-second loop of music over and over and over again, knowing they know you're going to be there for 20 minutes? That is maddening. I would rather have silence than hear that thing for the 400th time.
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Right, yeah, it very much serves as that, we're still here, we're just ignoring you at the moment, but we're still here. And you say in your book that only 1.4% of people listen to classical music. That's surprising.
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There's something else about classical music I want to ask you about in just a moment. Sarah Sherman is my guest. She is author of the book Resonant Minds, The Transformative Power of Music One Note at a Time.
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So, Sarah, what's interesting to me about classical music is I don't seek it out, but when I hear it, I really like it. I mean, and it does signal something. Like if you hear classical music in a hotel lobby, it classes up the place.
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Yeah, just like in a restaurant with white tablecloths and classical music playing, you know it's going to be expensive. This is going to be an expensive restaurant because it's a classy place.
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Hi, and welcome to Something You Should Know. So when you throw out food... Food that's clearly rotten, bad, sitting at the bottom of the refrigerator for six months. Okay, you know to throw that away. But what about some of the other food, the questionable food? Most of us use the date on the food label to determine whether to keep it or toss it.
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Is there a sense of all of the reported UFOs Which ones of what percentage of them eventually get explained or versus how many we never figured out?
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That's a surprising figure, I think, for a lot of people that the Pentagon or whoever is looking at this can actually explain almost 95 to 98% of all UFO sightings as to what they are. That's a pretty good batting average.
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But when those pilots see things and sometimes there's these fuzzy videos of lights moving in a way that, you know, would be hard to imagine. Do those things ever get figured out? I mean, you often hear, oh, it's a weather balloon or something. But are there some real baffling things that like that is so incredible? We just we couldn't possibly begin to explain it.
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Whenever there's a discussion about UFOs and the government, Area 51 comes up. What is Area 51?
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But experts say Americans throw out billions of pounds of perfectly good food every year because of those confusing labels. The sell-by date on a package is intended for the retailer, not for you, and it winds up misleading a lot of us. Many dates printed on the food we buy are actually meaningless when it comes to freshness or safety.
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The reason not to believe that the government has aliens or has captured aliens or alien spacecraft and they're keeping them somewhere, that human nature is that people aren't very good at keeping secrets. People can't keep their mouth shut.
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And that by now, if this would have leaked out, somebody would have taken a picture, like a real picture, or somebody would know something and it would get out.
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And the day to day work the government does is to be out there looking for things or do they react to reports or are they scanning the skies or what?
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Well, you said in the very beginning that people have this kind of human nature question of are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? And I guess people have wondered that for a long time. But truly, over the last 80 years, the interest in all of this has really ramped up. And it's interesting to hear the story and the government's involvement in all of it.
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Even use-by dates or best-before dates are misleading and encourage us to throw away good food before it's time. One food scientist said you just cannot tie shelf life to a date. If the food looks rotten and it smells bad, sure, throw it away. But just because it's past the date on the package doesn't necessarily mean it's unsafe. And that is something you should know.
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I've been speaking with Garrett Graff. He is a former editor for Politico, a contributor to Wired and CNN. He's written several books, and his latest is called UFO, The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here and Out There. And there's a link to his book in the show notes. Thanks for coming on and talking about this, Garrett. Well, thanks so much.
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It was a pleasure talking with you.
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Yeah, they're as graceful as in how someone moves, but as a human characteristic, grace is something maybe a little bit indefinable. You know it when you see it. And I think we tend to like people who exhibit grace. So why don't we dive into it and see if maybe we could all exhibit a little more grace in our lives. And here to help me do that is Julia Baird.
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Julia is an Australian journalist, broadcaster, and author. Her latest book is called Bright Shining, How Grace Changes Everything. Hi, Julia. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So, as I said, it seems like grace is maybe a little tough to define. I know it when I see it. But how do you define grace? What is it?
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When I think of graceful people, at least the people I'm thinking of, it's hard to imagine that they sat down one day and said, you know, I'm going to be more graceful. I'm going to exhibit more grace to the world. In other words, it's not something that you decide to do. It's more who you are.
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There sure are a lot of wacky conspiracy theories about UFOs flying around. And we know the U.S. government has and is investigating UFOs. But what is actually known? Is there any evidence that any UFO has contained beings from another planet? After all, you have to wonder, as many people have, if aliens were to come all that way from another planet or even another galaxy.
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When the people that you think of, that you know that do this, it's hard to imagine they sit down and go open up, make notes about, I'm going to have more grace. It's like, it must be something else they say to themselves. It's because you don't hear that word a lot. Like, I'm going to work on my grace. It's something else, isn't it? I mean, how do people come at this?
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The people who do these acts, like the person who drops the meals off and mows the lawn for the jerk, is it the occasional lawn mowing and meal dropping off, or is this a life, a lifestyle?
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why would they land in a swamp somewhere where only two people get to see them and those people maybe take some grainy, out-of-focus picture? Why wouldn't the aliens land in the middle of Times Square? The fact is a UFO is an unidentified flying object, meaning nobody is sure what it is. And if, for argument's sake, we put aside the alien spacecraft idea, well then what else could it be?
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Is this a way of thinking all the time and a way of acting all the time? Or are you just dropping off the occasional meal to the occasional jerk and that's fine?
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So this thing you call awe, which I think we've all experienced that. You know, you see something and it's wow. You have that moment of wow. What's the connection between awe and grace if there is one?
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You know what I noticed is, well, you know, you only see awe if you're kind of looking for it. I mean, you might see something and I might see something and you're awestruck. And I'm like, yeah, you know, I'm sorry I was on my phone. I couldn't help. I missed that. What was that? Like, you know, you've got to be present. You've got to pay attention. You've got to look for it.
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And you can find it almost anywhere if you're willing to look for it.
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And why is the government seemingly so interested yet so hush-hush about UFOs? Well, that's what Garrett Graff set out to investigate. Garrett is a former editor for Politico and contributor to Wired and CNN. He has written several books about politics, technology, and national security and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is titled UFO, The Inside Story of the U.S.
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the person to say, I'm going to do that thing that, you know, the meals drop off to the jerk guy. What motivates that change in behavior? Because usually it's something. I mean, you don't just wake up one morning and go, you know, I'm going to go take meals down the street. Something motivates you. What is it that motivates people to show more grace?
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Government's Search for Alien Life Here and Out There. Hi, Garrett. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks so much for having me. So do we have any idea when people first started looking up and going, gee, I wonder if anybody else is out there or some other creature or, ooh, what's that over there? And when people first started getting interested in what you would call a UFO?
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I got to go meet that guy.
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I'm going to bring him a casserole and have a little chat with him.
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See how he feels.
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It seems like in a conversation about grace, that somewhere in there is forgiveness, that that's kind of what this is about. Yeah.
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Well, anyone who looks at the world today would likely agree that the world and the people in it could use a little more grace. And this is a great and optimistic way to approach the topic. Julia Baird has been my guest. She's an Australian journalist and broadcaster, and she's author of a book called Bright Shining, How Grace Changes Everything. And there's a link to her book in the show notes.
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Thank you, Julia.
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As you intuitively know, getting in the middle of a dog fight can be very dangerous. Naturally, you feel an urge to intervene when dogs are fighting, especially if your dog is involved. However, the mutual roaring and snarling kind of scuffle is actually a cue to stand back. The whole thing usually seems much longer to us, but the dogs should resolve it in less than a minute.
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When you panic or shout at the dog, it can escalate matters and add to the frenzy. Of course, the dogs are prone to injury in a fight, but a relatively minor bite can become a much bigger tear if the dogs are pulled apart after they happen to clamp down on one another. Now, you might not have known this, but in a serious dog fight, the aggressive dog is often silent.
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Take this as a cue that he means business. There really is not a safe way to intervene unless you have an air horn or a water hose or something that'll startle the dogs into giving up the fight. You can also try throwing a blanket or jacket over the dogs. Try to stay cool and call out for help, but trying to separate a serious dog fight could result in severe injuries to you and to your dog.
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Also, what to do if your dog gets into a fight with another dog. And understanding grace. It's a wonderful human quality, but it's hard to define.
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So the focus of your book is the U.S. government's involvement and interest in UFOs, which is interesting because the fact that the government is interested kind of gives the whole subject some credence. But when did this all start and why is the government interested?
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When they're doing that, though, are they doing this in secret? Are they telling people, yeah, we got our eye on this, not to worry? Or are they saying, shh, yeah, Let's take a look at this.
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How much of any of this is being driven by popular culture, movies, books, comic books? Is that a result of what you're talking about, or is that fueling what you're talking about?
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Right. And it's a big jump to go from I don't know what that is to here come creatures from another world to colonize our planet. I mean, that's a pretty big leap.
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In the 70 or 80 years since the government has been doing this, since 1947, Is there any sense that, yeah, we really think that there are aliens? Or is it still, we don't know what it is? Because there's this sense, and you hear about it in talks of Area 51, that the government is hiding aliens and alien creatures.
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Is there any inkling that there's anything other than we just don't know what that is?
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We are having a down-to-earth discussion about UFOs, and my guest is Garrett Graff. He is author of the book UFO, the inside story of the U.S. government's search for alien life here and out there.
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So Garrett, since you focus on what the government is doing and what the government knows or doesn't know about UFOs, what is your sense? Does the government, do you think, know a lot that it's not telling us? Or the government is looking for things but doesn't really see anything and it's all explainable? What?
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Today on Something You Should Know, there's a common word you use that actually means the opposite of what you think it does. Then, you'll hear a lot of cool uses for artificial intelligence that will make your life so much better.
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And how do we know when, how accurate are these things? Like, when you ask it a question, how confident should you be that the answer you got back, assuming it's a factually based answer, is correct?
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If I Google, if I just search in a search engine, the best baked lasagna recipe there is, I'll get back results of 10 million lasagna recipes, none of which may or may not be the best. If I ask AI to give me the best, does it somehow put in a judgment that this one or these four are the best, or will I just get 10 million baked lasagna recipes?
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One of the first things that struck me and that I noticed that makes it so different an experience than dealing with a search engine is if you ask for a baked lasagna recipe, you get one. Because you asked for one. So why not ask for 10 if you really want to sort through them?
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But it takes you very literally, whereas a search engine will give you as many baked lasagna recipes as it can find, seemingly. but AI gives you exactly what you asked for. You asked for one, here's one.
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So tell me something that you've done with AI that that I wouldn't have thought to do that was really, really cool.
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What I have found so interesting about it is, A, it is so easy to use, and the more you use it, the more you want to use it, and the more you want to use it, the more things you find it can do. It's just remarkable.
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I remember you said in the book something about some of them may tell you it can't do something and you can correct them and say, no, you do have that ability.
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How are these things and at what rate are these things like ChatGPT and the other ones getting better?
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Well, I love how you make this so easy and so accessible because, you know, I mean, AI at first glance might seem a bit intimidating and overwhelming, but you make it so not that. So thanks. Celia Quillen has been my guest.
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She's an expert in artificial intelligence, and she is author of the book, AI for Life, 100 plus ways to use artificial intelligence to make your life easier, more productive, and more fun. There's a link to her book in the show notes. Well done, Celia. Thanks.
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A while back, we had Ramit Sethi on as a guest, and he's one of the smartest people you'll ever know when it comes to everyday money matters. And he was here talking about money and couples. As it turns out, he has his own podcast called Money for Couples, which if you're part of a couple, then I highly recommend you listen to this podcast.
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Because when you do, instead of fighting about money, you and your partner will discover how to start building a rich life together. Money for Couples is a podcast full of real-life, actionable advice like how to pay off your debt and still enjoy your life, how to build a shared financial vision, how to spend extravagantly on what you love and cut back on what you don't.
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And you'll learn from real-world stories of couples facing the same money challenges as you. All of the episodes are helpful, but if I had to pick one or two, there's one called, We Make $300,000 a Year But Spend Like We Make a Million. That's a situation I think a lot of people can relate to. And another is called, We've Saved for Retirement But Have No Money to Spend Now.
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Money for Couples is the name of the podcast, hosted by Ramit Sethi, and all you have to do is search for Money for Couples wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Uncertainty is a constant we live with every moment. We never know what's going to happen. And sometimes that's fine. We don't always want to know what's coming. But not knowing can also be problematic.
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I mean, some things we would really prefer to know before they happen. Nevertheless, we live with uncertainty. And joining me to help make sense out of all the uncertainty that lies before you is David Spiegelhalter. He is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge and author of the book, The Art of Uncertainty, How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk, and Luck. Hey, David.
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So there is a word in the English language, a fairly common word, that actually means the opposite of what you think it means. Hi, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. When you hear the word overdrive, you think you know what it means. When you hear the phrase like kick it into overdrive, most people think it means something along the lines of warp speed or maximum power.
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Thanks for being a guest on Something You Should Know. It's a great pleasure to be here. So uncertainty is just part of life. It's there. There it is. So why do you study it?
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And so why doesn't the conversation end there? Some things are uncertain. You'll never know until you know. And have a nice day. That's it.
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Somewhere in this discussion has to come human nature because numbers don't tell you everything. For example, it is much safer to fly than it is to drive in a car. But a lot of people don't live that. They know it intellectually, but flying scares them to death. And so the probabilities don't mean much because they ignore them.
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And it means just the opposite. It's an automotive term that refers to a gear ratio higher than one to one. So after a certain speed is reached, that speed can be maintained with a minimum of engine effort and wear. So, in your car, overdrive gives you a more relaxed, efficient ride.
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Talk about luck, because luck seems to throw a monkey wrench into everything. People say, you're really stupid to play the lottery. Your chances of winning are just so ridiculous. Well, tell that to the guy that won $300 million. It turned out to be a pretty good deal.
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What about coincidences? Are they a thing or it's just that's just there's just so many things going on that there's bound to be?
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The reverse definition has become so ingrained in people's mind that it is now an acceptable definition according to most dictionaries. And then there was the movie Maximum Overdrive, which helped continue the word's misuse. But technically, when you say, punch that baby into overdrive, what you're really saying is punch that baby into a leisurely cruising mode.
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What are some other things like that? Like what you just said about if you had 20 people in a room and they the last two digits of their phone number, things like that, those kind of probabilities in everyday life that people probably have no idea are true.
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Wait a minute. You're saying that if you shuffle a deck of cards, the number of the different number of orders that you could come up with is a number with 78 zeros.
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Yeah, that's an amazing fact.
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You know, what that reminds me of is when people say, There are no two snowflakes alike. Well, how would you ever know that?
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What about the phenomenon? It often happens in weather and whatnot. It's called the perfect storm where multiple things come together to create total havoc.
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It sounds a lot less cool now that you know what it means. And that is something you should know. I will admit that I haven't dipped my toe too deep into the artificial intelligence waters. I've played around with ChatGPT and I've read a few articles and we've had guests on here talk about what AI is. But when I saw this book written by my next guest, I don't know, something clicked.
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So what do we do with all of this? I mean, knowing what you know, on a day-to-day basis, how does this fit into your life that you do that I don't do because you know what you know?
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Do you sense people are overly worried about risk or do we have it kind of right?
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I realized I wasn't really understanding all of what AI could do for me in my life. And maybe more importantly, how to use it in a way that it really gives me what I want and uses more of its potential. As you listen for the next several minutes, I think you'll really start to understand some of the very cool things AI can do to make your life better and how easy it is to navigate.
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Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny because I think of myself as a fairly cautious person, but I also know, as I look back on my life, things have a way of working out for the most part. I mean, I have not been the victim of any huge disaster. And, you know, we just had the fires here in California. We have friends that lost their home, but they'll be okay. I mean, it will eventually...
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There will be a path to recovery and things work out.
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I still can't believe that thing about shuffling cards. I mean, that is just unbelievable. But it's all about this discussion of certainty and uncertainty. David Spiegelhalter has been my guest. He is Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge and author of the book, The Art of Uncertainty, How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk, and Luck.
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And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. David, thanks. Thanks for sharing. Thanks very much. You would think there is one place where you would be safe from all the troubles in the world, and that would be in the shower. Yet there are hazards lurking in your shower. For example, did you know showering in a thunderstorm is dangerous?
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It's actually dangerous to be near any plumbing or wiring inside your house when there are thunderstorms going on outside. This is according to the Lightning Injury Research Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lightning can hit a power line or the ground and then come right up through your water pipes. Using an old showerhead can be trouble.
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A lot of showerheads contain potentially dangerous bacteria, according to a study from the University of Colorado at Boulder. That's because they're full of these little nooks and crannies that provide an ideal home for microbes. It's better to use a rain-type showerhead or take the showerhead off altogether and go with a single stream of water. I don't think I'm going to do that.
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Using a dirty loofah or washcloth or brush. They may be good for exfoliating the skin, but those things are loaded with germs unless you wash them regularly. You should soak them once a week in a diluted vinegar soak or run them through the dishwasher. And not having a bath mat is asking for trouble.
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According to a report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 230,000 accidental injuries occur in the bathroom or shower in one year, and almost 20% of those injuries are due to slipping and falling. So it is best to have those non-slip strips or a non-slip bath mat in your tub. And that is something you should know. You know, podcasting is a very competitive business.
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My guest is Celia Quillen. She is an expert in artificial intelligence and has been featured in Time, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and on the Today Show. She's the creator of the popular TikTok and Instagram channel at SmartWorkAI. And she's author of the book AI for Life, 100-plus ways to use artificial intelligence to make your life easier, more productive, and more fun.
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We're always competing for new listeners, and one of the best ways to get them is for you to recommend this podcast to people you know. It really helps us, and then they become listeners, and hopefully they'll tell people, and our audience continues to grow. So please share this podcast with people you know, and it's a great way to show your support. I'm Mike Kerr Brothers.
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Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Also, we need to talk about your shower and the fascinating world of risk, chance, and probability.
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Hi, Celia. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So I have a sense, because this is what I thought for a long time, I have this sense that people think of AI as kind of a really fancy search engine. Like you go to ChatGPT, you type in something, and you get results back, much like you would do with Google, even though, as you're about to explain, it isn't really a search engine. But don't you think that's what a lot of people think it is?
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yeah see that's what i thought and i've you know i've done that i've typed in things and gotten answers but then i looked in your book and thought and saw that you can do so much more and so what much more can you do if you could give me like a little shopping list of things that ai can do that people may not realize i don't want to go deep i just want to go wide
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One of the things that's so amazing to me about it that I discovered after reading your book is that It isn't just that you ask it to do something and it does it and that's it. You can refine and say, no, that's not what I was looking for. Or here's a document, read this and tell me, now tell me something that you didn't know before. I mean, it's so malleable. It's like clay.
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You can make it do almost anything.
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What is it doing when it's doing all these things? And I know that's a big question and I'm asking for a little answer, but but give it a shot.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Recently, I was asked to try a supplement called Mitopur and then talk about it here. And I said, well, let me check it out. So Mitopur is a precise dose of urolithin A. That's a metabolic compound that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And it's also found in small amounts in certain fruits and nuts.
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There are different AI tools. ChatGPT is the one that I think a lot of us, that comes to mind immediately as the one to go to, but there are others. What are the differences between them? Are they more or less interchangeable or not?
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If I were to ask an AI tool like ChatGPT, give me a snappier title for this or give me a, like, how does it know what snappier means or does it?
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Now, as I've talked about many times here, I work at staying fit and healthy. It's important to me. And when I researched some studies online and found urolithin A, which is what MitoPure is, is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance, and I saw that it was safe to take, I started taking it. And I've been taking it a while now, and I see a change.
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You and I are getting a great primer in artificial intelligence and how to use it to make your life better. My guest is Celia Quillen. She's author of the book AI for Life.
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So Celia, how do these AI tools like ChatGPT, how do they handle things like, if you were to ask it, come up with a clever way to say, how does it know what clever means and does it come up with something clever? I mean, does it make an attempt to be clever?
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Well, that's a rather amazing statistic. And what I find even more amazing is that I've never heard of this before, that the shingles vaccine has that much effect on Alzheimer's disease. Why isn't this being screamed from the mountaintops?
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So you pick you pick an animal that maybe I wouldn't think of or people wouldn't think of or one that really kind of floored you when you when you did the research on this that would surprise me.
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Well, one of the things that's different between most species and humans is our mental capacity. We have the ability to contemplate our own death. We worry about the future. We lament about the past. How does that play into this?
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What about the animals that are somewhat similar to us? Chimps, gorillas, what do we learn from them?
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Well, doesn't it seem overall, though, that one of the reasons that we're having so many of the health problems that we have is we're living a lot longer than we did three, four, five hundred years ago. And the longer you live, the more things can go wrong.
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Well, I can't imagine anyone listening for the last 20 minutes who hasn't heard something rather remarkable that they never knew before about the medicine and science of human health. I appreciate you sharing that. My guest has been Dr. David Agus. He is a medical oncologist.
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And the name of his book, well, he's written several books, but the one that we've been talking about today is The Book of Animal Secrets. Nature's Lessons for a Long and Happy Life. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Doctor, thank you. Appreciate you being on today. Thank you so much. Talk to you soon. I'm really excited to have Factor back as a sponsor.
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Compounded products are not FDA approved or verified for safety, effectiveness, or quality. Prescription required. Restrictions apply. Wigovi and Ozempic are not compounded. Actual price depends on product and plan purchased. How many times have you heard the phrase, manage your emotions? And we've all seen people who are amazingly good at managing their emotions in difficult situations.
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And we've all seen people completely lose it. Like the guy who screams at the store clerk or gets in a road rage incident. Those would be examples of not managing your emotions very well. But certainly the ability, the skill to manage your emotions better is one we could probably all sharpen up a bit. Here to help is Ethan Cross. He is one of the world's leading experts on emotion regulation.
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And they found that 75% of workers who asked for a raise in their current field got one. The survey found that 44% of the workers who asked for a raise got the raise they wanted, and 31% got something even if it wasn't for the total amount they asked for. Only one in four workers who asked for a raise got nothing in return. The big lesson here is that you should ask.
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He's an award-winning professor at the University of Michigan. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the New England Journal of Medicine. He's author of a book called Shift, Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You. Hi, Ethan. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me. It's a delight to be here.
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Maybe it's partly because everybody's got their phone camera going and there's cameras everywhere that we see more incidents of people not handling their emotions very well. And I don't know if the problem is getting worse or not. What is your sense? Where are we with the world's population managing their emotions?
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Today on Something You Should Know, what are the chances you'd get a raise just by asking? Higher than you think. Then, amazing medical discoveries we've learned from other animals and AI.
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Yeah, well, people, I think, don't think much about managing positive emotions. It's the negative ones that seem to get in the way. And your example just then of the anxiety of, having to give a presentation is a pretty common one, whether it's in school or at work or whatever. And so what do you do to manage it?
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Only 43% of the 31,000 workers that PayScale surveyed had even asked for a raise in their current field. And the lowest paid workers are often the least likely to ask for a raise. Generally speaking, the more money you make, the better the chance that you will get the raise. Still, it doesn't hurt to ask. You may be surprised by the answer. And that is something you should know.
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Well, isn't that what all of those things you just suggested do? They take you out of your head, overthinking about your presentation, and get you to focus on something else.
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Since emotions are such a big deal and such a big part of our life and drive a lot of our behavior and thinking, maybe we should describe or have you explain what emotions are.
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You are about to be amazed at what science is learning from other animal species that can help human health and longevity. Things like why elephants almost never get cancer, But humans get it a lot. Or how pigs cope with pain. There's a whole list of these things that I'm about to discuss with my guest, Dr. David Agus.
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Yeah. And you know, what I'd like to do now is get into some of your tools that you talk about to help people manage their emotions.
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He is a medical oncologist and one of the world's leading doctors and pioneering biomedical researchers. He's the founding CEO of the Ellison Medical Institute and a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California. He is author of The Book of Animal Secrets, Nature's Lessons for a Long and Happy Life. Hey doctor, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So let me ask you this, though. You had mentioned, you know, take a step back, get perspective. A lot of times, I think people get... pulled in by their emotions quickly in kind of a knee-jerk way. Road rage would be a good example of that. Those people don't seem like they're in a really good place to take a step back, get some perspective, because they're so angry.
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I want to spend just a few moments on positive emotions and you would use an example of what if you were feeling really good about something and you'd want to maybe keep that going for a while. Because I don't think people think you can do that, that positive emotions aren't really a problem and they come when they come and they feel great and then you move on.
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But talk a little bit more about that because I find that really interesting.
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Thank you so much. Excited to be here. So I get the fact that it's interesting and curious the way other animals deal with and somehow avoid certain illnesses and conditions. But besides the fact that it's interesting and curious and may be helpful to humans one day, why is this important for us to be talking about?
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Well, you've certainly put some intel and some strategy behind the idea of managing your emotions, and I really appreciate you sharing that. I've been speaking with Ethan Cross. He's one of the world's leading experts on emotion regulation, and he's author of a book called Shift, Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You. And there's a link to that book in the show notes.
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Also, are you suffering from tech neck? It comes from looking down at your phone and proven ways to manage your emotions when they're starting to get out of hand.
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Ethan, great conversation. Thanks for coming on. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate you having me on. There is a condition, it's a real condition, called tech neck. And it is the result of tilting your neck to look down at your phone or your tablet or your laptop when you text, read, or surf the web.
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Tilting your neck like that puts an unnecessary strain on your spine, according to research published in the National Library of Medicine. When you stand upright, the average head, your head, places about 10 to 12 pounds of force on the cervical spine. But with just a 15 degree tilt in your neck, that weight increases to 27 pounds, and a 60-degree tilt turns into 60 pounds.
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That extra spine stress can lead to early wear and tear on your spine and might even cause you to have to have surgery down the road. The other thing, and we've talked about this a million times before, is if you carry your phone around everywhere and put it down on all kinds of surfaces, it's getting covered in germs, which then transfers to your hand when you pick it up,
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And a really clear example that illustrates what you're talking about would be what?
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But how do you take what you just said about elephants and put it in people?
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Going back to the elephant, if what you said is true, then why doesn't everybody take a statin like Lipitor every day?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming. And even still, there are no guarantees. Which is why, when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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But does aspirin work, the daily low-dose aspirin?
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You mentioned dogs and I never knew that about sleeping, but I imagine there are other things we learn from dogs and since people have them in their home, I'd love to hear that.
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So let's pick an animal that people don't have much... connection with like a rhinoceros or something like that? What can we learn from him or her?
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We're talking about what animals, other creatures, can teach us about the science and medicine of human health and longevity. And my guest is Dr. David Agus. He's author of the book, The Book of Animal Secrets, Nature's Lessons for a Long and Happy Life. I really love it when I find a great new podcast. And then, of course, I have to share that with everyone.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed. Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids.
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. So the other day we had some people over and we were cooking fish on the grill and the question came up, what's better, fresh or frozen fish? The answer seems obvious, but I did a little digging. And it's actually kind of a trick question, what's better, fresh or frozen, because a lot of fresh fish was frozen.
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Dan Heath is my guest. He is a writer and researcher, and he's author of the book Upstream, The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen.
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So, Dan, I think one of the problems in trying to identify those upstream problems is that we live in an era of specialization. You know, in the factory, one person does one job is not necessarily aware of what everyone else does or how they do it. They just know that to do their one job. So they don't see the big picture enough to know how to tackle the big picture as a whole.
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The term fresh fish doesn't have anything to do with how old the fish is. Fresh fish just means it's not frozen. And if it was never frozen, it may be several days old and may not taste as good as it would have when it was just caught. So to solve this problem, stores often buy frozen fish, ideally fish that was flash frozen right after it was caught, then they thaw it out and sell it.
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It just seems, as I said before, that even when you decide to tackle a problem upstream, it doesn't mean you'll always find the problem upstream and you may find something else. You may say this is the solution and in fact it's not.
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That way there is less waste because they can defrost only what they expect to sell. If you're buying fish to cook at home, frozen fish may be a better way to go, particularly if it says on the package it was flash frozen. It will taste just as good, if not better, than fresh fish, and it tends to be a lot cheaper. And that is something you should know.
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Well, what I really like about this is it makes you think differently. It makes you look at problems differently. It makes you look upstream instead of just focusing on the symptom of the problem right here and now, which can open up all kinds of possibilities. Dan Heath has been my guest. The book is called Upstream, The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen.
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And there is a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you, Dan. Thanks so much, Mike.
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When there's a problem, often the solution is to add something. You need to decorate a room, you add some furniture. You need a garden, you plant some plants. If you're sick, you want the doctor to give you more medicine. Our minds tend to want to add things to make things better or to fix a problem, which in many cases is just fine. But in some cases, less might be better.
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For example, we come up with a lot of new rules at work, when in fact it might be better to get rid of some of the old ones. Probably the best example I can think of of when subtracting is best is editing, when you're editing a term paper or a video or a podcast. The process of editing, which is subtracting things, makes it better.
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Adding something is often the default solution, when in fact subtracting can be an excellent but often overlooked way to go. This is according to Leidy Klotz. He's a scientist who studies and writes about design and problem-solving. He's a professor of engineering and architecture at the University of Virginia and author of the book Subtract, The Untapped Science of Less. Hi, Lighty.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, Mike. It's great to be here. Thanks for having me. So when I hear words like less and subtract, I think, oh, here comes one of those minimalist guys who's going to tell me to get rid of all my furniture and accept the chair in the corner and, you know, throw away all my forks except the four I need and everything.
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And but but that's not your what your message necessarily is. So what is it?
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Imagine if you could solve problems before they happen. Well, the fact is you do, and the perfect example, I think, is when you change the oil in your car. You take your car in for an oil change not because there's anything wrong with it. You know that if you don't take it in for an oil change, you're asking for trouble down the road.
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So subtracting rather than adding, is that just not human nature? When we have a problem, we look to add something and that's what we do?
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So let's talk about some real life examples of what you mean by subtracting and how that makes it better.
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Well, but subtracting, was it a better option or it was just an option?
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to their detriment even when it's the better option so that lego example and your son that's a great example but that's a physical example of building things let's move into the world of say ideas and and how this plays out with ideas and and an example might help
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Today on Something You Should Know, what's better, fresh or frozen fish? Turns out to be a bit of a trick question. Then, how do you solve problems before they happen? It can be done if you change your thinking.
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So you change the oil to prevent the problem before it happens. Yet so much of our life is putting out fires, not preventing them. But what if you could actually solve a lot more problems before they happen in the first place? Well, that's what Dan Heath has been looking into, and he has authored several really interesting books.
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But it seems that in many cases, it's so subjective. I mean, adding might work, subtracting might work. As in the case of your Lego example with your son, he subtracted, you were going to add, But one wasn't necessarily better than the other. They were just different ways of approaching the same problem.
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Well, as you've been talking, it got me to thinking because using, again, the Lego example with your son, he chose to take away one little Lego block to fix the problem. And as you were pointing out, on a to-do list, maybe you need to take some things off your to-do list.
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But it occurred to me, and I want to get you to comment on this, when we talk about Lego bricks and taking things off your to-do list, these are small moves. These are taking little pieces of something and subtracting them. And maybe we need a more fundamental subtraction. Maybe you don't need a to-do list. Maybe you need to subtract the whole to-do list and get a calendar or something.
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For example, science used to believe that everything revolved around the Earth, and that was the premise. And then everything was added on top of that. But if you at some point weren't willing to let go of that concept, you keep trying to add on top of it, you're adding on to a foundation that is going to crumble.
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His latest is called Upstream, The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen. Hey, Dan, welcome. Hi, Mike. Thanks for having me on the show. You bet. So explain why you took a look at this and why you think this is important to talk about.
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So even more important that you learn to take away and say, well, let's question that before we move on.
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Well, I like that example because it illustrates your point so well that if you're going to create a bicycle for little kids, well, it's a bicycle. So one of the first things you're going to put on your bicycle for little kids... are pedals. But if you can get your mind to think, well, wait, maybe we don't need pedals. Let's subtract the pedals and it turns out you really got something.
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So where else can we use this concept of subtracting?
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So somebody could say, well, kids, you know, I heard this podcast and Lighty said, you know, we should subtract. So we're not going on vacation this year, we're subtracting vacations. And everyone's upset about that, but we're doing, we're following your advice.
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Yeah, well, I think that's the big takeaway from this, or at least from this conversation is, like you said, when you remind people that you can either add or subtract, you get more subtraction, you don't get more addition, that people just don't think about it. But when you think about it, well, sometimes it's like a light bulb going off.
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But do you think this desire for addition is human nature or is it a cultural thing? We just learn that.
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Well, and we have floating in our heads, you know, those two sayings, more is better, but also less is more. So more is better when you think of things like money, food, those kind of things. I mean, like you were saying, that more is better, but everybody has some understanding of that phrase, less is more, that too much is not always good. Right.
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those things do kind of compete in our heads of, you know, is it less or is it more?
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Well, it certainly makes you think. And I guess what it makes you think is that there are often other options where we are often adding things to fix a problem. Maybe we have options of subtracting something that could fix the problem just as well, if not even better. I've been talking with Leidy Klotz, who studies and writes about design and problem solving.
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He is a professor of engineering and architecture at the University of Virginia. And the name of his book is Subtract the Untapped Science of Less. And you'll find a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Leidy. Appreciate you being here. All right. Thanks, Mike.
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I know a lot of people are trying to cut back on sugar and sweets, and if you're one of them, you might want to stock up on pickles. Pickles can do wonders at curbing cravings, especially if you've got a craving for something sweet. Pickles are crunchy, sour, pungent, and spicy all at once, and they overwhelm the senses.
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In an experiment, hungry participants were practically drooling over some delicious desserts that they would soon be eating. But first, they had to eat a pickle. In most cases, the urge to eat the sweets was gone in as little as 10 seconds. Those who insisted on dessert say they ate less of it than they would have if they hadn't eaten the pickle. And that is something you should know.
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Also, why the secret to cutting back on sweets may be pickles. And you often hear that more is better, but maybe the better solution is less. Subtract something.
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Because that's just how we kind of think. I mean, I don't know if we grow up and learn how to think that way, but, you know, you solve problems when they arise. You just don't think about doing what you said. And then also, like, if you're going to go upstream and fix the problem, well, some of these problems are so complex. Some of these systems are, you know, government or whatever.
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Where would you even start to solve that?
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Well, but maybe that's happening. I mean, like you say, when you prevent things from happening, you never know they would have happened. So there may be a lot of this going on because we just never see it.
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Can you bring this down to a more personal level? I mean, we can talk about how police deploy their officers and how that affects policies and all that, but what about on a more personal level?
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Well, human nature, don't you think? Because, I mean, here's the simplest example I can think of. If you want to not get lung cancer, don't smoke. There isn't a smoker alive that knows that their risk of lung cancer is huge compared to a non-smoker, and yet they still smoke. So there's an example of clear, upstream thinking. Stop smoking, prevent cancer, and many people ignore it.
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Many people don't, but many people ignore the advice.
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A problem, though, I see is that, and using your example of that guy throwing kids in the river so we go upstream and tackle him and get him to stop. Well, there are a lot of cases where that guy is hard to find, that the cause of the problem is hard to find upstream. And if you can't find it, you can't fix it.
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What will the boss think of you for asking? Will he or she lose respect or think you're greedy? Apparently not, according to Michael Wheeler. He's author of a book called The Art of Negotiation.
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But the Santa Claus we have now is this kind of fat, jolly old elf thing, which is a fairly recent creation, correct? Isn't it Coca-Cola's involved in this somehow?
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He says there's a lot of research that shows that when you ask people after a negotiation how they feel about the person they just negotiated with, the answer is entirely independent of the deal or the money that was negotiated. So if you're worried your boss will think less of you just for asking for a raise, that's likely not true. What's more important is how you ask.
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And when did it become this thing where he comes on a sleigh with reindeer and brings presents down the chimney?
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And wasn't it that poem, Towards the Night Before Christmas, that's where the reindeer show up?
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So there's a tradition, at least in the U.S., that seemed to have been bigger a few decades ago but still persists, and that is Christmas cards. And I have no idea where that came from.
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But they don't seem to be as popular today as they did, say, in the 50s or 60s or even 70s. People don't seem to send them as much.
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Oh, one more I really wanted to get you to talk about is the poinsettias, how they got mixed up in Christmas because it seems odd to me.
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Making your case well and being respectful is what will get you more, if there is more to get. And that is something you should know. For many of us, Christmas is the favorite holiday of the year. The Christmas season has a lot of meaning for a lot of people. It brings back memories of Christmases gone by, and maybe memories of people who are no longer part of our lives.
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Well, it's always fun and interesting to hear the backstories of all our holiday traditions. I just really enjoy listening to this. James Cooper has been my guest, and he has a website. If you're into Christmas at all, you've got to check out his website. It is whychristmas.com, W-H-Y, Christmas, whychristmas.com, and I'll put a link to it in the show notes. Thank you, James.
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According to a survey that you're about to hear about, for people who set goals, who commit to making a change in their life, whether that be for health or career or whatever, only 6% actually achieve the goal they set. Now there's good news and bad news in that statistic. The bad news is that a 94% failure rate is rather dismal. But the good news is that 6% pulled it off.
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They achieved their goal. So what can we learn from that 6%? How did they achieve their goal when so many others failed? And how can you use that strategy to achieve goals in your life? That's what you are about to discover from my next guest, Dr. Michelle Rosen. She's a much sought-after speaker on leadership, motivation, and change.
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She works with brands like Pfizer, Merrill Lynch, Coca-Cola, and others. And she is author of a book called The 6% Club, Unlock the Secret to Achieving Any Goal and Thriving in Business and Life. Hi, Michelle. Welcome. Glad to have you on Something You Should Know.
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So what is, do you think, the big problem that people have? Because when you think about it, if I set a goal, if it's something I want to do, why is it so hard to do? I mean, it's my goal. I've said it. So why do people struggle with this?
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So talk about that survey that you did, because I think that's kind of the beginning point for this whole discussion. So explain what you did.
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Which is a lot of goals not achieved, but those 6%, the other 6% that did achieve them, what did they do differently that allowed them to achieve their goals?
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And in that 30 days, as I'm going through and going to the gym every day at 6 o'clock, and then on Thursday, something comes up. And now I've missed the gym because I had to go to the kids' school or something. And something happens. And then the next day, I'm thinking, well, I missed yesterday. What's another? And then what? And then what?
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But the memories are wonderful. And the glue that holds this whole season and this holiday together are the traditions, the rituals, the things we do only this time of year. And joining me to talk about these traditions is James Cooper. He's a web designer by trade but has a deep love of the Christmas holiday and has a great website you'll enjoy if you are also a fan of Christmas.
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and repeat repeat repeat for 30 days one of the things that i've tried to do better and this has been a frustration for me is you know i i have a like a bowl that i put my keys in my glasses and my wallet and when i come home but But sometimes I don't, and then I can't find them. And I try very diligently, and every day I go looking for them.
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And some days they're there, and some days they're not. And it's very frustrating because something will happen, or I'll come in a different door and put my stuff down there. And it just, there's always something that kind of throws a monkey wrench into the system.
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What are some of the common goals people have a problem with?
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The website is whychristmas.com. Hi, James. Merry Christmas. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Well, thank you for having me, Mike, and very happy Christmas. So, first of all, since we celebrate Christmas on December 25th, why do we celebrate Christmas on December 25th?
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Today on Something You Should Know, have you ever not asked for a raise because you worry what your boss will think of you? If so, listen up. Then the origins of some of your favorite Christmas customs, like why we put round ornaments on a Christmas tree.
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I know there's a huge problem with people not saving money, but it's such a big thing. Saving $5 is not doing much, so people just go, oh, screw it, and they don't do anything. How do you set that 30-day thing up so it becomes a habit?
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545.
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Well, that brings up a point about goals because people often say, well, you know, I want to have more money. I want to be healthier. There's no way to measure that you ever get there because that's not really a goal. What's more money? What's healthier? It doesn't mean anything.
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Well, I understand what you said about setting these big, huge goals. But can you set them too small? And what I mean by that is, if you make it a habit to send $5 a day to your savings account, it's something to remember every single day. And at the end of the month... Five dollars a day. Look at what you've got. Hardly anything. Was it worth it? Maybe you should have shot a little higher.
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There are some goals, though, that are really hard. It isn't just a matter of remembering to do it. I mean, losing weight, I mean, statistically, your chances are just so low that you will take the weight off and keep it off. Stopping smoking is really hard to do, even if you're committed to doing it. There are some where the odds are really, the deck is stacked against you.
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What about the idea of if you have a goal of doing it, trying to achieve it along with somebody else?
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It would seem that sometimes people do things not because they're all that enthusiastic about it, but it's because other people are nagging them. Oh, you've got to lose some weight. Oh, you really should stop smoking. Oh, give it a try. And there isn't a big commitment to it. You're either doing it because somebody else wants you to, but there isn't a lot of momentum built behind this.
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Yeah, and if it's not a 10 for you, then when you think about it, well, why bother? This has been great. I've been talking with Dr. Michelle Rosen. She's author of the book, The 6% Club, Unlock the Secret to Achieving Any Goal and Thriving in Business and Life. And there's a link to her book in the show notes. Thanks for talking about this, Michelle. I appreciate the insight and the enthusiasm.
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It's contagious.
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Thank you for watching. That doesn't mean you should slouch or lean forward either. That's even worse. The best position for your back is leaning slightly back at an angle of about 135 degrees. If you work at a computer, give your back a break and recline a little bit. And don't forget to get up and walk around. It is one of the best things you can do for your back.
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So let's talk about Christmas ornaments, the decorations you put on your Christmas tree. Where did that tradition come from?
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And I think I saw on your website it was Woolworths, the chain of retail stores, that first started selling glass ornaments, right?
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But before that, it was all kind of handmade. You'd make it at your home and stick it on your tree kind of thing.
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The whole idea of when Christmas trees were first brought into the house, was their function just a decoration? Because now it's the place where you put presents under it. But was it just something people stuck in the corner? Do you have a sense of that?
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And so what about all this other Christmas greenery? We have wreaths, we have mistletoe, we have holly, we have the Christmas tree, we have... Are they all just offshoots of the tree, or what's the story?
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At what point did Christmas become a holiday where you give gifts to each other?
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Hi, here's a question for you. I think this has probably happened to everyone. You get your nerve up to go walk into the boss's office to ask for a raise, and then you chicken out. You don't go through with it. Well, why? Well, for one reason, who wants to be turned down? Nobody likes hearing no when you ask for a raise. But also, I bet you wondered about your reputation.
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We're exploring some of the origins of your favorite Christmas traditions, and my guest is James Cooper. He has a website I know you'll love. It's called whychristmas.com. So, James, I remember, you know, watching one of the versions of the film A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge, the one with Alistair Sim in it. I always enjoyed that movie.
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But I remember the Christmas dinner at Bob Cratchit's house the night of Christmas after Scrooge has made his transformation and all that. I noticed that there was no tree. There was no gift giving. And I remember thinking, well, that's kind of an odd Christmas scene.
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So I know it's a fairly lengthy story, but I bet you're pretty good at making it shorter. Is the history of Santa Claus and how we got to the Santa we're at today from when this all started?
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What about something like pancreatic cancer, which is asymptomatic for a long time, and then it's too late? And so wouldn't it have been nice if we had been able to find this earlier? But that seems to be impossible, or close to impossible.
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Well, you just use the term progressive cancer. The only way you can tell if something is progressing is to look at it at least two points in time. You can't look at something once and say it's progressing. You don't know.
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But you just use that, you know, the word frightening, but... When I hear, if I were to hear that I have cancer cells, if I have early stage cancer and I think it's just human nature, I don't want that. I want you to get rid of that. You're the doctor. Get rid of my early stage cancer so it doesn't, it's an emotional knee-jerk reaction, but it's certainly understandable.
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You would almost think, I mean, you could imagine one course of action might be, if a doctor knows that this isn't something to worry about yet, To stay quiet. But you can't do that as a doctor. You can't not tell people they have cancer.
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What about other medical conditions? It seems people go to the doctor for a lot of things that might just go away by themselves. I mean, muscle pain, for example. I mean, sometimes it really can be very painful, but it does seem like it eventually goes away and that it didn't need medical intervention. But if you go to the doctor, you want medical intervention.
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This is a part of medicine that I don't think people think much about, that sometimes having too much information is a problem and a lot of this we're just not that good at yet. I've been speaking with Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan. She is a neurologist and author of the book, The Age of Diagnosis, How Our Obsession with Medical Labels is Making Us Sicker.
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And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Dr. O'Sullivan, thank you for explaining all this, making it much clearer.
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It's hard to imagine a day going by when you don't talk to someone. I mean, that's what we humans do. We talk. Most of us talk all day long. And you probably don't think a whole lot about how you speak. Are you being effective in how and what you say? Do other people enjoy speaking with you?
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All these things are important because others are certainly making judgments about you based on how you speak. Here with some great advice on how to speak for maximum effectiveness is Michael Chad Hepner. He's coached presidential candidates, prominent CEOs, and Ivy League deans on their communication skills.
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He's author of a book called Don't Say Um, How to Communicate Effectively to Live a Better Life. Hi Michael, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you, it's great to be here.
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So I'm curious, since you talk to people about this all the time, do you think most people think of themselves as pretty good communicators, that they speak well, or do most people or do a lot of people think, I'm not very good at this, this is a real problem?
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And so what is the biggest problem, either the real problem or the perceived problem in the way people communicate?
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Knowing this, what is it that people should be looking to do? Like when people present, have their big presentation that's coming up, are they preparing right and then just failing in the moment? Or would better preparation or different preparation have prevented the falling apart in the presentation?
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What do you think happens to the items you buy online or in the store? What happens to those items when you return them for whatever reason? Probably not what you think. Hi and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. If you've been shopping online for any length of time, you know that most online sellers make it pretty easy to return items that you don't want.
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They even pay for the return shipping sometimes. And you might think those items are just repackaged and resold to someone else. And that does happen sometimes. To be sure, Amazon, Target, and Walmart resell a portion of return products themselves. Amazon has Amazon Warehouse, a marketplace for used and refurbished products. Similarly, Walmart lists refurbished electronics on its website.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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and sometimes resells return products in its store's clearance section. But in many cases, the math just doesn't make sense to repackage and relist those items. So a lot of those items are sent to liquidation warehouses, which then resell those items to smaller retailers to resell to other consumers. But what surprised me is that a lot of stuff just gets thrown out and ends up in a landfill.
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There are some interesting reasons for that. For example, the product might be discontinued. The store doesn't even sell that product anymore. Or it isn't cost-effective to repackage and resell it to anyone. One estimate is that 25% or more of returned items get tossed out and end up in a landfill, and stuff like inexpensive clothes and returned underwear all fall in that category.
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Well, what's great about this is I think it makes people think about a topic that most people, I don't believe, think about all that much. And yet it's so important how you speak to people every day. And you've given some really good advice. Michael Chad Hepner has been my guest. He is author of the book, Don't Say Um, How to Communicate Effectively to Live a Better Life.
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There's a link to his book in the show notes. Michael, I appreciate you coming on. It's my pleasure, Mike. I enjoyed that a lot. Every man's suit coat, blazer, or sport coat has buttons on it. But which ones do you button and when? Well, according to Esquire magazine, the one-button jacket, well, that's pretty easy. It should be buttoned while you're standing and unbuttoned when you sit down.
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The two-button jacket, well, the top button is all you need. The two-button jacket should never have both buttons fastened. On a three-button jacket, the rule is simple. Sometimes, always, and never. It means you should sometimes fasten the top button, if you feel like it, always fasten the middle button, but never fasten the bottom button.
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On the double-breasted jacket, fasten every button except the bottom button, even though there is some leeway there. English royalty have been known to fasten every button when they feel like it. And with a double-breasted blazer, you can keep it buttoned when you sit down. And that is something you should know.
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And that is something you should know. There is an assumption, I think, when it comes to your health care, that if something seems wrong, you should have it looked at so you can get a diagnosis. Because early diagnosis of an illness is a good thing. It allows you to treat something early, and just generally getting an early diagnosis is always better.
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Well, maybe, but there is another side to that coin, as you're about to hear, from Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan. She is a consultant neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist and author of three previous books. She has a new one out called The Age of Diagnosis, How Our Obsession with Medical Labels is Making Us Sicker. Hey doctor, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me.
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Today on Something You Should Know, what happens to all the things you buy online but then return? Probably not what you think. Then, you can get a lot of medical tests when you're sick, but it's not always a good idea.
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So I think it's widely believed, it's conventional wisdom, that early diagnosis is a good thing. So explain this alternate view you have.
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So I'm surprised to hear you say that, because my perception is, and I'm certainly no doctor, but my perception is that there are fewer deaths from cancer, that we are catching cancer earlier, and that that has proven to be a good thing, that people are not dying and they are getting their cancer cured. No? No.
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Well, you know, I have heard that before or something like that before that, you know, if you looked at any of us with a, you know, a microscope, we all have cancer in us somewhere probably or something that looks like cancer. But it doesn't mean that we necessarily need to treat it. But why don't we need to treat it?
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Also, which buttons on a blazer are you supposed to button or leave unbuttoned? And a top communications coach helps you improve your verbal skills and looks at just how good or bad a verbal communicator you are.
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So I get that. That's really interesting. And I've heard, too, that there are many men, as they age, get prostate cancer and that many men die with it, but far fewer men die of it. That it's just there because you live long enough, you're going to get it.
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So I get what you're saying about cancer, but what about something like heart disease, where it's reversible in many cases, so it would seem the earlier you catch it, the less reversing you have to do. So why not catch it early?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk quite a bit about health on this podcast, and I can tell you, I try to take care of myself. I mean, I work at it. And for a while now, I've been taking this supplement called MitoPure. And I can tell you, I feel stronger. When I exercise, I recover faster.
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We are discussing a very important change in healthcare and my guest is Suzanne O'Sullivan. She is a neurologist and author of the book, The Age of Diagnosis, How Our Obsession with Medical Labels is Making Us Sicker.
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So, doctor, I think there's this general perception that if you have something wrong, if something doesn't seem right or you see something or feel something, the advice is go to the doctor, get it checked out. And the underlying assumption there is so you know what it is, what the diagnosis is, and therefore you can treat it. But then you also hear doctors say things like,
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Well, we'll keep our eye on it. And I don't like that. That sounds very noncommittal, very vague. I don't want to keep my eye on it. I want to fix it.
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So, Dan, you assume that people go into any job wanting to do their best, wanting things to go well. There's some optimism there. And yet we've all come across that worker, often the government worker, who is so couldn't care less, so doesn't care.
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have any interest in what you want that's not the way we do it here and you wonder what happens like what what happens to people that they get stuck in the way you're talking about and they just don't care
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Also, what to do with your face so you look good in every photo. And your perception of time, why it sometimes seems to fly by and other times seems to move so slow.
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Yeah. And how does that usually happen? Is it just some new fresh eyes on a problem?
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You know, listening to that story about it taking three days for things once they arrive. in the hospital to get to where they're going seems so unbelievable to me that nobody would have said, Hey, wait a minute. Nobody that, that you would just accept that because it doesn't take three days to walk from the receiving area to any other place in the hospital.
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Why can't somebody, why couldn't a lot of people say, Hey, here's a problem. Let's fix that rather than go, you know, it just, it takes, it takes what it takes. And that's three days. Yeah.
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So what's the advice here? And then it does seem like it's kind of a top-down problem. You need a new manager to fix this. But what can people do to plug into this?
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I guess it starts, though. I mean, you have to start thinking about, like, well, what's not working? So many of us, like we talked about before, are doing things because that's the way we do things and not realizing that maybe there's a better way.
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And I guess that motivation has to come because if the way we're doing it isn't really bothering you, even though it's not a very good way, but if it's not bothering you, then maybe there's nothing to fix. I mean, you've got to find the thing to fix first.
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Wouldn't it be better if I told your company how I really feel rather than give you 10 out of 10?
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Well, what an interesting conversation about a topic that everybody has probably thought about to one degree or another, but nobody ever really talks about this. But it's really interesting when you think about why we do the things we do and why we don't do them better. I've been talking to Dan Heath. He is a speaker and writer who's written some great books over the years.
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Wagovi and Ozempic are not compounded. Actual price depends on product and plan purchased. Something we all experience is the passage of time. Time goes by. It never stops. We measure it with a clock. We can tell how much time has gone by and what time it is now. But we can't really control time. We can't go back in time. We can't speed up time.
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Still, we've all had experiences where it seems like time flies by quickly or drags on so slowly it's agonizing. In other words, even though time, according to the clock, goes by at the same rate, it doesn't always feel like that. So is there something to this? That's what Steve Taylor's here to talk about.
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Steve is a senior lecturer and researcher in psychology at Leeds Beckett University in the UK, and he's author of the book, Time Expansion Experiences, The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time. Hi Steve, welcome. Good to have you on Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, great to be with you.
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So tell me why you want to understand and research this idea of time perception in the first place.
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And why is it important to talk about this and investigate this as a psychologist? Because why?
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Yeah, but if there was a video camera taping your car crash and we all watched it later, we would all agree that it took three seconds. It didn't take 30 or 40 seconds. the way you perceived it while you were in it, it took three seconds. Objectively, it just took three seconds.
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So those experiences, and also those experiences where time not only slows down, like in your accident, but it also speeds up. Like, you know, time flies when you're having fun. But at the end of the day, eight hours is eight hours. And whatever happened during that eight hours, that's what happened.
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It all seems very subjective. And at the end of the day, I mean, what do we do with this? I mean, it's interesting. And I think people have all experienced these time expansion kind of moments. But so now what?
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Well, what's the control? I mean, you could go get into lots of accidents to slow it down, but that might kill you. Yeah, that's not really advisable. But how can you control it? Because like you just said, as you get older, time speeds up. It just does. I mean, a year when you're in your 60s is not a year when you're 14. It's just a different thing. But can you fix that? Can you change it?
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I want to understand because, you know, I get what, you know, that people have a subjective sense of time and how it passes. But there's also... We've also come up with a way to measure it. We can measure time passing with a clock, and that doesn't change. I mean, a second is a second, and there's one second. Oh, there's another one. There's another one.
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And at the end of the day, that much time has passed on my clock.
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Hi, welcome. Happy New Year. This is our first episode of 2025, and it's a pleasure to have you here. We're going to start today talking about travel, air travel to be specific. And people who travel by air often worry about getting sick on the airplane. It does seem to happen a lot. And I think most people believe that it's because of the air in the plane. But actually, it's probably not.
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One of the things I've always found interesting is how the – because in an accident – In a traffic accident, time passes more slowly, but you don't know it's coming and then it's over. But you know that an hour in the dentist chair is a lot longer than an hour at an amusement park. It's a different, because it's unpleasant. And why does unpleasant slow it down?
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But I wonder why, for example, you can watch a two-hour movie and it flies by because it's a great movie. The next day you could watch a two-hour movie You're just as absorbed in it, but it's taking forever. Like, get to the point. You know, he's the bad guy. Get him. But it's the same experience, more or less, but the time that passes feels very different.
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Another experience that I have that I think most people, well, you tell me, but so if you take a car trip, you're going to go someplace you haven't been and it takes two hours to get there. And it's that, oh God, are we there yet? Are we there yet? The trip back always seems to take less time. It takes the same amount of clock time, but the return trip always seems shorter than the going trip.
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The air on airplanes is really clean. Thanks to HEPA filters and the efficient way that air circulates on commercial aircraft, the air that you breathe in flight is much cleaner than the air that you would find in restaurants, bars, stores, or even in your own home. It is much more likely the surfaces you touch. That's where germs can live and linger.
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Well, my theory has always been about that, about taking a trip and coming back, is that on the way back, because on the way there, you never know when you're going to get there because you don't really know where you're going and you don't know how long it's going to take. So it's a big open-ended question.
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On the way back, within an hour of your home, things start to look so familiar, you feel like you're almost home.
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You said something about people in sports and their perception of time, and I haven't heard that before. So can you explain that?
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that it is so difficult to swat a fly, is that a fly's perception of time, that we're moving so slow that he can see us coming a mile away, that for him, we're not even close. And yet for us, we're trying to get him real fast. For him, that's forever. And for us, it's an eighth of a second.
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So washing your hands and using wipes to wipe down the surfaces is probably a really good idea. But here's some other advice that you may not have heard before. Rethink how you board the aircraft. When passengers board by zones, when they call out your zone and then everybody from that zone gets in line and gets on the plane, that's when people tend to be closest to one another.
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You talk about the phenomenon of your life flashing before you, like when you think you're going to die or something. Can you explain how that fits into this discussion? And first of all, is that really true? I mean, does that happen to a lot of people?
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Well, I would imagine that really everybody has had these experiences where time either seems to have sped up or slowed down. And although we've all experienced it, we tend to write it off as just, well, you know, it's not real. You know, it's just something that happens in the human brain. But as you point out, it's a real thing that we can make time speed up or slow down. We do all the time.
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Steve Taylor's been my guest. He's a senior lecturer and researcher in psychology at Leeds Beckett University. And the name of his book is Time Expansion Experiences, The Psychology of Time Perception and the Illusion of Linear Time. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Great, Steve. Good to have you on. Thank you. Thanks a lot. All the best.
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This makes them much more likely to spread sickness. Researchers who looked at this said you're better off boarding the plane last. Wait till everybody else is on and then come on board and find your seat. Or at least standing back from the long line of people waiting to board so you're not all bunched together with possibly sick people. And that is something you should know.
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It is staggering how many photographs are taken every day around the world, and there's a pretty good chance that you'll be in some of those photographs. So you might be interested in knowing there is one facial expression that you can make in a photograph that will make you look better. It's called... The squinch. Squinching is a word that was coined by professional photographer Peter Hurley.
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He has a YouTube video that went viral about this a while ago, and I'll put a link to it in the show notes so you can see it, because you kind of have to see this. But when you squinch, you're squinting your eyes just a little bit, narrowing the distance between the pupil and the lower eyelid. It creates a look of confidence.
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It eliminates that deer in the headlight look that you often get when you're in a picture. While squinching and squinting are similar, there's a big difference when it comes to photographs. A squinch is more subtle than a squint. And it won't give you that furrowed brow look. You just use your cheek muscles, not your forehead, in order to squinch.
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And to get a better understanding, you can watch the video, and again, the link is in the show notes. Something You Should Know is produced by Jennifer Brennan, Jeffrey Havison, executive producer is Ken Williams. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. Ladies and gentlemen.
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We all have a tendency to get stuck in our ways. We do things because, well, that's how we do things. A lot of times, it's probably fine. But for the big things we do, and the things organizations do because that's how they do things, well, that can be a real problem, and a problem you can become blind to.
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Here to explain this, and why it is so problematic, and what you can do to address this, is Dan Heath. He is a speaker and writer who's written some very important and well-received books over the last several years. His latest is called Reset, How to Change What's Not Working. Hey, Dan. Good to have you back. Welcome. Hey, great to be back, Mike.
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So can you start with an example, a story that you can tell that illustrates what you're talking about, about this idea of doing things because that's how we do things that doesn't work?
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Well, what's interesting about situations like that to me is that because they're just situations like that, they aren't necessarily problems to fix. That's just the way things are done. And so you can't fix something if you don't identify it as something that needs fixing.
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But isn't it hard to identify in your own life what you're stuck on? Because, again, it's just what we do. It's how I do what I do. And I haven't really thought about changing the way I do it.
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I just love that. It's such a different way of looking at a problem by looking at the other side and looking at the solutions rather than what works rather than what doesn't. And not harping on what's wrong and why are you doing this, but find the way to make it work.
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One of the ingredients that seems to be necessary in the kind of thing you're talking about and in the examples you've given is it needs like fresh eyes. Like somebody has to come in and say, well, wait a minute. Why are you doing it? You need a new perspective, I guess, is what I mean.
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Today on Something You Should Know, how to improve your chances of not getting sick on an airplane flight. Then, why organizations resist change and how they discourage new ideas.
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My guest is Dan Heath. He's author of a book called Reset, How to Change What's Not Working. Thank you for having me. It's a bit similar to something you should know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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Why Do We Exist? & More Than Friends: The Rise of Platonic Partners
We're exploring those deep questions of why we exist. What are we doing here? My guest is Tim Coulson. He is a professor at Oxford University and he is author of the book, The Science of Why We Exist, A History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Consciousness.
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So Tim, what about this whole journey that you went on to explore why we exist? What about it boggles your mind?
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Isn't it true that you could... There is just such a huge long list of things that you could talk about that end with the sentence, and if that didn't happen, we wouldn't be here.
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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Which implies, or I infer from that, that our intelligent life may someday just go away like it may have happened in the past.
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Well, it's always fun to explore those deeper questions. Why are we here? Why do we exist? What are we doing here? And I appreciate you sharing what science can tell us. Tim Coulson has been my guest, and the name of his book is The Science of Why We Exist. A History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Consciousness. And it's a beautiful book.
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And if you'd like to read it, there's a link to it in the show notes. Tim, thank you for coming on today.
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And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.
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I am going to bet that you know people in the following kind of relationship, and maybe you're one of them. The relationship looks like this. Two people who live together. They're not romantically involved. They're often the same sex, but they're more than roommates. Their lives are more involved and intertwined. They're close. They do things together. They own things together.
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They may be in each other's wills. They are essentially life partners, but rather than romance at the center, it's friendship. This type of relationship doesn't have a name. It's hard to know what it is when you see it because you would need to know more of the story. Still, it's a growing category of relationship that you don't hear talked about very much.
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We're going to talk about it now with Raina Cohen. She is an award-winning producer and editor for NPR's documentary podcast, Embedded, and she is author of a book called The Other Significant Others, Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center. Hi, Raina. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So explain this relationship a little more, a little deeper. Sure.
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Does that happen very often?
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So where's the line between say a best friend and what you're talking about? What's the difference?
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You know, when I think about the kind of relationships you're talking about, You know, like, for example, my grandmother lived with her sister in much the way you're talking about for a long time in their later years because her husband had died, my grandfather had died very young, and she wasn't particularly interested in finding a new love of her life.
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So she and her sister moved in together and became kind of what you're talking about, but they are related. But it's almost like it's a... I don't want to say second place, but it's, it's the result of circumstance rather than something you go after that things kind of didn't work out over here. So maybe we could get together and do something else.
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Here's a little piece of intel you can use in your life, if not today, someday. And that is if you want to get someone to like you more, make them laugh. Hi and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. Laughter releases endorphins and endorphins make us feel good about ourselves and other people.
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These things kind of happen rather than they're very deliberate and intentional.
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Yeah, I didn't mean necessarily that people start out with that intention, that they it's when you look back and see how it developed, that it was more the result of circumstance and. It just seemed to happen rather than any kind of one day somebody saying, you know what we should do? We should become, you know, roommates, best friends and platonic partners.
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When you look back, it wasn't a straight line like that.
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This good feeling creates a bond between two people and creates a sense of togetherness in groups of people. according to Psychology Today. The golden rule of friendship states that if you make people feel good about themselves, they will like you. And laughter does just that. Laughter also provides a good indicator to determine if a woman is interested in a man.
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And so what happens typically, if there is a typically, what happens when someone's in a relationship like this, but then a romance starts with someone else for one of them?
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So when I think about people who are in relationships like you're talking about, my guess would be that they're more women than men in these relationships and that they're older women.
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Do these things generally have a lifespan or do I guess it depends on how young you are when you enter it? Because as you pointed out, if romance enters the picture for one of them, that could end the relationship because romance is going to often win.
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A woman who laughs at a man's jokes, no matter how lame they are, signals that she likes him. Men do not experience that same phenomenon when women make them laugh. Women view men who make them laugh as more intelligent than those who don't, and that may be because creating humor takes intelligence. Humor can also blow up on you.
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I would imagine that one of the real problems, or I don't know how big a problem it is, but one of the common problems with those kind of relationships is how do you explain it to other people? When you tell somebody, this is my soulmate, the assumption is always that this is a romantic relationship. It's not, and we're just friends.
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Well, it's certainly an interesting topic that I, you know, obviously people don't talk about it much. They don't even really think about it much. But again, as you're talking, I can think of people, past and present, that I know that are in these kind of relationships, but you never talk about it even to them about it.
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What is funny to one person is not necessarily funny to someone else. Many times, what you think is funny is not perceived as funny when you say it out loud, and misunderstood humor can quickly kill fledgling relationships. The safest humor is self-deprecating humor when you make fun of yourself. Few, if any, people find that offensive. And that is something you should know.
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It's just we're roommates or we're, you know, they don't carry a torch for this kind of relationship typically, at least in my experience. It's just something that that's their business. And, you know, so that's why I don't think people know much about it. They just make assumptions and that's that.
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Well, I think everyone listening to this, if you think about it long enough, you know somebody, if it's not you, you still know somebody who's in a relationship like Raina's been talking about. And how great to bring it out in the open and talk about it because it's a reality of life that we don't really, it's kind of invisible. We don't see it. I've been talking with Raina Cohen.
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She's author of the book, The Other Significant Others, Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center. If you'd like to check out her book, there's a link to it at Amazon in the show notes. Raina, thank you. Thanks for bringing this topic to life.
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Since I have allergies, I am no stranger to sneezing. and frankly think it's one of the weirdest things the body does. But here are some interesting facts about sneezing you may not know. Your body has a sneeze center, and that sneeze center sends messages to all the muscles that have to work together to produce a sneeze.
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These muscles are located in your chest, your vocal cords, your throat, your belly, and they all work together to make you sneeze. Your sneeze can travel at a speed of 100 miles an hour, and one sneeze can send 100,000 germs into the air. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. And it is impossible to sneeze when you're asleep.
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That's because the nerves that stimulate that sneeze center are also at rest while you're sleeping. The reason we sometimes sneeze multiple times right in a row is because the first sneeze wasn't strong enough to remove whatever itchy particles you had in your nose. So the nose takes a few tries to get it out. And if you have the urge to sneeze, you should let it out.
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Sneezes tend to be very powerful, and when you hold them in, pressure can build up and can cause damage. And that is something you should know. I know I end most episodes asking you to share this podcast with someone you know, and I do that because it really does help us, and so I would appreciate it, and here I am asking again to please share this podcast with someone you know, or two people.
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I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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I'm sure you've thought about this question. Why are we here? We humans on this planet, in this universe. How did we get here and what's the point of it all? These are questions that science is a long way from answering thoroughly, but we know more than we used to. And here to explain and focus the lens on these big questions is Tim Colson. He is a professor of zoology at Oxford.
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His teachings and research have earned him multiple awards around the world. And he is author of a book called The Science of Why We Exist, A History of the Universe from the Big Bang to Consciousness. Hi, Tim. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you very much for having me.
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Today on Something You Should Know, one thing you can do instantly to get someone to like you more. Ben, have you ever wondered why we exist, why we are here on this planet?
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So when science looks at that question of why we are here, are we learning a lot more about the answer to that, say, in the last 50, 100 years? Or is it still kind of we don't really know?
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Well, one of the arguments you hear for a religious reason for why we are here is that there are so many things that had to have happened just the right way, in just the right order for us to be here, that mathematically it's seemingly almost impossible.
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What's the evidence that intelligent life may have existed before?
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And if and when we do, you suspect we will? Is there any reason to think? Or when we find it, we find it, and if we don't, we don't?
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Also, what you may not know about what happens when you sneeze. And a new kind of relationship. It's not romantic partners. It's a platonic partnership with a commitment.
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When science looks out into the universe and sees that only life is here on Earth, do we get any sense as to why that is? I get that's the name of the book, but why are we here? I mean, I get how we're here. It's a pretty remarkable story how we got here, but what purpose do we serve? Are we part of this or are we an accident?
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You had said a few moments ago that, you know, we've only looked at a little bit of the universe and not found life anywhere else other than Earth. But if there is life, intelligent life out there that perhaps is more advanced than ours, why haven't they found us?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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And so at what point did Saturday become another day off?
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I know you talk about how the pandemic kind of disrupted the week because every day seemed like every other day. And talk about that.
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What's the future of the week? Do you think that when you have things like pandemics that disrupt everything, do people begin to question it? It seems like people would just race back to it because we have to have it. If we don't have it, what do we have? Like we were saying earlier, Thursday has a feel to it, but the 10th of the month doesn't have a feel to it. So you've got to have that.
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One thing we didn't attack directly here, and that is why seven days? Why not six? Why not eight? Why seven?
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Hi, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. Something I've always wondered is why is it that some people are so much more ticklish than other people, and some people aren't ticklish at all? I wonder this because I'm one of those people who is extremely ticklish.
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Well, I always enjoy talking about topics here on this podcast. that I never knew were topics of discussion, and this has certainly been one of them. I've been speaking with David Henkin. He is a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, and the name of his book is The Week, A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are.
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And there is a link to that book in the show notes. Appreciate it. Thanks, David. Okay, cool. Have a great day. I have to admit, I'm more of a dog person than a cat person, but I've owned cats. I like cats. A lot of people own cats or have owned cats or will live in a house with cats.
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And we've never really done a segment that explores the life and the world of cats and how they've come to be one of our favorite pets and how are they related to other felines like tigers? Where did they come from? How did they get domesticated and why? And what is it about cats that people find so intriguing? Well, here to discuss this is Jonathan Lawsus.
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He's an evolutionary biologist at Washington University and author of the book The Cat's Meow, How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to Your Sofa. Hey, Jonathan, welcome to Something You Should Know. Well, thank you so much for having me here. So what is a cat? Where do cats come from? Why are they here? Why are they here?
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And that's not a characteristic that I enjoy or am proud of or probably shouldn't be saying that because when people find out, then they tickle you and it's not an experience I enjoy. But what's interesting, too, is that no matter how ticklish a person is, it's still almost impossible for anyone to tickle themselves.
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And the cat family, how big is the cat family?
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So the cat that we think of when we see a cat, did it evolve from these bigger cats or is it just they're related but they took different paths?
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And somebody said, let's go get that cat and make it a pet, or it had some other agricultural purpose, or what was the path to domestication?
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According to Paul Bayes of the Institute of Neurology at University College in London, It's because the brain is constantly predicting what is about to happen. Our reaction to being tickled is actually a defense mechanism that works as kind of a non-self detector. The tickle reflex requires a certain amount of surprise.
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you can see how this this co-evolutionary walk would lead to the african wildcat turning into the domestic cat so i get that you know cats serve a purpose that having them around is good to help keep the rodent population down and all but cats you know compared to dogs say do seem more aloof that they're not as clingy and happy to see people
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that they might be good to have around outside, but at some point, who was it that said, well, you know, let's have them live here?
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When self-touch is expected, you don't feel threatened and the reaction is not activated. But even if you know you're about to be tickled, if someone is coming at you and you know they're going to tickle you, the element of surprise is still there because you can't predict the exact time or intensity of the oncoming tickle.
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Well, I was going to ask because, you know, when we think of lions, other big cats like that, they do live in groups. You seldom see them out on their own. But domesticated cats seem to do just fine by themselves. And maybe they could be social, but they seem to do just fine if they're not.
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And when did people in a big way start bringing cats in as pets and getting them for their kids? And I mean, did that catch on pretty quick when this domestication started a long time ago? Or is this more of a recent thing?
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And that anticipation can actually intensify the ultimate feeling of being tickled. And that is something you should know. We have a lot of different ways to measure time. Seconds, hours, minutes, days, months, years, decades, centuries. And pretty much all of them have some reasoning behind them, having to do with the sun or the moon or something. Except one, the week.
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If you were to, well, how intelligent are cats? And I guess you need some barometer or something to compare it against, so maybe dogs, but just a sense of, like, are they trainable? Do they know what we're saying? How smart are they?
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My dog is very food oriented constantly.
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I've always been more of a dog person because I've had several dogs growing up, but I did have a cat and a rather amazing cat and what made it so amazing. And I've heard other stories like this, that when I was like 12 years old, my family moved to England for a year. And the neighbor said, well, we'll take care of the cat. Well, the cat didn't get that.
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The cat kept going back to our house, and we had rented the house out, and the people who were renting the house were getting really tired of that cat. So they kept the cat out. And finally the cat ran away, just disappeared. And we came home, and we didn't know this, and the neighbor said, yeah, the cat ran away.
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Three years later, I walk in the house, and there's the cat sitting where its bowl used to be, waiting to be fed. And I'm just floored by that, that how a cat, I mean, we have no idea where it had been. It looked okay, looked well fed and it stayed. It came back and it stayed. And I thought that is amazing.
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We have a seven-day week for no practical reason whatsoever. Yet imagine what life would be like without the week. If you go to the grocery store every week, but we had no week, how would you express that or understand that? Without the week, we would have to have some other way to schedule our lives. We love the week. So where did it come from and why does it seem to work so well?
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and they will eat the other the resident cat's food and they'll just hang out there and it's extremely common what about the seeming rivalry between dogs and cats yeah people you know some people think they're just natural enemies i i'm pretty sure that's not true but but there is this animosity it seems between them what is that
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Well, you certainly know your cats. I appreciate you sharing all this information. It's fascinating. I've been speaking with Jonathan Lawsus. He is an evolutionary biologist at Washington University and author of the book, The Cat's Meow, How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to Your Sofa. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. And that's it, Jonathan. Appreciate you being here.
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You probably have some valuables in your home that you would like to keep safe from burglars should they break in and start looking for stuff. If you stash your valuables in a closet, a dresser drawer, or a freezer, you're actually making a burglar's job a lot easier because that's exactly where they'll look.
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According to Michelle Boinkens of the National Crime Prevention Council, the best place to hide stuff is in the laundry area because most crooks forget to look there. And burglars are also less likely to spend a lot of time checking hard-to-get-to places that are above eye level.
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Here to explain it is David Henkin. He is a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley and author of the book, The Week, a history of the unnatural rhythms that made us who we are. Hey, David, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Great. Thanks. So I have to admit, I've never really thought much about the week or talked about it as a topic of conversation. What is it about the week that makes it so interesting and made you write a book? And why are we talking about this?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why you can't tickle yourself no matter how hard you try. Then, the seven-day week. It's totally arbitrary, yet imagine life without the week. It's impossible, and it's universal.
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Does everyone have a week? Is pretty much the whole world A weak centric.
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So who came up with this? Where did it come from?
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And as clearly as arbitrary as the seven-day week seems to be, it has stuck. It works. And it makes you wonder why. I mean, it's been universally adopted, even though it's so arbitrary. I wonder why.
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Well, I'm no biblical scholar, but in the Bible, there is talk of God creating earth and then resting on the seventh day. So doesn't that mean there was a seven-day week in the Bible?
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um began observing weeks and in fact there is no evidence uh that people used the seven day week as a calendar system for a society from many centuries after after the bible was written but since it has lasted so long it has become part of everything what does it do for us and and does it get in the way of things or is it just i mean why does it can it continues on so it must fill some need or some purpose
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Also, where's the best place in your home to hide your valuables from burglars? And how cats and humans became so close?
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Yeah, but what you said is so true that we do things every Monday. We have a Monday meeting. We have a Tuesday something else. There are a lot of things that fit pretty nicely into that weekly cycle that if you didn't have the week, you wouldn't have the cycle.
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I was watching an old Seinfeld episode not long ago, and they were talking about the week and the days of the week and that monday has a feel and tuesday has a feel and saturday has a feel i've always felt that i've always felt that days have a feel and without the week they wouldn't have a feel because everything would be the same
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Well, everybody must have that because there isn't a person alive, I don't think, who hasn't said at one time when the holiday throws the week off, you know, today feels kind of like a Sunday. Right. Everybody says that.
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We're talking about The Week, our seven-day week, why we have it, what it does for us, and why it doesn't go away. David Henkin is my guest. He is author of the book The Week, a history of the unnatural rhythms that made us who we are. So David, if you take a moment and imagine life without a week, it would be so different because we take a week off. We go somewhere for a week.
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We do things every other week. If we didn't have that word, we didn't have that week, imagine how, well, you can't. It's hard to imagine how you would reference that.
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Was the week always as it is now where there's the work week and then there's the weekend? I remember there was, I don't know why this stuck with me, but there was an episode of Downton Abbey where some people were over at the Abbey and they were talking about the week and somebody said, well, we could do that on the weekend or something. And old lady Grantham says, what's a weekend?
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And, and like, she'd never heard of a weekend. Like, is it, has that, is that a new thing?
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I'm wondering if people generally are given permission, the opportunity to play. are they more likely to gravitate towards things they used to play as opposed to looking for something new to play?
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When people don't play, when they say whatever they say, that they don't have time or that whatever it is, what's really going on there? I mean, is it really that they believe that they don't have time or they believe it's not something adults should do? Or is there something else going on?
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Is it safe to say that play, since everyone's play is different, what they want to do, that play is pretty much anything that you enjoy doing that you're not doing? In other words, if you don't read for pleasure and you get a book and read for pleasure, is that play or is that not play?
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Do you differentiate between playing yourself versus playing with others? In other words, I might really enjoy going for a bike ride for myself for just by myself because I used to ride my bike everywhere when I was a kid and I love riding my bike, but it isn't necessarily something I need to do with somebody else. I get a lot of joy out of just doing that.
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What do you think is a good goal here to play how much per day or how many times or like when do the benefits kick in to this or is everybody different?
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You said something at the very beginning of our conversation that one of the reasons people don't put play in their life or are reluctant to is that self-consciousness of looking childlike or looking stupid. And yet, as you've described, there are so many benefits to adding play in your life. It's certainly worth considering and putting it into practice.
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I've been talking to Joanna Fortune, psychotherapist and author of the book, Why We Play. How to Find Joy and Meaning in Everyday Life. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Great, Joanna. Good having you here.
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Something that's kind of interesting when you think about it is the fact that we do so many things without thinking about it. Kind of like on autopilot. How you walk and talk, brush your teeth, button your shirt. You don't have to think about it. You don't have to concentrate on it as you do it. You just do it. It's a habit.
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Your brain is pretty good at forming these habits and making them stick, both good habits and bad habits. And it gets even more interesting when you dig beneath the surface here. Russell Poldrack is an expert on the topic. Russell is a professor of psychology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience.
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He's also author of a book called Hard to Break, Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick. Hey, Russell, welcome. Glad to have you on Something You Should Know. Hi, thanks for having me. So what's a habit?
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. As you go about your day, you probably see at least one or two FedEx trucks drive by with their iconic logo on the side. Did you know that the FedEx logo is legendary among designers? It has won over 40 design awards and is considered one of the best logos of all time.
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So I have always thought of a habit as not so much like what pedals to push when you're driving because you don't feel compelled to do that. You don't have to go do that, but a smoker has to smoke. You know what I mean? That a habit is something that you feel compelled to do, not just something you do automatically. Yeah.
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So the habits that people talk about when they say, you know, I want to do, I want to exercise, I want to make it a habit. And then we hear things like, well, in order for a habit to take effect, you have to do it a certain number of times. Talk about that kind of pop culture view of habits and is it accurate or not?
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Nearly every design school professor and graphic designer with a blog has at some point focused on the FedEx logo. Why? Well, it's because of how the logo uses negative space. If you look in the lower space between the E and the X, you will see an arrow, a white arrow. Usually, people don't notice the arrow until it's pointed out to them.
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Today on Something You Should Know, the FedEx logo is considered one of the best logos ever. I'll explain why. Then, everyone knows we should incorporate more play into our lives.
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So in a quick shorthand way, what's the difference between a habit, a routine, and an addiction?
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So this idea of creating a habit that people say they're going to go to the gym or they're going to whatever it's going to be, is that a worthy goal? I mean, do you create habits or is there a different road to get there or what?
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But once you see it, it's almost impossible not to see it again every time you look at that logo. And that is something you should know. When I mention the word play, you probably think of children. Children are really good at playing. But play seems to become less important, less practical, and less necessary as we get older. But maybe that's the wrong way to look at it.
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And so what do we do with this? So knowing what you know, I mean, what's the advice regarding people wanting to start a habit or break a habit? It would almost seem like if you want to break a habit, doing something in the negative is harder than... You ought to figure out what do you want to replace it with rather than just stop doing something.
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You sometimes hear people say things like he has a habit of interrupting people. Or she has a habit of being very negative. Are those habits?
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Well, it certainly seems from most people's experience that the more you do something, the easier it gets to keep doing it.
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Playing as an adult may be absolutely necessary for a lot of important reasons. Even just incorporating small moments of play can make a difference in your life in several different ways. And here to explain how and why is psychotherapist Joanna Fortune, who is author of a book called Why We Play, How to Find Joy and Meaning in Everyday Life. Hi, Joanna. Thanks for being here.
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It seems pretty clear that in order to change a habit one way or the other, that there's got to be some real motivation to do it. You can't just think, well, you know, that would be a good idea. Yeah, I guess I'll give that a try and hope for much success. Somehow you've got to pull something out from inside and that motivation has to push you through.
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It seems, I think for most of us, for me anyway, that if you want to change a behavior, if you want to change a habit, the best insurance you can have is if you're accountable to somebody else. If other people know that you're trying to do this, you're more likely to succeed.
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Is there anything on the horizon, any kind of new technology that would help with this whole issue of getting rid of bad habits or incorporating good habits?
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Well, habits, particularly bad habits, those are the things that I think people worry about because it seems... oftentimes to be out of our control, and it's helpful to understand how this all works. I've been speaking with Russell Poldrack. He's a professor of psychology at Stanford University. The name of his book is Hard to Break, Why Our Brains Make Habits Stick.
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So when you look at child development, play is a big part of that. You hear all the experts talk about the importance of play. Kids need to learn how to play with each other, that play is critical in their development. And yet, as we get older, that whole idea of play being important somehow falls away, that play, well, that's for kids.
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And as always, there is a link to that book in the show notes. Appreciate you being here, Russell. Thank you. Sure thing. All right. Thanks a bunch. If you take pain relievers like ibuprofen more than twice a week, you could end up with hearing loss. Researchers say women under the age of 50 are at particular risk.
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Apparently the same elements in ibuprofen that block the pain may also reduce blood flow to the cochlea in the inner ear, and that can affect your hearing. Pain relievers containing acetaminophen also posed a hearing loss risk, but it was slightly less than ibuprofen. They also tested aspirin and found no risk of hearing loss there. And that is something you should know.
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Also, the interesting connection between over-the-counter pain relievers and hearing loss. And we'll take a close look at your habits, where they come from, and why you have them.
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And so as an adult, what does it mean to play? If it isn't a box of toys, what is it?
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How would you say people, grownups, adults do with this? Are most of us pretty playful in that you're really trying to rally a small percentage of people or are most of us lacking in play or what?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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So is the word play part of the problem? When you hear the word play, you think of maybe something that's fairly frivolous, unnecessary, childlike, and not something grownups do. But you also hear, if you were to ask people, do you think play is important as an adult? I'm sure they would say yes.
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And so what would that ladder look like that you're building up to blowing bubbles at your desk? Like doing things like what, for example?
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Playfulness always seems to be easier when there are children involved. It kind of gives you an excuse to do it because, well, the kids want to play, so I guess I'll play with the kids. And it makes it more, I guess it makes it more acceptable, at least in people's minds, they're not quite as self-conscious about what they're doing because they're playing with children.
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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We're talking about the benefits of play in your grown-up adult life, and my guest is Joanna Fortune. She is a psychotherapist and author of the book, Why We Play, How to Find Joy and Meaning in Everyday Life.
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So, Joanna, I get the idea that by doing some of the things that you're talking about, you're developing skills like critical thinking skills and all that. But what about just the psychological benefits, the mood benefits of being more playful? Has that been studied?
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What MitoPure is, is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A. I've read a lot about it. It's a natural compound. that's produced by gut bacteria. And MitoPure is this precise dose that encourages cellular renewal. MitoPure is the only urolithin-A supplement on the market clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And that's the thing.
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And how did it become involved in crime? I mean, rappers are always getting shot or in trouble or arrested. But what's the connection there? Because I think a lot of people are confused by that. It's an art form, but it's something else.
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R&B is an interesting category to me because R&B implies a certain kind of music, but it's also defined by the artist and typically black artists. And it is the only genre that is typically defined by a race. So what is R&B?
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See, it works on the cellular level. And with regular use, you'll see and feel the difference in the form of improved energy levels, more endurance, And when you exercise, you'll recover faster. As you get older, you probably know that you lose muscle strength. So this is important. MitoPure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise.
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Talk about how music is discovered, because that's changed a lot. It used to be that radio was the primary means of discovering new music, and radio was an important means of delivering music, and it's lost in many ways its prominence, or at least there are a lot of other ways that people find music.
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Well, right, because if you ask anybody, pick your favorite song, where did you first hear it? You probably first heard it on the radio. And if you're not a radio listener anymore, where are you going to hear those songs? Yeah.
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Well, I've heard the topic of music, popular music, discussed and sliced and diced in a lot of different ways, and this is really a unique lens to look at it through. I appreciate you sharing your observations. I've been talking with Kelefa Sane.
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He is a writer for The New Yorker, former pop music critic for The New York Times, and author of the book Major Labels, A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. You'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Great, Kelefa. Thanks for coming on.
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There are so many issues with money. So perhaps what we need to do is stop and take a breath and hit the financial reset button. And here to help you do that is Jill Schlesinger. She is a certified financial planner, an Emmy and Gracie award-winning business analyst for CBS News, and she is host of the Jill on Money podcast and radio show. She's also author of the book, The Great Money Reset.
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Hey, Jill, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Sure. You know, I find it so interesting that money is so central to our lives. It guides so many decisions and determines what we do or don't do. And yet so many of us struggle with it. You would think that something so important, so central to our lives, that we'd be better at it, that we'd nail it. Why don't we?
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Yeah. Well, I'd rather have root canal, I think, than sit down and figure out how much I owe. And it's just one of those things that it's like doing taxes. It's like nobody wants to do it.
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Well, often we hear, though, that the common advice is pay off your debts, put some money in the bank for a rainy day, have an emergency fund, and invest in an index fund. And that's kind of the conventional financial advice that people hear.
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. Have you heard the saying, I'm sure you've heard the saying, that clothes make the man or the woman? Well, that saying may be more true than you realize. This is according to some research that was published some years ago in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. For example, if you want to feel smarter and actually be smarter, wear a white coat.
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And so how do you compile these numbers? How does the process begin?
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Thank you.
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Just make sure it's the right kind of white coat. In the experiment, volunteers were given an intelligence test while wearing a white lab coat. The group who believed that the jacket belonged to a doctor scored higher than the other group who were told the jacket they were wearing was a painter's smock. The study had some other revealing results.
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Thank you.
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Women wearing a white blouse looked and felt more innocent. Men in black t-shirts were a little stronger. People had more energy when they wore bright colors. And those people in formal attire had better posture, grammar, and more poise. So in many ways, clothes really do make the person. And that is something you should know. I'm sure you have your favorite kind of music.
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Thank you.
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Favorite song, favorite artist, favorite genre. That's a word that gets tossed around a lot in music. Genre. And something that's really interesting is that there's a backstory to all the popular music genres that you like. Whether you like country music or classic rock, hip-hop, that music came from somewhere. It evolved from something.
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How do you, if you can, how do you engineer a parachute if it doesn't work?
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Well, you know what I like about this is I think so many people feel stuck and don't know what it is to do to get unstuck. And you've laid out a game plan here that is fairly simple to do to at least get a sense of where you are and where you're going and how to get there. I've been talking to Jill Schlesinger. She is a certified financial planner.
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award-winning business analyst for CBS News and host of the Jill on Money podcast and radio show. And the name of her book is The Great Money Reset. And there is a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Jill. Thanks for coming on.
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Every pizza lover knows that pizza tastes best when it's fresh. You know that if you have leftover pizza, it's never as good the next day. Heat it in the microwave, it gets mushy. Heat it in the oven, it gets dried out. The editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine have uncovered a way that will make pizza taste almost as good as if it were fresh when you reheat it the next day.
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And here is the recipe. You put the cold slices on a rimmed baking sheet and cover tightly with aluminum foil. Place the baking sheet in the lowest rack of a cold oven, set the temperature to 275, and let the pizza warm up for 25 to 30 minutes. If you do it exactly as I just said, the crust will be soft, the cheese will be melty, and the toppings and the bottom will be hot.
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And that is something you should know. And now that this podcast is over, and hopefully you enjoyed it, I hope you'll share it with your friends and let them give a listen. I'm Micah Ruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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And someone who can tell that story better than most is Kellef Asane. He is a writer for The New Yorker, former pop music critic for The New York Times. He's a contributor to the CBS Sunday Morning program and author of a book called Major Labels, A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. Hi, Kelifa. Welcome. Thanks for coming on Something You Should Know. So happy to be here.
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Today on Something You Should Know, how your clothes can affect your personality. Then, a fascinating look at popular music, rock, country, hip hop, dance, and pop.
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So you've broken down popular music into these seven genres. So why don't you explain what a genre is and the seven genres are what?
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Well, it's interesting that you say that because when I think of genres, I don't think of, well, I never really thought about it much, but I don't think of them as communities so much as I think of them as categories. When you ask people, what kind of music do you like? They typically respond with one of the genres or categories.
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They say, I like country music or I like hip hop or I like punk music. That's what they say.
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So maybe pick one or two and explain like where do genres come from? Like somebody didn't just wake up one morning and say, I'm going to create myself a genre here and we're going to call it country. So where do they come from?
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And so who defines a genre? Or is it just an organic-y thing that happens? Or is there some sense of there's somebody pulling the strings here that this is what... This is what country music is. This is what rap is.
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Also, the very best method to make leftover pizza taste as good as fresh. And a way to look at your money that might just open your eyes and free your soul.
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What is pop music? How do you define that genre? Because it seems to change a lot, and a lot of songs and artists fall out of that genre and then are homeless.
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We are talking about popular music through the lens of popular music genres. My guest is Calafasane. His book is called Major Labels, A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk quite a bit about health on this podcast, and I can tell you, I try to take care of myself. I mean, I work at it. And for a while now, I've been taking this supplement called MitoPure. And I can tell you, I feel stronger. When I exercise, I recover faster.
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So, Kelifa, I find it interesting, I've always found this interesting, how an artist can fall out of a genre, like be really hot in a genre, and then fall out, and then they can't come back. Say, Barry Manilow, he's like a monster pop artist. Yeah. Then he kind of fell out of favor. And another artist could release a song that sounds a lot like Barry Manilow and could be a big hit.
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But if Barry Manilow puts out the song, it won't be a big hit because he's not allowed back in.
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It's all about new discoveries happening in science and tech. They have expert guests that make it all make sense. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed. Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids.
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What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff. Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. So, Demetrius, in these cultures where they engage in these elaborate rituals that are very painful, doesn't anyone ever stop and go, hey, wait a minute. Wait, why are we doing this? Couldn't we do something else that's perhaps a little less painful? Or do they just, we just do it. It's just what we do.
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But those social benefits are not why they do it. Or is it?
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Well, getting away from the painful rituals, because we don't really have a whole lot of those here in the West. I mean, it doesn't seem like that's all that popular.
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That our rituals tend to be much more benign and, you know, like... And this time of year, Christmas has a lot of rituals where people do things and decorate in certain ways that they don't do any other time of year because it's Christmas and they do it... because that's what we do, but also because I think it makes people feel good.
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Is there any sense that rituals are on the rise or on the decline or it's pretty steady or does it go in waves or anything like that?
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And so many of those rituals that you just mentioned in the courtroom and at graduation, I'm thinking of those kind of things that, you know, why do we do them? Well, that's just what we do. It's just part of the ceremony. It's part of the pageantry. It's just what we do. Like you're almost not supposed to question it.
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And people didn't like that.
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You know, as you're talking, I'm thinking, you know, back to 2020 when we were all locked down. And one of the things that happened was that for the class of 2020 at every grade level, at every school, there was no graduation. And people were talking about that, that how sorry we felt for members of the class of 2020 because there would be no graduation. Graduation, which is just a ritual.
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It doesn't do anything other than recognize a passage in life. But people felt really bad about that because graduation is so important.
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Well, after listening to you, I think it's clear we all recognize that need for ritual. It's important to all of us to one degree or another. Dimitris Zigalatis has been my guest. He is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist who runs the Experimental Anthropology Lab at the University of Connecticut. And the name of his book is Ritual, How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living.
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Dimitris.
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That's code SOMETHING50OFF at factormeals.com slash SOMETHING50OFF to get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box. And I'll put that code in the show notes to make this simple. You often hear phrases like, the human body was designed to move. Exercise is good for you. And you can often hear people talk about how much they enjoy exercising. But for a lot of other people, exercise is hard.
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It's hard to start exercising and even harder to stick with it. So why is it something supposedly so necessary and natural for our health is such a challenge to do? Here to discuss that and to offer some suggestions on making exercise less of a struggle is Daniel Lieberman, professor of biological sciences and a professor of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
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He's author of a book called Exercised, Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding. Hi Daniel, welcome. Thank you. Pleasure to be here. So why is it, if exercise is so critical for our well-being, why is it so hard to do routinely?
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So this is really all part of our mechanism for survival, right?
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And yet, there are plenty of people who do exercise and claim to love it. You ran five miles today. You didn't do it because you hate it. You did it because either you see the reward in it or you get pleasure from it or both.
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I remember speaking with you some years ago and I remember you telling me about other cultures where, you know, exercise is like, why would you do that? Tell that story.
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For them, yeah. But maybe that explains why exercise is so hard, because... Because to do it artificially, to exercise for the sake of exercise, is not something humans did. We exercise to survive and to thrive, but not to exercise just to exercise. I don't imagine any other animals exercise just for the heck of it.
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Hi, and welcome to Something You Should Know. We start today with a question. Does smiling make you happier, or does being happy make you smile? Well, clearly being happy makes you smile, but smiling, according to the latest research, might make you a little bit happier, but it's not going to make you a lot happier. Here's what we do know about smiling. Everybody smiles. It is universal.
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Is it that exercise is so good for you or movement is so good for you or lack of movement is so bad for you? Aha.
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And yet when people exercise, especially when they exercise a lot, They get injured, they get hurt, they get chronic, you know, joint problems and all that. So that may be going too far.
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People are born with the ability to smile. They don't copy the expression. Even babies who are born blind smile. Women smile more than men. Younger people smile more than older people. Males with high testosterone smile least of all. A smiling person is judged to be more pleasant, attractive, sincere, sociable, and competent than a non-smiling person.
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But does, you know, you go to any suburban town around the world and, you know, four or five o'clock in the afternoon, you see lots of people out walking that are clearly not athletes. They're just, you know, people out for their afternoon walk. And my guess is that most of them think that they're walking because that's good for them.
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Is there some real benefit to that walk or is that, like you say, some is better than nothing, but how much good is it doing? Oh, absolutely there's a benefit to it.
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Absolutely. I remember hearing some time ago, and I don't remember where it was from, that there is a difference between exercising like on a treadmill versus exercising out in nature or something. Is there? It seems to me that exercise is exercise.
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But for whatever reason, people try to exercise and fail and give up. And, well, I think I know the reason, and I think it has to do with the failure to lose weight, that people think they're going to lose a lot of weight when they exercise. And when they don't, they say, well, see, and they quit.
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Babies reserve a special smile for family members and a newborn baby shows a preference for a smiling face over a non-smiling face. And that is something you should know. I guess we all have little rituals we take part in. Around the holidays, there are millions of rituals. But all year long, we participate in rituals because, well, actually, I'm not sure why we participate in rituals.
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So give people some, some motivation, give people a reason to do this because, you know, it's going to be the start of the year. People are thinking, ah, I need to exercise more, but they probably won't. So how about a little motivational talk?
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Well, I think that's a really important message because in all the talk of the importance of exercise and you're supposed to move and you need more activity is this idea that if you don't, there's something wrong with you, that you are lazy or there's just... there's something wrong with you, and clearly that's not the case. I've been talking to Daniel Lieberman.
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He's a professor of biological sciences and a professor of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. The name of his book is Exercised, Why Something We Never Evolved to Do is Healthy and Rewarding. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Everyone has heard that eating too much salt can raise your blood pressure.
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And that statement is actually based on research that was done in the 1940s that showed that people who had high blood pressure could lower it by reducing their intake of salt. As a result, it became this common advice to reduce salt in your diet to control your blood pressure.
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I guess it makes us feel good, but there has to be more to it than that. So let's find out why this apparently universal practice of rituals seems ingrained in so much of human behavior. And here to discuss it is Dimitris Zigalatis. He is an anthropologist and cognitive scientist who runs the Experimental Anthropology Lab at the University of Connecticut.
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But in the last 25 years or so, research has shown that it's not just eating a lot of salt that can elevate your blood pressure. It's also not eating enough potassium. When you eat salt, it increases the amount of sodium in your blood, which causes you to retain water, which increases your blood volume, and therefore your blood pressure.
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Potassium regulates your blood pressure by stimulating your kidneys to excrete more sodium, thereby reducing blood volume and decreasing your blood pressure. So, if you don't want to cut down on salt, you can simply increase the amount of potassium you consume. Foods high in potassium include spinach, broccoli, and beans. And that is something you should know.
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He's author of a book called Ritual, How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. Hi, Dimitris. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So what is a ritual as you study it and define it? What is it?
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Does everyone or at least every culture have rituals? Has there ever been a culture that just didn't have any?
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Why is it so universal? If in fact rituals don't really do anything, why are they so important to everybody?
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There are rituals, though, that I can think of, pretty benign rituals, but rituals nonetheless of, you know, rubbing a rabbit's foot or, you know, for good luck kind of thing. And it doesn't work, yet people still do it. And if it did work, then it wouldn't be a ritual, would it?
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Today on Something You Should Know, being happy certainly makes you smile, but does smiling make you happy? Then, rituals. We all have them. They don't really do anything, but they're so important. In fact...
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And that evidence is?
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But you mentioned at the beginning here that you study rituals of cultures that do incredibly painful things as rituals. How does that help your anxiety? Seems like if you came at me with a needle, I don't think I'd be less anxious. I'd be more anxious.
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Is there any indication, though, that someone who, say, pierces themselves with sharp needles or walks on hot coals and does these very painful things, that they get more of an internal benefit from those rituals because they're so painful and involved? compared to someone who just, you know, rubs a rabbit's foot because that's their ritual?
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Or can you get the same from any ritual if you believe you get the same from any ritual?
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Also, does eating salt really raise your blood pressure? And the science of exercise. The benefits are greater than you may realize.
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Because your book is quitting a strategy. And to me, you know, a strategy is like a plan. And I don't think anybody goes into anything with the strategy, the plan to quit it. Why would you do it if you're planning to quit?
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I guess, no, I understand your point, but it just seems that every case is individual. I mean, I can speak on behalf of almost every podcaster in the world. I, in the early days of this podcast before it became as successful as it did,
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thought about quitting every day because it just nobody was listening it wasn't going anywhere it was really hard to do but I didn't quit I could have quit a lot of people have quit but I didn't and I stuck it out and I'm very glad I did
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something you should know fascinating intel the world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today something you should know with mike carruthers hi and welcome to another episode of something you should know something i've always wondered about and perhaps you have too is beginner's luck
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So there is a saying, you know, I don't have the luxury of quitting. And I can imagine people listening to this saying, well, great, geez, I'd love to quit my job, but I have a mortgage to pay and I have bills to pay and my kids are in school and they've got dental work. So quitting sounds great, but for a lot of people, it's not a practical thing to do.
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I remember my dad telling me early on in my career that, you know, if you ever want to quit a job, it's always better To line something else first because you look more attractive if you are employed than if you're unemployed. So quit all you want, but get something lined up first.
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Well, as you say, it's very individual whether you decide to quit or whether you decide to persevere. But are there any numbers in the research about, you know, is quitting a better strategy? Just anything other than these are anecdotal stories and you quit and it worked out for you and you didn't quit and it worked out for you?
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Maybe you've experienced it or witnessed it. Is beginner's luck a real thing, I wonder? Well, apparently it is, but actually luck doesn't have a lot to do with it. What we chalk up to beginner's luck actually has two parts to it. First of all, beginners or novices often fail. Don't perform well on a first attempt. That's no surprise. So when a beginner does get lucky...
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Well, I have to admit, I haven't really thought all that much about this topic. I've always just kind of bought into the idea that quitting is never a great idea, that perseverance and grit are always the better option, but maybe not. I've been speaking with Julia Keller. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and author of the book, Quitting, A Life Strategy.
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And you'll find a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you, Julia. Thanks for being here. Thank you so much.
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I have spent much of my life living near water. I am drawn to it. I like being near water. Lakes, oceans, rivers, doesn't matter a whole lot to me what kind of water. I just like being around water. And I guess I've always thought that was just a preference that I had personally. But apparently not. Seems pretty much everyone likes being around water.
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It has an effect, a desirable effect, on just about everybody. This turns out to be something Wallace J. Nichols studies. Wallace is a senior fellow at the Center for the Blue Economy in Monterey. He is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences, and his work has been covered by NPR, BBC, PBS, National Geographic, and many other media outlets.
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He's author of a book called Blue Mind, the surprising science that shows how being near, in, on, or underwater can make you happier, healthier, more connected, and better at what you do. Hi, Wallace. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hey, it's great to be with you. My pleasure and honor. So you say it's fairly universal that people want to be near water. It's not just me.
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Everybody likes to be near water. But why? Because it's just pleasant to be around water? Or is the relationship between humans and water like a real thing?
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deep evolutionary connection to water which is if we don't have water for a week we're done and so yes is it is a thing why does the conversation not stop there and we go get lunch what why is it a book and why is it a whole conversation on this podcast because you just made the case and so okay so now what
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Every once in a while, surprise, we notice it, and we respond to a surprise more than we do to the predictable. So, we tend to think that it happens more often than it does. It doesn't really happen that often. The other all-important aspect to beginner's luck is pressure. People who are experts or who are at the top of their game are expected to succeed.
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Well, let's look at some of the specifics you just mentioned. You know, the idea of being near water to be creative. It sounds right. Like if I want to paint a picture, I'll go down by the lake and, you know, the sound of the water will inspire my creativity. But is there some science here? Is it something other than it sounds right?
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So when you ask people what's their water, what are some of the more unusual, interesting things you hear?
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But it does seem though that there are people like me who really like to be near water and seek it out and other people who kind of like, eh, you know, yeah, it's nice. I get it.
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They feel the pressure, and performing under pressure is always more of a challenge. Beginners, on the other hand, usually don't care how they perform on a first attempt, so the pressure's off. A novice is more likely to take a risk. that just might pay off. And every once in a while, it does. And that is something you should know.
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So in order to say that people want to be around water and that being around water has a positive effect on you, wouldn't you have to do an experiment, some scientific research into people who are not around water and see the difference between them and people who are around water and make some sort of hypothesis as to what that difference is and why?
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Is there any sense, though, of, so we've talked about, you know, people kind of crave or seek out water, that it's something that's kind of part of being human and can help your creativity. But what is it? Is it seeing it? Is it hearing it? Is there a sixth sense that you somehow perceive it's nearby? What is it exactly other than, yeah, it's nice to have some water over there?
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There is something about quitting, walking away from something, almost anything. Quitting is for losers. At least that's the way many of us think. Winners never quit, quitters never win. You don't quit, you finish what you start. Quitting is bad, perseverance is good. Well, maybe we should re-examine that assumption that quitting is such a bad thing. Maybe sometimes quitting is the best strategy.
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But like music, I mean, there is water that may do things for you in a positive way, like sitting in a hot tub. But if you fall into a lake that's partially frozen and the water is freezing cold, it's not so pleasant to be around that water.
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Well, you know, something I find interesting is I used to have a house on a lake in Vermont and would go up there and sit out on the balcony there and look at the lake and look at it for hours. I mean, just people would congregate out there. If the lake wasn't there, if it was just trees and bushes and whatever, everybody wouldn't gravitate out there. There's something.
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And, and it isn't that it changes much. It, I mean, it's, I mean, it's a lake, but you know, the water, the water's the water, but, But it pulls you. You want to go out there. And I've never really understood why, but I always want to go out there.
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Well, it's also interesting, too, if you look at real estate prices. It's the houses on the beach that are the most expensive compared to the houses a mile inland in a lot of coastal towns. It's the houses on the lake that are real expensive as opposed to the houses in town. So people know they want to be near water and they're willing to pay more to be there.
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That's what Julia Keller is here to discuss. Julia is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, novelist, and playwright, and she is author of a book called Quitting, A Life Strategy. Hi, Julia. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Yeah, and there probably aren't, I can't think of a lot of other things like that that people would be willing to pay that kind of premium for.
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Yeah. Well, think about like on the weekends, families will pile into the car and drive to the beach. Now, there's not necessarily anything to do there other than play in the water, be near the water, make a sandcastle or whatever. But it's not like going to the movies or where there's not only a destination but something to do.
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You go to the beach just to be at the beach because there's something about being there that people like.
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So go ahead and make your case for quitting because, as I said, most people look at quitting as something you don't do, that that's not a good thing. So why is it and when is it a good thing?
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So you've been studying this a long time. What's your, finally here, what's your message?
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Well, I've always been one of those people who's attracted to water. I know lots of other people are attracted to water. And yet, I don't think I've ever talked about this with anyone before. So this has been really an eye-opening conversation.
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I've been speaking with Wallace Nichols, and the name of his book is Blue Mind, the surprising science that shows how being near, in, on, or underwater can make you happier, healthier, more connected, and better at what you do. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Wallace. Excellent. My pleasure.
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If your love life could use a boost, there are some things you can do outside the bedroom that can make a big difference, according to Lou Padgett, who is author of a book called The Great Lover Playbook. First of all, when your partner does something that makes you proud, say it out loud and tell other people about it too. Champion your lover and that gets noticed. Pay attention.
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When your partner has something to say, stop what you're doing and really listen. And get touchy. Holding hands, a longer embrace, or spontaneous caress will get noticed when it's not expected. And kissing is one of the easiest ways to jumpstart your love life. Long-term couples tend to fall into kissing routines, so consider switching up the routine a bit.
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Start kissing your partner the way you'd like to be kissed. And that is something you should know. As any podcaster will tell you, word-of-mouth advertising is about the best. So the best way to support this podcast is to tell someone you know and ask them to give a listen. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Today on Something You Should Know, is beginner's luck a real thing or just a fluky occurrence? Then, quitting. We've been taught to persevere, never quit, but sometimes quitting is the right choice.
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So I understand the changing course that sometimes life circumstances dictate that you have to change course. And in order to change course, you may have to quit something in order to move to something else. OK, I get that. But but there's another kind of quitting that's not that.
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That's the I just don't want to do this anymore kind of quitting, which feels more like just, you know, the easy way, the chicken way out.
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To which I can imagine people listening to this saying, yes, but there I can think of, and I include myself in this list, I have persevered and stuck it out with things that probably I really didn't want to, and I'm so glad I did.
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Well, by its nature, quitting is fairly final. And so often it might be better, it would seem, to stick it out a little longer. Because once you're quit, you quit. You can't quit a job and then go two weeks later, oh, boy, you know, I made a mistake. I'm coming back. Because you're not coming back. You quit.
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Then, some simple ways to improve your love life that happen outside the bedroom. And, why are humans so attracted to water? Beaches, lakes, rivers, streams. We like to be near water.
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Well, doesn't it depend on why you're quitting?
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We're talking about quitting, and my guest is Julia Keller. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the book Quitting, A Life Strategy.
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So, Julia, as I listen to you talk, it almost seems like quitting is the wrong word. Because as you describe Tiger Woods, I mean, I would never describe him as a quitter, but you say he's a quitter, but I would never use that word. He adapted from his life circumstance how he plays the game, but... quitting wouldn't be one of the words I'd use to describe him.
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It's like it's the wrong word for what you're talking about almost.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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But sometimes your quitting affects other people. If you're a member of a team and you quit the team and the team suffers, well, now a lot of people are taking it on the chin because you quit.
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We're talking about some important inventions that have really altered the way that you and I see the world. And my guest is Susan Denham-Wade, author of A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions. Thank you for having me. It's a bit similar to something you should know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed. Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids.
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What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff. Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly.
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Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. Think about all the online businesses selling products, ones that you probably buy. Mattel, Gymshark, Untuckit, Magic Spoon, all solid businesses. But a key ingredient to any successful online business is the business behind the business that makes the whole selling and checkout process work.
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And for millions of businesses, that business is Shopify. Shopify is the number one checkout on the planet. And the not-so-secret secret is something they have called ShopPay that boosts conversions up to 50%, meaning way less carts going abandoned and way more sales going...
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming, and even still there are no guarantees. Which is why, when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash SYSK, all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash SYSK to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com slash SYSK. So, Susan, in your list of inventions is eyeglasses. I mean, there is an invention that literally changed the way people viewed the world, the people with vision problems. So talk about that.
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Well, I would think that television is one of the big game changers in your list of inventions because it not only changed how we see the world, it really brought the world into our homes, good and bad. We could see things we could never see before.
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And then there is the smartphone, which not only has changed the way we see the world, in many ways, it is the world that we see because we spend so much time looking at it.
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Well, as I said at the start, this is a topic that I didn't really know was a topic. You actually really created the topic by putting these 11 inventions together and looking at the world through them. And it's been a lot of fun. Susan Denham-Wade has been my guest. The name of the book is A History of Seeing in 11 Inventions. And you'll find a link to that book in the show notes.
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Thanks for being here, Susan. This was fun.
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When it comes to major decisions in your life, there are a couple of categories that are huge. They are love and money. And as you may have noticed in your own life, we tend to struggle with those decisions and end up regretting some of them. So why is that? Why do we mess up some of the biggest decisions in our lives? And how can we make better love and money decisions?
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Well, here to discuss that is Myra Strober. She is a labor economist and professor at Stanford University and author of a book called Money and Love, an intelligent roadmap for life's biggest decisions. Hi, Myra. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So I would imagine that everyone listening can think back to a decision regarding love or money or both that they regret. So why do you suppose that is? I mean, why do we mess up what seems to be such an important decision?
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But it seems to me it's not only the decision you make, because you could make what appears to be the right decision, but things don't always go according to plan. Things don't go the way you think they're going to go. Life has a way of serving up curveballs that if things had gone the way you thought, that decision would have been great, but it didn't go that way. But how would you have known?
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Well, see, that's a good example of what I mean, that your daughter might have trouble adapting to her new school. She might thrive in the new school. There's no way to know until it happens, and it only happens after the decision, and then you have to deal with the consequences. But you can't have predicted that. I mean, it's kind of a crapshoot.
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So I guess maybe what my point was is that it is human nature to think about the road not taken. And so you'll always wonder what if when faced with a choice like what you're talking about. Should I move there? Should I take that job? Should I marry that person or that person?
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You're always going to wonder, no matter what you choose and how great a decision, what if you had done something different?
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So what are those five steps?
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Hi, and welcome to Something You Should Know. Have you ever been in your kitchen and looked in the cupboards or in the refrigerator and looked at some of the food and wondered, why is it called that? Where did that name come from? Well, here are the origins of some popular, somewhat random, but some popular foods that may be in your kitchen. First of all, Philadelphia cream cheese.
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Well, your five-step process, it certainly makes sense. It sounds good. But how do you know it works? I mean, is there research? How do you know that doing those five steps are better than any other five steps that somebody would come up with?
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When people make decisions on their own and don't use your process, where is it you think people tend to go wrong?
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It didn't really come from Philadelphia. It started in New York. It was called Philadelphia cream cheese because that city was associated with high-quality food products. Gatorade, as you might imagine, does not contain any alligator in it. It was a kidney specialist from the University of Florida who helped develop it for the school's football team, the Florida Gators.
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Well, what you said about really taking the time to figure out what it is you want, not what somebody else wants, that's a step I think a lot of people skip because there are so many other influences and there's so many assumptions people make about what they want that they don't really stop and go, hey, wait a minute. Let's really stop here. What is it I want?
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Well, and you know, we've talked about it on this podcast before. I think people do tend to fall into that confirmation bias trap where they just look for things that confirm what their gut is telling them.
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But it would also seem that as you make these decisions, it's not just a snapshot in time. There's got to be course correction because the decision, you know, you decided to take this new job, but then the guy that hired you left and now you've got a new. So there's always things that happen. It isn't frozen in time that I made this decision and now we go forward the way I decided.
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I can just think back in my own life of some decisions I've made that I didn't really, I kind of like already had it in my head what the decision was going to be without really going through any process. It just felt right. It just seemed right. This is an opportunity I can't pass up.
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I suspect that happens to a lot of people where they just say, wow, I've got to grab this right now and go and never do what you're talking about.
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So they named the drink Gatorade. The product name Spam was chosen for the canned meat from a contest. There is no official explanation for its meaning, but most people assume Spam stands for spiced ham. The Frisbee, the flying disc Frisbee, comes to you courtesy of the Frisbee Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The empty pie tins were perfect for throwing like a Frisbee.
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Well, it's interesting. We make decisions all day long, big ones and little ones, and often don't think about the process of making the decision. We just make the decision and then have to live with the consequences.
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Well, it is so easy, even with really big decisions, to go with your gut. You know, oh, this just feels right. And I enjoy hearing what you say about, you know, there's a system, there's a way to analyze this that isn't quite so romantic as going with your gut, but may yield a better decision. I've been talking to Myra Strober. She's a labor economist and professor at Stanford University.
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The name of her book is Is Money and Love an Intelligent Roadmap for Life's Biggest Decisions? And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Myra. I enjoyed the conversation.
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How many times have you been told to stand up straight and suck in your gut? Well, the stand-up straight part's probably fine. It's the sucking in your gut thing that could be a problem, even though some people do it all the time. When you suck in your stomach, it prevents you from breathing properly. That shallow breathing can actually lead to anxiety and poor balance and crummy posture.
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It can also lead to incontinence and a whole host of other problems. So stand up straight, that's fine, but relax your stomach muscles. And that is something you should know. If someone asks you what podcast you listen to, I hope you'll remember to tell them about this one. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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And since it was the Frisbee Pie Company, they became known as Frisbees. The first plastic version was called the Pluto Platter Flying Saucer. Wham-O bought the rights and stamped Frisbee on it instead. Marshmallows started out as medicine. In the 1800s, juice from the roots of the marshmallow plant were extracted and cooked with egg whites and sugar.
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It was whipped up and given to children to soothe sore throats. And that is something you should know. No, I love it when I see a topic to discuss here that I didn't actually know was a topic to discuss. And that's what you're about to hear. We're going to discuss the history of what we see and how we see it. Because how we see ourselves and how we see the world has changed.
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And what's caused those changes are certain inventions, certain technologies that alter our vision. I mean, imagine the first mirror. When people could actually see themselves clearly the way other people do, that had to change a lot. It's pretty remarkable. Or the telescope, television, the smartphone. All these things have altered our view of ourselves and the world in some way.
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Here to explain all this is Susan Denham Wade. She's author of a book called A History of Seeing in 11 Inventions. Hey Susan, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So explain first how you came up with this idea and formed it into a topic for discussion.
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And so where did that journey take you? What did you find from looking at all this?
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So when you say, as you just said a few minutes ago, that in earlier times people saw their world differently, what does that mean?
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Today on Something You Should Know, the interesting ways some food products got their names. Then, inventions that dramatically changed how we see the world. Television, eyeglasses, the smartphone, even mirrors.
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So if the invention of the mirror was so transformative and people could see themselves as individuals rather than just part of the group, I mean, imagine what photography must have done because a mirror, a look in the mirror is a fleeting thing, but photography lasts forever, right?
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When you see early photography, early portraits, no one's smiling. No one seems to be particularly happy. At all?
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Another one of these inventions you talk about is the telescope, which not only changed the way we see the world, but the universe.
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Also, you've probably been told to stand up straight and suck in your gut, which turns out to be bad advice. And why do we have so much trouble with big decisions about love and money?
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So, Monica, one of the things about Wonder that I really enjoy is not just the thing that everybody's oohing and aahing about. It's watching the people oo and aah. And I think I've mentioned this on another episode, but I remember very distinctly.
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There used to be in Long Beach, California, next to the Queen Mary, there used to be Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose airplane, which he built out of wood in World War II. I don't remember the story, but this airplane is so big. It is so immense, you can't even imagine how big it is.
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unless you see it and I was standing at the doorway where people would come around the corner and and it would smack him in the face and to a person I would watch them come around the corner and they would go Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Because they were just in awe of this thing because no one knew how big it was. And I just got such a thrill out of watching that.
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Kids, grownups, everybody would turn the corner and just be in awe.
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Do you think, though, that when you start to find wonder in lots of things, that part of wonder, part of one of the elements of wonder is its rarity? And if you see wonder in everything, then you're not seeing wonder in anything because it's all wonderful.
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Is there been any research, do you find that it seems like as people age that wonder becomes less a part of their life? It's just because it has to be more deliberate because fewer things are new and exciting. And is that true? I mean...
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Generally, I think when people think of wonder, they think of it in a very positive way. But it seems like you can find wonder in negative situations, sad situations. It's not all positive and wonderful. You can find wonder in the bad, too.
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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At the very beginning of our conversation, you said that there are some real benefits to finding wonder in life, health benefits. And so how much wonder do you have to find? How much wonder do you have to see to get those benefits?
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Well, this is such a great topic for conversation because people don't typically talk about it very much. I mean, we all have a sense of what wonder is and we've all experienced it, but we don't talk about it much about how it works and why it's good for you and what it does for you. So I appreciate this. I've been speaking with Monica Parker and the name of her book is The Power of Wonder.
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And you will find a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you, Monica.
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I think there's a lot of confusion about money, what it is, how it works. It used to be that you knew you had a dollar because you could hold it in your hand. But today, much of the money we spend and receive, we never see it. We never touch it. Also, we often hear in political arguments that if we don't do something, the federal government will run out of money.
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But it never seems to run out of money. And what about taxes? You might think that we have taxes to fund the government. But there's more to it than that, as you're about to hear from L. Randall Ray. He is a professor of economics at Bard College and senior scholar at the Levi Economics Institute. And he is author of a book called Money for Beginners, an illustrated guide. Hi, Randall.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know. So what is money? How do you define money?
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Well, and you're right that money, we think of money as like our money is in the bank and we could go get it. But if you have a couple hundred thousand dollars in the bank, you can't go down to your local bank and say, can I have my money? They probably don't have that much in that bank.
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So the money that we use, that we trade with each other and we buy things with, is the government's money. Why is it the government's job to make money?
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So we often hear in politics people talking about the debt, the country's debt, and that we have too much debt, that the country will run out of money, that we will not be able to pay our bills, and that if we just print more money, then we get inflation, and that we are printing money on the backs of our children because they will have to deal with this debt in the future.
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. This morning, I woke up to a bright sunny day like many people, and as usual, one of the first things I reach for before I head out the door, my sunglasses. And it made me wonder, where did sunglasses come from? It turns out that even in prehistoric times, people wore basically sunglasses made out of walrus ivory to block harmful reflected rays of the sun.
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But every year when the government spends more money than it makes, there is a deficit. And that deficit gets added to the debt. And doesn't eventually, someday, somehow, somebody have to pay that back?
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Well, then why then? Because I'm having trouble, and I think people have trouble understanding what you're saying. Let's take money off the table and let's just say that we trade in Mona Lisas. And there's only one. But we could make more. As you say, the government can make more money. Well, if you make a lot of Mona Lisas...
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the value of those Mona Lisa's becomes declines because if there's only one, it's really valuable. If there's a million of them, they're not so valuable. So how can you just keep printing money and say that there's no real consequence to that?
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The earliest historical reference to sunglasses dates back to ancient China and Rome. The Roman Emperor Nero apparently liked to watch gladiators fight through polished gems. Kinda like sunglasses. Around the 12th century, the Chinese came up with wearable dark lenses similar to our sunglasses. They were made from flat panes of smoky quartz.
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So I get the bond thing that the government's debt is our asset in that way. But very often the government spends money and says, we need to raise taxes in order to pay for this. There's no bond involved. It's tax money that comes straight out of my pocket into the government's pocket. That's not my asset.
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Those ancient sunglasses had little to do with the sun, though. Chinese judges wore them to hide their facial expressions while they interrogated witnesses on trial. It was Sam Foster of Foster Grant fame who came up with the sunglasses we wear today. And in 1929, he started selling his sunglasses from a Woolworth's store on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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But my sense is that when taxes go up, they very seldom come down. Federal taxes, state taxes, municipal taxes, they never go down.
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Lastly, what do you see as the future of money?
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Well, I must say I've learned a lot in this conversation, things I did not know before. And I always like doing that. It's one of the great things about doing this podcast. I've been speaking with L. Randall Ray. He's a professor of economics at Bard College and senior scholar at the Levi Economics Institute. The name of his book is Money for Beginners, an Illustrated Guide.
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thank you, Randall, for being here. Thanks. It's been a pleasure to be on your show. We're all supposed to be getting eight hours of solid sleep every night. That's the general professional consensus. But what about those people who say they do just fine on only five hours of sleep? Well, researchers put them to the test.
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The volunteer sleepers did their thing in a controlled sleeping environment for two weeks. Those who slept eight or nine hours did just fine on cognitive testing, but the group who slept just four to six hours flunked. Their cognitive skill results were impaired to the equivalent of being legally drunk.
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The study found that when we get less than eight hours of sleep at night, our attention span and reaction times are the first skills to take a hit. Even getting seven hours is not enough. One hour less nightly accumulates over time to a noticeable sleep debt. And that is something you should know. Hey, would you do me a favor?
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And soon after that, they became a sensation. And that is something you should know. I'm sure you've heard the phrase childlike wonder. It's a way of looking at the world that gives you pause, makes you see things with a different kind of appreciation. It gives you a perspective on where you fit into the world. Of course, the thing about childlike wonder is you tend to lose it as you get older.
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Since the episode is over and perhaps you have a moment, tell a friend about this podcast, ask them to give a listen, and I'll bet they thank you for it. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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But seeing wonder in the world is actually a great way to view things. And wonder has wonderful benefits, as you're about to hear from Monica Parker. Monica is a speaker, writer, and authority on the future of work. She has spent decades helping people discover how to lead and live a wonderful life. And she's author of a book called The Power of Wonder. Hi, Monica.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Today on Something You Should Know, who came up with the idea for sunglasses and when? Then, finding wonder in the world and why it's such a good idea to develop your sense of wonder.
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So what is wonder? How do you define it from your perspective?
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And why would we want to experience them in the first place?
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So when I think of wonder, I often think of the look on a child's face when he sees something for the first time. At Disneyland, a child sees Mickey Mouse and gets up close to him. To me, that's wonder.
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Well, yeah, and you hear that phrase, childlike wonder, because everybody knows exactly what that is. But what you just said about... that as you get older and you have a lot of life experiences, it seems as if there are fewer things to be in awe of, to find wonder in, because, you know, been there, done that.
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I've already seen Mickey Mouse a million times, so it doesn't matter to see him again, doesn't inspire those same feelings. That does seem to be true, that as you get older, the world is less wonderful.
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is it for someone like you who practices this is it deliberate do you have to stop and say okay it's time to find some wonder now or is it more smooth than that it just flows
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Also, can people really get by on four to five hours of sleep and still perform well? And what is money? How does it work? There's a lot of confusion. For example, people think the government might run out of money.
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Okay, so I'm looking at a sunset and it's a beautiful sunset. What's the difference between looking at the sunset and saying, isn't that a beautiful sunset and looking at that sunset and finding wonder in it?
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Okay, but in a very practical way, you're now looking at this beautiful sunset. What is it that goes through your mind that does what you just said without saying neuroplasticity and other big words like that?
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So that's wonder, an experience that makes you feel smaller in reference to what you're in wonder of?
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But what is the—I mean, I know you mentioned about the benefits of doing this, but say, for example, because I saw this the other day, you look at like a double rainbow, and it is just incredible to see. It's so big, and yes, you feel so small compared to this thing, and then it's gone. And just like the rainbow disappears— My experience is over and my life goes back to where it was.
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It was a brief moment. It was a pause. It was a distraction and it was beautiful. And wow, it's wonderful. But so what? I mean, you know, now it's gone and, you know, now I've got to go pay the bills.
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Because it seems like if I have to now start journaling about my rainbow, it kind of sucks the magic out of it. It came, it went, that's what makes it so wonderful. And now if I'm going to have to write a paper about it, it seems less wonderful.
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We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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We're talking about your sense of wonder and all the benefits of developing that sense. And we're talking with Monica Parker. She is author of the book, The Power of Wonder.
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Today on Something You Should Know, just because you're messy doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. Then, skin care. What works? What doesn't? And can a skin cream really get rid of wrinkles?
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the answer would be yes because most people don't put on enough so if you don't put on enough you're not going to get what's on the label are there any ingredients that are in any of these creams like retinol or anything that does have some sort of like magical pixie dust or or is it all just is it all just nothing
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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What is retinol?
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What about soap for your skin? Is there a big difference between one soap and another?
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It's interesting that many people treat the skin on their face differently than the rest of their body, that the face gets special facial cleansers and facial this and that, and then you use something else for the rest of your body. Is that a good practice? Is there some reason for doing that?
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And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.
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What about shampoo? Because there's a big price difference from the cheapest to the most expensive. And I've always had this sense that it probably doesn't make too much difference.
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But a lot of shampoos make claims like thickens your hair, maximum volume. It seems that shampoo really only has one task, and that's to clean your hair.
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So since you're the expert, give us a peek as to what products you use.
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One thing I really like is on your website, people can go and answer a few questions about the kinds of products they're looking for, and then you make recommendations based on your testing, and people can buy the product right there on your website. through your Amazon link, but even the 4% that you make from Amazon, you donate to charity.
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So you truly have no skin in the game here other than to provide good information to people, and I think that's admirable. Dr. Fain Fry has been my guest. She is a dermatologist and author of the book, The Skin Care Hoax. There is a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes, and also her website, fryface.com, F-R-Y-F-A-C-E dot com, if you want to check that out and look for products.
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And there's a link to that also in the show notes. Thanks, Doctor. Thank you for being here.
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Hey there, welcome to Something You Should Know. It's conventional wisdom that messy people should probably be a little neater. That's the accepted standard. You seldom hear calls for neat people to mess things up a little bit. But according to David H. Freeman, who wrote a book called A Perfect Mess, Being neat isn't necessarily better than being sloppy. It's just different.
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We measure things. That's what humans do. We want to know how much, how far, how long, how heavy, how many. Measurement allows us to organize everything in our lives. I mean, imagine if there were no standards of measurement. Everything would be chaos. The story of how and why we measure everything is a fascinating one. And joining me to tell it is James Vincent.
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He's a senior reporter for The Verge and author of a book called Beyond Measure, The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants. Hi, James. Welcome. Hi, Mike. Thanks for having me. So I was surprised to learn that even the standards of measurement change. And in fact, you covered... what you would call, I guess, the redefinition of what a kilogram is back in 2018.
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So maybe this would be a good place to start because I would think a kilogram is a kilogram, like an inch is an inch and a pound is a pound. So why did the definition of a kilogram change?
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We have these different standards of measure. We have an inch, but then we have a foot, which is 12 inches. Is there any sense of where each of these individual measurements started?
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In fact, research shows that neat people tend to be more judgmental. They not only want their lives to be neat, they want sloppy people's lives to be neat. But sloppy people don't demand that neat people get sloppier. Neat people spend a big portion of their day working on their neatness when they could be spending time on the tasks of the day.
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It seems like some of these measurements are based on other measurements. Like you mentioned that the meter has something to do with the speed of light. But first you'd have to know the speed of light to know what a meter is. So help me understand that.
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It seems that much of the world uses the metric system, but in the United States, we still tend to use inches, feet, yards, pounds, quarts, gallons. We don't use a lot of the metric measurements, and I wonder why.
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Neat people like to categorize everything, but life isn't always easy to categorize. Life can be unorganized and ambiguous. Neatness and messiness are personality traits, and they're very hard to change. The fact is messy people will always tend to be messy. Trying to get them to be neater causes tension and frustration and is typically a waste of time. And that is something you should know.
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But it seems there have been other attempts. There were attempts, I think, in the 70s to move to the metric system in the U.S. And it seems we're just not that interested.
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But there have been other countries that have gone metric. I don't know how difficult or how much trouble it was, but it is doable.
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There does seem to be this underlying belief that the metric system is better, that people convert to the metric system. I don't know if anyone has converted from the metric system. That's kind of the gold standard of measuring systems. I wonder why.
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Skincare sure seems to be big business. You walk into any store that sells skincare products and there's zillions of them. Some are cheap, some are expensive, and they all promise to do something. Moisturize, reduce wrinkles, prevent damage, tighten skin. What's the real deal here? How powerful and effective are these products? Are they worth the money you spend on them?
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I guess you do. So since the metric system is such a big part of the world here, again, you said a meter is determined by what? It's one what of the distance?
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So we know the history or the backstory of the meter. What about the gram? Does it have a similar backstory? Who said, okay, this is our unit of measure?
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Was there a, once these things were determined, like, okay, this is now the meter and this is now the kilogram. Was there like a real campaign to sell people on it or people, or just kind of more organically became the standard?
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Also, one reliable way to spot a liar when they're telling a story. In measurements, inches, feet, kilograms, pounds, you'll hear the fascinating history of where they came from. Like, do you know why a meter is as long as it is?
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Do any of them live up to the hype? The person to answer these questions and reveal the truth about skincare products is dermatologist Dr. Fain Fry. She has been independently testing consumer skincare products and has a very good understanding of how they work. She's also author of a book called The Skincare Hoax. Hi, Dr. Fry. Thanks for coming on.
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Why is a mile as long as it is? I mean, where does the mile come from?
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I would imagine that in the quest to standardize units of measurement, that there have been some pretty unusual units of measurement that you kind of defied standardizing. Can you talk about some of them?
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Well, given our need to measure things and given that we use measurements every day all the time, it's interesting to hear the story of how these units came to be and why we use the ones we use. I've been talking to James Vincent. The name of his book is Beyond Measure, and there's a link to it in the show notes for this episode. And I appreciate you being here, James. It was really interesting.
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The next time you hear a story that's hard to believe, pay attention to the order in which it is told. According to Pamela Meyer, a certified fraud examiner, liars tend to tell their story in chronological order, building up to the big finish.
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When we tell a true story for the first time, we tend to blurt out details that had a big impact on us, randomly, not necessarily in the order that they happened. Liars are more likely to have it all planned out, skipping unnecessary details. Another giveaway to a phony or exaggerated experience is the end.
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Truth-tellers tend to include an epilogue describing how they feel or how they were affected. That's difficult for a liar to do, considering they didn't actually experience those emotions since it never really happened that way in the first place. And that is something you should know.
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So there is certainly a lot of marketing, aggressive marketing of skincare products, so much so you would think that by now, I mean, nobody should have a wrinkle, we should all have beautifully moisturized, sun damage-free skin, but that's not the case. So is a lot of the marketing and the promises made about these skincare products true, or is it hypey, or what's your take?
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The way our audience tends to grow is people listen, they like what they hear, and they tell somebody else who likes what they hear, and they tell somebody else. So if you would help keep that chain going, it helps us grow our audience. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Here's the problem that I see. I mean, you walk into a store and there's how many different moisturizers. And I wouldn't know, other than price and maybe what it says on the label, I wouldn't know the difference between any of them or what they do or what they don't do or are they all the same. I don't know. And I don't think most people know.
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And so where do you find are the big points of confusion? For example, what?
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So with something like moisturizers, because I don't buy a lot of skincare products, but, you know, I use a moisturizer. I know that there are moisturizers that are pretty cheap and some that are, you know, hundreds and hundreds of dollars. And it just seems so confusing. Like, why would you pay that much? I mean, all it's doing is moisturizing. So what's the real truth here?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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But if you're going to moisturize your skin, there must be some ingredients that you really need, like something with water in it or something.
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But how do you know which one? I mean, there are some really expensive moisturizers. You would think to justify the price that there must be something in it.
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Can these products, are there products that can actually reduce or remove wrinkles?
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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When a skincare product uses the term anti-aging, that this product is an anti-aging whatever, cream, what does that mean?
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In fact, they're not allowed to.
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It would seem to me that the biggest enemy of your skin is the sun. Is that a fair assessment?
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So it would seem that the way you prevent getting skin damage from the sun is to stay out of the sun.
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We're talking about how to take care of your skin and how to save money in the process. My guest is dermatologist Dr. Fain Fry, and the name of her book is The Skin Care Hoax.
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So Dr. Frey, is sunscreen sunscreen or are there different grades of sunscreen or is it all the same?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why the next time you need to make a decision, you might want to wait until you have to go to the bathroom. Then, the power of silence. It's magical because we live in a very noisy world.
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Man, this is going to sound weird to start off this episode, but if you need to make a decision, wait until you have to go to the bathroom. Research published in Science Daily says people make better decisions when they have a full bladder. That's because when the mind is struggling to restrain a bodily function, it's easier for us to exert self-control in other areas.
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So I get that silence has its benefits, but it also seems sometimes that when you're sitting in silence, you can start to ruminate and think about problems and things. And that really what you want to do is distract yourself with maybe music or a podcast like this one. So you're not ruminating and thinking about your own problems as opposed to just sitting in total silence. Right.
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When you think about it, when there's a problem, when there's conflict, the tendency is to talk more about it, argue about it. And maybe a little silence would help rather than trying to hammer it out.
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I wonder why people don't seek this out just on their own, that because it does tend to feel good and relax you and make you sharper, why we don't tend to gravitate to this just because.
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Yeah, well again, there's not a lot of money in silence.
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But what you said a moment ago that silence is scary, that rings true to me. That awkward silence that somebody's got to be talking if there's two people together because you can't have silence. That's something odd about that.
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The authors of the study explain that when you're preoccupied with thoughts of finding the closest bathroom, your ego is in check. You're much less likely to overthink things or give in to unrelated impulses. Consequently, the decisions you make are simple and efficient and more likely to be right on the mark. And that is something you should know.
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well that's true too here i mean you know there aren't too many people that are it's your good friends that you can sit in a room with and each read a book or do your own thing and not feel compelled to chat you know you that there's something very comforting about that absolutely yeah one of my favorite things is to share silence because silence is magnified when it's shared
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Yeah, that's really interesting that group silence at an important event like that. You know, that's why people have, you know, we're going to have a moment of silence and that there's something very moving about that.
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Well, it's interesting. This is, I think, the first time on this podcast the topic has been not about something, but about the lack of something, that silence is that lack of noise and the power that's really in that silence. I've been talking to Leigh Mars. She is a consultant and coach and co-author of a book called Golden, The Power of Silence in a World of Noise.
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Leigh. I appreciate you sharing this.
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I'm sure you get food cravings. I crave Thai food sometimes. And chocolate. Sometimes Mexican food. And a few other things. Anyone who's had a craving knows a craving can be very powerful. But what is a craving? It's kind of like hunger, but it's very specific hunger. So how is it different from just being plain hungry?
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You may not realize it, but we live in a very noisy world that keeps getting noisier. And that's not an especially good thing. When was the last time you truly got to experience silence? Total silence. It turns out to be really good for you. And all that noise? Not so good for you. And it's more than just that. The sounds we hear have a real impact on our health and our well-being.
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And perhaps more importantly, what can you do to curb those cravings and maybe even prevent them so they don't sabotage your diet? Here to discuss all of this is Amy Shaw. Amy is a board-certified medical doctor and nutrition expert with training from Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard, and she's author of a book called I'm So Effing Hungry, Why We Crave What We Crave and What to Do About It. Hi, Amy.
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My sense is that a craving, hungry is when you're hungry and you want to eat something. And a craving is you're hungry and you want to eat ice cream or brownies or something very specific. Is that a fair definition?
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Really? That seems weird. It seems like every time I've ever had a craving, it's because I was really hungry and I wanted that particular thing.
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And so what is that? Because I've been in that situation where I've been at a table and the waiter comes over and says, do you want to see the dessert menu? And I have no interest. But other times I think, well, that sounds pretty good. Let's take a look. So what's the difference?
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And those foods are?
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Noise can affect your mood, your relationships, how well you think. It has all sorts of ramifications. And it's easy to brush it off and say, well, it's just noise. But I invite you to take a few moments and listen to Leigh Mars. She is a consultant and coach and co-author of a book called Golden, The Power of Silence in a World of Noise. Hey, Leigh, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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But when people crave stuff, is it typically sweet?
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What are some examples of craveable foods?
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candies so I've always thought I mean I remember hearing the advice that you know if you're hungry for a Snickers bar I mean you can fight it or but if you just have the Snickers bar shouldn't that and doesn't that have you ever studied this where you have the Snickers bar and you go okay that was great and life goes on or does it create more problems can't you just give into your craving and you're done
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So I think everyone has heard the phrase, silence is golden. And there was a hit record in the 60s called Silence is Golden by the Tremolos. And I think there's this general belief that silence is good, that in the right situation, silence can be very profound and just good for you. I'm not sure how or why, but I think there's a belief in that. But why? Why is silence good?
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So is this primarily or exclusively a food problem or are there other things in life that affect this?
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Are there other things, things that might seem unrelated to the craving itself that actually help to fight the craving? I guess what I mean is, so for example, if you sleep more, do you crave less? If you're bored, do you crave more? Are there other things that can affect how much you crave something?
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What else works beside sunlight?
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It seems that with food cravings at least, and maybe other kind of cravings, that just letting time go by will help. That the thing that you're craving to eat, if you don't eat it, pretty soon you just don't crave it anymore.
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And maybe an even better first question would be, what is silence? I mean, is silence a thing or is silence the absence of something?
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What are some of the other hacks, tricks, first aid, whatever you want to call it, that help to work on cravings in the moment?
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Are cravings predictable? Can you then say, well, given this set of circumstances, I know I'm going to end up craving something, so maybe I can stop it before it starts.
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Yeah, well, you got that right. I'm pretty sure that's not going to work. I've been speaking with Amy Shaw. She's a board-certified medical doctor and author of the book, I'm So Effing Hungry, Why We Crave What We Crave and What to Do About It. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks for being here, Amy.
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You probably assume that your homeowner's insurance policy covers your home. And it probably does. But it may also cover a lot more things than just your house. There's a good chance that your homeowner's policy covers you if you get stuck with counterfeit money or a forged check. It might also protect you if you get sued for libel.
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Fraudulent purchases and money transfers on your credit or debit card might also be covered by your homeowner's policy. If something gets stolen out of your car, your auto policy probably won't cover it, but your homeowner's policy probably will. If you have renter's insurance, those things might be covered as well. It's a good idea to actually read the fine print of your policy.
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I'm Micah Ruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice.
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He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts.
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Also, you might be surprised in a good way what your homeowner's or renter's policy actually covers. And food cravings, why we get them and how to stop them.
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In your definition of silence, is it all silence? Because when like when you say we went out to the Redwoods, to me, that's also like a visual silence, like you're getting away from the clutter of your life and you're seeing something. It isn't nothing, but it's very peaceful silence.
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So let's talk about that.
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Because that's something that, because it's so gradual, I think, that people don't realize that, but the world is getting louder, yes? And how do we know that?
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So you mentioned a moment ago that all this noise, all this chatter that we have to turn the sirens up louder to get over is harmful to our health. Well, how so? Because I think people have a sense, just a sense without knowing anything, that quiet is nice and it's probably better than lots and lots of noise. But how do we know it's health-related?
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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I've had the experience being in the business I'm in of being in walking into certain recording studios, radio studios that are very well built. And that silence is different than the silence that you hear just because you turn everything off. It is a profound silence that is deafening almost. And it feels good. It's like, wow, that's real.
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It's just very relaxing and it's an amazing experience if you've never had it.
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Well, I do love that experience. And it's not only a lack of sound, it's a feeling. You feel that silence. You not only hear it.
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And so what about, because there's silence and there's noise, but there's also sound. And to me, I don't know how you define it, but the sound would be something that isn't noise, isn't chatter, isn't objectionable. It's what you want. It's music or whatever. And even a lot of people who meditate, meditate to music. People who study, study to music. And as if that's...
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Well, I don't know why people do that. Why do people do that?
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We're talking about silence and why it's so good for you. My guest is Leigh Mars. She's co-author of a book called Golden, The Power of Silence in a World of Noise. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster.
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which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you.
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Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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So, Lee, how much silence is enough? Is it just the more the better? I mean, you can't sit in a room for 24 hours and have all silence. So when do you start to see the benefits or see the bad effects of noise deteriorate with how much silence?
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But is there a sense of you really optimally should have, you know, so many hours of silence every day or no one's done that study?
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Hey, hi, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. As you no doubt recall during the whole COVID thing, we were isolated. We didn't come in contact with other people. We stayed as far away as we were told to stay away from, and we didn't touch other people.
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What about when people, because when I think of memory, I think of pictures. I remember seeing this. I remember the words to this song. But there's also memories of smell and sounds. Are those really memories in the same way or not? Yeah.
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And for the most part, that seems to have gone away, that we do now shake hands and fist bump and high five and touch other people, and that's a good thing. Because these kind of supportive touch gestures, like a pat on the back or an arm around the shoulder, these kind of touches give a burst of oxytocin that boosts our bonding sensation and our sense of well-being.
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That's so true that I think everybody's had that experience of smelling something that instantly transports you back somewhere. It isn't the smell itself so much, but what it triggers. And so it's just that the smell is linked to the memory and it's just kind of the doorway into it.
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Something I have found interesting that happened to me is when you go back to a place that you haven't been in a while, like you go back to your high school and you walk through the door, all of a sudden you start to remember things that you haven't thought of since you were in high school. You remember people. You remember where the cafeteria is. You remember all these things. What is that?
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Where were those memories? Do we ever forget anything?
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If you want to purposefully remember something, is there a best practice? Is there a best way to remember whether you're studying for a test or whether you just you want to remember something? Is there a good way to do it or is everybody different?
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The supportive touch theory works in all kinds of environments. Sports teams who share high fives or fist bumps tend to outperform teams who don't. Students who get a supportive touch from a teacher are twice as likely to volunteer in class. And a kind touch from a doctor gives patients the sensation that their visit lasted twice as long as those whose doctors didn't touch their patients.
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You know, that would be... Well, this is great. It's kind of like a user's manual for using your memory, and I appreciate you sharing it. Andrew Budson has been my guest. He is a medical doctor. He is chief of cognitive and behavioral neurology and associate chief of staff for education at the VA Boston Healthcare System. He's a professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine.
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And the name of his book is Why We Forget and How to Remember Better, The Science Behind Memory. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Andrew. This was great. Thanks, Mike.
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You are made up of atoms and molecules. So where did they come from? Think about it. Every one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the Earth's deserts. If you weigh, say, 150 pounds, you've got enough carbon in you to make 25 pounds of charcoal, enough salt to fill a salt shaker, enough chlorine to disinfect several backyard swimming pools.
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So how did all those atoms come together to make you, you? That's what Dan Levitt set out to discover. Dan has been writing and producing award-winning science and history documentaries for National Geographic, Discover, Science, and the History Channel. And he's author of a book called... What's gotten into you? The story of your body's atoms from the Big Bang through last night's dinner.
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Hey, Dan, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks so much, Mike. I'm so honored to be here. So I'm sure we'll get into the interesting details, but in a nutshell, where do my atoms originate? Where did I come from?
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And that is something you should know. I know people ask the question or have pondered the question, how good is my memory? And I've always thought, well, that's kind of a hard question to answer because it really depends on what it is you want me to remember, how long ago it happened. Some people are good at remembering numbers. Other people remember names.
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But so how do those atoms get to be part of me? I mean, so they were created 13.8 billion years ago, and they must have been laying around somewhere or floating around somewhere. How do they become me?
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And so how long have we pretty much known this? How long have we had this story nailed? Is this new? We've known this for years. Where are we?
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And we hear that we regenerate ourselves frequently, that we're not physically the same person we were 10 years ago. How does that work?
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Some of us don't remember things like that very well at all. There are a lot of variables. And yet we have a memory, so you think it would have evolved to be really accurate, and there wouldn't be all these variables. But there are. So let's get a better understanding of our memory, how it works, and why it works that way. And here to do that is Andrew Budson, M.D.
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Today on Something You Should Know, why touching other people, whether a big hug or a simple touch, can be so powerful. Then, understanding just how your memory works and what makes it work better and what makes it worse.
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You say that we take about 20,000 breaths a day. Talk about that and what goes on there.
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Isn't that amazing that that's how it works and yet it all kind of goes on under the radar. We don't think about that but there it is and without that we wouldn't be here.
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It makes you wonder if elsewhere in the universe that this same set of circumstances exists or does life exist in a different way? And are there things that in outer space that we don't even know about that? Well, like when they went to the moon, there was concern about like, you know, what are they going to bring back from the moon that might contaminate the world kind of thing?
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Andrew is the Chief of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology and Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the VA Boston Health Care System. He's a professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and author of the book, Why We Forget and How to Remember Better, The Science Behind Memory. Hey, Andrew, thanks for coming on Something You Should Know.
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Yeah, well, but there have been science fiction movies about, you know, aliens that can't breathe oxygen and that oxygen is poisonous to them, which seems odd.
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not on uh something else to uh for their energy when you look back at the 13 billion years of our scientific history what are some of the highlights of that journey from the origins of it to now well one of them of course was just the discovery that there was an origin
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And what other, I don't know, events or moments in time or people changed the way that we looked at the world and who we are and all of that?
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So since I set it up the way I did, let's start with the variables. Why are people's memories different? Why do some people remember things better than others? Why? Why?
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Yeah, but doesn't it seem, though, that an awful lot of these coincidences had to have happened for us to be here that makes you wonder if there was some design here, because it just seems like so many little things had to have happened just so perfectly. Otherwise we wouldn't be here.
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So as somebody who's researched this and looked pretty deep at who we are, what we're made of, where we came from, what's the big takeaway that you get from all of this?
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Well, this has been really enlightening, and it gives new perspective to what your mother used to tell you about how wonderful and awesome and unique and special you are. I guess we all are. I've been talking to Dan Levitt. Dan has been writing and producing award-winning science and history documentaries for quite some time, and he's got a book out called What's Gotten Into You?
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The Story of Your Body's Atoms from the Big Bang through Last Night's Dinner. And if you'd like to buy it, there's a link to the book in the show notes. Thanks for coming on, Dan. Thank you so much. I so appreciate it. This was fun. I'm sure you know how important it is to make a good first impression. And you don't have much time to do it. People get a good sense of you in about seven seconds.
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According to Yale University psychology professor Marianne LaFrance, 90% of a first impression is based on appearance, posture, facial expressions, and tone of voice. And there are a few things to consider to make the most of those seven seconds. Like it or not, when you meet someone new, your hairstyle will get noticed more than your facial features. Long hair says, my looks are important to me.
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Short hair says, I'm confident and successful. And shoulder length hair says, I'm intelligent and level-headed. Your handshake certainly matters. People who make eye contact while offering a handshake that is firm, dry, and vigorous makes people believe you possess the qualities associated with your grip. For women, your instinct about other women are more accurate than your instincts about men.
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That's because women are programmed to want to make a connection with a man, and that chemistry throws off their radar, according to Professor LaFrance. And try not to be too self-focused during those first seven seconds. How good you make the other person feel is another big factor in making a good first impression. And that is something you should know.
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And what about the idea that as you age, particularly as you get later in life, that your memory declines? Is that normal?
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Also, a simple way to make a good first impression. And all the atoms and cells in your body, where do they come from? Where do they go? And how long do they stay?
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Why do we sometimes have memories of things, vivid memories, like you could remember something from your childhood, a place that you used to go or a house you used to live in, and you have a very vivid memory of it, But if you go there, you realize your memory is wrong. So you have a memory. It isn't like you forgot it. You have a memory, but it's not accurate.
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It does seem that one of the best ways to remember something is to try to remember something. If I'm intentional about, I want to remember this, I tend to remember it more than not doing that.
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So one of the, I think, fundamental questions people have, maybe they wouldn't ask it this way, but so we talk a lot about memory's imperfections, that we don't remember things as well as we think we do. So maybe that's not what memory was meant to do. Evolutionarily, what is the purpose of memory? If it isn't to take snapshots so we can remember exact details, what is it good at?
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I remember someone saying that when you recall a memory that you've recalled before and before and before, that what you're really remembering is the memory of remembering it. And that over time, that can distort the memory because you're not remembering the thing you're remembering when you remembered it last time.
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And yet you didn't. And so what are the things that affect memory in terms of how we live our life, our lifestyle things, you know, drugs, alcohol, lack of sleep? What are the things that make memory worse? And perhaps what are some of the things that can make memory better?
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We're talking about how your memory works, and my guest is Andrew Budson. He is a doctor and author of the book, Why We Forget and How to Remember Better, The Science Behind Memory.
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So, Andrew, what about the supplements that you sometimes see advertised that are supposed to improve your memory or help a declining memory? What about those?
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You mentioned at the beginning of our discussion that everybody's different, that some people remember some things better than other people. But there are also people who just say, oh, my memory is not very good. I just can't remember things. Is that a thing? And what is that thing?
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So, Brian, when you look at this, when you look at all the traditions that we celebrate around Christmas time, what is it about this that really fascinates you the most?
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Yeah. Well, let's talk about the music of Christmas because there are so many Christmas carols and Christmas hymns and Christmas just pop songs. It's almost like its own little industry.
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I like to talk about Christmas food because no holiday has more food attached to it than Christmas. So let's talk about that.
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Tell the story of Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer. Where did he come from?
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Well, this has been really fun. It's really great to hear the backstories of some of our traditions, Christmas traditions, and where they came from, how they developed, and what they mean. I've been talking with Brian Earle. He is a designer, writer, and podcaster. The name of his podcast is Christmas Past, and it's also the name of his book.
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It's called Christmas Past, The Fascinating Stories Behind Our Favorite Holidays Traditions. And there's a link to the podcast below. and to the book in the show notes. Thanks, Brian. Merry Christmas. Thank you. Appreciate that. And you as well. How much do you spend on wireless service? What's your monthly bill?
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Children are a big part of the holiday season for many of us as families get together to celebrate this time of year. So I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how we adults talk with children. Sometimes I think, and I know I've done this, we talk to kids as if they're just little adults.
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Or perhaps we talk to kids as if we're so smart and we need to tell them what we know without really listening to what they have to say. But I know for me that every once in a while you can have an amazing conversation with a child. And so to help have more of those kinds of conversations, whether with our own kids or other kids we come in contact with, I have as my guest Rebecca Rowland.
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Rebecca is a speech pathologist, writer, and Harvard lecturer, and she's author of a book called The Art of Talking with Children. Hi, Rebecca. Welcome.
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So what is it you think we get wrong when we talk to children, especially people who maybe don't have kids or aren't around them a lot? What is it that goes wrong in the dynamic of a conversation with a child?
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And so how do you do that? So let's dive into some specifics here. When you're thinking about talking to kids, what's the shift that goes on in your head that, okay, now we're talking to kids, so things are going to be different here?
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Hello. Welcome to Something You Should Know. I came across this article at HuffingtonPost.com. It's a couple of years old and things may have changed with COVID since we're a little more conscientious. But restaurants, restaurants are public places, so it should come as no surprise that there are a lot of public germs in restaurants.
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So give me an example of that.
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You mentioned that we often have this dynamic of the adult is the expert, but what else do we tend to do wrong when we talk to kids? What else are we missing by not really paying attention to the type of person we're talking to, which is a child?
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And so if someone comes to you and says, I want to have more fulfilling and meaningful conversations with kids, my kids, whoever, what's your advice?
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And unfortunately, those germs are on items that are really hard to avoid. Here are the dirtiest spots in a restaurant. Your seat. The menus. Lemon wedges Salt and pepper shakers The table itself, the rim of your glass, the bathroom door handles, the faucets in the bathroom, ketchup bottles, and the salad bar tongs.
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And yet there are, as you were talking about before, you know, the kid wants to show you his toy and you're saying, you know, where are your shoes? Because sometimes we need to get your shoes and get in the car and go somewhere. And we can't, you know, stop and have a meaningful conversation with the child.
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Well, I think any parent, anybody who has kids in their life knows that so much of the conversation is about, like, let's get things done. You need to clean your room or get dressed or brush your teeth. It's all about getting things done rather than sitting and talking about something deeper or more meaningful.
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And how do you know that? I mean, it sounds like it's probably true, but is there research that supports what you just said?
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What else about these kinds of conversations do you think adults don't get? Because, you know, we were once kids. It seems like we should somehow instinctively know how these conversations should go, and yet we don't.
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Now, as germy as restaurants are, you'd probably pick up even more germs at the gas station. The handles of gas pumps have been found to be some of the filthiest things out there. And that is something you should know.
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Well, I would imagine that how you talk to kids changes as kids age. And so how does that change? How, as kids get older, how should you change the way you talk to them?
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I've noticed that when you talk to a child, it's sometimes different than when you talk to them with their siblings, that the one-on-one conversations tend to be a little different than group conversations. I'm not sure why or if it's important, but it does seem to be the case.
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Are there things or ways that you see or that you know the way people talk to kids that really is headed for trouble that we shouldn't do?
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Christmas is a holiday with a lot of traditions, from putting up the Christmas tree to singing holiday songs, eating holiday food, wearing holiday clothes, wrapping gifts, and on and on and on. Each one of these Christmas traditions started somewhere, at some point, with someone.
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Talk about praise and criticism, because it's very easy to criticize kids when they mess up, and perhaps we don't praise them enough when they do good things. So talk about that and why it's important.
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And criticism?
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When you talk to kids, I mean, I've heard it said that you should get down to their level, physically get down to their level, that you should somehow kind of adopt more of their mindset and try to talk in their language. Are those things valid?
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And those stories behind how they got started are often really interesting, even though they're not always widely known. Here to discuss how many of our Christmas traditions got started is Brian Earle. Brian is a designer, a writer, and a podcaster. He's host of the Christmas Past podcast, which has been around about as long as this podcast has, since 2016.
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There's also that tendency you sometimes see people where they like almost baby talk a child much below the child's level, like they think the child's an idiot or something.
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I wonder, because as we've been talking, we've been talking about this from the adult perspective of what it's like for an adult to talk to a child. But what's it like for a child to talk to an adult? I mean, is it stressful? Is it hard? Is it something they like doing generally? What's your take on that?
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Well, as I said in the beginning, this isn't one of those topics people think about, you know, talking to children. We just do it. So it's interesting to hear a little more about it and maybe how we can do it better, especially now around the holidays. Rebecca Rolland has been my guest.
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She is a speech pathologist, writer, Harvard lecturer, and the name of her book is The Art of Talking with Children. And there is a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Rebecca. Thanks for being here.
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Buy one, get one free. That sounds like a very tempting offer, but be careful. It is a classic trap that retailers use and it's very effective. According to a Columbia University marketing professor, those bundle offers are designed to trigger your impulse buying tendencies. And it works like a charm. Another bundle offer to beware of is the percentage off if you buy two.
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Brian also has a wonderful book out called Christmas Past, the fascinating stories behind our favorite holidays traditions. Hi Brian, welcome to Something You Should Know. Merry Christmas. Hi, thanks so much for having me. So maybe a good place to start is with Merry Christmas. Why do we say Merry Christmas?
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Today on Something You Should Know, the germiest things you're likely to touch in a restaurant. Then, the backstories of some of your favorite Christmas customs, and how trains completely changed Christmas in the 1800s.
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This idea of, or the concept that we have now of Christmas, of Santa and Christmas tree and presents, when did that really gel? When did what we think of Christmas become Christmas?
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Isn't it also true that department stores and the metropolitan big city department stores also changed the way we do Christmas in some ways?
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And is that roughly the time when Christmas became such a big deal as it is today? I mean, you probably ask people on the street, what's your favorite holiday? Nine out of 10 of them are going to say Christmas. I would imagine that Christmas is a big deal to a lot of people. When did that become the big deal?
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Also, the traps retailers use to get you to spend more money. And how to talk with children. It's not always as easy as you think.
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Certainly our image of Santa Claus has changed over the years. And as I recall, Coca-Cola had something to do with the current version of who we think of when we think of Santa.
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Talk about the idea of giving presents to each other, wrapping the presents, putting them under the tree, that tradition that so many people follow.
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The traditions of Christmas. That's our topic today. And my guest is Brian Earle. He's host of the podcast Christmas Past and author of the book. Christmas Past, the fascinating stories behind our favorite holidays traditions. If I asked you what's one thing you'd like to do right now to improve yourself, your health, your well-being, I suspect near the top of that list is drop some weight.
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So Ozan, let's talk about creativity because, I mean, how many times have you heard, you know, you have to be more creative, you have to find creative ways to do things. How can people be more creative?
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Talk about the power of play in creativity. Because I know for myself, one of the hardest things to do is to sit down and be creative as if it were work. It just doesn't come. But it often comes when you're not trying, when you're doing something else, when you're playing.
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something you should know fascinating intel the world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today something you should know with Mike Carruthers hello welcome to something you should know I wouldn't be surprised if right now there's something on your mind that you're worried about because worrying is normal it's what people do and some of us worry a lot more than others
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Explain a bit about what you mean by look where others don't look.
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Yeah, well, stepping away from what everybody else is doing is hard to do because everybody tends to follow the leader. We tend to look at who was successful or who is successful at something and try to do what they do. And so it's hard to step away from that because you're told, you know, pick somebody and do what they do.
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But here's something to consider. 85% of the things people worry about never happen. And in the 15% of the time when the things we worry about do happen, 80% of people say they handled the problem better than they thought they would.
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Great. Well, I think what you've had to say is really going to help people think about their own path to success, and I appreciate you sharing that. I've been speaking with Ozan Virol. He is a former rocket scientist, lawyer, and professor, and he's author of the book Awaken Your Genius, Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary.
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And you'll find a link to that book in the show notes. I appreciate you coming on, Ozan. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you so much, Mike.
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Experts say that the best thing to do if you're worried is to write down what it is you're worried about and then decide which things you can actually do something about and which ones you cannot. Then create a plan to do something about the things you can actually impact. Because it seems to be universally true that doing something usually lessens the worry. And that is something you should know.
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You have a personality. It's what kind of makes you, you. So where did your personality come from? Do you like your personality or do you wish you could change it or at least parts of it? And is changing your personality something you can really do? Well, maybe. And here to explain how that all works is Christian Jarrett.
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He is a cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist, and he's author of a book called Be Who You Want to Be, Unlocking the Science of Personality Change. Hey, Christian, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, Mike.
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So I guess we should start with defining what a personality is, because when I think about my own personality, I mean, I'm different people at different times in different situations. I don't know that I have a personality. So what is a personality?
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And the elements, if you unpack a personality, it's made up of what are the building blocks of that?
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Please, yeah.
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So would you say that most people, based on the work that you do and the people you talk to, would you say most people like their personality or wish it were different?
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All of these traits, I'm sure, must be difficult to change, but it seems like if you were really set on changing that, and you were real intentional about being conscientious, you could be more conscientious.
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But even if you do have a plan in place, how changeable is your personality? Because I know I've heard, and I don't know where I heard it, but I've heard that your personality is locked in by a certain age, that by then you are who you are. Not so? No.
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As you travel through life in search of success, there's a lot of conventional wisdom you hear. Things like persistence is the key to success. There are no stupid questions. Find someone successful in your field and do what they do. That's how you'll be successful.
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And so what would be an example of that? I'm not sure I understand how a situation can override your personality.
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And given those two points of view, those two camps about personality, is there now a consensus or is it rival theories?
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As people age, how generally does their personality change or is everyone individual? But it does seem like that age has a fairly consistent effect on people. And people older seem different than younger people.
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All these things may sound good and maybe they work for some people, but maybe we need to question some of these ideas rather than just seek to follow them blindly. And here to do that is Ozan Virol. Ozan is a former rocket scientist, lawyer, and professor.
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When people... try to change their personality. They try to change one of those five things that you mentioned. And you said most of us wish we could. Typically, how successful are they? And is there a way to do it that makes success more likely?
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And so what's the plan? Does any plan work as long as it's a plan, or is there a specific step-by-step process?
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He's been a guest here before, and he is the author of a book called Awaken Your Genius, Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity, and Become Extraordinary. Hi, Ozan. Welcome back. Thanks for having me on, Mike. So I've always found it interesting that there's all these cliches about success that we're all supposed to follow. But often when you look at successful people, they take a different path.
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So can you pick one of the traits and then explain how you would change from the inside out?
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And when you talk to people who have made a change like this, do they say it was worth what seems to be a considerable effort because now they're happier or it's just different?
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Are there any other things in life other than intentionally trying to change these traits? Are there other things that can affect and change these traits? Like, for example, maybe if you get married or you have children or some other life event that can help to alter your personality traits.
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They find a different way of doing it. And that's what makes them successful. And yet all of these cliches about success persist and kind of makes you wonder why.
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Well, that's pretty interesting that moving abroad will make you less neurotic or improve your neuroticism. It seems like a fairly, it's not easy, but it's a fairly simple way to do that.
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Where you fall on the scale for those five ingredients of personality, what determines that? Is any of it pre-wired, or is it all just from experience of life, or what?
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Since, as you point out, it's a fairly universal desire to want to change at least some of your personality, I wonder how much of it might be just you want what you can't have. You know, we all have things about ourselves that we want. wish we didn't or wish was different because it isn't different.
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So, you know, taller people maybe wish they were shorter, shorter people maybe wish they were taller. That you want what you can't have, but that maybe part of the solution to this is not so much figuring out how to change it, but figuring out how to be comfortable with who you are, with the personality you have, rather than try to change it.
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I would imagine that it matters to how you frame the change you want. If your change is to be, well, I'd like to be less neurotic, well, how would you ever measure that? I mean, it's not a very specific goal. If I want to be a little more outgoing, well, I mean, what does that all mean?
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Well, it's certainly an interesting topic when you think about, you know, what is it that makes you who you are? And can you change who you are or parts of who you are? And apparently you can. I've been talking with Christian Jarrett. He is a cognitive neuroscientist and author of the book Be Who You Want to Be, Unlocking the Science of Personality Change.
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And there's a link to his book in the show notes. Thanks, Christian.
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The next time you have a good idea and you want to tell someone or pitch it to someone, don't call it an idea. Call it a proposal. According to Daniel O'Connor, author of the book Say This, Not That, a proposal holds a lot more weight than an idea.
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Which is good, or it was good back in the day, but that's not such a problem anymore that you're going to be left for dead. So why do we still feel the need to conform?
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An idea is easier to dismiss than a proposal, because a proposal, well, that's concrete, and it implies you've given it a lot of thought, as opposed to an idea which may have just occurred to you. And that is something you should know. With all the millions of podcasts available, people like it when you give them a recommendation of one you like, because if you like it, maybe they'll like it.
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So I hope you will tell your friends about this podcast and suggest they give a listen. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Today on Something You Should Know, some good news for whatever it is you're worrying about right now. Then, some powerful techniques to supercharge your success and creativity.
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Well, it's interesting today that we have so much information available. I mean, you can ask Google anything and get an answer and get thousands of answers. That that becomes our default method of figuring out, you know, what to do.
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Yeah, well, I mean, that sounds right. I do that. A lot of people do that. You hear about something and you go to Google and search it, I guess, to kind of figure out what you're supposed to think. How do you not do that?
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Well, I like that idea, but sometimes there are people who are smarter than you. Sometimes there is only one right answer. Sometimes doing a little research is a good idea to get some sense of the lay of the land. So how do you know when to do it and when not to do it?
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You say that persistence can backfire and persistence is one of those things that people are told that that's the key to success, man. You've got to keep moving. You've got to keep trying because persistence pays off.
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Also, why any idea is better if you don't call it an idea. And personality. We all have one, and there's a good chance you'd like to change something about your personality.
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One of the things I worry about when, and you just said the word, that was the right thing for me. Well, that doesn't mean it's right for me. It's just you. It's your story. And it worked for you. But I don't know that you can apply that to the general population and say, because it worked for me, it will work for you.
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So you say that there are stupid questions and we've all heard that there are no stupid questions. So explain what you mean by that.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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I'm speaking with Ozan Virol. He is author of the book Awaken Your Genius, Escape Conformity, Ignite Creativity and Become Extraordinary.
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Sign up for your $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash S-Y-S-K, all lowercase. Go to Shopify.com slash S-Y-S-K to upgrade your selling today. Shopify.com slash S-Y-S-K. So, Heather, my sense is that there are universally attractive faces. There are just some faces that... Pretty much everyone can look at and say, yeah, that's an attractive face.
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But you're saying that there really isn't a universally attractive butt.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming, and even still there are no guarantees. Which is why, when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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Well, I know most of your research is about women's butts. Is that because that's kind of where the interest is and that there isn't all that much about men's butts or what?
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But it does seem that there is more attention paid because of clothing and whatever. There's more attention paid to women's butts than men's butts.
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When you say that different types of butts come in and out of fashion, I always kind of figured it was more some people like big ones, some people like small ones. They always have. They always will. Not that one is like real in right now and one is out.
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How much of this do you think is, at least now, is celebrity driven? That if the Kardashians or JLo had little butts, would little butts be more in fashion? Or it seems like whoever is the celebrity du jour sets the trend almost.
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What's next for the butt? What's on the horizon or anything or who knows or what?
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so you know we will see time will tell if the big butt is you know going out of fashion so to speak but i wouldn't be surprised if that was the next the next thing for the butt well who who knew there was so much research about the human butt and it's interesting to hear about it because i mean frankly we see butts everywhere every day and it's interesting to hear what science says about butts what they are and why we find them so fascinating
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I've been speaking with Heather Radke. She's author of a book called Butts, a Backstory. And you can find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Heather. Thanks for explaining all this about butts.
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Apologies. I'm sure you've made some and received some in your life, so you have likely experienced that a good apology can go a long way to fix a relationship or heal a misunderstanding, and a bad apology can go a long way to making things a whole lot worse. Apologies are important. They can represent a pivotal point in a relationship from which things improve or worsen.
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So what makes a good apology and what makes a bad one? Here to discuss this is Marjorie Ingall. She's author of a book called Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, The Case for Good Apologies. Hey, Marjorie, welcome. Thanks so much for having me, Mike. So on the surface, you would think, what could be simpler? You do something wrong, you say you're sorry, life goes on.
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But as we have all experienced, it somehow isn't quite so easy.
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So what is the anatomy of a good apology?
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So you said a couple of times that our brains are not wired to do this. Explain what that, what do you mean? What is it wired to do and why is it wired that way?
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guess people like to think that they're that they're right and as you say in their own story they're the hero but we all know people make mistakes people do things wrong people say stupid things just not us i don't right exactly one of the those phrases you never want to hear in an apology and hear far too often is i'm not perfect
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What do we know about what a good apology does on the other side of the table?
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Well, but it's interesting that we all appreciate a good apology when we see someone apologize like your guy that stole the Santa there. We think, well, isn't that touching that he stole the Santa and brought it back and said all those nice things?
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If we see that working, it makes you wonder why we're so reluctant to do it ourselves when clearly it's a pretty effective strategy to get people on your side, right?
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It seems to me that, well, that there are times when people demand apologies or expect apologies when maybe just get over it. I mean, people are very sensitive. In my view, people get very offended and want to be apologized to. When there was no intent to hurt anybody, it's just a different view of the world. And maybe we don't need to be so sensitive and demand apologies for being offended.
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Hey, welcome to Something You Should Know. So when you speak, depending on what your voice sounds like, when you speak, you may want to try to lower the pitch of your voice. Why? Well, according to some pretty solid research, people who speak with lowered voices are perceived as both more prestigious and more admirable.
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To me, that's not something to apologize for. If somebody's offended but it was an honest mistake, if somebody looks like your impression of what a man looks like and you call someone a man and it turns out they're not, well, that's not your fault. I mean, it's just no intent was there to cause harm. Right.
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Well, what about that idea of don't apologize if you're not sorry? You know, sometimes people apologize just to prevent the conflict. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I did that. Now let's move on. And they're not really sorry. They just don't want to get bogged down in that. And that seems to be okay.
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Let's talk about bad apologies. To me, a bad apology often starts with, I'm sorry, but... Or, I'm sorry if...
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So what do you suggest people say when they get one of these crappy apologies? Someone comes to them and says, you know, I'm sorry, but, or I'm sorry if, or what's the response?
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Another study found that men have a tendency to lower their voices in order to try to dominate in certain settings. In short, we signal our dominance with lower-pitched voices. But interestingly, stress and adrenaline makes your voice go higher. In fact, it turns out that people speak in higher-pitched voices when they talk to people of higher status or when they're intimidated.
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I bet everyone listening has one of those people in their lives that does that thing where they just say things because they want to be honest. Like, you know, those shoes look terrible. Or, you know, I really liked your hair the old way. And they say it because they think it needs to be said. They say it because they think they're telling you the truth.
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And you wonder, is it worth demanding an apology because they hurt your feelings? Or... do we all have to put up with those people? I mean, they say things that are hurtful.
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Yes.
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It is such an interesting topic because we're all at times on one side of the table or the other in this. We've either done something that we wish we hadn't and now need to apologize, or we're the ones who are waiting for the apology. And we've all been on both sides of the table, so we know what it's like for the other person, and yet... Yes.
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I want to talk about time, because I imagine everybody has done something in their past that, in retrospect, they regret. They didn't necessarily apologize for it at the time, but with age and wisdom, you start to think, well, maybe that wasn't so cool. Is it worth going back and apologizing? Because in retrospect, it seems like it would be.
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Humans are incredibly good at hearing the stress in other people's voices. We pick up on it immediately. And one way to conceal that stress is to deliberately lower your pitch. And that is something you should know. There is a body part that we don't talk about too much, but we certainly think about it often enough, even obsess about it at times. It is the human butt.
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In the research that you did, was there any like one thing, one sparkling diamondy thing that if you have a big apology to make, would make it really special, would make it really succeed?
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So you're saying an apology in writing may have even more force than verbal?
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Well, for anyone who has struggled making an apology or accepting an apology, for that matter, I think this has been really interesting and important to hear. I've been speaking with Marjorie Ingall. She is co-author of the book, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, The Case for Good Apologies. And you'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks for being here, Marjorie. Appreciate it.
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I think most of us would agree that 20% is the standard amount you would leave as a tip at a restaurant. The question is, should you calculate that 20% before or after the tax? Well, Steve Dublonica, who's a former waiter and author of a book called Keep the Change, says after the tax is best because most servers total their sales at the end of the night and include the tax in that amount.
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The cash out amount is what determines how much they tip to busboys, runners and other staff members. If you're a stickler and prefer to tip pre-tax, that's okay. Servers understand that tax could be pretty significant on a big restaurant check. But you might want to at least round up a little. Steve also has some advice if you're tempted to leave a bad tip.
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Even if your server really, really screwed things up, keep in mind that the tip money is being distributed to multiple people. So it's not really fair to penalize the other employees who did their part. you should try telling the manager that you had poor service, because most restaurant managers want to know if you're unhappy. And that is something you should know.
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People think theirs is too big or too small or how does it look in these jeans or other clothes. Women's butts in particular are forever being assessed and criticized and objectified. So why do we have butts? Why are they such a topic of interest? And why have they been for so long? Well, here to answer these and other questions is Heather Radke. She's author of a book called Butts, a Backstory.
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Hi, Heather. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, thanks so much for having me. Sure. Without getting too personal here, why is this topic of such interest to you?
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But to a lot of people, this, you know, I think this isn't really a topic for conversation, or it isn't a serious topic for conversation.
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So what is a butt?
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And why is it that it sort of has but doesn't quite have the reputation of being, you know, sexual? It's somehow a little bit naughty, but it's not that naughty.
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So as one of the few people, perhaps the only person who has really looked at the history of butts, I mean, what do you find? What's the story?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why you might want to deliberately lower the pitch of your voice. Then, um, butts. Why does there seem to be such fascination with them?
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uh you know capable of doing hard work and we even see that in the language we have about butts like i'm gonna kick your butt well it's interesting that you use the phrase that you know but certain types of butts come in and out of fashion much like clothes come in and out of fashion but my sense is that if it is one of the most difficult parts of the body to change even if you wanted to
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Like how you would like get into fashion by change. It's very difficult to change your butt.
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Well, it seems that butts, like other body parts, often people have the one that they wish they didn't have. That people with big butts wish theirs was smaller. People with small butts wish theirs were bigger. And, you know, there is that attraction thing. Some people like big butts. Some people like small butts. I mean, it's...
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Also very subjective, but it's very easy to be dissatisfied with the one you have.
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We're talking about Butts, which seems like a very odd thing for me to say in this podcast, but that is what we are talking about. And my guest is Heather Radke. She is author of a book called Butts, a Backstory. Thank you for having me. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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Well, I mean, I think it comes down to probably specificity, right? Just like I think everybody knows if you, you know, have cancer, you need chemotherapy. Um, but the, the details are probably what matters a lot more, right? And what separates,
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you know, me, who's not a medical oncologist from someone who is, is knowing when to use that chemotherapy, which chemotherapy to use, how to cycle it, what doses to use, what biomarkers to be looking at to make sure you're not giving too much or too little, how to monitor somebody when they're in remission. It's the nuance that matters. And so you're absolutely right.
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I mean, I think certainly throughout our medical education, it wasn't, you know, lost on anybody that exercise was good for you, but you know, When was the last time a doctor asked you what your VO2 max was or what your zone 2 was or what your ALMI was? And even if they knew to ask those things, did they know what the metrics were, what they were going to hold you up to as a standard?
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And more importantly, how do you get to the place where you want to be?
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Yeah, so those are just kind of a few examples of things that I think are really good signal integrators of things that we understand are beneficial. So we know that exercise is good for us, but the question is how good is it for us?
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And one of the ways I think that's easiest to explain this is to look at what an outcome is that reflects a lot of exercise and compare that to say an outcome that we know is bad. So we know that smoking is bad, right? I don't think there's any ambiguity about that. So how would we explain how bad smoking is?
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Well, one way to do it is to use a mathematical and statistical tool called a Cox proportional hazard, which spits out something called a hazard ratio. And it basically integrates the effect of smoking over a person's lifetime and says, this is the risk. And when you do that, you come up with an answer that says, and I'm just making this up.
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I mean, these are actual numbers, but I'm just saying like directionally, let's assume you take somebody who's smoked, you know, got a 20 pack year smoke history. So they smoked a pack a day for 20 years. They're 50 years old. You compare that to a 50 year old who's never smoked, but otherwise it's the same. What's the difference in risk?
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And the difference in risk is about a 40% increase in all-cause mortality, meaning there's a 40% chance greater that that person is going to die, the smoker, in that year than the non-smoker. That's what that integral function is doing. And we can do the same thing on the positive side. So we can look at muscle mass. So ALMI stands for Appendicular Lean Mass Index. And as its name suggests,
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is a way to tabulate the total muscle mass you have in your arms and legs. And that's a reflection of how much you do. It's a reflection of how much exercise you do. Similarly, we can look at something called a VO2 max, which is a measure of the peak amount of oxygen your muscles can utilize when you're either on a treadmill or on a bike. It's an exercise test you do.
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And that's obviously important because it's a reflection of how much you exercise. It's a way to capture the volume of exercise a person does. And when you compare the hazard ratios of people who have high versus low VO2 max muscle mass or muscle strength, you see that the risk multiplier is so much greater than 1.4. That's what it means to have a 40% increase in risk.
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We're talking about two, three, four, even five X risk multipliers.
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Well, it's not hard to do any of these things, right? So a VO2 max test, you don't need a doctor to do it. Anybody can just Google VO2 max test near me and you could go and get one of these tests. It probably costs a hundred bucks, maybe 120 bucks. You go and get the test, which means they put you on a treadmill or a bike and they basically just push you until you can't go anymore.
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And it spits out that number. And then that number tells you where you rank. So for your sex and for your age, you will get a percentile. And you then decide, do you want to be at the 50th percentile? Do you want to be at the 20th percentile if that's what it spits out? Or do you want to be in the top 25 percentile or even the top two and a half percentile?
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There's no limit to the predictive power of this metric in terms of your lifespan. In fact, there is no metric that is more highly associated with longer life than a high VO2 max. So knowing it is the first step and then understanding how you can train it to get better is the second step.
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So it depends on which number we're talking about. But if we're talking about VO2 max, then the name of the game is obviously more training geared towards that. So to train VO2 max, I describe it to people. Your cardiorespiratory fitness is kind of represented by the area of a triangle. So picture a triangle standing up on a table. The base of the triangle is your aerobic efficiency.
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We measure that in something called zone two. The height of the triangle is your VO2 max. So the greatest area of a triangle would have the widest base and the highest point. And as a general rule, what we want people doing is spending 80% of their total cardio training time at low intensity, which we call zone two. We can talk about what that means in a minute.
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And then 20% of that time at higher intensity towards that VO2 max. And the easiest way to do that and the way we have our patients do it is doing four minute intervals with one to one rest and recovery. So that would mean after a brief warm up, you might do four minutes of pushing yourself to about as hard as you can push yourself in that four minutes.
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Now you're not going all out because obviously all out effort is only going to last 10 to 20 seconds. But this is a really significant effort such that at the end of four minutes, you're absolutely gassed and you need four minutes of passive recovery. So if you were doing this on a track, for example, and you were running, you would just walk very slowly for four minutes to recover.
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If you were on a stationary bike or on a regular bike, you'd pedal really, really slowly. And just doing, gosh, five of those intervals a week in one session would probably be sufficient for most people to significantly raise their VO2 max.
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Perhaps, but I guess I'd say two things about that. First is, it's all relative to where you're starting. To your point, if we're talking to someone who does zero exercise, if you could get them to go out and walk after dinner, that's a big win. The good news is they don't have to do that much to still get a big benefit. You'll still get about a 50% reduction
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in all cause mortality, meaning at any point in time, if you look out the following year, you can reduce your rate of dying by 50% if you go from zero exercise a week to three hours of exercise a week. But again, it's got to be strenuous exercise. But the other point I'd say is it depends what problem we're optimizing for, I suppose. So, you know, I'm,
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I'm trying to optimize for a problem which says, how do I maximize health span and lifespan? And I guess the question is, why wouldn't that be challenging? I mean, if the answer were all you have to do is drink kombucha and meditate for 10 minutes a day, don't you think people would have done that already?
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Yeah, I think it's also important to understand that while that might be true when you're 30, that same attitude is going to reduce the quality of your life when you're older. And I agree that I don't think most people, I think if most people felt that they had to choose between quality and quantity of life, they would choose quality.
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What I think people maybe don't realize is that that's a false choice. Virtually everything you're doing to increase quality of life is also increasing quantity of life. There are very few exceptions to that rule. So all this exercise that we're talking about, it's true that the metric by which we measure the outcome is length of life.
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What's much more complicated to measure because it's subjective is quality of life. And this is actually the single most important thing. I write about this as something called the marginal decade of life. The marginal decade of life is your last decade of life. By definition, everyone will have a marginal decade.
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No one knows the day they enter their marginal decade, of course, but most people sort of realize it when they're getting close to the end of it. For most people, the marginal decade is not necessarily a pleasant time. Their body's sort of broken down. They're in pain. They can't really enjoy the things that they enjoyed when they were younger. They tend to become quite passive in life.
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They're not really participating. They're mostly spectating. And obviously there are many exceptions to that. And those are probably the people that stand out to us when we think about what we want to be when we're older. But unfortunately, most people who end up having a great marginal decade usually get there on the basis of great genetics and a bit of luck.
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What I'm arguing is actually we have to train for that. that has to become the purpose. Because if you train to have a wonderful, you know, marginal decade, in other words, to be 80 years old, but actually function like a healthy and fit 60 year old, Well, first of all, that for most people is the single most desirable thing, but also it implies that everything that comes before it is also great.
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So just like someone who shoots a bow and arrow, which happens to be sort of one of my favorite pastimes, if that person can be very accurate at 80, 90, or 100 yards, and that's where they're practicing, well, by definition, they're very good at 30 and 40 yards.
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I think the payoff is at every point in time, you're able to enjoy the things that you enjoy, whether they be cognitive or physical. It's important to remember exercise is not only the most potent tool we have at extending lifespan, i.e. living longer, it's also the most potent tool we have at improving cognitive performance. In fact, it's
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probably the single highest ROI tool a person would have at minimizing the risk of dementia and neurodegenerative disease. So to me, that is the payoff, right?
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The payoff is that I'm reducing my risk of the diseases that would most frighten me and I'm increasing my ability to participate in all of the activities that matter to me and will one day matter to me as I get older and my kids get older and I have grandkids and I want to be able to do the things with my grandkids. That I so enjoy doing with my kids today.
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Probably two different reasons I could think of off the top of my head, right? So the first has to do with a lack of clarity around what that risk is. So I think when people say, yeah, you need to exercise to protect your brain, that seems a little vague. I think if people understood the magnitude of the benefit, that might be 10% of it. But I think the real issue here is the discounting problem.
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This is a hyperbolic discounting problem. And it's the same reason that it's really hard to get someone who's 25 years old to save for retirement. If you're making $50,000 a year, you're getting roughly $1,000 a week in your paycheck. Let's just say it's even $50,000 after taxes. So you've got $1,000 in your paycheck after your taxes are deducted.
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And you know, a financial advisor might say, Hey, look, you know, if you could, if you could set aside 25 of that, then, or 20% of that $200 a week, um, it's really going to move the needle when you're 60 or 65. And he's looking and he's thinking, well, okay, I sort of understand that, but it feels really abstract because I'm 25 right now.
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And that extra $200 a week would give me an extra two nights of going out for dinner. And I really enjoy that because I get to be with my friends. I'm not, you know, there's no value to be, there's no value judgment in that statement. It's simply a question of prioritizing.
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Yes, and I actually think it's even harder than the analogy I gave because the analogy I gave when you put the $200 away for the future, it doesn't take you any additional time and it's not physically hard. When I'm asking a patient to spend an hour a day or sometimes more exercising, It's an opportunity cost of time that's coming at the expense of something else.
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We don't actually know as much about nutrition as we'd like to. We know much more about exercise than we know about nutrition. It's much easier to study exercise than it is nutrition. Nutrition is the messiest field of all of health. But what do we know? Well, we know that energy balance matters.
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We know that when an individual consumes significantly more energy than they're able to put to work, they store it. They store the excess. And that's an amazing feature of our evolution. Our capacity to do that, by the way, sets us aside from many of the other species that we parted ways from millions of years ago and even hundreds of thousands of years ago from an evolutionary perspective.
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That's what allowed our brains to become so big was this capacity to store energy in the form of fat. And so this worked really well for us up until like 100, 150 years ago. But of course, now in an environment of excess food where you're not going to starve, this is sort of working against us.
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So really that's rule number one, right, is you don't want to be overnourished, which is, I guess, a kind way of saying you don't want to be carrying around too much excess fat, especially when it gets out of the subcutaneous places where it was designed to be stored and leaking into places like around the organs, in the liver, around the heart, around the kidneys.
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These are the really dangerous places to store fat and that's really where overnutrition causes harm.
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Let's look at the most extreme example of that. Once you reach the age of 65, if you fall and break your hip, your one-year mortality, meaning the probability that you're going to be dead within 12 months of that injury, is 15 to 30%. And a big part of that is...
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Yes, a certain subset of people die in the short term as a result of that injury, but many more people die as a result of never getting active again. They can die very quickly. That's a pretty high number. It is, and that's why, again, we really talk a lot about why do you want to be lifting weights? Why do you want to be doing cardio?
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Accidental falls are the greatest source of accidental death for people above the age of 70. It's an enormous cause of mortality. It's not very sexy. Nobody really wants to talk about it, but the fatality is so high from a broken hip or femur that it is effectively, and again, I gave you data for all comers over 65.
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When you start looking at that at 75, 85, at some point a broken hip just becomes fatal. And there's no greater way to strengthen your bones than to lift heavy weights. That is the signal to tell a bone to increase density.
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I think if most people had to choose between quality and quantity of life, they would choose quality. That's a false choice. Virtually everything you're doing to increase quality of life is also increasing quantity of life. There are very few exceptions to that rule. All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Slouching, bad posture, can affect your flexibility and it can lead to increased strain on your joints. But bad posture has a lot of other negative side effects you may not know. For example, it can make you look fatter. It can reduce your circulation. It can actually cause more stress in your body and even deepen depression. It can also affect your career.
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You know, it's interesting. Not that long ago, my son and I were at a shopping mall and we were walking through the parking lot and he said, let's count the American cars. And there were hardly any. One out of 10, one out of 15, everything else was Japanese, German, Korean, but there weren't that many Fords and Chevrolets.
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One of the reasons, in my view anyway, one of the reasons for the success of the car has always been that sense of you get behind the wheel and drive. You go where you want to go. You go as fast or slow as you want to go. You've got a gas-powered engine you can rev if you want to rev it. And now things are changing. We're going electric.
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We're looking at self-driving cars where you don't really drive it anymore. A computer does. And a lot of people don't like that. They find that very disconcerting.
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People who slouch at work are often seen in a negative light. So for all those reasons, you really need to sit up and stand up straight. And some common advice to do that is to imagine there is a headlight right in the middle of your chest. And you just want to make sure you keep that headlight shining forward. And that is something you should know.
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Obviously, there are a lot of interesting players in the history of the car business, but you shine a spotlight on Honda. And, well, why is that?
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Well, it's certainly an incredible story, and as you point out, not all of the story is good. The car, the automobile has done great things. It's also done some harmful things. But it has undeniably changed the landscape of the entire world. So it's interesting to hear about the people behind it. I've been speaking with Brian Appleyard.
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The name of his book is The Car, The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World. And there's a link to his book in the show notes. Hey, thanks, Brian. This was really interesting. Thanks, Mark. That's been a real pleasure and a great interview.
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You essentially have two minds, your conscious mind and your unconscious mind. And when you think about it, most of the things you do and the choices you make happen unconsciously. Your unconscious mind makes your life easier by just doing things that you have to do so you don't have to stop and think about doing them. But the unconscious mind doesn't always work in your favor.
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Imagine for a moment what your life would be like if we didn't have cars. I mean, really, the automobile has changed the world in good ways and some not so good ways. But more than any other technology, it has revolutionized life for pretty much all of us. There are many people who love to drive, me included.
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And that's what we're going to talk about with psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Lieberman. He's the author of a book called Spellbound, Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind. Hi Daniel, welcome. Thanks so much for having me back. Absolutely. So since the first sentence of your book is, there's someone living in your head besides you, I guess we should start there.
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What do you mean by that?
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And so when you say we can't choose our emotions, we can't choose the things that you just outlined, why can't we? Why don't we?
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But so often we hear that we should be in control of our emotions, that we should be in control of all of those things, that that's what a healthy person does and doesn't give in to these impulses and other things.
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Come to terms with them or learn to work with them, control them, adapt to them? What does it mean to live with them?
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And yet the days of getting behind the wheel and hitting the open road, those days may become a thing of the past in the not-too-far-distant future. How the car came to be, how it evolved, and where it's headed is a wonderful story with some interesting characters. And it is one that Brian Appleyard has painstakingly put together for his book,
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If that's true, what are we talking about this for? If the guy who lets an impulse destroy his career because his unconscious mind made him do it, basically, then he's going to do it. So that's the end of that.
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There are people, though, who seem to have a pretty good handle on what they do. You know, they don't ruin their careers. They don't get in trouble. They don't get arrested. They don't drink too much. They have a sense of control over their lives, and they don't give in to whatever this unconscious mind is that you're talking about.
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And I think plenty of those people aren't trying deliberately to grab the reins there. They just... don't give in.
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Today on Something You Should Know, the problem of slouching and why you have to sit up straight. Then, how the car changed our world and the stories of the people who built them. Like Henry Ford, why was he so successful?
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The car, the rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world. Hi, Brian. Thanks for being here. Hi, Mike. It's good to talk to you. So, yes, most people would probably agree that the car has transformed the world. But people have said that about other technologies in the past. The light bulb, the computer, they've revolutionized the world. But what's different about the car?
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And so given that, then what should people be doing to do what you're talking about? How do you actively, proactively, consciously do this or does it just happen?
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It's interesting to think of your unconscious mind as having its own needs different than the ones you think you have. It is, as you say, like someone else living in your head. It doesn't feel right. That seems weird to me.
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My sense is that when people think about those desires, those desires that they have that could just screw things up or could go nowhere, you're right. They think that it's a matter of willpower, that they shouldn't have those desires. Or at least they wonder, where do they come from? I mean, why would someone desire something that could do them absolutely no good?
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Well, it is good news to hear that because I think when people have those kinds of desires, those kinds of thoughts, they think there's something wrong with them. But what you're saying is everybody has them. They're just not the same ones all the time, but everybody has these – bizarre thoughts or desires that don't necessarily line up with who you think you are or should be.
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Well, when people have these impulses, some people do act on them and some people don't. So why do some people act on them and some people don't?
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You know, something I've always found interesting, and I don't know what the explanation is or if there is one, but when you get one of those uncontrollable urges to say something or do something, particularly if it's based in anger, and if you say it, you're going to hurt somebody, or if you do it, you're going to hurt somebody.
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I don't want to dwell too much in the distant past, but do we have a sense of what the first car was, where it was, and who made it?
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and yet it still feels so right and you so want to do it in the moment, and yet so often you so regret it later. You're so remorseful. You can't take it back. The damage is done. How one thing that can feel so right in one moment and so wrong later, and we can't see that. In the moment, we still want to say it or do it.
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indulging myself now against the pain of maybe looking at myself on the scale tomorrow morning and unfortunately the the current pleasure usually wins out well the way we've been talking it seems like the unconscious mind is nothing but trouble but it must also be positive there must be some good to the unconscious mind so talk about that
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But that seems so uncontrollable. That just happens when it happens and you can't have any influence on that.
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And so when the dust all settles, what's the message here? What is it you want people to really get? What's the guts of what you're saying here?
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Well, it does seem weird, as you say, that there's someone living in your head besides you and that all these impulses and thoughts and feelings are going on seemingly without you controlling it. But it's good to get an understanding of it, so I appreciate you joining me for that. I've been speaking with Dr. Daniel Lieberman.
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He is a psychiatrist and author of the book Spellbound, Modern Science, Ancient Magic, and the Hidden Potential of the Unconscious Mind. There's a link to his book in the show notes. I appreciate you coming back on, Daniel. I enjoy the conversation.
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As we head into winter and flu season, it's probably a good idea for you to make an appointment to get your flu shot. But before you go in to get it, make sure you've gotten plenty of sleep. Researchers at the University of Chicago say that the flu shot can be up to 50% more effective if you're not sleep-deprived. Taking a nap before or after your shot won't help much.
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You really need to be well-rested for several nights prior to getting the vaccination to get the optimal protection. And that is something you should know. And if you enjoyed this episode, the best thing you can do to support this podcast is to share it, tell someone you know about it, and let them give a listen. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Also, before you get a flu shot, there's something you need to do first. And what goes on in your unconscious mind? The good things and the not so good.
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Is the car, in terms of its impact on culture, is it mostly or originally kind of an American thing and then it spread throughout the world? I mean, Carl Benz obviously wasn't here, but there's something about cars in America that seemed to go together somehow.
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Why is it that the car business is in America, seemingly in the beginning anyway, and for many decades centered in Detroit for General Motors? Why? Why?
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so henry ford shows up and and changes everything what's so special about him was he a special guy or was he just a guy at the right place at the right time or he just had a brilliant idea or but what what is it that that came together to make henry ford this icon he was perfectly placed he came from a farming family
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And he is often considered the father of the assembly line. Is that a fair assessment of him, or is that more myth than real?
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As I understand it, Henry Ford, genius though he may be in the car industry, wasn't a particularly bright guy, well-educated, worldly kind of fella. You're right?
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So Henry Ford was the man, the character, the myth behind the Ford. I want to ask you about General Motors and who was behind all that. I'm speaking with Brian Appleyard. He is author of the book, The Car, The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World.
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So Brian, Henry Ford is Ford. His name is on every car that he makes. Who's behind General Motors?
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Something happened, I believe it was in the 60s, when Japanese cars started showing up in the United States. And at that same time, it was a time when American cars seemed to be suffering from a lack of quality, that they weren't as reliable, they weren't as good as they could be. And Japanese cars showed up to perhaps fill that gap. So what happened there?
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Hi, welcome and thank you for joining me for another episode of Something You Should Know. And we're going to start today talking about trees. If you live in a neighborhood that has a lot of nice big trees, it's a little safer than neighborhoods without them. According to the U.S. Forest Service, less crime occurs in neighborhoods with big trees in the front yards and along the street.
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Something I've heard, and I think a lot of people have heard this in one form or another, that that you can't explain how a bee flies, that a bee flies in defiance of the laws of physics. It's just impossible to explain. It's a mystery. And you say, it's not a mystery.
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You say that it's a false statement to make that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. But I've always heard that the speed of light is the absolute limit. Anything can travel. So I'd like to hear that explanation.
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I remember this one, that supposedly there were subliminal messages in movies, like just a still frame of a drink or a snack or something that didn't register consciously with you, but would make you want to go to the lobby and buy a drink or some popcorn or something. And I remember people talked about that.
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So what exactly makes having trees a deterrent to crime? Well, for the most part, it's an unexplained phenomenon, but researchers have come up with a few ideas. Some say trees signal that the area is well cared for, similar to the broken windows theory, which suggests that disorder invites crime. Some say green spaces make an area inviting and can lead to more informal surveillance.
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Well, but there's two questions here. There there's, does it work, which apparently doesn't work very well, but, but also did it happen? Did, did, were people putting frames that you could not consciously see in the movie to try to make it work?
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Well, it's fun to trace back the origins of some of these misconceptions. And you also wonder why they persist so much. I mean, some of these things have become so ingrained in the kind of collective consciousness, we just accept them on face value, but clearly they're not true.
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I've been talking with Brian Clegg, and the name of his book is Lightning Often Strikes Twice, The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science. And if you want to read it, there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Brian. Great to have you on.
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For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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It sure would be great if there was a way to tell if people were lying. In fact, we've talked on this podcast about how to spot a liar by observing people and looking at their behavior. But the fact is you can never really tell 100%. Some people are just good liars. If only there was a machine. Well, there sort of is. It's called a polygraph, sometimes called a lie detector.
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Other theories point to the well-documented calming effect of vegetation and nature, or that the idea that greenery promotes trust in the community. Whatever the reason, trees fight crime. And that is something you should know.
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You see it in movies and TV shows, and it's supposed to tell if someone is being deceptive. So how does a lie detector or polygraph work? And does it work? After all, the results of a polygraph test are not admissible in most courts. So it makes you wonder, how accurate can it be? Well, here to tell the fascinating story of the polygraph is Amit Katwala.
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He's an award-winning journalist, a senior writer at Wired, and author of the book, Tremors in the Blood, Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector. Welcome, Amit. Thanks for having me, Mike. So what is the basic theory of how a polygraph is supposed to work?
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My understanding is that supposedly when you lie, because you're lying, there are physical changes, like your heart rate increases and your blood pressure goes up. Things happen because you know you're lying, and that machine registers those changes, and aha, you're a liar.
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And so I've always wondered, if you know that, why would you ever agree to be tested?
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It seems such a murky thing because everybody who knows about polygraphs knows that, or at least the legend is, that the results are not admissible in court. So how accurate could they possibly be if a court is looking for the truth and refuses to use it?
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Where did it start? It sure would be great to have something you could make somebody stick their finger in and go, oh, he's lying and be sure that you're right. Where did this all begin? Who thought, hey, I got an idea?
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I'm sure you've heard statements, scientific-y kind of statements, like lightning never strikes the same place twice, or your blood is red because of the iron in it, or that the Big Bang Theory explains the beginning of the universe. But these are actually examples of statements that are not true. And there are a lot of them. Things that you may believe that just aren't so.
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when did it start getting used in police work i mean i mean seriously used in police work where you know let's hook this guy up to the machine and tell him and figure out whether he's telling the truth or not funnily enough actually for the first couple of years it was mainly let's hook this girl up to the machine rather than this guy so the first cases were in 1921 and they were overwhelmingly
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How widespread is the use of the polygraph? I mean, is it used a lot or is it mostly in movies and occasionally here and there? I mean, how well accepted is it?
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Today on Something You Should Know, how is it that trees fight crime? Then, science myths that many people believe, like sugar makes kids hyper, water is a good conductor of electricity, and lightning never strikes the same place twice.
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Well, how accurate is it? If you take all the results of a polygraph, I mean, are you ever able to say, well, you know, it's 50-50. I mean, and if it's 50-50, what good is it?
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And here to reveal several of them and explain why they're not true is Brian Clegg. Brian is a science writer and speaker who has written over 40 science books. One of them is called Lightning Often Strikes Twice, The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science. Hi, Brian. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me.
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Well, what are the things that a polygraph machine is measuring? When we see the little needle on the paper, what's sending the needle up and down or not moving much, or what's it measuring?
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And do each one of those things have its own little needle?
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So my sense is if somebody were to hook me up to one of those machines and strap things around my chest and a blood pressure cuff, that my blood pressure would go up just because of the experience of having to do this test and people suspecting I'm lying, that just being there would make me look like a liar.
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Or maybe they're lying.
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So what made you decide to tackle this, to try to explain that a lot of things that we perhaps believe about science are in fact not true?
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At what point did people, I mean, was it assumed more or less from the beginning that this was And then somebody showed that it wasn't? Or were people skeptical from the beginning? Or how did it kind of fall out of favor to the extent that courts won't use it?
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The guy or the woman who's operating the machine and asking the questions, it would seem that the results might be open to interpretation, that one person might administer a test and say one thing and another person might interpret it another way. Or is it an objective result?
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It almost sounds like because it is so subjective and because people are so different that it's basically worthless.
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Yeah, that sounds like that's the real secret to the polygraph, that if somebody refuses to take one, maybe we better give this guy a closer look.
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Well, it does the job. It gets the guy to confess because he thinks he's in a corner, basically.
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So the people who administer the test and interpret the results, what's their training? I mean, if two people can look at the same chart and come up with different results, how did they get to come up with those different results? Because they were trained how?
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There are other ways that people claim to be able to tell if someone is lying. And it's usually not just one thing, but if you watch somebody over a period of time and compare it to a baseline, that you can get a sense whether they're lying. And I'm wondering, has anyone ever tested the polygraph versus those kind of ways of determining deception to see which is more accurate?
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So it's still used today. And is it basically used because it's better than nothing?
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When a polygraph test is given, it's all yes or no questions, right? It isn't, so tell me about. It's strictly yes or no.
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Well, it's pretty interesting. The polygraph has really had pretty good PR, it seems, for a long time, given the facts. I mean, it still gets used. People still believe it works. And yet there isn't a whole lot of science behind it, it seems. Right.
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Well, let's get specific. And one that you talk about that I have always believed is that water is a very good conductor of electricity. And, you know, you see in the movies, somebody throws a toaster that's plugged in into a bathtub to kill somebody. To me, I've always thought water was a very good conductor of electricity.
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Well, now I think I want to get hooked up. I want to have a polygraph test just to have the experience. I've been talking with Amit Katwala. He is an award-winning journalist, a senior writer at Wired, and author of the book Tremors in the Blood, Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector. And you will find a link to that book in the show notes. Thank you, Amit.
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Thanks so much for having me.
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Women drivers have gotten a bad rap over the years. Statistics show that actually they're better drivers overall than men are. Women are involved in fewer accidents, have fewer insurance claims, and don't wind up with as many moving violations as men do. And some surveys have found that women are also superior parkers.
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Researchers watched 2,500 drivers park and scored them on technique, precision and time taken. The women were better at picking accessible spaces and at lining up their vehicles to park them. Women out-parked the guys in parallel parking situations as well. They were more likely to back in, which is the method preferred by driving experts. And that is something you should know.
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If you enjoyed today's podcast, don't keep it to yourself. Share it with someone you know. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster.
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which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you.
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Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Also, are men better drivers than women? And the polygraph, or lie detector, where did it come from? How does it work?
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half a turn so the butter side's gone down but not enough time to go all the way so it genuinely is true that even though lots of people think surely it can't really be true that toast always falls butter side down it pretty much always does well let's go back to the water one because you know you're told not to stand in water when you're holding something electric because the water will that there's something about standing in water that that's going to kill you so something's got to be there other than
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just the impurities. No?
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So since it's the title of your book, Does Lightning Strike Twice?
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Wow. He's either really... Lucky or really unlucky? I mean, just in terms of the odds, that seems like, like he must have to be trying to be struck by lightning because nobody can, that just seems impossible.
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One of the fun ones, because I've always wondered how you would ever know this, is that a goldfish has a three-second memory. How would you ever test that in the first place?
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Of all the things you talk about, if any one of them has crept into conventional wisdom more than any other, is the idea that sugar makes kids hyper. I mean, so many people believe that because it's their experience. They see it. Kids have sugar and they seem to get hyper. So how can that not be true?
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You claim that the Big Bang theory does not explain the beginning of the universe, but I thought that's exactly what it did explain. So sort that out for me.
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We're talking about science myths, things that a lot of people believe that just don't happen to be true. My guest is Brian Clegg. He is author of the book, Lightning Often Strikes Twice, The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science.
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
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So, Brian, what about blood? People say that the reason your blood is red is because it has iron in it and iron makes it give it that red color. But you say that's not true.
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So, Rob, as you look throughout history at humans and what they ate, because people have said, well, you know, we're carnivores. Oh, no, we're omnivores. But primarily, has the human diet been very meaty? Has it been meat was just kind of a special Sunday dinner kind of thing? What generally have people eaten over the years? Meat, vegetables, seeds, nuts, fruits, what?
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Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Do we know when, there probably isn't a when, but this idea of, you know, not just getting the food and bringing it home and cooking it, but to really start to develop recipes to make it even better and even better and even better. Like, how did that happen? Or do we know when that happened? Or it maybe just happened? Yeah.
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So what's the big takeaway here? Because it certainly seems that taste and flavor, it's a pretty compelling driving force for all animals.
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Hi. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Depending on how old you are, you might have to confirm this with your grandmother or something, but it used to be that if you had a freezer, every once in a while you would have to chip away the old ice and frost that would build up over time on the walls of the freezer. And then along came the frost-free freezer, which pretty much everyone has now.
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Today, it seems like we have a lot of, you know, fake foods, artificial foods, cheese puffs and Doritos and things. How do those kind of foods that are not in nature, how do those fit into this discussion?
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Well, there is so much to this topic of flavor and taste that I think most of us don't know, and yet we're tasting and flavoring things every day. So it's really good to understand this. I've been talking to Rob Dunn. He's an evolutionary biologist and professor at North Carolina State University, and the name of his book is Delicious, the Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human.
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thank you, Rob.
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But there's a problem. You see, your freezer regularly goes through a frost-free cycle, which means the temperature actually warms up in there, as high as 45 degrees. During that time, the frost melts and evaporates, and that prevents the frost and the ice from building up. The problem is that your food starts to melt too, and then it refreezes, and that causes problems.
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You know what quackery is, right? And it's such a great word, quackery. Quackery is when people spout theories and medical cures for things that are, at best, unproven and possibly useless, and at worst, potentially dangerous. Terms like snake oil salesman and huckster all come to mind. There's a lot of quackery in science and medicine and nutrition, and a lot of it isn't easy to spot.
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Today on the Internet, anyone can say anything and come off as credible. So it's important to understand how to tell truth from quackery or pseudoscience. Hi, Michael. Hi. It seems that quackery has been around for a long time and I think people think that they know how to spot it, that they're somewhat immune to it because it's been around a long time and we know quackery when we see it.
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So just to get specific and put a face on this, what are some of the quackery things that you have seen and you have dealt with in your career that you think are important for people to understand?
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Well, and I think people have all heard that word homeopathy before. but I bet most people don't really know what it means. So what is, specifically, what is homeopathy?
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This is a big cause of freezer burn, and it's why you get ice crystals on your ice cream. In fact, one food science professor calls frost-free freezers ice cream destruction machines. What happens is, as the temperature goes up and food starts to thaw, the water from the food escapes into the air.
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And yet, if you were to ask people, you know, just ask them on the street, what is homeopathy? That's not what they're going to say. I think most people believe homeopathy is kind of this umbrella term for natural or alternative medical treatments.
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Today on Something You Should Know, what your freezer does to ice cream, and you're not going to like it. Then, why do we like certain flavors and dislike others?
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I'd like to talk about herbal remedies. You walk into a health food store and there's all kinds of herbal supplements that supposedly treat disease or prevent problems and do things. And you would think, well, if they didn't work, you would think by now people would have caught on and not buy them. But people do buy them.
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And also, if they didn't work, how is it that they can keep selling them if they don't do what people say they do?
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As the temperature drops again, the water wants to re-enter the food, but it can't because the food is still mostly frozen. So the water sits on top of the food and freezes into ice crystals. And this happens over and over and over again and can ruin some of the food in your freezer.
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natural treatments to prevent disease that you're just part of the big medical establishment along with big pharmaceutical companies that really just want to sell drugs to people and you're part of the problem that and that these remedies do work it's just that you're trying to keep the lid on it and so you know that's a common response to which you say what
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One way to prevent or minimize the damage is to keep as little airspace as possible between the food and the package it's in. This will help prevent the water from escaping out of the food because it will have no place to go. And that is something you should know.
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One of the things that makes modern humans different from other animals, it seems, is we don't just seek out food to nourish and satisfy us. We seek out really tasty, delicious food to nourish and satisfy us. From the way we prepare food and cook it and spice it, we want food to taste good. And even when it does taste good, we sometimes try to make it taste even better.
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So why is it that some food tastes good and other food doesn't? Why do you find some food delicious that I may find horribly distasteful? Here to talk about all this and why we find food so enjoyable, as well as how the pursuit of flavor has guided the course of history, is Rob Dunn.
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Rob is an evolutionary biologist and professor at North Carolina State University, and he's author of a book called Delicious, The Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human.
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Hey, Rob, so even though other animals don't, you know, they don't cook or spice up their food a whole lot, I imagine that other species have taste preferences, that some of what a tiger eats tastes better than other things that that tiger might eat.
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Why do we have this kind of oddity in that a lot of foods that are, quote, good for us as humans are not foods that we really like, and a lot of the foods we really like are not good for us? How is that when you would think it would be the other way around?
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Is there anything that is universally tasty that everybody likes? Or as you just said, a lot of this is learned. Or is there a food that everybody that eats it loves it?
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So let's define some terms here. What is the difference between taste and flavor and then how much of those things is actually smell?
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It would seem that in order to survive, humans have had to basically adapt to be able to eat and to some extent enjoy whatever they could get their hands on because... because that's the only way you can survive. And as you pointed out, everybody likes salty and everybody likes sweet, but some people like more, some people like less.
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It seems that the human palette is very adaptable depending on what's available.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster, which strikes close to home for me, having just been... through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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So I imagine that in the history of flavor and taste and food and eating, the day somebody said, you know, if we cook this, it's going to be a lot better, had to be a pretty important day.
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We're talking about taste, flavor, and deliciousness. And my guest is Rob Dunn. He is an evolutionary biologist, and the name of his book is Delicious, the Evolution of Flavor and How It Made Us Human.
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So Eric, I've been places where, and been in like hotel rooms or at someone's home, and the room itself, there's something about the room that just makes sleep so much easier. So I imagine that there are a lot of things you could do to your own bedroom to make it more conducive to sleep.
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mess up a night's sleep. People worry that, oh, I'm not going to be able to function. It's going to be terrible. I'm going to be prone to accidents because I didn't get my eight hours. And we did a thing here not long ago on an episode, a quick thing about placebo sleep, that if people think they slept well, they tend to do better. And if they think they didn't, they tend not to.
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But what's the damage done from a bad night's sleep?
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Hi there. Welcome to Something You Should Know. You've probably noticed when you buy a pillow or a mattress or a cushion, there's always a tag on it. And somewhere on that tag is a warning about removing the tag. Now, for years, the warning used to say, do not remove under penalty of law. So how did removing a tag become a federal crime?
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Does it work that if you have a bad night's sleep, does that maybe help the next night go better because you're much more tired because you didn't sleep the night before? Or does it actually make it worse because you're now developing like a pattern of not sleeping at night?
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So there are little rituals people have, you know, when they can't sleep, you know, drink some more milk or whatever they are. Is there any sense that those are effective or not?
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Well, I think everybody has beliefs about sleep and what works for them. It's certainly a universal experience. We all have to sleep. But it's good to hear from a sleep scientist about the science of sleep and what works and what doesn't in getting a good night's sleep. I've been talking to Eric Prather.
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He is a sleep scientist and author of the book, The Sleep Prescription, Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thank you, Eric. Yeah, thank you. Thank you.
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Well, it all started when mattresses were a potential host to vermin and disease-carrying materials. Dealers were required to attach labels listing the contents. and the federal government added that warning to discourage dealers from removing it.
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How many times have you looked back on some interaction with someone and said to yourself, I wish I'd stood up for myself. I wish I'd been more assertive. So what does it mean to be assertive? How do you assert yourself without being aggressive or obnoxious? And what are the benefits of being assertive?
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Well, someone who knows a thing or two about assertiveness and has researched the topic pretty thoroughly is psychologist Randy Patterson. He's author of a book called The Assertiveness Handbook, How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships. Hi, Randy. Welcome.
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So I think everyone knows what assertiveness is when they see it in someone, but what is it exactly? How do you define it?
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It was never intended to be a warning for consumers, and in fact, today, while the tag is still on there, the language is a lot softer than it used to be. It reads something like, this tag may not be removed except by the consumer. So, go ahead if you want, remove the label, and the feds won't show up at your door. And that is something you should know.
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And why is that so hard? Why did people have such a problem standing up for themselves and doing what you just said?
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There are people, though, you're probably one of them, there are people who seem to nail this, that seem to be very assertive, you know exactly where they stand, and they tend to be people we admire. They tend to be people that seem confident and assertive, but yet we have trouble doing that.
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But you don't really address the issue of that he's stealing your pencils.
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But what if it's a case of you want to assert yourself about something because the other person agreed to do something and isn't doing it? So I want to be clear. You're not doing what you said you would do. And now I'm addressing the person, not the behavior. Well, I guess I'm addressing the behavior. But you know what I mean?
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There is something about the fact that somebody says they're going to do something and then they don't do it. It's time to talk about the person.
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I can't imagine anyone who hasn't had trouble sleeping from time to time. And you've probably heard the conventional advice, don't drink coffee before bed, get off your phone or computer because the light from the screen messes up with your sleep. But sleeping well and sleeping enough is a little more complicated than that.
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Yeah, that's probably an important point because one of the things I think, I mean, just I can think for myself here that being assertive is going to require that you really explain yourself and it's going to get real heavy and deep here. And I like your way of just make it brief.
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In addition to the words you say, when I think of an assertive person, I can see that person. There's a body language, there's a way they carry themselves. Is that part of it as well, do you think?
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And when you understand some of the complexities, you can really set yourself up to be a better sleeper. And here to explain how is Eric Prather. He's a world-renowned sleep scientist and author of the book, The Sleep Prescription, Seven Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest. Hey, Eric. Yeah, thanks for having me.
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You know what's really interesting to me as I hear you talk is I think one of the reasons that people are afraid of being assertive is that they haven't been. And so because they haven't been with a particular person or in a particular situation, there's been a lot of water under the bridge. And now there's some anger and some aggressive feelings.
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But if they had been assertive in the very beginning... It would have been easier.
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Yeah, because if you don't tell people what your boundaries are, well, then how are they going to know what they are? And also, it seems that, you know, the longer you're not assertive, the harder it is to be assertive, that people kind of peg you as, well, he's a kind of a passive person, so I don't really need to worry about him.
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So do you think, in general, people have a good understanding of how important sleep is and what having a good night's sleep does for you, that kind of thing?
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I would imagine one of the things that keeps people, that holds them back from trying to be more assertive in any situation, is fear. Fear of what will happen if I do this. What will the other person, how will they react? How will I react to their reaction? What will the whole thing get out of control? And if I just stay passive, then no waves are made and everything stays nice and calm.
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It also seems that underlying a lot of the lack of assertiveness is the thinking of, well, what's the point? If I bring this up, it's going to cause all kinds of problems. Why bother? It's just not worth it.
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Do you find in working with people that the more they do this, the easier it gets? Or is it really always a bit of a very conscious, hard effort?
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What about when you want to be assertive with someone who is also being assertive back at you and your assertivenesses don't mesh? So now you're kind of in an assertiveness struggle.
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What's the connection, do you think, between the lack of assertiveness, the difficulty or inability to be assertive, and the lack of confidence? Are they intertwined?
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When somebody wants to be assertive, in the moment, when they're trying, what is it that they should keep in mind about what they're trying to accomplish here?
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Well, it's a topic I think everyone has thought about. And I like how you made the differentiation because I think what you said was that people sometimes think that being assertive is kind of a watered down aggressive. But as you pointed out, those aggression and assertiveness are two mutually exclusive things. I've been talking to Randy Peterson.
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He's a psychologist and author of the book The Assertiveness Handbook, How to Express Your Ideas and Stand Up for Yourself at Work and in Relationships. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Appreciate you being here, Randy. Thanks. Well, thanks, Mike. This has been really fun. If you're the boss, you may want to hand out some more compliments today.
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there is a study that revealed that employees who receive positive feedback are more successful. For the study, adults were divided into three groups and asked to perform the same task as fast and accurately as possible. Once completed, the first group received praise and compliments individually.
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The second group had to watch others receive compliments, and the third group was on its own to self-evaluate. When asked to perform the test again, the group who had been praised individually significantly outperformed the other two. The researchers explained that the brain perceives that compliment as like a mental paycheck. Most people tend to work harder when they feel valued.
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There is a fascinating and unique podcast I'd like you to check out, as I have. It's called Only One in the Room. A few years back, Laura Cathcart Robbins attended a writer's retreat where out of 600 attendees, she was the only black one. So later she wrote about her experience and the article went viral because people understand what it feels like to be the only one in the room.
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Only one in the room is for anyone who has ever felt alone in a room full of people. I bet you've had that feeling. Listen and you'll hear guests like Hilary Phelps, sister of Olympian Michael Phelps, sharing her story of her secret addiction. Former Fox News reporter Christine O'Donnell, who was fired after one of her social media posts was taken out of context.
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Do you have a sense, I don't know if you've looked at the numbers, but in terms of how many people have trouble sleeping and how often they have it, is there any sense of how big a problem this is?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why are there tags on pillows and mattresses that say, do not remove? Then, if you've ever had trouble sleeping, you'll want to hear the very latest on how to sleep better.
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Why? What is it that happens? Is it that they can't stop thinking about something? Is their mind racing? What's preventing them from just falling asleep?
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It's not doing something. But if people are not sleeping, then what is it they're doing? What is it that goes through their mind or what is it that they're doing that keeps them from sleeping?
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I imagine everyone has heard the warnings about the connection between screens and sleep, that the blue light from your TV or your iPad or your computer or your phone, that if you are looking at those things before you go to bed, that that will interfere with your sleep. Can you talk about that?
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Also, why employers should be handing out a lot more praise and compliments. And if you ever wish you could be more assertive but have trouble speaking up, I have some great advice.
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You know, I've often thought that when people have trouble sleeping, they kind of approach the problem the wrong way in the sense that they think about, what am I doing wrong? What's the thing I need to avoid in order to sleep better? Rather than look at the question of, okay, if I really want a good night's sleep, what are the things I need to do to facilitate a good night's sleep?
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Do you think most people, if they're confident, are confident in all areas of life because it's just a mindset or they're confident in the thing they're confident in but the rest of their life could be falling apart?
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When you first went to school and put off doing your homework, you probably heard that you should not procrastinate. Why put off till tomorrow what you can do today? And yet it seems procrastination is really kind of a human tendency. We almost all do it sometimes and some of us more than others. So what is it about procrastination? What causes it?
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Is it a sign of laziness or is it something else entirely? Well, the perfect person to address those questions is Hayden Finch. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, behavior change expert. She's also author of a book called The Psychology of Procrastination. Hi, Hayden. Thank you for coming on Something You Should Know.
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So is it your sense from doing the research that procrastination is just human nature? It's what people do, right?
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So I guess a good place to start is to explain what you mean by the psychology of procrastination. I just thought it was, you know, something people do, something I do, but I didn't know there was a whole psychology around it. So can you explain that?
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So when I procrastinate, and I don't know that I'm a horrible procrastinator, but I have certainly been known to put things off, and I tell myself why I do that. The reason I do that is because, you know, whatever. I got plenty of time. I can do it later. I'd rather do this thing now than that thing. Are all those really the reason, or is there often something else going on?
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What's the complete story or what are other pieces of the story?
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One of the things I think procrastinators often say is they put things off because they like the pressure of the deadline. They like to have their back up against the wall because they claim that with that pressure, they do better work. What do you say?
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Is procrastination not a problem if you think it's not a problem?
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Do most procrastinators self-identify as procrastinating? Do they say, yeah, I procrastinate and I'm proud of it or whatever they want to say, but do they realize it in themselves or do they go, I don't know what you're talking about?
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So one of the things that I think procrastinators or people in general do, because you hear this thing like, you know, work expands to fill the time, that if you give yourself plenty of time, it'll take that much time. But if you give yourself five minutes to fold the laundry instead of 25 minutes to fold the laundry, it'll get done in five minutes and that that would be a good thing.
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Are procrastinators, I don't know if you've ever looked at this, are procrastinators typically people who are late and or are late people typically procrastinators?
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Because one of the things that seems to happen with people who are chronically late that I've noticed, and I'm not typically one of them, I like to be on time. I notice that people who are late... don't learn from their lateness and then they're on time the next time because they learned, oh, this is going to take longer than I thought. They're always late. They never get it.
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And I wonder, is that the same thing with procrastinators? Do they not learn this would have been a lot easier if I had done this sooner and so next time I will?
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A study looked at a group of adults and their promotability. And those with easy-to-pronounce or fluent surnames, like Dunlop or Stevenson, they were 7-8% more likely to be promoted. Those people whose last names were... I couldn't even begin to pronounce or spell some of these last names. They were more likely to be overlooked in the promotion department... just as they're being overlooked here.
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it just seems that there are people, I guess I'm one of them. I certainly don't do things early necessarily. I'm not one of those people. I don't know. I imagine it's somewhat of a sliding scale that you're not either a procrastinator or you're not. It's just, it's where you fall on the scale. And, and, And I'm okay with it. I mean, it seems to work for me.
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But it's also a case where I don't really think about that there's any other way to do it. Even when I screw it up and I'm late or I don't do as good a job as I could have done, I don't think necessarily that there's a big lesson there.
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Yeah, that would be a problem.
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Those would be big problems. So imagine that the advice for procrastinators is something more than knock it off because that probably doesn't work too well. So what is, it would be great if it did. What is the advice besides knock it off?
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And you do that how?
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Yeah, see, well, that's hard for me to understand, because to me it is about sitting down and doing it. The only way this is going to get done is if you sit down and do it. And yeah, okay, I get the shame and the frustration and all that other stuff, but at the end of the day, the only way it's going to get done is if you sit down and do it.
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We don't do it on purpose, but when we're processing names and data, our brains prefer information that's easier to comprehend. With fluent names, there's less risk of embarrassing ourselves or insulting someone because we mispronounce it. If your name is unusual or difficult to pronounce, you can actually put yourself at an advantage by choosing a nickname.
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Well, there is this thing that happens.
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I think everybody can relate to this, where you know you're supposed to do something, you know you're putting it off, because you somehow have convinced yourself, to use your example, that folding the laundry is much more important, and that, in fact, that might actually be fun to do, even though it never is fun any other time, or cleaning the closet needs to get done, even though you haven't done it in seven years.
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Mm-hmm. That's the thing I never really understood is why is it that people do that?
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My observation is that if it's a task that you're having trouble doing, probably the hardest part of doing any task is the starting. If you can just get started. And so there's that tip, and I've used this myself, is give yourself 10 minutes, 20 minutes to work on a task and give yourself permission to stop at that point.
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And often you may not stop at that point, but knowing you can stop makes it easier to start.
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Yeah, well, and also I find that when you do a project like that and you get all your documents done and ready and all the blanks are filled in, it feels really good. Like, wow, I got it done. But why can't people see that in the beginning that the end is actually pretty good? It's just you got to get there. You got to run the race.
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Participants in the study who had a nickname listed on their resume or contact information actually stood out more and were easier to recognize. And that is something you should know. Who of us couldn't use a little more confidence? Some of us wish we had a lot more confidence, at least in certain situations. So where does confidence come from? How do you get it if you don't have it?
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It is the starting, right? I mean, that to me has always been the hardest part of anything is to get started. Is that fair to say?
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I think generally people have a negative view of procrastination, that it's not a good thing, it's not a trait you really want to have, and that procrastination is a sign of laziness or lack of motivation, maybe more than anything else.
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I think this is helpful for people because not only is procrastination a problem, but also when you beat yourself up for procrastinating, it makes it even worse. And maybe we can stop doing that now. I've been talking to Hayden Finch. She is a clinical psychologist and author of the book, The Psychology of Procrastination. And there is a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes.
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Thanks, Hayden. Thanks for being here.
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Do you talk to yourself? We all have this image, I think, of people who talk to themselves as being a little bit odd, but actually it's quite all right to talk to yourself. In fact, a study published in Science Daily suggests that talking to yourself could actually help you get through life a little easier. They did a couple of experiments. Participants were given a list of objects to find.
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The first group had to remain silent during their search. The second group was encouraged to repeat the names of the hidden objects as they went looking for them. The self-talkers found all the stuff a lot faster than the silent searchers. So you might want to give it a try. Say, the next time you lose your keys, repeat the word keys out loud over and over. Keys, keys, keys.
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By doing that, you can change your perceptual processing and temporarily turn your visual system into a key detector. And that is something you should know. If you know someone who would enjoy this podcast, particularly if they're a procrastinator or lack self-confidence, they might enjoy listening to this.
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Please give them the link, let them give a listen, and hopefully they'll become a follower just like you. I'm Micah Ruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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And how do you make sure you don't lose it? Well, here to discuss this is Lydia Finette. Lydia is an ambassador for Christie's, you know, the auction people. She herself is an auctioneer, having helped raise over a billion dollars for nonprofits. And she is author of a book called Claim Your Confidence. And she's here to talk about how confidence works and how to get more of it. Hi, Lydia.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So where does confidence come from? Are you born with it and then some people lose it or must you acquire it through life experience or how do you become confident?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why having a name that's difficult to pronounce can hold you back. Then, building up your confidence. It can pay off big.
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Do you know, I don't know if you've done the research or know the research, but how people feel generally about their confidence? Do they wish they had more? Do they think they're fine? Just what's the general sense?
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And so if you have confidence, what is it? What does it feel like to be a confident person?
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I love that definition. That's perfect. But here's the thing. All of those things that you just described of hearing a comment about you, of walking into a room and thinking this, that describes probably 90% of every teenager in high school. They all feel that way. But there's always those kids in high school or junior high school who seem to have it all together.
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Now, either they're faking or they have something the other people don't.
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It sounds as if what you're saying is that confidence comes as the result of what you do throughout your life. It's your life experience that will boost your confidence. But how do you deliberately try to get it rather than just wait for things to happen? How do you go out and try to deliberately boost your confidence?
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Also, do you talk to yourself out loud? Maybe you should. And why do people procrastinate? A lot of procrastinators believe they do it because they perform better under pressure.
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So it sounds like what you're saying is that to gain confidence, you really have to force yourself to do the things that every fiber in your being is telling you you don't want to do. So where do you get the motivation? I mean, how do you do that?
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There does seem to be a pretty strong connection between confidence and competence. That if you're good at something, if you have the skills to do something well, you probably feel pretty confident at doing it. And the only way to get confident at doing it is to do it.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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Our topic on the table today is confidence. And I'm speaking with Lydia Fennett. She's author of a book called Claim Your Confidence.
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So Lydia, you talk about how action leads to action. And I've always found that one of the ways to never get anywhere is to never do anything and to just sit and think about it. And there is something very powerful about doing almost anything in the direction of what you're trying to do because it starts the momentum.
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It makes you feel like you're doing something which makes you do more things, it seems to me.
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So, Mike, you know, it's interesting that we're talking about this and encouraging adults to have more fun, because as you pointed out before, when kids have fun, they just have fun. You don't have to tell them to have fun. But when you have to tell somebody, when you have to tell an adult to have fun, it's like now it becomes a project. OK, now what am I going to do? OK, let me think.
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What could I do? Where could I go? You know what I mean?
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Yeah, and you bring up a great point, so thank you, that certainly not prescribing, just adding more to your already busy schedule, right? So I think one of the first things to do is sort of see where you've habituated time that's not really leading to your betterment. For a lot of people, that's going to be social media use.
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For folks that are just working so hard that when they get home at 7 p.m., they just plop down on the couch and aren't really paying attention to what they're viewing. They just mindlessly turn on Netflix. So certainly not villainizing people that really enjoy a certain show and are watching it with a partner, but more the people that are asked, hey, so what did you do last week?
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And they can't even tell you what show they watched. Those are the opportunities, you know, where you can take time off the table and then reintegrate something that really does light you up. And so, you know, an important first step is to figure out how you can make that space. Like, what are the things that are you really just filling time with?
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Because you're in so much discomfort, you really just trying to displace that discomfort with something that's a little bit mindless instead of something that's leading to your betterment.
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Yeah. Well, I guess that's a big part of it is I imagine a lot of people say, well, I'd have more fun, but I just don't have time. I'm too busy.
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Yeah, that's exactly right. Like a common example that I think is helpful is, you know, you see a busy parent on a park bench just watching their child and mindlessly kind of scrolling their phone. So for them, that's really just another extension of work, right?
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I'm here because I have to, because I'm a parent and I need to watch this child and simply just remember something that might be interesting. for you, like, you know, maybe it's building a craft, maybe it's, you know, painting. For me, it's going, I love water slides. So my son and I just went there. So instead of just taking my son on a play date, I actually do something that I enjoy as well.
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And so that's a great example of switching out an hour that really kind of felt like work. And now I'm having fun with my son. And again, it doesn't need to be sort of this Western ideal of an extremely extroverted high arousal activity, right? It could be something as simple as, you know, going to see a play, introducing your child to Shakespeare or whatever it is.
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But there are a lot of opportunities where you're already doing something where if you augment it in sort of a joyful fashion, you can add fun to your life and not necessarily go, okay, well, where am I going to find the time to do this?
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When you talk about incorporating fun into your life, if you haven't been having a lot of fun, I know it's hard to put a number on it, but people always wonder, well, so how much is enough? How much fun do I need to have to be benefiting from my fun?
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Yeah, so I don't like prescribing a number because to your point, especially that's where happiness has become problematic because you try to hit some bar, right? The research that I cite in the book comes from Cassie Holmes out of UCLA. And so when most people critically look at their schedule, even if they're extremely busy, and so obviously,
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um working housewives you know as a generality tend to have the least amount of time but even those folks if you look at their schedule critically can find two hours and then someone you know in the single population it tends to be five so there's a spectrum of two to five hours that we
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that most of us should be able to claim agency autonomy over and really incorporate again, you know, leisure activities that bring us joy. If that seems like too much, again, just try two or three a week and see how that makes you feel.
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So that's where I start because two to three is generally, you know, really easily accessible, even to someone that's working, you know, a job that requires 60 to 70 hours a week. Again, there's 168 hours
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a week and so even if you're working 80 you know and then sleeping uh 56 there's still a lot of time on the table to go enjoy yourself and so if you're not you need to ask why right yeah well that's a good question because that's a lot of unaccounted four hours but you know i guess it's
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There's laundry to do and grocery shopping and, you know, people can fill it up. They do it all the time with stuff.
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And so, I mean, it's a trope. Right. But, you know, what we prioritize happens. And so I think I've I and others have made a strong case that if you're not engaging in leisure, ultimately you're going to burn out. Right. And so. What I think is sort of at the forefront is the same thing that happened with sleep in the 90s and early 2000s. Hustle porn, as I call it, was really prevalent then.
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And you had all these folks, the Gary V's and the Grant Cordon's of the world. saying, you know, if you really want to be successful, you put the kids to sleep and you work till 3 a.m. And so to Gary V's credit and a host of other folks, we now know that if you have a sleep deficit, you can't work, right? And so you never hear anybody anymore talk about championing sleep deprivation.
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And I think you're going to see the same thing with leisure because there's emerging evidence suggests that If you're not enjoying yourself a little bit, if you're not taking breaks, it's a direct path to burnout and you're not going to be productive anyways.
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One thing I've always wondered is, like, so if you're going to go have, let's say you're going to go have a fun ski weekend and you go and And it isn't the fun you expected. You know, it was, you know, too cold or it rained or the snow was crappy or, you know, the... In other words, the experience, the takeaway wasn't what you thought it was going to be. Does it still count? Is it still fun?
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Or it's just a waste of time?
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No, that's a great question. I think for one way to set you up for success is to try and not make the event outcome focused. So again, if you kind of stack the deck in your favor and you're with great people when life kind of gives you lemons, you can still enjoy that time because you're with people that you really like, right?
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So one of the best ways to mitigate that disappointment is to just kind of be open to whatever that event whatever that experience kind of throws your way and really try to enjoy the people and the time that you have. One example in my own life was my wife and I tried to do two New Year's in one year. So we did an amazing night in Sydney with some friends.
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And then we tried to beeline to Hawaii so that we could say that we did two New Year's events in one year and the plane broke. So we didn't make it to Hawaii on time. And My wife had an amazing time and I was just fixated on the fact like, oh, my gosh, we spent all this money and it didn't happen. So she was an amazing teacher in that moment.
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I mean, you know, we could have just enjoyed ourselves the whole time that the fact that we didn't make it to second New Year's was just consequential. Right. And instead I ruined that event because of my sour mood. So to the extent that you don't really focus on the outcome and you really just focus on the fact that
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you know, you should be grateful that you're with these amazing people and you get to enjoy the time that you have, you know, makes it easier when, again, you know, there's sort of curveballs thrown at you.
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So when you do the types of things you're talking about, assuming you haven't been doing them, Like I say to you, okay, Mike, I'm going to go have more fun now and I do what you prescribed. What's going to change? Specifically, what would I look forward to because I'm now having fun that I didn't have when I wasn't having fun?
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Yeah, that's a great question. So again, going back to the hedonic flexibility principle, what we see is once you start to enjoy yourself, there's a few things. one, you show up as a better version of yourself, right? So you have more vitality and vigor for the things that you want to do. Oftentimes to illustrate this simply, I just use a math equation, right?
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If kind of living in this low level life of burnout, you're able to contribute, you know, one X every hour that you work, you know, that's 40 hours of output a week, right? But if you start enjoying your life and you can show up to work with a better attitude and more energy, then you start to produce 2X, right?
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And so the person that's working 60 hours a week burnt out, that's 60 units of output per week. The person that is showing up to work
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you know with that vigor and vitality and energy that's able to produce 2x in just 40 hours of week excuse me just 40 hours a week they can produce 80 units of output and so here's one person working a lot less now has more time for fun and it's producing more where the person that's burnt out is working longer and producing less right and so that's just a simple way to highlight that but that's been empirically validated we know that people that are burnt out
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you know, make themselves busy, but don't really contribute to work. The second is through, you know, this idea of social contagion that once we are, you know, we feel more optimistic and we're just living life in a more positive way, a more joyful way, that stuff tends to kind of be infectious. And all the people around us, you know, start to see us happy and want to be happy too.
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You know, we start laughing more, we start smiling more and just generally clear the air. You especially see this within a family dynamic. So, you know, just integrating a little bit of this into your life creates this upward spiral, not just for yourself, but for those around you as well.
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So it seems like one of the key messages here is to rather than to ask yourself, am I happy? We ought to be asking ourselves, am I having fun? Am I having enough fun?
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Yeah, I think so. I interviewed Jordan Etkin out of Duke about this, and I think she highlighted it perfectly. I mean, as soon as you take yourself out of the moment to ask yourself whether you're happy, you're now not having fun anymore, right? You're essentially, it's an exercise in retrospection. And so... Happiness is great. And I think I value it highly and I want the world to flourish.
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But I think taking an action oriented approach and really being mindful of just enjoying the time that we have here tends to be a better approach than, you know, trying to architect sort of these interventions to try and make herself more happy. Because happiness is...
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Happiness is really the result. It's the byproduct of the fun. It isn't the thing you do. It's the sensation you feel after the fact. That's exactly right. Well, great. This has been really thought-provoking. I've been talking to Mike Rucker. He is an organizational psychologist, and the name of his book is The Fun Habit. And you'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Mike.
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It's been fun.
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Thanks, Mike. It's been a true pleasure. Thanks so much for having me.
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You probably don't think about it much, but when you walk into a room and flip on a switch and a light comes on reliably pretty much every single time, that's actually rather amazing. You tend to appreciate it more when the power goes out in your house. Then you realize how much you rely on reliable electricity being delivered to your home. But think about it.
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How did we get from darkness to having electricity streaming through the walls of our homes and businesses? Well, here to tell that story and discuss the miracle of electricity is Kathy Joseph. Kathy has a YouTube channel called Kathy Loves Physics, and she holds multiple advanced degrees in physics and engineering.
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She's author of a book called The Lightning Tamers, true stories of the dreamers and schemers who harnessed electricity and transformed our world. Hey, Kathy, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Sure. So here we have this force of nature, electricity, that somehow becomes domesticated and is now pretty much in everyone's home and business, powering everything. Where did this story, where did the journey begin?
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I imagine when a lot of people think of the start of harnessing electricity, they think of Benjamin Franklin and flying his kite and all that. Is he part of this or is that more myth and fable or is that an important part of this story?
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So when electricity is generated today, are magnets involved?
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. This is that time of year, as this episode publishes in January, this is the time when people start to maybe fall off the wagon for their New Year's resolutions. And wouldn't it be great if you had like a willpower button that you could press when you were trying to resist temptation? Well, according to a study, we actually do have a willpower button.
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So at that time when they're figuring out how to create, how to generate electricity, was there an understanding that if we get this, you know, this will power lights, this will power things, this will create a lot of power to do things, or was there a big learning curve involved?
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Edison wasn't big on alternating current. He liked direct current.
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So before you reach for that donut that you swore you wouldn't eat in 2023 or buy those shoes that you know you don't really need, make a fist. Just make a fist. Make it tight and hold it until it's really uncomfortable. That secret willpower is actually in the discomfort. And you don't have to make a fist exactly. You can flex any muscle and it will work.
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Was there resistance to it? I remember watching an episode of Downton Abbey when they brought electricity into the castle there and people were like afraid that the walls would burst up on fire and that they didn't want it. Was there that kind of resistance to it or it's just fiction?
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were either brave or foolhardy like this was dangerous stuff isn't that interesting that that that fear would be justified but so so at how did they fix that and when did they fix that when it when did it when were was the public reassured that that your house isn't going to burn down
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But when you think about, if you are to electrify a community, you think about how that has to be done with wires and poles and digging up walls and laying in wire. I mean, this is a huge deal.
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Participants in the study were told to tighten their muscles, hands, biceps, calves, whatever, as they faced a challenge to resist temptation. Those who clenched demonstrated more self-control than those who didn't. Most of us naturally clench our muscles when we're exerting our willpower. If you want to use the trick strategically, you'll need to flex at just the right moment.
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So you mean that when these more powerful and brighter light bulbs came along, there were just too many of the lower dimmer light bulbs in existence and the system would have to be completely reconfigured to handle these new light bulbs. So it was never reconfigured.
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As I recall, one of the big problems with getting electricity to people's homes is getting it there, that you lose a lot from here to there. Yes, that's true. So what is that problem and how was it solved or has it ever been solved?
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One of the things that really struck me was there was a movie, I think in like 2012 or something, Lincoln. And it was Daniel Day-Lewis played Abraham Lincoln. And they tried to make it really realistic as to what it was like inside the White House when there was no electricity. And it was amazingly dark. And, you know, at nighttime, there was just candles.
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And it's hard to imagine living that way before the electric light.
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The study found that clenching before the temptation arrived was counterproductive. Not only did it not help the clencher, it left them a little weaker and more vulnerable. You have to wait until you're tempted. And that is something you should know. Do you have fun? I mean, do you deliberately set aside time to do fun things, to get away from work and reset, recharge, and just have fun?
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One of the people whose names I hear in discussions about electricity that you haven't mentioned is Tesla.
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Was he not a big player in this or we just haven't gotten to him yet?
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So as revolutionary as electricity was in the 1800s, are we done? It is what it is. It's electricity. Is there anything new going on or electricity is electricity?
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Well, as I said in the beginning, you don't really realize how important and how much you rely on electricity until the power goes out. And then you realize you can't do anything. And it's really interesting to hear the stories of how we got to where we are. with electricity. I've been speaking with Kathy Joseph.
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She has a YouTube channel called Kathy Loves Physics, and she is author of a book called The Lightning Tamers, true stories of the dreamers and schemers who harnessed electricity and transformed our world. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Kathy. Thanks, Mike.
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You know, people who get down and depressed have a tendency to do two things. This is according to Dr. Jeffrey Rossman, who wrote a book called The Mind-Body Solution. The two things people do is they dwell on the past and they worry about the future. So, if you find yourself feeling down and doing one or both of those things, try a little mindfulness.
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That just means being present in the here and now. So, instead of going for a walk and worrying about things, go for a walk and enjoy the walk. One way to do that is to focus on your breathing, because if you're thinking about your breathing, You can't think about bad things.
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By bringing your mind into full attention to what's going on now, you can distance yourself from what has you down in the dumps. And you usually find with a little distance that things aren't as bad as you were thinking. And that is something you should know. And now that you've heard something you should know, here's something you could do.
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By the nature of the word fun, it might seem that doing things for fun is frivolous, maybe even a waste of time. But if you think that, you may be looking at this all wrong. According to Mike Rucker, he is an organizational psychologist who studies fun, and he's author of a book called The Fun Habit. Hi, Mike. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you so much for having me.
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So today there seems to be a lot of emphasis on happiness, tons of books and podcasts and seminars about being happy. And I know you say that's problematic, that rather than focus on being happy, we should focus on having fun. So why is that? What's the problem with happiness?
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So the primary problem about using it as a construct for success is it's an exercise in evaluation, right? It tends to happen in the rearview mirror.
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And so especially if you're in an area of life, like in the book, I write about losing my younger brother, but whether that's a divorce or just a time in life where, you know, extreme positive emotion isn't necessarily the appropriate response because you need time to mourn or you need time to figure out how your life has changed.
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once you start to ruminate on the fact that happiness is out there on the horizon and you are where you are, something quite terrible can happen. And what that is, is that you start to subconsciously identify as being unhappy. Like, okay, well, I guess I'm just not a happy person. And over time, That can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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And again, a lot of research suggests that that's exactly what's kind of happened in this era of toxic positivity. What fun does is it really allows you to take this action-oriented approach where it doesn't necessarily mean you're trying to calculate anything. You're really just enjoying life in the moment by your own design, things that really light you up.
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So is fun the thing you do or is fun the feeling you feel or what exactly is fun?
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I've defined fun quite simply. You know, I use an academic term valence, but that really just translates to pleasurable, right? So is what you're engaging in, are you enjoying your time or are you not enjoying your time? And so that's a really easy definition of fun. Is what I'm doing right now something I enjoy doing or is it something I don't enjoy doing?
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And I'm certainly not prescribing that we should be having fun all the time. But what I am suggesting is that, especially here in the US, a lot of us aren't having any fun at all. And it's leading to dire consequences.
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And a lot of the times, though, people say that the reason you have fun is it makes you happy, right?
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Yeah, so that's what's amazing is that once you
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sort of orchestrate a life where you're having fun deliberately then happiness is an amazing byproduct it's when we kind of focus on happiness that it becomes problematic because happiness is really a lagging indicator of the things that are happening in our life right and sometimes happiness can be disrupted because of things that are completely outside of our control but fun is pretty pedestrian in the sense that generally we can go off and just do it you know by our own design and we don't necessarily need to identify as happy in that moment
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today on Something You Should Know. If you're having trouble resisting temptation, there's a way to turbo boost your willpower. Then if you want to be happy, maybe you should stop trying to be happy and just have fun.
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So what do you say to people, because I'm sure people will tell you this, that my work is fun. I love my work. It's so much fun. So I don't need other fun because that's my fun.
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Well, then that's amazing, right? Good for them.
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I would still suggest that when you look at time-based studies, that folks that don't have a transition ritual into leisure, even if their work is so fun that they don't need a lot of leisure, will ultimately find over time that one, they are burning themselves out, but that two, when you don't index kind of a tapestry of different interesting things in your life,
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You know, when you get into older age, those things that you've habituated kind of get stored in your memory as one event. It's this concept called index time, right? You'll look back at that and go, okay, I guess my life was just work. There's a lot of regret when you've kind of just let your life be consumed by one thing, whether that's work, domestic duties, or whatever it is.
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And so integrating at least just some experiences that light you up that are outside of your your main activity, become extremely important.
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So what does the science say about what fun does? And what I mean by that is, is taking a break and going and doing something fun intrinsically valuable in and of itself somehow? And if so, how? Or is it really you're just taking a break? You're forcing yourself to not do something the work so that you refresh and recharge. Is it that or is it the other?
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There's a couple of things. One is called the hedonic flexibility principle. So there was an amazing study that came out of MIT, Stanford, and Harvard. And it essentially said that when folks are taking time off the table for themselves, so they are living a life that's joyful and not sort of rooted in escapism. So they're so burnout, right? They're doing things that aren't necessarily
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leading to betterment like drinking or gambling, but are doing things like dance classes or engaging in a hobby or having amazing social relationships with friends. that they're the ones that actually do the harder stuff. And so that becomes important. Another aspect of this, especially for folks that are in creative positions, is that it allows you to think in a non-linear fashion.
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Once you orchestrate a life where you're having fun deliberately, then happiness is an amazing byproduct. It's when we kind of focus on happiness that it becomes problematic because happiness is really a lagging indicator of the things that are happening in our life, right?
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So a lot of folks that need to come up with creative solutions, those tend to not happen if you're always engaged in work. You really need to let your brain breathe and do something else so that you can start to connect ideas that don't necessarily fit in a linear fashion.
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When you ask people, when you talk to people and say, you know, who don't have a lot of fun, who really are kind of stuck in the grind, why? Why don't you have fun? What do they say?
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For a majority of folks, it's sort of rooted in that Puritan work ethic, or it comes from a sense of guilt, right? This isn't my idea, but it's been proven by various empirical research, this whole idea of the U-shaped curve of happiness, right? And so there's this term called the sandwich generation. And what's happened is in modern life, we're all living a lot differently.
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we're living a lot longer and we're having kids a lot later, right? And so that means for the first time, a lot of us are having to deal with both kids, raising kids, and then also our aging parents. And so rightfully, we're what scientists called time poor, right? And so what I suggest is
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That you don't necessarily need to find something fun to do every day, but figure out how you can take at least two to three hours off the table a week for yourself. And then play with that for one to two weeks, because changing habituated behavior you know, often the first week there's some dissonance and you got to get over that.
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But by week two or three, you'll start to feel that vitality and vigor come back and realize that you're actually able to contribute better, especially if you see life through the lens of a sense of duty.
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I remember hearing someone say, and when they said it, it kind of rang true for me. And I've always thought this to be true that when it comes to things like fun and It's not only the fun itself that is beneficial, it's the anticipation of having it that is also beneficial.
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What we now know about dopamine, right? I think for a long time, it's kind of been thought of this pleasure neurochemical. in preparing the material for the book, I interviewed a bunch of different neuroscientists and they now know that that's not necessarily the case. They think the real evolutionary benefit of dopamine was the anticipation of pleasure, right?
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Also, some great advice for the next time you're feeling a little bit down and how electricity got into your house. In fact, having electricity in homes was not the initial goal.
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And so we get excited about anticipating something novel or surprising, or even just enjoyable. And so that works on both the front end, but then also the backend. We know that relishing in really fond memories, reminiscing about things, that's what builds that resilience.
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So yes, it's an enjoyable state heading into something that's fun, but it's also one of the best ways to build resilience after the activity. So it's beneficial on both the front end and the back end.
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What do you say to somebody, I imagine this has happened, where someone would say to you, you know, I can't remember, I wouldn't know what to do. I don't know, like, okay, I'll have more fun, but tell me how. I don't know what to do.
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Yeah, absolutely. So I suggest building a fun file. I think you can look back at the things that did bring you joy. A lot of us use science brought forth by Stuart Brown, that was a play expert. But the exercise is very helpful to understand things from your past that light you up that might still be applicable to what you're doing today.
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Then look at friends that are having a lot of fun and see if the things that they're doing are something that you might enjoy. There are a lot of folks that are likely in your network that would be great inspiration for getting you out of the house and enjoying yourself a little bit more. All it takes, and this even works for introverts.
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I'm not necessarily saying go join a big running club like I might because I'm an extrovert, But for my wife, it might be just joining an intimate group of a book club so that you can just start to reintegrate those things that really are the bond that help us endure the slings and arrows of everyday life.
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We're talking about fun and making the case for you having more fun is Mike Rucker. He's an organizational psychologist and the name of his book is The Fun Habit. I'm really excited to have Factor back as a sponsor. Factor provides delicious, chef-made gourmet meals right to your door. And just to be clear, this is not a box of ingredients that you have to make. These are not frozen meals.
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So Cliff, what's your sense of how people embrace that kind of technology like you were talking about with Carnival Cruises? Do people like it generally or is there resistance to it? Are we in this kind of transition phase where people are resisting it maybe, but pretty soon it just will be part of our lives?
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Well, Alexa's a good example. I mean, people always feared that people could listen in what's going on in your house. Then it turns out people were listening in, but nobody really seems to care.
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You have in your book a drawing of the Honeywell thermostat from 1953 that everyone has used, everyone has had in their home at some point in their life. It's that round thermostat that's about the size of your hand and you just turn it to the temperature you want and it goes to that temperature. It is the most simple, intuitive thing on earth in terms of thermostats.
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And you compare that to, say, a Nest thermostat, which certainly does a lot more, but it is not as simple and user-friendly as that Honeywell thermostat from 1953 that is still around and still in use in houses today.
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What I find so interesting about this whole idea of user-friendly, which, as you point out, really started to take hold in World War II as it related to machines, but today we kind of want our life to be user-friendly. I want my phone bill to be user-friendly. I want my...
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car insurance policy to be user-friendly to read that the idea of user-friendly has gone from just machines to really permeate our expectations for a lot of things in life.
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This assumption that user-friendly is the way to go, is that always true, though? I mean, is there value in things perhaps being better because they're more complicated and because you really need to know how to use it and that making things really user-friendly is, in a way, dumbing down things?
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But then at some point, if we ever get to like the Jetsons where we're all in flying cars, then maybe we do want them all to be driverless so that we're not crashing into each other.
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And when you look at what's happened over the last 80 years or so involving this whole idea of user experience, it makes me wonder, you know, what's going to happen in the next 80 years? What's this going to look like 80 years from now? Cliff Kwong has been my guest.
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He is a user experience designer, and he is author of the book, User-Friendly, How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play. And you'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Cliff.
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One of the great frustrations we all experience in life is trying to be reasonable with other people, particularly when it comes to explaining your position or trying to get someone to agree with you. You would think that if you explain things in a calm and rational and reasonable way, everyone should agree with what you said and we can all move forward together.
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But being reasonable and rational often doesn't work. So why not? Is there a better way to find common ground so people understand you and you understand them? Or is it in fact a somewhat pointless exercise? Maybe we don't need to try to get people to agree with us. Because A, it's very difficult to do, and B, what's the point? What's the point? Why is it so important that people agree with us?
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It's okay to disagree. Eleanor Gordon-Smith, a producer for NPR's This American Life, has researched this and written a book called Stop Being Reasonable, which kind of tells you where she stands on the subject. Hi, Eleanor. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Sure. So it certainly seems reasonable that to be reasonable and rational is the way to explain yourself and your position. And if you're really good at it, people should see things your way. And yet it often doesn't work. So the question is, why? Why doesn't it work?
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One of the best examples of being reasonable and trying to get other people to see how reasonable you are is the story you tell about trying to talk to men who were catcalling you and whistling at you and trying to get them to understand how that made you feel. And so talk about that experience.
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And so when you asked these men who were whistling at you and saying vulgar things, when you asked them, what is it you're hoping to get from this? What's the outcome that you desire from this? What did they say?
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Well, why do you think that they would say that? Why do you think that men, what would be their reason? What would be their evidence for saying, oh, yeah, women like this. They really get a kick out of this.
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People seem to be very concerned and really don't want to know how a story or a movie or a book ends before they read it. Because the theory is that if you know the ending first, that will somehow spoil the experience of reading the book or watching the movie or the TV show. Well, researchers put this idea to the test. Two groups of people were asked to read a best-selling book.
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But yeah, but you were being reasonable and rational in explaining that. And guess what? It doesn't work.
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So what does this experience all tell you about what does work in terms of changing people's minds or getting them to see things your way?
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If the strategies to use to change people's minds are so idiosyncratic and so individual, well, how would you ever know which one to use? How would you know how to do it?
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One group had to read the ending first. And it turned out that that group, the group that knew how the story ended, actually enjoyed reading the book more. The researchers say that's because when we know the ending, it allows us to focus more on things like deeper meanings, plots, acting, and writing ability, and appreciate some of the nuances that we might have otherwise missed.
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So what I get from what you're saying is that the idea of changing someone's mind or changing our own mind about something... is to change, at least in part, who we are or part of who we are. And to change part of who someone is, whether it's us or someone else, that's a pretty daunting task.
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And that is something you should know. About 80 years ago or so, something changed. And that change has had a fundamental influence on how you live your life. You see, up until then, and this would be around World War II, life was, well, life was simpler. In particular, the technology was simpler. Machines and the mechanics of life were easier to understand.
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So another question that pops into my mind as you talk about, you know, trying to change people's minds is that perhaps it isn't worth it. I mean, trying to change catcallers' behavior, it's going to be difficult to do, as you found out. And to what end, other than, I mean, what does it do for you? Because even if you get those guys to stop, the guys down at the next bar are going to do it anyway.
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And so the big takeaway from this is that it's probably a lot harder than you think it is. And it's a lot more complicated than you think it is. It isn't just a matter of, well, here are the facts. If you would just agree with these facts, then you'll change your mind.
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well, why do I need to change your mind? Why do people think that it's so important because someone disagrees with you to change their mind? Why can't we just live and agree to disagree? And we don't have to try to change each other's minds, A, because it's probably not going to happen, B, it's really going to be hard to do, and C, to what end?
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Yeah, well, I mean, I have, and I know other people have, you know, friends who we just agree that, you know, politics is off the table because there's no point to it. It's just going to, you know, potentially put the friendship at risk because we disagree, and rather than try to change each other's minds, we'll just agree to disagree. And that works just fine.
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I like that. I like that approach a lot. That's going to save you years of your life. Exactly.
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Right. And go have fun and just stop. Because, yeah, you're not going to change anybody's mind about the moon landing. And again, even if you did, so what? I mean, it's a battle not worth the victory. It isn't.
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No one ever talked about the user experience. There was no need for technology to be user-friendly because up until then machines and things, mechanical things, were pretty user-friendly. You could figure out how they worked. But then things got complicated, and that is what has led to this whole concept of the user experience. We need our machines, our computers, our phones to be user-friendly.
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Well, this is really good news in a way because it takes the pressure off. I mean, clearly, trying to change someone's mind is probably a lot harder than you think it is. So you've got to pick those battles pretty carefully. And even if you do change somebody's mind, you have to ask yourself, well, is it really worth that victory?
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Eleanor Gordon-Smith has been my guest, and the name of her book is Stop Being Reasonable. You'll find the link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Eleanor.
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A lot of offices and workplaces are either too cold or too hot, and sometimes at the same time, depending on who you talk to. An office can be too hot for some and too cold for others, depending on where they sit and their gender. Some interesting research shows that regardless of fluctuations in the air temperature, if your feet are comfortable, then you will be comfortable.
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So the key to comfort may be your footwear. For example, if a woman wears an open, strappy sandal in an air-conditioned office, she's more likely to say she feels cold. And if a man wears heavy wool socks and leather shoes so his feet get hot, he's likely to say he feels warm all over.
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The answer then is to do whatever is necessary to regulate the temperature of your feet and pay attention to the footwear you wear to work. That'll have a lot to do with how hot or cold you feel overall. And that is something you should know.
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And now we need our machines to actually anticipate what we want, sometimes before we even know what we want. And as this technology keeps advancing... It raises the questions of, where's it going? Is there a downside to all this user-friendliness? Well, here to discuss this is Cliff Kwong.
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He is a user experience designer, and he's author of the book, User-Friendly, How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play. Hi, Cliff. Welcome. Hi.
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Today on Something You Should Know, does knowing the ending of a book or movie ahead of time really spoil it or make it better? Then, as consumers, we want a better user experience.
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So what happened? What happened around World War Two that brought to light this whole idea of the user experience?
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Well, it's pretty interesting when you think about it that more or less the world was simple enough up till then, or sort of up till then, that we didn't really have to discuss this because things were simpler. And then this new technology comes in and then all of a sudden it's like, well, people don't really know how to Use this. All of a sudden, the world started to get more complicated.
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And yet when early computers came out, remember they came with like this huge book that was like the size of a Bible of how this machine works.
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Also, a simple solution if your workplace is either too hot or too cold. And what does it take to get someone to change their mind?
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Well, there certainly has been a fundamental change from the days, and it used to be, if you brought some new thing home, the first thing you would do is sit down and read the instructions. Today, nobody wants to read the instructions. Most things don't even come with instructions. You bring something home, you take it out of the box. Maybe there's a quick start guide.
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But basically, you want to take your new thing, whatever that is, and start to use it.
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And so what does this mean to people? Is this all good news?
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There's also the creep factor that because this machine seems to know what I want before I want it, that kind of creeps me out.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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We're talking about the user experience and things being user friendly. And my guest is Cliff Kwong. He is a user experience designer and he's author of the book, User Friendly, How the Hidden Rules of Design are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play.
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And I've also heard that dogs' hearing is very good. It's certainly better, I guess, than human hearing in the sense that they can hear sounds, hear frequencies that we don't hear. But is a dog's hearing spectacularly good or is it just a little better than ours?
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I have noticed improved muscle strength and endurance. MitoPure works by promoting an essential cellular cleanup process. It clears out dysfunctional mitochondria. And it's the only urolithin-A supplement on the market clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline.
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When you understand how some of these other creatures perceive their reality, does it give us any real insight in what it's like to be them?
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Yeah. And that's what's so interesting that, and that's the big mystery because like, even with my dog, I mean, when I walk my dog, sometimes she'll stop. and roll around in the ground and rub her neck on a specific spot. And I have no idea why or what that does for her, what itch that scratches, but it clearly must be pleasurable, and I'll never know.
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Lastly, talk about bees because they seem like they're really interesting creatures and we see them all the time and not sure what they do and why they do what they do, but so talk about them.
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Well, I love this conversation because it makes you think about something that you never think about, the way other creatures, the way other animals perceive their world, which is also our world, but perceive it in such a different way than we do. I've been talking with Ed Yong.
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He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist, a staff member at The Atlantic, and author of a book called An Immense World, How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World Around Us. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks for being here, Ed. This was a lot of fun.
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A while back, we had Ramit Sethi on as a guest, and he's one of the smartest people you'll ever know when it comes to everyday money matters. And he was here talking about money and couples. As it turns out, he has his own podcast called Money for Couples, which if you're part of a couple, then I highly recommend you listen to this podcast.
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Because when you do, instead of fighting about money, you and your partner will discover how to start building a rich life together. Money for Couples is a podcast full of real-life, actionable advice like how to pay off your debt and still enjoy your life, how to build a shared financial vision, how to spend extravagantly on what you love and cut back on what you don't.
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And you'll learn from real-world stories of couples facing the same money challenges as you. All of the episodes are helpful, but if I had to pick one or two, there's one called, We Make $300,000 a Year But Spend Like We Make a Million. That's a situation I think a lot of people can relate to. And another is called, We've Saved for Retirement But Have No Money to Spend Now.
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Money for Couples is the name of the podcast hosted by Ramit Sethi. And all you have to do is search for Money for Couples wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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Hello, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. Thank you for joining me. I don't know if you knew this or not, but the upper right side of a menu or a web page or even a newspaper, the upper right side is often considered prime real estate. It's the first place people look if they're right-handed. Left-handed people actually see the left side sooner.
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¶¶ It's a productivity grind, and it can really wear you down. There's got to be a better way, and here to help you find that better way is Madeline Doerr. She is a writer and podcaster. Her podcast is called Routines and Ruts, and she has a book out called I Didn't Do That Thing Today, Letting Go of Productivity Guilt. Hey, Madeline, welcome.
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So what is that thing? What is that quest? What is that big desire that we all have to want to get more done, get everything accomplished? And then when we do, we want to get more done.
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And doesn't it seem that no matter how productive you get, how many things you get done, what you, at the end of the day, end up focusing on the thing you didn't get done, and then that makes you feel guilty.
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Well, I find it interesting that it seems like there's two kinds of time. There's either the time that you're being productive. Or you're wasting time. I mean, and there aren't a lot of other categories. It seems like just because you're not being productive doesn't mean necessarily that you're wasting time.
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Today on Something You Should Know, whether you're left-handed or right-handed has a strong influence on decisions you make. Then, how we humans perceive the world is different than the way a lot of other creatures do.
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Cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto says our hands and eyes have everything to do with how we interact with the physical world, and our handedness can have a lot to do with the decisions we make. Dr. Casasanto asked participants in a study to decide between two products to buy, two job applicants to hire, or two alien creatures to trust.
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Well, I love what you said, that there is no bigger waste of time than spending time worrying about wasting time.
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One of the things I think people find frustrating is when you schedule your time, you schedule things to do and how long it's going to take and however you schedule it. What you can't schedule is what you don't know. You don't know what's going to happen, what's going to come up, what emergency, what thing is going to need your attention that isn't on your list.
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And that causes frustration in a lot of people. It's like, oh, now I've got to waste time doing this other thing that wasn't in the plan.
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Still, there are people I know that I'm very envious of because they seem to get so much more done in a week or a day or whatever. You know, I'll see them on Facebook or something and, hey, they're over here doing this and then they did this other thing. And I'm thinking, how do they get it all done? And is it me and maybe they don't?
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Or are there just some people who seem to get a lot more done than others?
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Right-handed participants regularly chose the one on the right side of the page, while lefties chose the one on the left side of the page. People tend to prefer things they see or experience on the same side as their dominant hand. That's apparently because they're easier to reach, perceive, and interact with.
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Still, you must have found in your quest for, you know, the perfect productive day, there are some things, I don't know whether they're strategies or hacks or techniques or whatever, that will help you get more done or will help you at least get to the things that you say are important and that some people do seem to do that better than others.
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Talk about distraction. Because people, I think, are easily distracted because there are so many. And, you know, you can say, well, I was just being creative when I was looking at Facebook for 25 minutes. But no, maybe. But mostly you were just wasting time looking at Facebook. And maybe that's fine. But it does seem that we are easily distracted.
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And then we feel bad about it later because we wasted that time, you know, looking at Facebook or whatever. But... But distractions are there, and some people give in to them and other people don't.
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And you can use that phenomenon to your advantage by catering to someone's dominant side in professional or personal situations. And that is something you should know. As you travel through life on this planet, you see the world as it is, right? Well, not exactly. What you see is the world the way humans see the world.
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So let's talk about the difference between being productive and being busy, because I think there is a big distinction between the two, because I know a lot of people who are really busy, but they don't necessarily get a lot done. They're just busy being busy.
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What is the myth of balance?
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But other creatures on the very same planet see a very different world in very different ways. And so what makes this so interesting to me is that if animals see things so differently than we do, who's right? What is real? And does it even matter? Here to discuss this and give us some understanding of exactly how other creatures perceive their own reality is Ed Yong.
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Well, so much of what you've been talking about is how we feel about our productivity, not so much the productivity itself, but on those days where you really nail it, you just get everything done and everything goes well, and that feels great. So you kind of want more of those days, but...
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I don't know that those days are anything other than just, you know, freak accidents, that maybe that's not the goal, but those days sure do feel good.
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Well, it's good to hear, I think, for a lot of us, a lot of people, that that uneasy guilt feeling of not getting enough done or that feeling that I'm wasting time if I'm not on task all the time, that we all feel that at some time. And maybe we just need to be a little kinder to ourselves. I've been talking with Madeline Doerr. She is a writer and podcaster.
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Her podcast is called Routines and Ruts. And you can find that wherever you listen to podcasts. And her book is called I Didn't Do That Thing Today, Letting Go of Productivity Guilt. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Appreciate it. Thanks for being here, Madeline.
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Also, something to consider if you've ever thought of smuggling your own snacks into a movie theater. And our obsession with productivity and not wasting time.
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As I'm sure you know, movie theaters don't want you to bring in your own snacks. Many theaters forbid it. They all frown upon it. You probably could get away with it, but according to David Callahan, who's the author of a book called The Cheating Culture, doing so is really wrong.
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As a guest, you should obey the rules of the establishment, just like you would at any other business that serves food. Movie theaters make about 40% of their revenue from the sale of food and drinks. There's no doubt that the markups are sky high, but keep in mind that theaters have to share ticket sale revenue with film distributors and studios.
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In the old days, snacks and drinks were not allowed in most carpeted, plush theaters. Then once TV came along, the theater industry had to pull out all the stops and allow people to have snacks. But you really should buy the ones they offer. And that is something you should know.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster.
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He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and staff member at The Atlantic. And he's author of a book called An Immense World, How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World Around Us. Hey, Ed, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you.
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So when I look out the window, what I see isn't necessarily all that's there. It's just all that's there that I can perceive, which is a little hard to get your head around. So help me get my head around that.
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I would imagine that the reason creatures see that little slice that is uniquely theirs of the bigger reality is because that's what they need to see. That's what they need to perceive in order to survive.
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So one of the things that interests me about this is if there are other creatures that smell things we can't smell or see things that we can't see, how do we know that? Because if... If we can't see them, how do we know that they can see them?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Recently, I was asked to try a supplement called MitoPure and then talk about it here. And I said, well, let me check it out. So MitoPure is a precise dose of urolithin A. That's a metabolic compound that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And it's also found in small amounts in certain fruits and nuts.
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When you look at our ability to perceive the world compared to, say, other, well, any other animal, I mean, do we tend to do better than most? Do we see and perceive less than many? Where are we on the scale?
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We're talking about how different creatures on this planet see the world differently than we do. And my guest is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ed Yong. His book is called An Immense World, How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World Around Us.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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So, Ed, talk a little bit about animals that are maybe closer to home, like dogs and cats. Animals that we see more frequently and we observe their behavior, we're not necessarily sure what we're observing, so it might be interesting to find out.
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Hi, welcome. There's a really interesting website, I don't know if you've ever seen it, called Mental Floss. It's full of really interesting information, and I just came across this thing about why we have eyebrows I'd like to share. And it turns out there are three reasons we have eyebrows. First, they protect your eyes.
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When I listen to you talk, And I think when other people listen to you talk, you have a way about you, a lightness about you, a confidence. I don't know exactly what it is, but that you can maneuver your way through any conversation and have a pretty good time.
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with it, it seems, whereas other people struggle that this is, this is, I don't know if it's easy for you, but you seem to enjoy it versus people who it's hard to summon up the courage so that it's hard for them to see doing what you do from where they are.
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The shape of the brow ridge and the outward growing hair of the brow channel sweat, rain, and moisture away from your eyeballs so your vision stays clear. They can also catch dust and shield your eyes from sun glare. Secondly, eyebrows are essential for nonverbal communication. Scientists who study facial expression say eyebrows are important for expressing happiness, surprise, and anger.
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So you mentioned icebreakers, and I think that's where a lot of people struggle is like you want to start a conversation and you don't know what to say because it's a blank slate. So how do you begin? So let's talk about icebreakers.
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It almost seems like, as long as it's not goofy or offensive, that, I mean, people are usually at these things to talk to other people. It's not like this big formal opening statement kind of thing. It just seems like conversations would be fairly easy to start because that's why we're all here.
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Well, I think you've given people not only the tools, but also the confidence that, you know, it's just conversation. And there's some pretty easy ways to get it going and keep it going. And I appreciate you sharing that. Deborah Fine has been my guest. And the name of her book is The Fine Art of Small Talk. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Deborah. Thanks for coming on.
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Thirdly, eyebrows act as an ID card. Eyebrows stand out against the forehead and can clearly be seen from a distance. Eyebrows don't change very much over time, making them perfect for identifying people. And that is something you should know. A lot of people will tell you, I've heard a lot of people say that they hate small talk. It's boring, it's pointless, often awkward.
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Have you ever wondered why you do the things you do? Or why you use the words you use to say the things you say? Or why you decide to do this instead of that? So much of this goes on below the radar, it seems. We just do what we do. But it's actually pretty interesting when you look below the surface at why we actually do these things. That's what Helena Bashi studies.
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Helena is a psychologist and author of a book called Why We Do What We Do. Hi, Helena. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So explain a little bit about your work and what you mean by why we do what we do. Because, I mean, I do many things and I'm pretty sure I know why I do them. But then there are also a lot of things I do that, you know, when I stop and think about it, I don't know why I did it.
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Well, let's talk about language because, well, the words we use are so important to how we get along with other people, how successful we are. Using the right words matters. So how does that all work?
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You say something interesting, and that is that the brain doesn't see or doesn't recognize the word don't. And so that can cause a lot of problems. And so explain how.
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Well, maybe, but perhaps it doesn't have to be. In fact, small talk may be quite valuable, even rewarding, if you look at it and do it the way Deborah Fine does. Deborah is the author of the all-new revised edition of the book, The Fine Art of Small Talk. Hi, Deborah. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Well, that's interesting. So how do you maneuver what you say to leave people feeling a certain way?
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So let's talk about creativity, because that topic comes up a lot, and some people say, well, I'm not very creative, and other people say they are. And is creativity a God-given thing, or is creativity, like language, something you learn?
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So everybody has their own kind of idea of what small talk is, and it does have kind of a negative connotation to it. Like small talk means it doesn't matter. It's just small talk, and it's like a bubble that pops. It goes away. What's your definition of small talk?
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Let's talk about stress, because I think everyone has had that feeling of being really stressed out and not being able to perform well, not being able to think clearly. And the more stressed you are, the less clearly you think, and it's got to be taking a toll. So talk about what you see, the connection between stress and the brain.
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And so how does memory fit into this discussion? I mean, so much of who we are is our memories and it's part of our brain. So talk about memory.
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memories around so that we can sometimes see the world through another lens one thing you talk about that I don't think a lot of people understand I frankly don't really understand it very well is this thing we hear now about the gut brain connection can you talk about that
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Well, there certainly is a whole lot going on when it comes to what we do, what we say, the words we use, how we feel. I appreciate you explaining all this. Helena Bashi has been my guest. She is a psychologist and author of a book called Why We Do What We Do. And you'll find the link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Helena. Appreciate it.
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Yet, a lot of people, and I guess I put myself in this category, I don't really like, quote, small talk in the sense that it just, as you say, every relationship starts with small talk, but not every conversation with small talk ends up in a relationship. In fact, most don't. So in essence, it seems like a waste of time a lot of the time.
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Medicine and kitchen utensils don't mix. Dosing medicine is serious stuff, and some of us are a bit too casual about it. Millions of Americans are hurt every year by medication mistakes that could have been avoided. And two of the most common errors involve kitchen utensils. First of all, using a kitchen spoon to measure medications. People do it all the time.
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And they wind up taking either too much or too little of their medicine. You see, the people who make kitchen spoons are not required to make those spoons hold exactly a teaspoon of liquid. And they seldom do. It's better to stick with a dosing cup or maybe get a syringe that provides the right amount. Splitting medication with a knife is just a bad idea.
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Assuming you've got the okay from your doctor to split the pill in the first place, you really need to use a pill splitter because uneven cuts mean uneven doses. And that is something you should know. You know, the success of this podcast is due in large part to word-of-mouth marketing. People like you telling other people, how much you like it, and suggesting they give it a listen.
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And I hope you will continue that tradition and tell someone you know about Something You Should Know. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Also, if you use a teaspoon from your silverware drawer to take medicine, that's a problem. And why you do what you do and think the way you think.
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So let's talk about the tools of small talk, because I love that idea of asking someone what they do outside of work. You know, I mean, I don't talk a lot about it in my business, and that's why you didn't find much about it. But that's a great question to ask, because it makes people think and, you know, people love to talk about themselves.
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So that's probably going to be a real conversation opener. Yeah.
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So what are the other tools of small talk besides that rather great question? But what else works? Because as you say, sometimes as the conversation is going down the highway, you smack into a dead end and it's like, oh, now what are we going to talk about? Or why did I ask that? Or boy, this is going nowhere. So how do you keep it on the rails?
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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So besides digging deeper, what else?
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Nothing.
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We're discussing small talk with one of the real experts on the topic. It's Deborah Fine. She's author of the book, The Fine Art of Small Talk.
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So, Debra, I sense that you have this arsenal of things that you could probably have a pretty good conversation with almost anybody. But I think people also inadvertently kill conversations. And how do they do that? What are the kind of the poison pills of conversation?
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So one of the very first things you said at the beginning of our discussion is people who practice religious rituals live longer, are healthier. Is it because of that or is it something to do with when you practice these rituals, you somehow take better care of yourself or you eat better? I mean, is it a two-step process or is it just the religious rituals that are like magic?
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Hi there. Welcome to Something You Should Know. This time of year, during the holidays, there's a lot to do. So who wouldn't like some ways to get more done in less time? Well, here are three easy ways to do just that from productivity expert Don Wetmore. of the Productivity Institute. First, have a daily plan. It will make you more productive. Yet only about 20% of people actually do it.
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Even though the benefits are pretty good, as you've described them. I mean, longer life, better health, all kinds of great things come from being part of a religion. But I think people think they can't join the club because...
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They don't have this deep religious belief in God or whatever it is that keeps them outside, that makes them feel as if they're not welcome because they don't buy the premise, I guess.
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Yeah, that's really interesting that there is this idea that because things that are in the Bible couldn't have happened. And I'm too smart for this. So I dismiss the whole thing.
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The benefits you talk about of long life and better health, has anyone ever compared the religions to see if one delivers more benefit than the other?
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Even a simple to-do list will make a big difference, and it's much better than having no list at all. Plan to get a lot done. If you only plan one thing to do, it will take you all day to do it. When you pack your day with tasks, it creates a healthy pressure to be more productive. And clean up your workspace.
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But really, it does seem that it's more about the person than the religion, that it's your view of it rather than.
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There are people I know who will say that they're very religious, but they don't necessarily belong to a church, that they have faith, that they believe in God, that they have religion in them, but they don't practice a specific religion. Is having faith enough to get these benefits, or is it the practice of the rituals that gives you the benefits?
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Well, this has been a really interesting conversation because I think people think about this, but they don't talk much about it. And they kind of wonder what other people think and what the truth is. So thanks for shedding some light on that. David DeSteno has been my guest. He's the author of a book called How God Works, The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion.
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He also has an excellent podcast that has the same title, How God Works. And there's a link to the book and to the podcast. in the show notes. Thank you, David. Thanks for having me on Mike.
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I bet you have thought, at least a little bit, about what it would be like to go into space, the final frontier, to boldly go where no man has gone before. It all sounds very exciting. But what is the reality of going into space and living away from Earth? What would that really be like? Well, people have done it. They're doing it now on the space station.
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Studies show that working in a messy work environment will cause you to waste an hour a day being distracted. Organize your desk and you'll get that hour back. And that is something you should know. During the holiday season, even people who aren't very religious can get a little religious. There are probably a lot of people who attend church at Christmas time, but at no other time of year.
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And it turns out that being in space can be a little weird. Even little things like eating. For example, you can't shake salt onto your food in space because if you did, the salt would just float around in the air. To understand the reality of being in space and what it does to someone, I'd like you to listen to my next guest, who has actually been to space. Twice. To the space station.
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And the stories he is about to tell you are, as they say, out of this world. Dave Williams is an astronaut, an aquanaut, a pilot, ER doctor, scientist, and the former director of space and life sciences at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He's author of the book, Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space? Hey Dave, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So let me ask you first, just in general, is being in space difficult? Is it effortful? Is it hard? Or do you adapt? Does it just become normal after a while or not?
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And is that the biggest thing is the lack of gravity and that's and that cascades into creating other problems?
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Since we have enough data, you say people have been going to space for, you know, well, since the 60s. But do we have enough data to know that if you go to space, certain things happen to you or everybody's individual or it depends how much time or what? Yeah.
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And is that likely? And are we going to go to Mars or is somebody going to go to Mars anytime soon?
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And what about mentally, psychologically? Does being in space, does that experience kind of mess with your mind?
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And while you are there, is your day similar to an Earth Day in the sense of you sleep at, well, how do you even know what night is? But you sleep at some predetermined nighttime and you get up and have breakfast and then you work for a while and have lunch. I mean, is it that kind of day or totally different?
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I think people have a sense that religion is good for you. And as it turns out, religion can be very good for you, even though the number of people who are part of an organized religion has fallen. So what effects does religion have on the people who practice it? Well, this has been studied scientifically, and the results are fascinating and impressive. Here to talk about this is David DeSteno.
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And what does all this do when you're up there for months or weeks, however long you're up there, and you come back? What is it that has been determined that this is what happened to your body? Your body either sped up its aging or, as your book implies, the title, you got taller. What are the things that happened to the body?
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Do you, when you're up there with other people, do you get private time where you're not connected to somebody, that somebody isn't watching you or monitoring you? Do you get to be alone or are you always hooked up with other people?
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He's author of a book called How God Works, The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion. He's also host of a podcast called How God Works. Hi, David. Thanks for coming on Something You Should Know. Hi, thanks for having me on. So I think people have a sense that there's something good about religion, that it does have benefits. But what exactly are the benefits and who benefits?
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Well, I never thought of that. Yeah, you can't sprinkle salt and pepper because it would just float around, right?
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So if your muscles atrophy because there's no resistance to anything, you're not lifting anything heavy, it seems that that puts a clock on how long you could be up there because wouldn't you just kind of wither away if you didn't get back to Earth and start being pulled by gravity?
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But doesn't that put a limit on living in space? I mean, understanding it plateaus, but you're still hardly 100%.
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So I understand you're real busy when you're on the space station. You've got a lot of things to do. But the two or three days that it takes to get there, what do you do? Do you just sit there and look out the window? Or are you actually flying the thing? Or is a computer flying it mostly? Explain that process.
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What other challenges have come up that maybe you weren't anticipated that are making people think, well, we've got to solve this problem? Are there any others that really kind of get in the way of long-term space travel?
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I mean, what does it mean to be religious and how religious do you have to be to get the benefits?
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Really?
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What's the physical layout of the space station, the living part or the part you're in? I mean, how big is it? Where are the bedrooms? Where's the bathroom? You know, that kind of thing.
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Well, I think it would be really cool to experience that, to experience zero gravity, which I probably won't get to. But I certainly enjoy hearing it from you, someone who's been to space a couple of times. I've been talking to astronaut Dave Williams. He is a scientist, an ER doctor, and he is author of a book called Why Am I Taller? What Happens to an Astronaut's Body in Space?
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. This has been fun, Dave. Thank you. Okay, excellent, thanks. I'm sure you've heard of the phrase, perhaps even used the phrase, that's a whole nother story. It's pretty common. Some people consider the word nother as bad grammar, while others consider it just the natural evolution of language.
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You probably won't find the word nother in a standard dictionary, but it is in the Urban Dictionary. It's defined as an accidental word that comes out when your tongue is unsure if it wants to say other or another. But the Merriam-Webster Dictionary has a whole nother definition. It says the definition of nother is alteration from misdivision of another and other.
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And I've heard other people talk in general terms about the benefits of religion, but often those are people who advocate religion. They're often clergy members or whatnot. So they somewhat have an agenda, but not you. You're coming at this from a scientific point of view.
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Then, a look at the phrase, a whole nother story. Is nother really a word? And living in outer space, what does it do to people? You'll hear from someone who's lived there.
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Well, it's interesting this time of year in particular, you know, there are those people who go to church once a year and it's usually at Christmastime and then they never come back.
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But I think that people who even do that have a sense of that there is some comfort, there is something about the religious part of Christmas that is very, I don't know, it just, it feels right, it feels good, and then it's gone.
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Why does it have to be around a religion? Why can't you do all those rituals or those kinds of things and not have a God somewhere in the mix?
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If a person who doesn't believe, if an atheist were to dive into a religious community and do all the rituals and do all the things, do they still get the benefits? Or is belief, faith in that religion a necessary element?
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What typically draws people to a religion? I imagine in a lot of cases you grow up with a religion, you went to church because your parents took you to church, so you stick with that church. But other than that, what draws people to a religion and what causes people to resign from a religion?
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We're talking about the benefits, the rewards of having religion in your life, and we're talking with Dave DeSteno. He's author of a book called How God Works, The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion.
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So Dave, despite all these benefits that people experience, the number of people who would say they're members of an organized religion, that number keeps going down.
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But it would seem odd to me that people would switch faiths. You know, I don't want to be a Catholic anymore, so I'm going to become Jewish. I can't imagine that happens a whole lot. And Burning Man is once a year. So, I mean, it doesn't seem like that really fills the void. Yeah.
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If you were to just randomly stop people on the street and ask them, and there's a bias in the way you ask it, I guess, but do you get enough feedback? as much touch in your life as you want, which kind of implies you don't. So I guess you would be, the answers might be skewed. But in a, what do you sense? Do you think people wish they had more or wish or think they have too much?
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Or I mean, where do you think we are?
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What MitoPure is, is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A. I've read a lot about it. It's a natural compound. that's produced by gut bacteria. And MitoPure is this precise dose that encourages cellular renewal. MitoPure is the only urolithin-A supplement on the market clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And that's the thing.
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I want to find out about that 4% who say they have too much touch. Now, what does that look like? Who's touching them so much?
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Well, you made the distinction a few minutes ago between touch and affection. And I hadn't really thought about it, but they seem very closely related, but they're not the same thing. And I guess people could need affection and not need touch so much, right? Yeah.
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Is there research that helps to explain that if someone is touching you, if you're in an affectionate embrace, what happens in your brain that makes that so satisfying? What is the chemical reaction if there is one?
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Yeah, because it seems to me that if you have a lot of affection and touch in your life, It affects your behavior. I mean, as you say, it probably lowers your stress and makes you calmer and easier to get along with, and you're not so grumpy. Like, it has a lot of cascading benefits.
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What about the touch with a pet? Is there any research about that?
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There's something I've noticed about touch, and I'm sure other people have noticed this too, that yes, touch is a thing in and of itself, but it's also like a, I don't know, like an accent. It adds a little something to a conversation that makes it more impactful or more memorable when people touch during that conversation. Has there been any research into what I'm talking about?
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Well, it is interesting that it is a topic that is awkward to bring up. Like it's just not something people tend to talk about. It touches just something you either do or you don't do. But you don't really sit around and talk about your touch needs. Sounds a little weird.
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Well, it's certainly an important topic that we probably need to pay more attention to, and I guess we just did. Michael Banassi has been my guest. He is an award-winning professor and author of the book Touch Matters, Handshakes, Hugs, and the New Science on How Touch Can Enhance Your Well-Being. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Appreciate it. Thanks for coming on, Michael.
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Look out your window and up in the sky, there is space. Outer space. More space than you can imagine. And of course, scientists have been researching and exploring space for a long time now. But there are some things about space that you will find fascinating that you probably never knew. But you're about to, as you listen to my guest, Dr. Jillian Scudder.
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She is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Oberlin College in Ohio, and she's author of a book called The Milky Way Smells of Rum and Raspberries and Other Amazing Cosmic Facts. Hi, Jillian. Welcome. Thanks for being on Something You Should Know. Thanks very much for having me. So let's start with why you decided to look at some of these unusual things
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sort of oddball questions about space that most of us didn't read about or study in high school science class. Where does this all come from?
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Well, since it is the title, let's find out why the Milky Way smells of rum and raspberries. Because first of all, how would you even know that? And where do you go smell that?
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So wouldn't you say the galaxy is flatter than a credit card? I don't get that because that's not my experience. I'm in the galaxy and I'm not flatter than a credit card. So what do you mean?
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You say the universe is getting dimmer. Why? What's causing that?
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Hi, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. I appreciate you taking the time to join me.
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But I thought new stars were being formed all the time.
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How do we come to the conclusion that the universe is beige? Because again, that's not my experience that it's beige. What does that mean?
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So there are a lot of interesting and unusual and things I never knew kind of facts about space in your book. So pick one that you found, even you as someone who is an astronomer and a physicist, surprised you or fascinated you so much.
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One of the best things about the weather warming up, to me, is you start to smell that smell of freshly cut grass. If I had to pick my top scents, freshly cut grass would be right up there near the top, or maybe at the top. And interestingly, in an Australian survey, women chose the smell of freshly cut grass as the happiest smell over every other scent. Why do you suppose that is?
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Really? Yeah.
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And when was that? I mean, how long ago was the moon actively volcanic?
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And volcanic activity... Well, I guess, what causes a volcano? It seems like you would need some things that are particularly Earth-like to have a volcano. But I guess, I don't know.
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Thank you.
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Well, there is scientific data that helps to explain that phenomenon. Inhaling the smell of freshly cut grass can actually make you feel happier by halting the brain's production of the stress hormone cortisol. For me, it just somehow sends me right back to my childhood. It's just a very relaxing and calming smell.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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And interestingly, the actual purpose of the smell is that it's part of a defense process. The grass has been damaged by your lawnmower, and it goes through this process to defend and restore itself. And the smell is part of that process. And that is something you should know. The power of human touch, physical human contact.
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You've likely heard that it is good for you, and it certainly can feel good when you get a hug or a massage. Touch feels nice, but how is it actually good for you? Is more touch better? And are you getting enough of it? That's what Michael Banacy is here to talk about.
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Word of mouth is the primary way this audience grows. It really helps us if you would tell someone you know who you think would enjoy listening to listen to this podcast. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Michael is an award-winning professor and author of a book called Touch Matters, Handshakes, Hugs, and the New Science of How Touch Can Enhance Your Well-Being. Hi, Michael. Welcome. Hi, hi. Thanks for having me. So, based on the title of your book, I'm sure the answer is going to be yes, but in addition to touch feeling good, does it really do anything for your health or well-being?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why you and most other people probably enjoy the smell of cut grass. Then we'll explore the power of human touch, from a warm embrace to a simple handshake.
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Well, that's pretty impressive. And I guess one of the ways you would determine how good touch is for you is to look at people who don't get touched or don't get enough touch to see how bad that is.
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So how much touch is enough? Because it seems there's a big range. There are some people who are you know, very touchy-feely and like to hug everybody and just seem to crave that. And there are other people who are more standoffish and really don't like a lot of physical contact, particularly with strangers and maybe for fear of germs. So there seems to be a big range.
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So how do you know what's enough?
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Well, how do you figure that out?
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I'd like to talk for a moment about the touching that happens when you first meet someone. And I remember during the pandemic when people were saying, you know, the handshake is over, that no one will do that anymore. And boy, that came back faster than lightning, because I don't think we would know what to do without it.
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Then, would you know what to do if your oven caught fire? And what you never knew about outer space? Like, it's raining diamonds on Neptune.
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And it does seem that, you know, handshakes and those initial touches that we have with people set a tone and they do something. I just don't know what.
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Well, and imagine if someone refuses to shake your hand. I mean, there's a message that's pretty loud.
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Well, what did that research say? If a candidate doesn't shake an interviewer's hand, are they doomed?
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We're talking about the importance of touch, physical, human touch. And my guest is Michael Banasy, who is author of the book, Touch Matters, Handshakes, Hugs, and the New Science on How Touch Can Enhance Your Well-Being.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk quite a bit about health on this podcast, and I can tell you, I try to take care of myself. I mean, I work at it. And for a while now, I've been taking this supplement called MitoPure. And I can tell you, I feel stronger. When I exercise, I recover faster.
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So Michael, I know there has been some research about sports teams and how teammates who touch those teams perform better. So can you talk about that?
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And any explanation or suspicion as to why that is?
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Well, music can act... strongly in the brain in terms of triggering memories. So very often in our formative years, particularly teenage years, music can transport us back to a time and a place. So it can be very, very evocative. That's one effect that music can have. The other effect is that the rhythm and the tempo of the music can change our mood.
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Our choices will change depending on not only where we are, but who we're with, the time of day. Are we indoors? Are we outdoors? What's the temperature? And as they change, so our choices change.
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So classical music will make us feel a certain way, feel more calm, depending on the actual music, of course. But classical lullaby is soothing. It's calming. It's what helped calm us and send us to sleep as a child. Whereas classical music that is a march, with its particular tempo and rhythm will tend to make us feel a bit more excited and energised. And that's the case.
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We're not just talking about shopping here. That's the case in any time we're exposed to music. You can think about the music in a movie soundtrack. That is enormously important in evoking moods and helping us to feel as well as see what's going on on the screen.
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That's a really good question. And this has been studied by particularly neuroscientists who have observed what activity goes on in the brain when people make a purchase decision. And it is the same process irrespective of what we're buying, whether it's a TV set or a candy bar or an automobile or whatever it might be, the same process unfolds in the brain.
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And what happens first is that we perceive a so-called reward. There's a part of the brain which the scientists nickname the reward center, which helps us to make decisions. And it does that based on the associations that we have built with different offerings in the past. And those associations will be built through many different things.
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So the advertising that we have seen, our own personal experience with a brand, what other people say or tell us about the brand. what spokespeople or influences there might be for the brand, how the brand looks and feels, the packaging it has, any other sensory qualities that it might have, the reputation that we've learned that the brand has.
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All of these form neural networks of associations that when we come to be in a position where we want to make a purchase, let's take your example of the TV set, And if all the brands on offer are roughly about the same price, then we will tend to choose the brand whose rewards we have learned fit our job to be done best.
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I always remember a lovely conversation with a finance director of a car and automobile company. And he said, look, my last purchase decision was entirely rational. I had a fixed budget and I worked out what model I could have and what engine size and what trim and specification I could have. And it fitted my budget. And that's an entirely logical, rational decision.
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And I said to him, yes, you're absolutely right. But why did you go through all of that process to arrive at the decision? And he said, oh, so I could have a BMW outside my house. So what he just displayed there was this mixture of the functional, rational stuff, but also the social, emotional, psychological side that actually having a BMW outside his house said something about him.
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as a person and made him feel a certain way and he chose BMW to do that rather than another automobile brand because of what he'd learned about BMW what it stood for what the associations were and that's what was factored into his decision
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What it tells us is, and it's based on the fact that our perception is always relative. It's never absolute. So we don't really know the value of, unless you're a real wine aficionado and an absolute expert, then how do you judge the value of a bottle of wine?
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And anchoring is the principle by which the first bit of information we see, so the most expensive bottle, acts as an anchor for what follows. And generally, we tend to pick a middle option.
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When I started in the field that I'm working in now, one of my colleagues who is a psychologist said, human behavior is always the product of the person and the situation they're in. So that situation is contextual. And it's exactly why, for example, when you're on vacation and you drink a rose wine, somewhere very warm when you're relaxed, etc.
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And you come back home and you see that same wine on sale and you think, oh, I remember that was fantastic and I'll buy it. And you do and you drink it at home and it never tastes the same. It never tastes the same. No, exactly. And the reason is because the context has changed. Our choices will change depending on not only where we are, but who we're with, the time of day, what we're doing.
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You know, is it a business meeting? Are we on vacation? Are we meeting some friends? Is it a formal occasion? These are all contextual factors. Are we indoors? Are we outdoors? What's the temperature? All of these things. What's the day of the week? All of these are contextual factors. And as they change, so our choices change. Now, we don't change as individuals.
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We're the same individual in all of those situations. But if you change the situation, then our choices can change.
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Thanks, Mike. It's been a real pleasure.
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yes i think so nowadays there are far many more substitutes available you do get some real die-hard loyalists who will only drink one brand of cola for example but generally people shop from a repertoire and they're quite happy depending on the price depending on the convenience where they are the context in which they find themselves they're quite happy to swap out one brand for another as long as it
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it makes this job to be done. As long as they functionally perform and they also tick a box in terms of the social, emotional and psychological level, then we're quite happy to buy from a repertoire.
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For sure. There are some tactics that everyone should watch out for. And I'll give you a couple of classic examples. When you're online and you're looking at a product and a little window pops up and says, only two left in stock. Or if you're looking at booking a flight or a hotel room and you see something that says five other people are looking at this room or this flight right now.
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It triggers a sense of urgency in us that goes right back through evolution because our ancestors lived from famine to feast and they didn't know when the next supplies or particular resource would be available. So then the nudge was to get what you could when it was available.
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And when we see something that says that there's time pressure or that quantities are limited, we do feel this urge to click online or to buy in a store. And that's something we should watch out for because often it can tip us into a purchase that we might not otherwise have made if we weren't under that time pressure or if we didn't feel that quantities were limited.
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Well, that depends. Sometimes there are, but there have been cases that have been called out by the industry and advertising standards bodies where this is deliberately misleading. And in fact, if you're online and you cleared your browser, cleared your cache and your history, and you go back into the same website, you might find that, in fact, there are seven left the next time you visit.
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so you really need to you really need to be careful with this this sort of thing
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What you're talking about is an effect known as priming, and it's been around for decades. You think when you go into a supermarket and you smell freshly baked bread, that's another example of priming. It triggers your appetite. Now, the fact is that you will not buy bread if you don't want it, right, even though there's this lovely smell of warm baked goods coming at you.
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Similarly, if you hear... French music or Italian music or whatever, and you don't need to buy wine that day, then you're not going to. So it's not like the supermarkets are tricking you. It's not like they're making you do something that you don't want to do.
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when the studies you're talking about with the music played in the aisles where wine is sold did influence purchases, but it was of people who were already going to buy wine. So yes, we can be swayed by this, but not tricked into doing something that we wouldn't otherwise have done.
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You know, this idea that we're sort of walking around like zombies ready to be brainwashed couldn't be further from the truth.
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I can't honestly say that I have, no. Really? Yeah, yeah, really. No, I've been triggered into buying stuff, but simply because I've bumped into it in the store. And that happens with a lot of purchases. Whenever we make a purchase decision, it's either a memory-based decision. I might write a physical shopping list.
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or just have a mental shopping list of things that I know that I need, and that constitutes my reason for going shopping. But when I'm in the store, then I will be stimulated by other things in the store. And that's the same whether it's a department store or grocery store or wherever. Simply the fact that I have seen things can trigger a purchase decision. But I go back to what I said before.
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I'm not being made to buy something against my will.
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There are some quite strange effects that have been studied in psychology. A great example was in 1997 when NASA started the Pathfinder series of space exploration to the planet Mars. I can remember... Remember it well, seeing it on TV. But whilst that was going on, the Mars Confectionery Company in the US reported an abnormal jump in sales.
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And they said, it's really weird because we're not doing any extra promotion. We're not doing any extra advertising. And yet sales of Mars are rising. And the psychologists came in and explained this. They said this is an effect known as fluency. And fluency in the brain is a cognitive process that basically says once we have been exposed to one particular stimulus,
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The next time we see that stimulus, it's processed more easily. And the fact that it's processed more easily makes it become more familiar to us. And as a result of familiarity, we like it better. So what was happening was that people in the U.S. were being exposed to the word Mars more. on a daily basis. It was in all the news reports, on all the TV channels.
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It's Mars, Mars, Mars, Mars, thanks to the NASA program. And when they went shopping and saw a Mars bar, this fluency triggered a purchase. Simply because it was easier for them to process in the brain. And the same thing explains why sales of orange-colored items rise at Halloween, which just sounds crazy, doesn't it?
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And it's because orange is such a salient color at Halloween, because of pumpkins, of course, that sales of... quite unrelated orange items like soda drinks, orange-flavored soda drinks, go up at the same time because the color orange is present. So there are some weird things. And as I said, this is not forcing people or making people do things against their will. People will buy a Mars drink.
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chocolate bar quite happily. It just so happened that the process was made easier because the word Mars was so salient in the media.
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It is a strange one. Another interesting example for you is known as the framing effect, which basically says that the way information is presented affects our perception of things. So if you give people some ground beef and you label it as 90% fat free, and then you show people the identical ground beef, but label it as 10% fat. So objectively and rationally, they're identical, right?
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10% fat is exactly the same as 90% fat free. But people will tell you that the 90% fat free meat is better quality, it's healthier, and they're willing to pay more for it as well.
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What does that word microbe mean? So a microbe is any organism that you essentially need a microscope to see. So any living thing that's invisible to the naked eye. So these include things like bacteria, fungi, also known as fungi, fungi, depending on where you are in the world, algae, these tiny organisms called archaea.
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And so these prefer extreme environments, things like hot springs, but they also occur in the human body too. There's protozoa as well. So these are tiny animal-like creatures. And some consider viruses to be microbes too. But there's a debate about whether they're alive or not. And most people would say that they're not alive. And so microbes are everywhere. They're inside us. They're on us.
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They're in the environment around us, in the soils, on plant leaves, in the air. So yeah, they're essentially any organism that you wouldn't be able to see with the naked eye. So things like germs, those are microbes because you can't see them. Anything you can't see is a microbe. Yeah, anything that's living is a microscopic organism or a microbe for short. And you study them. Why?
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So over the last 150 years or so, we've had this quite negative, demonizing view of microbes because germ theory suggested that microscopic organisms cause diseases. And a few microbes do cause disease, but many of them, over 99%, are actually harmless to us or really beneficial and vital for our survival.
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And so I'm trying to change the narrative along with many other people that we need to look at microbes in a more positive way and try and understand their functional roles in keeping us alive and all of our life alive on the planet.
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Sure. I mean, we didn't know much about them until the 19th century. Germ theory kind of, you know, is this leading theory that suggested that we really need an explanation for why so many people had diseases and why so many people were dying. And so it's just sort of, it created a storm from there, I guess, that, you know, all microbes are bad.
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And we thought we didn't have the technology to understand that microbes can actually do good things as well. And they're really complex communities of life. Well, between 10 and 30 years, we've developed much more advanced technology in order to understand them at the community level.
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How'd they get there? Trillions. So they get there from largely from the environment around us. So when we're born, we pick them up from our mothers, we pick them up from our food, we pick them up from spending time in the natural environments around us. And so we emit actually, it's this kind of constant flux between our bodies and the environment around us.
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So we emit a million biological particles every single hour. So every one of us is kind of surrounded by this microbial cloud that's
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Yeah, so many of them will be benign. So many of them will just be fleeting. But some of them will play really important roles in keeping you alive. So some microbes are really important for digestion in the body. So what you eat needs to be broken down in order so that you can use the micronutrients. Some microbes are important in cell signaling.
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And so they produce chemicals that allow our cells to communicate. So every cell in our body is needed, requires... these chemicals in order to communicate with each other. And they're thought to be important in brain health, lots of different things in our bodies here. So they play important functional roles in keeping us alive.
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Yeah, so it'll be likely very different. So you'll likely have different species in there. Depending on how you treat your body, what kind of food you eat, whether you exercise regularly, whether you spend time in certain environments, how much pollution you're exposed to, these kind of things, these all affect your walking ecosystem. So your body is essentially a walking ecosystem.
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Um, and yeah, so your microbiome will be quite different to somebody else's, but it might be more similar to someone you live with because you're kind of exchanging microbes with the people that you interact with every day. Um, so yeah, it would likely be quite different to mine because I'm at the other side of the world, not interacting with you.
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defining a healthy microbiome is an ongoing debate at the minute. So it's kind of difficult to define and sort of extrapolate to everybody across the world. So each of us have different requirements and one microbiome might look different to the other, but it might not necessarily be healthier than the other. So there's an ongoing debate at the minute.
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It's likely that our microbiomes will be very different, but everybody has kind of different requirements and different species. But there's also a concept called functional microbiome.
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redundancy so even though you might have different species in your body to mine they may have the same functional roles you know providing chemicals and all sorts of different compounds our bodies need so we hear things like you know oh you should take probiotics and because that's good for your microbiome and what is is that all nonsense or is there some science there or what
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Yeah, so there is some science. Some of it's conflicting, so we need more evidence. We need more randomized control trials. But there is some evidence that suggests that taking probiotics can improve the balance, the ratio of healthy or good microbes to these opportunistic pathogens for sure. And it makes sense as well. And, you know, prebiotics are really important as well.
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So these are the foods that your microbes feed on. And so having diverse prebiotics in the form of diverse vegetables and fruits, et cetera, provides the nutrients that a healthy gut ecosystem requires. And so that's good for you as well.
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I think there's decent evidence, but it's not compelling necessarily. And it's mostly, I'd advise to take a more holistic approach. So, you know, having a more diverse diet with lots of different colored fruits and vegetables, spending time in biodiverse environments, these kind of holistic approaches. It's likely that supplements will have a small effect, but
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Again, I'd advise to take more of a kind of lifestyle holistic approach to your health.
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Yeah, so it's a really exciting field of research at the minute on the microbiota gut-brain axis. And it's thought that microbes in the gut can communicate with the brain by various different pathways, for instance, releasing certain chemicals and compounds that tinker with the cells and the fibers of our nerve cells that link the gut to the brain, and vice versa as well.
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It's thought that the brain can communicate with the gut and its microbes via what's called a vagus nerve. So this is the largest cranial nerve in the human body. But there are other pathways as well, but it's early days, early research, but it's really exciting. And it's thought that these microbes can produce these chemicals that do have an effect on our brains.
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So for instance, they could affect our moods. So experiments have shown that animals, non-human animals that is, have shown that gut microbes can influence feeding decisions sexual preferences, mood, how attracted or averse an animal is to a particular smell, and even the types of environments that animals choose to spend time in, which is quite incredible really.
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One recent study showed that gut microbes in mice had a direct significant influence on their desire to exercise by regulating chemical signaling in the brain, particularly related to dopamine. So yes, in microbes, we need more studies in humans, but microbes could potentially influence all sorts of, um, all sorts of behaviors.
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Yeah, so we have distinct microbial communities, for instance, on our skin, in our airways, you know, under our armpits, the microbe, microbial community is going to be different to the microbial communities in our guts. And they all play really important roles or important functional roles in our health.
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So microbes on our skin play an important role in our immune system, protecting it from those few pathogens that do cause disease. So if you have a diverse microbiome, then it's more likely to, you know, they're more likely to say, you know, there's no room at the end and boot out these opportunistic pathogens that try and invade our bodies.
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And the same goes for the gut microbiome as well with the gut microbiome is the most, the sort of the, the dentist habitat on our body. So it has the most number of species and it plays various other roles, you know, like breaking our food down. So it's important in digestion as well.
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But yes, like you said, there's a lot of microbe communities in different parts of our bodies, in our mouths and our skin, et cetera, that also have really important roles in keeping us alive.
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Yeah, so around 100 trillion bacteria, I believe. And I think there's many more viruses as well. And how long do they typically last?
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Yeah, so microbes have a really short lifespan, but they also... are able to reproduce rapidly as well. So they may die within hours or days, but they also rapidly reproduce. They replace themselves as well. And the same kind of predator-prey dynamics that you see in ecosystems, for example, when a lion hunts down an antelope,
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These same principles of ecology apply at the microscopic scale as well. And so we have these turnovers of microbial communities as a result of predator prey dynamics. So viruses will hunt down bacteria, much like, again, the lion would hunt down an antelope. So these viruses called bacteriophages specialize in hunting down bacteria. And in fact, And this is quite an interesting statistic.
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So every 48 hours, half of all the bacteria on the entire planet are killed by phages. So that's quite mind blowing to think about. And I'm sorry, what is that word again? Phages, yeah. So some people call them phages, but in the UK we call them phages. And they're called bacteria phages. They're like these tiny little spider-like spaceships from Mars. If you Google them, you'll see what I mean.
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They have these landing gear and they land on the bacteria and then inject their DNA into the bacteria and it ends up killing them.
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So Professor Graham Rook, he's an immunologist from London. He put forward what's called the old friends hypothesis. And this suggests that we've co-evolved with these microorganisms, these specific microbes over hundreds of thousands of years. And they've played a key role in shaping and regulating our immune system. And that's why they're called old friends.
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And it's important that we expose these old friends in order to for them to regulate what's called our innate immune system and our innate immune system is also known as non-specific immunity and so it will attack anything that tries to invade the body in the absence of proper regulation so it'll attack ordinarily innocuous substances like dust and pollen
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And in extreme cases, it will attack our own cells as well. And that's what manifests as an autoimmune disease. And so we need to be exposed to these different microbes from the environment in order for them to play this regulatory role in our innate immune system.
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But it's also really important to be exposed to as many different microbes as possible as well in order to train what's called our adaptive immune system. And so Graham likens the human immune system at birth to a computer. And so at birth, we have the hardware, which is analogous to the cellular structures of our immune system.
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But we also have the software, which is analogous to the genes that encode for proteins and functions that allowed our immune system to function. But the thing that's missing at birth is data. And much like a computer model or computer system requires data in order to be trained, in order to be functional, so does our immune system.
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And so by being exposed to as many different species of microbes from a young age as possible, we're able to build up this large repertoire of what's called tiny immune cells. And these are memory cells. Remember all these different shapes and sizes of microbes and allow us to mount a much more efficient immune response to pathogens in the future.
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And so these are two of the reasons why we need to be exposed to the microorganisms in the natural environment from a young age as well. Because as I mentioned earlier, it's the period between zero and two or three years old, which is when our gut microbiomes are most plastic or most able to be colonized from the microbes in the environment.
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So it's important that our kids spend time in natural environments, playing in dirt, climbing trees, et cetera.
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Yeah, exactly. So I like, there's a phrase I like to use, it's all the nature you can see intimately depends on all the nature you can't see. And by this I mean that, you know, the animals, the plants, everything that we can see,
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intimately depends on these symbiotic relationships with the invisible world and so microbes are really important they live live in and on plants so they live in the soil on plant roots inside plant roots everything you can think of microbes live in on and as i said just like the human body
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So this has been quite a human-centric talk, but just like the human body, how micros play these core functional roles in keeping us alive, they also play these important functional roles in keeping all other animals and plants alive too.
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We've degraded over the last century, we've degraded the soil so much through adverse farming practices, etc. And these monoculture fields are not applying principles of ecology to our agriculture. And so in order to have soil health, in order to have healthy soils, We need to think about the biology of the soil. It's a really important factor.
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So the microbes in the soil play really important roles again in decomposition, in providing nutrients for plants, etc. And because we've had this soil degradation over time, we're actually losing the micronutrients in the soil. And then the micronutrients that would ordinarily transfer to the plants and the fruits and vegetables that we eat, are becoming less dense because of this degradation.
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And so how it relates to this conversation is that we need to understand the microbial ecology of the soil and protect it in order to protect the nutrients of our foods, basically.
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yeah it's mind-blowing how come i never heard of this i know it's i don't know i've never heard it until i researched it for the book to be honest but there's some figure about apples as well with iron content i think that's quite 26 apples to get the same amount of iron from a single apple in 1940 that's amazing it is amazing it depends on where the apple's grown and where these vegetables are grown so you know organic or um
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regenerative agricultural principles, well, that figure probably doesn't apply to those situations. It's these kind of mass monoculture agricultural situations where the nutrients will be less dense, essentially.
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So we have these broad spectrum or more specific antibiotics, particularly the broad spectrum ones. These will destroy lots of different microbes that are living in your body. And many of these may play those important roles in keeping you healthy. So if we take antibiotics regularly, then we're essentially napalming that rainforest regularly. We're destroying the gut ecosystem.
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So it's going to have a really detrimental effect on your health and your immune system. You can bounce back again by applying more holistic principles to your life, make sure you have a diverse diet, lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise plenty, spend time in biodiverse environments, these kinds of things. But the longer you live, the longer it takes to bounce back from these events.
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And so when you're much younger, your gut ecosystem is more likely to recover much quicker than when you're older. What would exercise have to do with it? So exercise has been shown to be really important in providing certain chemicals that gut microbes need in order to select those more beneficial microbes as opposed to pathogens.
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It's also good for bowel movement, so it moves toxins away from building up in certain areas. And also, if we think about the microbiota-gut-brain axis, this two-way communication system linking our brains to our guts,
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exercise is really important for our brains and our moods etc so it's likely to have an important role um in our ecosystem as well via our brain and vice versa so there's various ways in which exercise is good for our microbes well it is amazing to think of all this little tiny microbial life going on around us and in us and we're so unaware of it and yet there's so much going on
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We've had this quite negative, demonizing view of microbes, that microscopic organisms cause diseases. And a few microbes do cause disease, but many of them, over 99%, are actually harmless to us or really beneficial and vital for our survival. All this today on Something You Should Know.
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So not all friends are equal, right? You have good friends, you have a best friend, you have some, you know, minor friends. So how do people end up where they end up on that hierarchy?
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And to be vulnerable means what?
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Like?
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What about the lifespan of a friendship? Some friendships last forever and some fade away and some break up.
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Wait, you said half our friends don't consider us friends?
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Well, I don't know. I don't think I get it. How could you think someone is a friend and they don't?
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And so maybe the solution would be to try to stop the clutter from coming in in the first place. And there are six basic rules that can really help cut back on some of that inbox clutter, according to Caitlin Sherwood, who wrote a book called Overcome the Email Overload. First of all, when you send a message, you can sign off by saying no reply needed.
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Well, how has social media, like you say, and people say they have friends on social media, but those aren't friends. And I also wonder if social media interferes with friendship, because it's an easy way to keep in touch with people, but you're not really in touch with people.
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No coincidence there.
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So what about friendship that we haven't talked about do you think people either don't understand or would benefit from knowing that they may not know from all the work you've done?
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Now, I wanted to ask you, because I know I've had this thought, as much as I might like talking to someone, I don't necessarily want to be their friend. I mean, I've had that situation. I've been at events or parties or whatever, and it's great talking to the person, but I don't see them as friend material for me, even though it's perfectly fine and pleasant right now.
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It's going to stop right here.
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That way you won't get the reply of thanks or great. which just clutters up your inbox. Another suggestion, when making a request, finish with thanks in advance to prevent the thanks-you're-welcome loop that tends to go on. When completing a response to an email request, end with a conclusive statement like, hope this helped.
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Well, for anyone who wants to understand how friendship works and how to make friendship work, this really has been a great conversation. Marissa Franco has been my guest. She is a friendship expert whose work has appeared in Psychology Today, Scientific American, and the New York Times. And she's author of the book, Platonic, How the Science of Attachment Can Make and Keep Friends.
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thank you, Marissa.
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If you're listening to this podcast, you most likely speak at least some English. And English is a tricky language. There are a lot of rules, and sometimes the rules contradict other rules. And then there's pronunciation and punctuation that doesn't always seem to make sense. And English is, in some ways, more than one language. American English is different than British English in many ways.
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So to help us understand and use the language better is Ellen Joven. She holds degrees from Harvard and UCLA, and she has studied 25 languages. She's author of a book called Rebel Without a Clause, Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian. Hey, Ellen. Hi. Welcome.
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So I've heard, we've all heard that English is a complicated language. Why is it so complicated?
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So here's an example of a question I think a lot of people have. We have two words, further and farther. And farther technically refers to physical distance. You went farther. You didn't go further. You walked farther. But does it really matter?
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Use FYI in the subject line, which helps to specify that the message is solely for informational purposes only and doesn't need a reply. And don't write statements phrased like questions like, Peter and Laura did a great job, didn't they? because your co-workers will feel compelled to answer the didn't they question, and you then end up with more pointless emails.
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Same thing for lie down or lay down. It's hard to always remember what's right. And again, does it really matter?
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I think people who are interested in this topic, everybody has like their at least one little thing that they're a stickler about. And one that I hear a lot is like when you say, how are you? And some people say, I'm good. And other people say, no, no, no, no, you're well, you're not good. What say you?
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What about punctuation? People get so confused about punctuation. For example, I can't remember the last time I used a semicolon because I don't really know when to use it.
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Wow. I never looked at it that way. Versus the colon, which I think has a more structured use, right?
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When you receive an email and you're not the intended recipient, you're on the CC list, but you must reply, send your responses only to the sender instead of to everybody. And that way you'll cut down on all those other people's clutter as well. And that is something you should know. Friendship is interesting. There's no manual on how to make or keep friends.
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Today on Something You Should Know, simple ways to reduce the number of emails you get. Then, how friendship works, why we need friends, and why friends often come and go.
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Sometimes there's an apostrophe in there and sometimes there's not. And I think I overuse the apostrophe. So what's the rule?
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Apparently so.
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You have an example in the book. Is it, I saw a UFO, or I saw an UFO, because UFO begins with a U, but nobody says an UFO.
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So you pick one of these that you find interesting or people ask you a lot about.
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Friends come to us in different ways at different times. Some stay, some go. But I think we all have a sense that friends are important. Still, some of us are better at friendship than others. Some people have a lot of friends. Some people don't have any friends. Here to talk about the importance of friendship and how to make and keep friends is psychologist Dr. Marissa Franco.
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Let me see if I can think of an example. Oh, yeah. So here's an example of something that confuses me sometimes. I saw this couple. They were nice. Well, it's a couple and then it's they. So something's not right there.
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Well, as you say, there are a lot of influences on language, and those influences eventually make changes in the language, and then there are people who are kind of holding the line, saying, well, those changes are not proper English, but eventually they become proper English.
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And what fascinates me about slang, not that I know much about it, is how the word cool has transcended everything. Cool has been cool forever.
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Isn't that amazing that that one word, there's no other slang word, well, it's not even slang anymore, but there's no other slang word that has lasted as long as that.
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She's been studying friendship for a long time. Her work has appeared in Psychology Today, The New York Times, and Scientific American. She's author of a book called Platonic, How the Science of Attachment Can Make and Keep Friends. Hi, Marissa. Welcome. Thanks for being here.
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There are times in English where you say or read a sentence where the word is repeated, like he had had enough. Is that correct? Yes.
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So here's something that happens when you write a sentence that contains a list. Like if I were to write, I got my coat, hat, and gloves. That's the sentence. I got my coat, hat, and gloves. I would put a comma after my coat, comma. hat, and gloves. But Microsoft Word, and I imagine other word processing programs, tell you that there should be a comma after hat.
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It should be my coat, comma, hat, comma, and gloves. I don't typically do that. Who's right?
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Is there anything else that people ask you a lot that they're confused about when they're writing or speaking English?
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So this is kind of an obvious question maybe, but why are friendships so important?
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Well, I always enjoy talking about how the language works because everyone has questions about it. They're confused about things. And it's always good to get some clarification on a lot of the most common ones. My guest has been Ellen Joven. She is a grammar expert and author of the book Rebel Without a Clause, Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian.
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And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Ellen. Thanks for being here.
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How many times do you chew your food? If you were to count, you would want to count 21 times per bite. That's the number of times the average lean person chews, according to a study. The average obese person chews only 17 times per bite. You've probably heard that chewing more can result in weighing less, and apparently it's true.
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Dr. Sharon Wang, author of the study, says the act of chewing releases hormones that tell the brain when to stop eating and will eventually start to suppress the appetite. So chewing your food more can help you weigh less. And that is something you should know. Reviews are always helpful because it helps us with the rankings, but it also helps us know what people think.
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So please leave a review for our podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. I'm Micah Ruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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In Don't Blame Me, we dive deep into listeners' questions, offering advice that's funny, relatable, and real.
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Also, some interesting intel about how you chew your food and some common questions and answers about the English language, how we speak it and how we write it.
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And yet I hear, I think I've heard, that people tend to have fewer friends than they used to. Is that true?
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Okay, so friendship is good for you. So why is loneliness bad for you?
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Well, that's clearly a problem if what you're saying is so, that if you're lonely, it makes you act in a way that alienates people and makes you more lonely. So loneliness gets you more loneliness, right?
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Which means what?
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It does seem that friendships are much easier for kids. Kids seem to have very little trouble making friends and adults seem to have a lot of trouble making friends.
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Yeah, I never thought of it that way. I thought it was more of a, you know, kids are just more willing to go up to somebody and say, hi, I want to be my friend. And adults don't do that.
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So when we see someone do something like get quiet or somebody does something that we perceive as rejection, we blow that up. And it's often just all in our head.
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Because I've always thought that if you're at a function, if you're at a party or some sort of event, and there's lots of people there, and people are reluctant to go up and talk to you, well, why are those other people there? They wouldn't be there if they didn't want to talk to you. They would have stayed home.
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To make a friend is to do what? Because every friend has to start as an acquaintance first or just someone you meet. What's that progression look like?
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Well, what are some of the things that bring people, theoretically, more together? I mean, meeting somebody at an event, you might meet 10, 15, 20 people. They're not all going to become friends. So what is it that makes the friend stick out?
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So like in romance, you can't go up to somebody and say, will you be my friend? Because that's going to typically make the person run away because there's something weird about saying, will you be my friend? Just like, will you be my girlfriend or my boyfriend or whatever? And so are there preferred, more successful ways to start the relationship and continue to build the relationship?
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Or it just kind of happens or it doesn't?
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
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Marissa Franco is my guest. She's an expert on friendship and author of the book, Platonic, How the Science of Attachment Can Make and Keep Friends.
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So Marissa, is there any sense of how long it takes to make a friend? How long it takes to go from zero to 60 to get to a friendship?
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. Like a lot of people, I start my day, pretty much every day, checking emails. Because there is a lot of it. I get a lot of emails and I kind of like to get through it and weed them out and throw away the junk and file the other stuff. And it turns out a lot of people start their day checking their email inbox to get rid of the clutter.
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One question I've always wondered about, and I think everybody's pondered this, in a family, you have kids, siblings, and they turn out very differently, even though they were raised in the same house, by the same parents, with the same rules. So why is that? Why does one kid go one way and another kid go the other way?
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But they can also end up not quite different in similar ways.
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But what about things like – I think isn't Albert Einstein's brain in a bottle somewhere that they wanted to examine it? Because how could somebody so brilliant be one of us? He's just so amazingly smart. But is there any idea of why somebody is just so – Head and shoulders above everybody else. When it comes to anything. Whether it's for good or evil. You know Jeffrey Dahmer. Or Albert Einstein.
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I mean these are just extraordinarily. Extraordinary people. Why?
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You mentioned earlier that experiences that we have help shape who we are. And we all have big experiences. Sometimes, very oftentimes, we have very bad experiences, traumatic experiences. And then there's that saying of, you know, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. So what does the science say about how trauma impacts who you are?
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That's interesting. So the notion that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger is not true at all.
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What a horrible thing to say.
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The person that I think I am, and what I mean is how good a person I think I am, is that the person other people see? Does it tend to match up, or are we somewhat deluding ourselves into how good we are that other people don't necessarily think we're so great?
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Well, that should come as a relief to a lot of people. This has been interesting. I've been talking with Paul Bloom, who is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. And he has a book out called Psych, The Story of the Human Mind. And you'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks for being here, Paul. Appreciate it. Thank you. This was a lot of fun.
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For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. Life is uncertain.
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You can't be sure what the future will bring. Now that can be exciting, and it can also be scary. The fact is we're wired to be afraid of uncertainty because, well, bad things can happen. So can good things, but often the fear of the bad things prevents us from going after the good things. And that fear does seem to affect some people more than others. So what can we do about this?
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How can we make uncertainty our friend? Well, joining me to discuss this is Nathan Furr. Nathan is a professor who studies and teaches about innovation and technology. He's the author of four books on innovation, and the latest one is one he co-wrote with his wife Susanna called The Upside of Uncertainty. Hey, Nathan, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you for having me.
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So as you look into the future, the uncertainty of the future, good things can happen and bad things can happen. We as human beings seem more afraid of the bad things, that we're more concerned about bad things happening than we are about the prospect of the good that comes if good things happen. And so why is that?
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Hey, hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. When you hear the letters RX together, you probably think of medicine. I mean, you see RX at the drugstore, on signs, and on bottles of medication. But what does RX have to do with medicine? Well, the R part of the symbol stands for the Latin recipe, which means take this. The X part of the symbol is derived from the symbol for the Roman god Jupiter.
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Well, that does that wiring does seem to be an obstacle because I mean, you think about it as you look at the possibilities of something that might happen in the future. It does seem that we go to the negative, like, well, what bad thing could happen more than we rush to the possibility of great things happening? We just we just have that negative bias.
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Are there people who are naturally good at this, are naturally good at facing uncertainty, seeing the uncertainty, and just moving forward anyway without being thrown off course?
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Today on Something You Should Know, what do the letters RX stand for when it comes to medicine? Then, how the human mind makes you who you are and how it constantly changes as you get older.
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Right. Well, I've always thought that, you know, if life were so certain, well, it wouldn't be very interesting. It would be pretty dull if you knew that everything you did worked out. Well, where's the fun in that?
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It represents a prayer or invocation to Jupiter that the treatment would result in a cure with divine help. So our X really means take this and pray. And that is something you should know. Trying to understand the human mind, what it is, how it works, how it shapes and creates who you are, it all sounds really interesting, but also seems like a difficult thing to get your head around.
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Right. So there are times when you do want uncertainty. Uncertainty, lack of uncertainty makes a boring life. Uncertainty would make things kind of exciting.
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So how do you approach this systematically? If you're facing something that you're feeling very uncertain about and you want to do the kinds of things you're talking about, step one, two, and three are what?
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So that's really your attitude towards it, right? I mean, if you look at a situation, you can see the possibilities or you can drown in the misery. It really depends on your outlook.
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Here's the thing, though. It's one thing, as I listened to that example, it's one thing to say that, to say, oh, you know, look at the opportunity here and still feel very fearful that just logically this could be a disaster.
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I mean, part of the problem is there's a lot about the mind and the brain we don't really know or understand. But there's also a lot we do understand. And here to explain that in a way we can all grasp and understand is Paul Bloom. Paul's a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and professor emeritus of psychology at Yale.
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Well, that take action thing is one that I really pay attention to because I find that sitting around kind of wringing your hands feeds the beast of uncertainty. And doing something, almost anything, is better than not.
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It is so interesting that uncertainty has this weird balance. Like without it, life would be dull, but with it, life can be stressful. And how you balance that out, I guess, really helps determine where you go and how well you do.
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And he's author of a book called Psych, The Story of the Human Mind. Hi, Paul. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hey, thanks for having me here. So let's start with happiness because I think we all want to be happy. Everybody has a sense of what makes them happy personally. But on a scientific level, what is it that makes brains, minds, human beings happy?
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Well, they're also, I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I have to fight back on this feeling that if I make a wrong decision, it's forever. And so often it's not. If you do make the wrong decision, if you do something goes wrong, you can probably fix that. It may be more difficult, but nothing's forever.
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Well, I think for anybody, and probably that's everybody who has feared the future or has felt a little uneasy about what's around the corner, this has been really helpful. I've been speaking with Professor Nathan Furr, and the name of his book is The Upside of Uncertainty. And if you'd like to read it, there's a link to it at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you, Nathan.
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Do you know the difference between a road, a street, an avenue, and a boulevard? Well, the rules aren't hard and fast, but generally, a road describes any throughway that connects two points. Streets, on the other hand, are public roads that have buildings on both sides. So while a street is a road, not all roads are streets. Now, often streets run perpendicular to avenues.
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Avenues have trees or buildings on both sides as well. And although they run perpendicular, which way they run depends on the city. For example, in Denver, streets run north-south, avenues run east-west. In New York and Manhattan, it's just the opposite. Avenues run north-south, streets run east-west. A boulevard is a wide street with trees on both sides and a median in the center.
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Smaller roads, such as ways, lanes, and drives, tend to split off from a major road. And both places and courts are roads with dead ends. Courts usually end in a cul-de-sac. And that is something you should know. If you'd like to support this podcast, we don't ask you for money. All we ask you to do is help us get new listeners by telling someone you know to give it a listen. I'm Mike Carruthers.
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Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice.
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He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Also, the difference between a road, a street, and an avenue. And how to make the best of uncertainty, because many of us fear what uncertainty may bring.
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A lot of the reason that I think people look back on their childhood as happy is because you're looking back. You kind of forget the bad things. And nothing bad can happen in your past because that's all done. So you can look at it through these kind of rose-colored glasses where today God knows what's going to happen. I could get hit by a bus. And so that makes me maybe less happy. I don't know.
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It would seem to me that one of the reasons you wouldn't be happier when you're older is you're so much closer to the edge of the cliff that you will one day fall off that you weren't 25 years ago.
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Well, but it's also, you often hear something like, It's the greatest thing I ever did. And it's the hardest thing I ever did.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Recently, I was asked to try a supplement called Mitopur and then talk about it here. And I said, well, let me check it out. So Mitopur is a precise dose of urolithin A. That's a metabolic compound that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And it's also found in small amounts in certain fruits and nuts.
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So let's talk about good and evil. I've always been fascinated by why some people
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Something I've always wondered about is just as your body ages throughout your life, you change. You don't look anything like you did when you were 10. I wonder if your brain and mind and the, who you are changes in, in such a way that you wouldn't really recognize yourself. If you went back and talk to that 10 year old, who was you all those years ago?
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Now, as I've talked about many times here, I work at staying fit and healthy. It's important to me. And when I researched some studies online and found urolithin A, which is what MitoPure is, is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance, and I saw that it was safe to take, I started taking it. And I've been taking it a while now, and I see a change.
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I'm speaking with Paul Bloom. He's a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and author of the book, Psych, The Story of the Human Mind.
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So, Paul, since you study children, here's something. As somebody who has been through the foster parent and adoption business, you often hear people talk and they will offer their opinion about, well, I hope you intervened early because once a kid hits and fill in the blank, 8, 10, it's too late. It's too late. Is there any evidence that that's true or is that just some...
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wives tale theory that people come up with?
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming. And even still, there are no guarantees. Which is why, when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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So, Annie, we discussed how being out in nature can help you think. But I also find that different rooms in the house or different rooms in other built, the inside surroundings can also make you think differently. Like I think better in a less cluttered environment than in a cluttered environment. And did you look at that?
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I've always noticed how there are certain people in my life that when I speak with them, I feel smarter. And there are other people that I know that make me feel really stupid. And so I imagine that has something to do with what you're talking about, that the people that we talk to, that we relate to, affect how we think.
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Yeah, and I think that's exactly right. When you're with somebody who thinks they know everything and won't shut up, it doesn't inspire you to think. You're just listening to somebody drone on versus somebody who is inquiring about what you think. It goes, hmm, well, yeah, let me think about that. And it seems to inspire a better conversation.
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And is this research ongoing? Is there more to come? Are we learning or is it pretty much nailed?
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They do ruin our thinking. I mean, when you think about just the idea of a calculator, I mean, so you don't have to know how to add or subtract anymore. I used to remember people's phone numbers. I don't remember anybody's phone number because you don't have to anymore. There's so much you don't have to remember and so much you don't have to think about all because of those devices.
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And I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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Yeah, but see, I sometimes think that doing things like remembering phone numbers and knowing how to add and subtract is foundational to other things. And if you don't know how to do basic memory of numbers, that you may not be able to do other things very well.
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Well, I know I've never thought about this before or discussed this before about thinking outside the brain. And what I like is it makes you think. It's an exercise in getting you to think about how you think, which I think is pretty useful. I've been speaking with science writer Annie Murphy-Paul, and she has got a book out called The Extended Mind, The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.
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And you'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Annie.
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I really love it when I find a great new podcast. And then, of course, I have to share that with everyone. And one I really want you to listen to is Curiosity Weekly. Curiosity Weekly from Discovery makes sense of some of the biggest questions and ideas shaping our world. It's all about new discoveries happening in science and tech. They have expert guests that make it all make sense.
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It's a bit similar to something you should know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin. Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed.
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Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids. What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff.
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Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly. Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts.
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Happiness is a big topic. As you know, we've discussed happiness here several times from different angles and with different guests. And a lot of those discussions are about some interesting, often helpful and unique ways to find happiness. Of course, a lot of it is subjective. What makes one person happy may not make another person happy.
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So what I like about my next guest is rather than talk about ways and ideas that might make you happier, this discussion is about a happiness study of the same people over a long period of time and the results of that study and how we can use those results in our own lives. Joining me is Dr. Robert Waldinger.
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He is a psychiatrist, part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and he directs the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest-running studies of adult life ever conducted. The name of his book is The Good Life, Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness. Hi, Robert. Thanks for being here. I'm really glad to be here.
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So explain a little bit about this study and how it came to be.
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And in a very sweeping, big picture way, what's the secret of happiness?
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So define some things here for me. So when we talk about warm relationships, what does that mean? Does that mean love relationships? Does that mean friendships? Does that mean, and how warm and how close and how much and all that?
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So, you know, I've heard this before, that having good, strong relationships in your life is good for your health, but I don't really understand how. Like, what's the mechanism? How does having people in your life translate into good health? What's the magic?
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I had someone on recently and they said something about happiness that I really liked and I'd like to get you to comment on it. That happiness isn't like a thing you do or a thing you try to get. Happiness is a consequence of how you live your life. That you do other things and if they make you happy, then you feel happiness, but you don't go out and try to be happy. That doesn't work.
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And what are some of those things?
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. Have you ever noticed how human beings have this tendency to seek out novelty and then relatively quickly become bored with it? And what I mean is, for example, if you've ever moved into a new home or an apartment, just a beautiful home that you've always wanted, and then before too long, it just becomes your home.
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Another thing that this person talked about was the importance of not just the people in your life, but what you do, the fun things you do, the pleasurable things you do. That brings happiness, not just the people are important, but it's also what you're doing.
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And that includes things like what? Like what do you mean make your life worthwhile?
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It does seem that there are people who this, all the things you're talking about, friendships and meaningful life, comes easy, it comes natural, and other people struggle with it. And I wonder why the difference.
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You know, there's this saying about, you know, when people are depressed, they want to do exactly the things that they shouldn't do. They want to stay at home. They don't want to. And people get stuck in their way. So it's great to hear that you should have more relationships and have a more meaningful life. But I know people struggle with, so what do I do now? What do I do different?
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What does that mean to do what he's talking about?
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This human quest to seek out new things, novelty and change, it dates back to early human history, when we were forced to cope with huge upheavals in weather and environment. In order to survive, we had to adapt to those changes. Now we adapt to those changes and we become bored with it.
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There are people who we would classify as introverts and who might say, you know, I don't need a lot of people. I don't need all this closeness. I'm fine by myself. Are they?
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For a lot of people, I think the how is difficult. And I'm wondering if, obviously, friends come in all different ways and sizes and happenstance and all. But when people decide, okay, well, it would be great to have more people, they don't know how to draw them in. So how did the people in this study, if you looked at this, how when they made friends and when they made connections changed?
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How did they do it?
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Winifred Gallagher, author of a book called New, says if you show a newborn baby a picture, the child will stare at it for about 40 seconds and then become bored and will seek something else to look at. Our level of desire for change is really programmed into us. We know instinctively that reward comes from trying new experiences. Rewards seldom come from the same old thing.
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I guess it's hard for a lot of people because we see other people where it just seems to happen. They have all these people in their lives and it looked pretty effortless. And so you think, well, that's how it should be. People just come into your life and yet they don't. And then people think, well, see, I don't know how to do this.
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You know, I like what you said a moment ago, that Friendships develop when you see the same people and then you have, you know, fairly surfacy conversations. And then the more you see them, the more the conversation deepens. And that's how it really is. And yet I think when people decide, I want people in my life, I want them now. I want to go make a, will you be my friend kind of thing.
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And that's probably not the best way to go and do it. It does take time.
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How much does family count in this? Do family members count as those kind of relationships that you need or not?
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Research has found that about 15% of us like a lot of change. These are the real thrill-seekers with a huge appetite for new experiences. 15% of us are cautious and tend to like just a little bit of change. And 70% of us are somewhere in the middle. It's good to know where you are on the scale and realize it's neither good or bad, it's just who you are. And that is something you should know.
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of good connections well and i imagine too that that it's ebbs and flows i mean who hasn't had a friend a good friend disappoint and not be your friend anymore or you know that that there's satisfaction and dissatisfaction because people are flawed and relationships come and go and so it isn't a it isn't always rosy even the people that do it well that's right that's right and in fact
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Well, it's amazing what a few friends can do. I appreciate you sharing the information about your study. I've been speaking with Dr. Robert Waldinger. He's a psychiatrist and part-time professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. And the name of his book is The Good Life, Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness. And there's a link to that book in the show notes.
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Thanks, Robert. Good conversation.
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Do you know the difference between an introvert and an extrovert? Well, according to Susan Cain, who is author of a book called Quiet, The Power of Introverts, which was a big, big bestseller, introverts prefer quiet, minimally stimulating environments. Extroverts need higher levels of stimulation to feel their best.
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That stimulation can range from things like light and sound to social and physical stimulation. If you prefer a quiet glass of wine with a friend, you're probably an introvert. If you love a wild party full of strangers, you're an extrovert. Susan also points out that if you're the shy type, you're not necessarily an introvert. There is a real big difference between the two.
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You see, shyness is the fear of negative judgment, while introversion is simply the preference for less stimulation. Shyness feels uncomfortable. Introversion does not. And that is something you should know. And we're out of time. Hey, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to this.
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When you think, you think with your brain. Thinking is all in your head, right? Well, maybe not. You can think in other ways. And in fact, those other ways can improve your overall thinking. This is according to Annie Murphy Paul. She's a science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Scientific American, Slate and Time Magazine.
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She's author of a book called The Extended Mind, The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain. And she's here to explain how outside the brain thinking works and why it's so powerful. Hi Annie, thanks for coming on.
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So first of all, explain what you mean by thinking outside the brain.
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So give me like a practical example of one of these things and how it works.
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Well, there has been a lot of talk about the brain is not a good place to store stuff. It's not a good place to do a lot of things. And that getting even getting your problems out on paper out of your head and onto a piece of paper is a better way to go than to try to keep it all floating around in your brain.
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So you said, and you write about thinking with your body. So explain what that means.
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Today on Something You Should Know, why human beings have an insatiable appetite for novelty and the consequences that result. Then, thinking outside the brain. There are interesting ways you think you may not have noticed. For instance...
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But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. How can my hands know what I'm going to do before I know what I'm going to do?
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And so what would be a hand hint? What would be a hint that my hand would give me, for example, to remember a word, to pull a word up?
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Yeah, well, you know, it seems right. It sounds right. Because when you're trying to explain something and you're having trouble explaining, doesn't it seem like you gesture more, that you're using that as almost like a second language to try to explain yourself when you're having trouble? Like there is something there.
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So when you talk about thinking with movement, do you mean like sometimes you think better when you go for a walk kind of movement?
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Well, I have that experience often when I do interviews and I'm sitting in a room and I'm surrounded by equipment and monitors and stuff. And later I'll be like out in nature and I'll think of much better questions I could have asked. Or taking the conversation in a different direction. But I didn't think of it at the time.
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In fact, I often will just, when I'm trying to come up with ideas or whatever, sitting here is like the worst place. Going outside or sitting on the couch or laying down, doing something other than sitting here trying seems to yield better results.
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Perfectionism is driven not by high standards, but by anxiety.
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Well, one that I think intersects everybody's life multiple times is, do you need more time or do you need to make a decision?
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And you probably already had made up your mind. You just needed to say it out loud and do it.
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When I saw that one, what I reflected on is more that when I look back at some of those kind of decisions that I put off and needed more time, I ended up doing what I knew in the beginning I was going to do.
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I knew a long time ago what I was going to do, but just in case, maybe there's something else I need to consider. But at the end of the day, I did what I was going to do in the first five minutes I knew I had to make a decision.
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I mentioned one in the intro to this segment that I liked and like you to comment on, and that is we often know we want to leave before we know where we want to go.
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Yeah, I guess you don't need to know where you want to go in order to leave. First, you just need to leave. In fact, maybe you can't figure out where you want to go until you do.
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There was one, and I don't have it in front of me, but it relates to the idea that not deciding is a decision.
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Don't do something to make yourself feel better if it just ends up making you feel worse. And who hasn't done that?
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doom scrolling it's not making you feel better it's just making you feel worse well you're always a pleasure to talk to you always brighten the day and and of all the authors that i've interviewed i've never before today interviewed someone who wrote a book in aphorisms i've been talking to gretchen rubin the name of her book is secrets of adulthood simple truths for our complex lives
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And if you'd like to buy a copy of that book, which apparently an awful lot of people are, there's a link to it at Amazon in the show notes. Gretchen, thanks for being here.
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He is a board-certified psychiatrist and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. He's author of a book called Healing the Modern Brain, Nine Tenets to Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind. Hey, doctor, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, great to be with you.
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So I like that term mental fitness because it implies, like physical fitness, it is something you can do yourself to make better. But I'm not sure I know exactly what mental fitness is. So can you explain that?
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And so when you say it improves mental health, what does that mean? What does improved mental health look like compared to pre-improved mental health?
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Yeah, sure. Well, yeah.
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Sure, yeah, I think so.
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The things like diet, and I know you talk a lot about that. What's the connection? What's the science? Because I don't think people think of that as, you know, we hear things like sugar makes kids hyper kind of science, but that's not, from my understanding, real science anyway. But the connection between food and brain seems tenuous.
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When you hear the term comfort food, you know exactly what it is. And comfort food has a couple of interesting characteristics. Hi, and welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. By definition, comfort food is food that helps us find comfort when we need it. It is especially appealing when we're feeling sad or lonely or rejected.
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So one of the things that I think people, at least I'm not clear about when it comes to food is How big a difference in your diet do you have to make? Is it what you add to your diet, what you take away from your diet? You know, if you eat an apple, what is that going to do anything? Or do you have to completely revamp your whole way of eating? And then how much benefit is there?
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Is it a little bit benefit or is this just profoundly change who you are or what?
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Thank you.
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Comfort food is most often food that we grew up eating as children. And comfort food can be different for everyone. In a study at the University of Buffalo, some participants said their comfort food was healthy food. For others, it was starchy, fatty food. Upon closer examination, the researchers discovered something pretty interesting.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Comfort foods are often the foods that our parents or caregivers gave us when we were children. As long as we have a positive association with the person who made the food, then there's a good chance that you will be drawn to that food during times of rejection or isolation later in life. And that is something you should know. Do you know what an aphorism is?
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An aphorism is a concise statement that contains an expansive truth. Here's one. Here's another one. It's more fun to change the wallpaper than to fix the roof, but it's less important. Okay, so now you know what an aphorism is. Let me tell you about my guest, Gretchen Rubin.
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Gretchen's been here before, and I love having Gretchen here because, well, first of all, she's fun and happy, and she's made a whole career out of writing and talking about happiness. She's also very wise and insightful, and she has a new book out called Secrets of Adulthood.
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And she is here to talk about some of these, and I know they will ring true for you and perhaps even give you some clarity on what it means to be an adult. Gretchen is also host of the podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Hey, Gretchen.
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Today on Something You Should Know, you probably have some favorite comfort foods, but why those foods? Then some great, quick, and insightful tips on how to be a successful adult.
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And so rather than go into a big long explanation about aphorisms, because that would kind of be contradictory, grab one, pick one, and talk about it as it relates to why you're talking in aphorisms.
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So as I go through and look at many of these, you know, some of them ring a louder bell than others. And I imagine everybody has that experience when you look at these going, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's like what we do every day matters than what we do once in a while. That that struck me. I mean, I like that one because it's well, because it's true.
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So can we pick a few and talk about them? Sure. So since you're kind of the queen of happiness, why not? I don't mean to crown you or give you a title.
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That there's no right way to create a happier life just as there's no best way to cook an egg. And I like that. That's so true.
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So you pick one or two that really either people say they like them or you really like them or you were kind of struck when you came across them or just grab a few.
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One day now will be a long time ago. I like that because we get so worked up and wrapped up in what's going on right now. And ultimately, you won't even remember this.
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Everybody can think back on Times in their life when they were so involved in something, and like you say, you think it's going to be like this forever, and the storm never lasts.
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Pick another one.
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Well, I know a lot of people who I wish would get that. Yeah. Don't you? I mean, I hear that all the time. You know, the best way to do this or, you know, how you should do this. No, no, no. That's not that's not me.
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We're discussing the secrets of being a successful adult, and my guest is the wonderful Gretchen Rubin, author of the book Secrets of Adulthood – Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk quite a bit about health on this podcast, and I can tell you, I try to take care of myself. I mean, I work at it. And for a while now, I've been taking this supplement called MitoPure. And I can tell you, I feel stronger. When I exercise, I recover faster.
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So, Gretchen, one of the aphorisms you wrote, as soon as I saw this, a face popped into my mind, and I bet it happens to anybody else. A good friend can be a bad friend if they bring out the worst in us.
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But you say, but she's such a good friend. Well...
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Here's one that caught my eye that I'd like to get you to talk about. Repeatedly rehearsing for disaster doesn't protect us from it.
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You said earlier that sometimes people will say these back to you, that they read them and they struck a chord with them and that they would repeat them back to you. Give me an example of that.
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That's code SOMETHING50OFF at factormeals.com slash SOMETHING50OFF to get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box. And I'll put that code in the show notes to make this simple. So, Dr. Johnson, I'm wondering, given all you know, all the things you've been talking about, how does this affect specifically what you eat and when you eat? Like, what did you have for breakfast this morning?
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And when you say to restrict carbs, you don't mean all carbs. You mean the carbs, the simple carbs, right?
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So what started this and when did it start? Because if you look back at pictures of people from the 30s or 40s or 50s or 60s, we didn't have as many overweight people as we do now. So why is that?
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So given all this about sugar and carbs and all this, what's the advice? What should we be eating and avoiding?
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If sugar is such a big problem and activates this switch, then talk about sugar substitutes, because seemingly that would be a good solution to the problem.
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chemicals in some respects and you know we're still trying to figure out what they do and and how safe they are so help me understand the switch a little better in terms of how much sugar do you have to eat to activate it when does it just shut itself off is it a daily thing is it once you've activated it it stays on for a month i mean help me understand how it works
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For so long, we have heard that fat is the enemy, that you're eating too much fat, that all this deep fried goo is making you fat and you're eating too many calories and you've gotta cut your calories. Is that no longer really part of the equation?
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Well, we've certainly come a long way from it's all about how many calories you eat compared to how many calories you burn. Obviously, there's a lot of nuance to this, and it's really interesting to hear the science behind it. Dr. Richard Johnson has been my guest.
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He is a medical doctor, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, a leading researcher in the cause of obesity and diabetes, and his book is called Why Nature Wants Us to Be Fat. And you'll find a link to his book in the show notes. Thanks, Doctor. This has been really enlightening. Thanks.
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I'm sure you've heard people talk about scalable ideas. That for an idea to be truly great, it has to scale. Not just business ideas, any ideas. Education or ideas in the community. Scalable is a real buzzword today. And to oversimplify... If you're selling your time for money, like a teacher, an accountant, a lifeguard, a taxi driver, that generally isn't scalable.
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There are only so many hours in the day you can work, so your potential success is limited. versus an idea that grows beyond just you. Uber and Lyft, for example, are scalable versus a single taxi driver, which is not. Again, an oversimplified explanation. But someone who knows a lot about this is John List. John is an economist. He was an economist at Lyft and has done a lot of research on this.
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He speaks on the subject and he wrote a book called The Voltage Effect. How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale. Hey John, welcome.
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Sure. So let's start with an example that helps to explain scalability in a little more detail.
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So in other words, hiring 30 excellent teachers to make the program work is a relatively manageable task. Hiring 30,000 excellent teachers, and they have to be excellent to make the program work, that would be difficult. So the only way to make it scale would be to be able to hire 30,000 teachers, some of whom would not be so excellent, but the program would.
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So give me an example that you think has been just an outstanding stellar success as a scalable idea.
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Hello, welcome to Something You Should Know. Have you ever gotten like a new shirt and got it home and you probably have heard something like you're supposed to wash it first before you wear it, but a new shirt never looks as good after you wash it the first time as it does when you take it out of the package, so maybe you wore it. Well, you really should wash it.
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One of the ideas that you write about that you say is not scalable is the DARE program. Why is that not scalable?
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Yeah, and to be clear, because I read about this somewhere else, when you say it didn't work is that it wasn't that effective in deterring kids who went through the program from not taking drugs compared to kids who didn't go through the program. But the DARE program is still around.
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When we hear about companies, businesses, ideas that scale well, you know, it's Amazon, Uber, Lyft, those kind of very big companies. But there are a lot of good ideas that aren't that scalable. And in fact, you talk about your father and your grandfather who are truck drivers. So talk about that.
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You see, many new clothes have a coating of formaldehyde to prevent wrinkles. And this formaldehyde can cause itching and skin irritations, and in extreme cases, even burning, swelling, and blisters. Now, some countries have strict limits on how much formaldehyde can be put on clothes, but the United States has none. However, testing has found that the levels tend to be pretty low.
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You did some research on the smart thermostat, which I think most people would agree is a great idea. A smart thermostat will save energy, will save money. I mean, it's a great idea. But your research was pretty eye-opening. So talk about that.
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But wait, smart thermostats are a big thing. I mean, I think most new homes that are built have smart thermostats in them. I think people believe they work. Couldn't it just be, even if they're not working now, this is just step one, that eventually they will evolve and people will get better at using them. And this is a necessary step to get to where, I guess, where you were hoping we would be.
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The good news is that all it takes is one washing before you wear those clothes to eliminate the problem. And that is something you should know. Just about everyone, it seems, is concerned with their weight, mostly that they need to lose some. If you're concerned about your weight, you've likely read or heard various advice about what causes weight gain and the best way to lose it.
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When you scale an idea, I imagine that how you pull it off, how you execute it, has a lot to do with whether or not it'll succeed.
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Can you give me an example?
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Since you were an economist at Lyft, give me an idea, give me an example of an idea that you came up with or worked with at Lyft that was a scalable idea.
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Only to find that that advice contradicts some other advice. Maybe it really just comes down to calories. If you burn more calories than you eat, you'll lose weight. If you eat more calories than you burn, you'll gain weight. But it all gets very confusing. Then there are all the fad diets. Now, if you're a regular listener to this podcast, you know we don't do fad diets here.
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Well, I've always wondered why.
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I imagine a lot of people, when they need a ride, they'll check both Uber and Lyft and compare the price. And sometimes they're close and sometimes they're not close. And I never understood why.
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We don't have people on to talk about the latest oddball weight loss breakthrough because most of the exciting news in weight loss turns out to usually be baloney. But one person who has spent a lot of time researching the latest science on this is Dr. Richard Johnson.
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Well, as I said earlier, the term scalable has become such a buzzword that, you know, oh, your idea has to be scalable. It's good to get some insight into what makes an idea scalable and not so scalable. John List has been my guest. The name of his book is called The Voltage Effect. How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale. And you'll find a link to his book in the show notes.
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Thanks, John. This was interesting.
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Well, thanks. People generally smile because they're happy. But it may be a good idea to smile even when you're not happy. The simple act of smiling has a lot of benefits. For one thing, it's associated with a longer life. One study showed that genuine, intense smiling is related to a longer lifespan.
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Smiling also relieves stress, boosts your immune system, can lower your blood pressure, improve your mood, and make you look younger. But that's not all. Smiling is contagious and it makes you seem more approachable to other people. It also makes you appear more attractive and successful. All of that from just smiling. And that is something you should know.
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He's a medical doctor, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, and he's been leading research in the cause of obesity and diabetes. His book is called Why Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, the surprising science behind why we gain weight and how we can prevent and reverse it. Hi, doctor. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Sure. So I think a lot of people are skeptical when they hear, oh, there's new news about weight loss, because over the years, the advice keeps changing about what makes people gain and lose weight. So what is this new science that you're about to tell us? And how is it different than what we've heard before? And how do we know it won't change in the future?
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So when I think of fructose, I think of fruit, that that's the sugar in fruit. Isn't that fructose?
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So it sounds like you're saying since fructose is the sugar in fruit that we shouldn't be eating fruit, that fruit is fattening?
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Today on Something You Should Know... Is it really necessary to wash brand new clothes before you wear them? Then, a top researcher explains the latest news on weight loss and what really works to shed pounds.
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So the theory that has long been the basis for a lot of weight loss advice and seems to make a lot of sense is if you burn more calories than you eat, you will lose weight. And if you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight. But you point out that there is more to it than that, that when it comes to your health, a calorie isn't a calorie.
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It's also about the types of food you eat or don't eat, particularly sugar. So explain that.
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But so often you hear that the real enemy in trying to control your weight is is carbs, pasta, rice, chips, those kind of things, which I don't sense have a lot of fructose in them. So how do you fit that into your narrative here?
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And you say salty food plays a role in this too. So explain that.
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I want to get an idea, based on all the things you're saying, how all this information trickles down into specific recommendations on what to eat, what not to eat, when to eat, all of that. But first, I'm speaking with Dr. Richard Johnson. He is a medical doctor, professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, and author of the book, Why Nature Wants Us to Be Fat.
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Also, how smiling, just smiling, will improve your health. And how good ideas scale and pivot their way to success or failure.
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Are there things we're doing that are actually suppressing those hormones that we need to stop doing as opposed to just finding things that will increase them?
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And likely because of one of the things you just described.
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Well, this is, this is so interesting. And, you know, we've all heard those stories or, you know, you know, laughter is good for you and raises hormone levels or, you know, listening to music or what about those things?
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So all of that stuff helps if you, but is there a formula to it or it's just the more you do, the better it is? Or, I mean, can you ever do too much of this or what?
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than the dopamine that we're seeking for so that's kind of the main challenge occurring but that seems almost like an addiction to that's going to be really hard to stop if you're craving netflix and getting on your phone and eating a sugary meal i mean those things those are those are things that are hard to resist if you've developed a habit and or a liking towards them
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Seems like most of them would have to be sacrificed.
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So obviously there's a lot to consider in what you've said, but If you had to boil it down, what is the biggest challenge that people face as it relates to these four brain chemicals and improving them as best we can?
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This certainly sounds like, if addressed, could really solve a lot of problems for a lot of people. I appreciate you explaining all this. TJ Power has been my guest. He's a neuroscientist, international speaker, and the name of his book is The Dose Effect. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. TJ, this was very informative, and I appreciate you spending the time with us.
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Do you have an attitude towards money? In your eyes, is money good? Do you handle it well? Do you tend to spend more than you should? Do you really understand how much money you make and how you spend it? Well, let's take a look at your approach to money and your attitudes towards it with Vicki Raynall. She is a financial psychotherapist in private practice.
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She's been featured in The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, The Telegraph, and Women's Health. And she's author of a book called Money on Your Mind, The Unconscious Beliefs That Sabotage Your Financial Well-Being and How to Break Free. Hi, Vicki. Welcome. Good to have you on Something You Should Know.
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So where do we get our attitudes towards money? And everybody seems to have a certain relationship with money. Where does it come from? And why does it seem so problematic much of the time?
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Yeah, I think examples would help here.
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So do people generally have a money personality? We hear about some people are spenders, some people are savers, some people are, are there some general buckets that people fall into?
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Do you find, and maybe you're People come to you because they're having a problem, so your answer might be a little skewed, but do you think people know when there's a problem, or do they think it's the result of outside forces and that's why things aren't going their way with money, but that it's not their fault?
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When people say, I wish I was better with money, what does that mean? My sense is it means that they wish they had saved more, they invested more, saved for retirement, that kind of thing, as opposed to spend. But is that your experience?
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So they just tend to ignore it. They just kind of put their head in the sand and just let money do whatever it does.
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It seems that maybe it's just my experience, but from what I can tell from other people as well, that money becomes a problem when you think you don't have enough of it. Nobody comes to you and says, Vicki, I've got so much money, I don't know what to do. It's usually a lack of money that causes problems.
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So I want to hear about the people who come to you because they have too much money because they're welcome to send me some if that's the problem. But what is it? What's the problem of having too much money?
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But there are some things you can do to stack the odds in your favor that you will not get in a car accident. These suggestions come from the editors of Edmunds.com. First of all, avoid the fast lane because that's where most crashes occur. If you're in the middle lane or the right lane, you have more escape routes to get out of the way of trouble. Scan ahead.
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One very common problem it seems people have, because you hear it talked about frequently, is people's inability to live within their means. That they overspend, they put things on credit cards, they don't really have a good sense of what they can and cannot afford, and that lands them in trouble. Is that a fair assessment?
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And so what's the advice to that? If people are doing that, do you think most people know that's what's going on or are they just scratching their head going, I don't know where all the money's going?
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So you've already answered this question as we've discussed throughout this conversation, but let me ask it directly. I already think I know the answer, but if someone comes to you, even before you know what the problem is, What's the advice? My sense is your advice is going to be, well, first start being curious, but is that it or is there more to it or is that not it or what?
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Don't just watch the car in front of you. Watch the car in front of it. If you're looking further ahead, you'll have more time to react if something goes wrong. Watch for blind spots. Don't trust your mirrors exclusively. Actually look to the left or right before changing lanes. Drive with your hands at 9 and 3 o'clock, not 10 and 2.
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Yeah, absolutely. That's a pretty alarming statistic that that many people don't know the difference between a debit card and a credit card. Well, all of what you've talked about is really enlightening. I've been speaking with Vicki Raynall.
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She is a financial psychotherapist and author of the book, Money on Your Mind, The Unconscious Beliefs That Sabotage Your Financial Well-Being and How to Break Free. There's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes and I appreciate you coming on and talking about all this. This was great. Thanks, Vicki.
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Did you know that it is basically impossible to keep track of more than three items at the same time unless all those items are the same color? So, for example, when you watch a football game, the common color of the uniforms allows you to overcome that limitation because everybody's wearing the same color, so you see the team as a single set.
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Team sports would be incredibly difficult to watch if everybody on the team didn't wear the same color. According to a study at Johns Hopkins University, the ability to only keep track of three items at a time is a fundamental limitation of the human brain. Almost everyone has it, and the only way to override that limitation is with color coding. This principle will work in other areas of life.
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For example, if you wanted to take seven kids to the zoo by yourself, it would be tough to keep track of all of them. But if they all wore the same color shirt, it would be a lot easier. In general, if you want to keep track of multiple things or people, Make them all the same color. And that is something you should know.
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This gives you the best chance to maneuver quickly to get out of the way. Judge a driver by his car. If a car has a lot of body damage or dirty windows, assume you have a lousy driver driving it and steer clear. And if you can, don't drive at night. In addition to you being tired and fatigued, so are other drivers. And it is at nighttime when drunk drivers are out in force.
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And that is something you should know. Let's talk about hormones, brain chemicals. Specifically, four of them. Serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins. There's a lot worth knowing and understanding about these things because your behavior can impact the levels of these hormones in your body. And the levels of these hormones can impact so much of your life.
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Here to help us understand how this all works is TJ Power. He is a neuroscientist and speaker and author of a book called The Dose Effect. Hey TJ, welcome to Something You Should Know. Mike, thanks for having me. So first of all, I guess what we should do is explain, have you explain what these four chemicals, serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins are and what they do.
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Well, those sound like good things to have.
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So what determines those levels of chemicals in my brain of those four things? Is it hereditary? Is it set? Or is it lifestyle and how I live can affect them up or down or what?
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And when you do those behaviors, whether it's video games or you're cleaning your house, you impact the levels of dopamine in your system. How much do you impact them and how long does that impact last?
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So what are the benefits? I mean, this seems a little obvious, but what are the benefits of doing this or even worrying about this rather than just trying to lead a healthy life? I mean, what's the benefit of really focusing in on this and saying, let's raise these levels?
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And so how much can you stimulate them and how do you know if you're doing it? I mean, do you do these things and all of a sudden you go, wow, my serotonin must be just raging?
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Yeah, well, my work deeply focuses my brain. So, yeah.
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Well, I like this part. I like talking to people.
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today on something you should know how to dramatically improve your chances of not getting into a car accident then brain hormones brain chemicals there are four of them that really impact your quality of life ask yourself
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We're talking about four brain chemicals that make a huge difference in your life. And my guest is TJ Power. He's author of a book called The Dose Effect. Thank you so much for having me. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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And you can do that in your road rage example. You can do that in the moment when some guy cuts you off. You can forgive that guy right away and that stuff kicks in.
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You know what's interesting about the road rage example is typically we don't know the person that cut us off. It probably, or many times, it may have just been a mistake. The person wasn't paying attention to something. It wasn't something they were doing deliberately. We've probably made mistakes in the car driving ourselves, and we hope for forgiveness.
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But boy, there's something about that moment, that when that guy cuts you off, that just all bets are off.
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And Mito Pure is shown to deliver double-digit increases in muscle strength and endurance without a change in exercise. From my own experience, I have more energy and strength and just overall feel better every day. And who doesn't want that?
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I don't know if this is like a subset of what you're talking about here, but I know people who were wronged years ago, and they still won't let it go. They hold on to it.
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I imagine they're still plotting their revenge in their head, and they might even be able to do what you're talking about and imagine what forgiving is like, but they're so entrenched in what happened a long time ago that they can't get out of it.
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And I'm not just recommending it to you on this podcast. I tell friends and other people I know about it because of how it makes me feel. Now, Timeline is the company behind MitoPure, and Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure. Go to Timeline.com slash something. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash something.
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It is a strange feeling when you isolate it and think about it, so I enjoy hearing your explanation of it and also what to do about it. I've been speaking with James Kimmel. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and he is author of the book The Science of Revenge, Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction and How to Overcome It.
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And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. James, this was great. Thanks for doing this.
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Some people can look at a snake and get totally creeped out. Others see a fascinating creature. What are snakes? They look so different than most everything else crawling around the earth. Are they smart? How do snakes move? How do they slither around? Why do they shed their skins? Do they make good pets? There are a lot of questions about snakes.
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And here to answer those questions is Stephen S. Hall. Stephen has had numerous cover stories in the New York Times Magazine, where he also served as story editor. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, Wired Science, Nature, Scientific American, and other places.
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He is author of a book called Slither, How Nature's Most Malign Creatures Illuminate Our World. Hi Stephen, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you for having me. So what is a snake? Where does it fit into the chain of living creatures on Earth? What is it?
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Snakes don't have a great reputation amongst humans. A lot of people are afraid of snakes. They're kind of grossed out by snakes. There's something about snakes. What is that?
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So can you explain how a snake moves? Because they don't have feet, but yet they can slither around pretty fast. So how does that work?
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So who's more likely to be healthier? A tall person or a short person? It's an interesting question with an interesting answer. Hi and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. Being short and being tall both have health risks, very different health risks. Short men may have a greater risk of developing coronary artery disease than taller men, according to a study.
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Their reputation of being poisonous, of killing animals and people and stuff, is it well-deserved or are most snakes pretty harmless or what?
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So one of the snakes that you hear about or certainly we've heard about in this country is the rattlesnake. What is that rattle? What is that? And why is it so unique among snakes?
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The average American male is 5'9.5", and for every 2.5 inches shorter you are, your risk of heart disease goes up by about 14%. Of course, diet and exercise and not smoking are ways to fight against those odds, as is having your blood pressure checked regularly. But the news is not all doom and gloom for short people.
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The rattle is just a noisemaker, right? It's not like it doesn't have a stinger in it or anything. It's just an alarm.
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How smart are they?
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The research points out that shorter people actually have a lower risk of getting cancer, possibly because taller people simply have more cells. The more cells you have, the higher the chance for cancer-causing mutations. And that is something you should know. I can't imagine there is a soul on earth who hasn't felt the urge for revenge, to get back at someone who did you wrong.
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Snakes lay eggs, right? That's where new snakes come from? Eggs? Some do. And some don't? And some don't. Some give a live birth. Oh, you know, I never knew that. I thought all snakes were egg layers.
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And so we all have seen somewhere along the roadside some snake skin that the snake has shed. And what's that about?
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It seems unusual that all these very different kinds of snakes, some give birth, some have eggs, some do this, some do that. They're so different, but they're still part of the same species.
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Very often the consequences of getting revenge on someone turn out to be not worth it. It isn't as satisfying as you'd hoped it would be. Still, I know people who ponder getting revenge for a long time. They think about what they would do to get back at someone. It seems like a fairly unproductive emotion. In fact, some people might argue that it is a very destructive emotion.
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I think I speak for a lot of people listening when I say I now know more about snakes than I did before. And as I listen to you talk, I'm thinking, you know, maybe one of the reasons why people are so turned off by snakes and even repulsed by them is because they are so different. You know, they don't have feet or legs. Their tongues dart out. And they don't interact with people much.
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So we don't really know much about them. But now we know more about them. I've been talking with Stephen S. Hall. He is author of the book Slither, How Nature's Most Malign Creatures Illuminate Our World. And if you'd like to read that book, there is a link to it at Amazon in the show notes. Stephen, thanks. This was very enlightening.
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Social media allows you and anyone else to tell the world about your latest accomplishment. The question is, does anybody really care? And the answer is, not as much as you like to think. In fact, self-promotion often backfires. In an article in the journal Psychological Science, the humble brag, as it's often called, is often not well received by others.
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Posting a photo of your new car on Instagram or Facebook or bragging about your promotion to coworkers not only doesn't get the reaction you might think, it often gets the opposite reaction. Think about it yourself. You probably experience emotions other than pure joy when you're on the receiving end of someone else's promotion.
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Yet, when we engage in self-promotion ourselves, we tend to overestimate other people's positive reactions and underestimate the negative ones. The idea that by telling others about our accomplishments improves how people view us might seem right. But in fact, it often has the opposite effect. And that is something you should know.
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You're about to hear a conversation about revenge that will make you think about it very differently. And here to have that discussion with me is James Kimmel. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine. He's a lawyer, and he is the founder and co-director of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Control Studies.
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He also has a personal interest in the topic of revenge that he will reveal to you shortly. James is author of a book called The Science of Revenge, Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction and How to Overcome It. Hi, James. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, Mike. Thanks for having me. So what is that feeling? What is that desire for revenge? Where does it come from?
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Today on Something You Should Know, who's more likely to be healthier, a tall person or a short person? Then, revenge. What happens in your brain when someone wrongs you and you want revenge? Like when someone cuts you off on the road?
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Can you explain that?
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Meaning?
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So take me through an example, you know, the anatomy of revenge by example, and explain what's going on in the brain. And I know you say that revenge is an addiction, which I don't really understand. So maybe with an example you can explain that.
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Okay, so a couple of questions. In your example of the road rage and the escalating response to being cut off, is that the addiction? What's the addiction?
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Also, we'll take a look into the fascinating world of snakes. What are they exactly? What do they do? And should you be afraid of them?
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So what's the difference between somebody who can get cut off and go, God, that jerk, and forget about it, versus the guy who... hits the accelerator and goes after the guy and does what you described. What's the difference between those two people?
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When you say pleasure, though, I mean, I get that maybe there's some brief moment of satisfaction when you get your revenge. But I bet you in the history of revenge that very few people have ever the next day looked back and thought, Wow, I'm so glad that happened. I'm so glad I did what I did. That felt fabulous.
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I mean, maybe sometime, but for the most part, the pleasure is pretty empty and can have serious consequences.
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I also want to ask you, I want to go back to something you said, if I heard you correctly, that all violence is revenge.
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Well, I want to dig into that a little more. We're talking about revenge, what it is, what it does. And my guest is James Kimmel, author of the book The Science of Revenge, Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction and How to Overcome It.
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So, James, when you say all violence is revenge, if I'm sitting in my living room and some crazed stranger just bursts open the door and shoots me, how is that revenge? He doesn't even know me.
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So Daniel, the type of regrets that you're talking about, those road not taken regrets, don't you think they get wrapped up into a fantasy of what might have happened, which is probably way off anyway?
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I would imagine that because it seems like that regret has often shame attached to it, that things didn't work out, that people keep their regrets to themselves. Is that a good idea?
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I wonder why it is, if regret is so universal, that people try to take some pride in the fact that they have none. Because it hurts.
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I imagine that a big source of regret for a lot of people is family members and friends.
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There is kind of this, if I knew then what I know now, I would have done things differently. But based on the research, based on your research, young people can take a lesson from this is these are the things you're likely going to regret later in life, so you might want to try to do something about them now. And just to reiterate, those things are...
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Well, there really is comfort in hearing how it is so universal and that people are basically riddled with regret.
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So as somebody who has really examined regret and found that there is a usefulness to it, when you talk to somebody who says, oh, I have no regrets, what do you say to them?
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By definition. Yes. Well, isn't it? I wonder why people feel that need to put on that fake badge of honor that they have no regrets when... I mean, what's the point of that?
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And I think, as you said, there's such an emphasis on positive emotions. I've never heard anybody talk about regret this way. Most of the talk about regret is to how to avoid it. But clearly, you have a different and I think more interesting take on the topic. My guest has been Daniel Pink, and the book is called The Power of Regret, How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward.
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You'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Daniel. I really enjoyed this. Thanks a lot. Rock and roll. Thanks for having me. I enjoyed it.
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Hi, welcome to what I think is a really interesting episode of Something You Should Know, because I know what's in it. But you listen and you be the judge. We start today with your refrigerator and freezer. Chances are when you open the refrigerator, a light comes on so you can see what you're doing. But open the freezer and no light comes on.
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It's interesting to think that every man-made product, object, invention, business, piece of art, everything started as an idea that popped into somebody's head somehow. How does that happen? What is the process that allows people to generate great ideas?
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We sometimes call that process creativity, but creativity tends to have a kind of a magical, who knows where it came from, who knows when it will strike again kind of quality. Yet if you look at great ideas and then reverse engineer them and how they came to be, there must be something we can learn from that process so that we can all apply it and have more great ideas.
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That's what Anthony Fredericks is here to discuss. Anthony is a nationally recognized educator and an award-winning and best-selling author of more than 150 books. His latest is titled From Fizzle to Sizzle. The hidden forces crushing your creativity and how you can overcome them. Hey, Anthony, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you, Mike.
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I think a lot of times when people hear a discussion that has to do with creativity, they think, oh, well, that's just a discussion for creative types, you know, artists and writers and musicians. But you have a more practical view of this topic, so...
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And I would want to do that. Why? I mean, I can understand if you're a creative type or you're a child. But in the grown-up world, why is this important?
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So why is there a light in the fridge and not the freezer? According to a website called todayifoundout.com, it saves the manufacturer money to not have to put a light in the freezer. And studies show that people don't open the freezer nearly as much as they open the fridge. And certainly people don't browse in the freezer the way they browse in the fridge.
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And so when you say creative acts, what does that mean? Give me some examples of daily creative activities.
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Today on Something You Should Know, why does your refrigerator have a light inside but not your freezer? Then, we all have regrets, often painful regrets. And regrets can teach us a lot.
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Do you think, though, that there are some people who are more creative than others or are we all equally creative if we apply it?
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creative people, people who practice creativity, think of themselves as creative? In other words, are the creative people aware that they are and the not so creative people aware that they are?
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Generally, people go to the freezer to get something out that's going to take some further preparation, and the kitchen light is probably on anyway. However, the refrigerator often gets raided at night, where a light is really handy while you're looking around for something to eat. There are other theories.
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I think there's a tendency to believe, and I've thought this from time to time too, that creativity is great, but creativity means coming up with new ideas. New ideas aren't necessarily good ideas. They're just new ideas. And that you waste a lot of time, or maybe waste is the wrong word, but you can spend a lot of time being creative and not getting anywhere. You're just being creative.
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Sometimes it seems that, you know, the word creativity or, you know, that's very creative is another word for this really sucks and I don't get it.
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One is that it used to be impractical to have a light in the freezer in the old models that built up frost on the inside. The frost would have built up on the light, too, making it pretty useless. Then when frost-free freezers came along, they simply carried on the tradition. Whatever the reason, in most cases, most people don't have a light in their freezer. And that is something you should know.
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It also seems that creativity is also like an excuse. Like, well, you know, you take an art class, let's say, and everybody in the class is doing well except Bob. Bob's picture really is not up to par. It's very creative, but it sucks. It's terrible. It's nowhere close to what the other students are doing. And people have a tendency, I think, that being an example, of saying, oh, he's so creative.
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You know, it's like kids' finger paint things. I mean, yeah, I guess they're creative, but they're just fingers. in paint. I mean, there's nothing really spectacular about it other than it's different. It's not crayons. It's finger paint. But it's nothing great.
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Well, there also seems to be, as I listen to you tell that story, I've never thought of myself as much of an artist. I don't, you know, if you ask me to draw a picture of somebody, it's going to be more stick figure. It's not going to be very good. Consequently... Art is not a direction I've ever gone in.
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I don't have much interest in becoming an artist because I kind of have convinced myself I'm not very good at it. And that kind of feeds on itself. It's a cycle of if you're not interested, you don't do it. If you don't do it, you're not very good. If you're not very good, you're not interested. And there it goes.
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I'm sure you've heard people say that they have no regrets in their life. Is that possible? Is that even a realistic goal to live a regret-free life? Regret is an emotion everyone feels, even those people who claim to have no regrets. Best-selling author Daniel Pink has thoroughly explored the topic and emotion of regret and found that your regrets can serve a valuable purpose in your life.
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Let's go back because you said at the beginning, you know, one example of being creative is to go to a Peruvian restaurant because you've never been to one. Well, how is that creative? What is that? Is that just your idea of creativity? But how does eating Peruvian food make me more creative?
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But don't you think that when you're playing a computer game, because I watch my boys play computer games and I'm not particularly good at it, that trying to find that right way out or up the wall or into the castle or to get to the bad guy, it seems like it's a pretty creative way because there aren't a lot of, you know, there aren't a lot of signs that say this way. You've got to figure it out.
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I suspect that one of the things that kind of beats the creativity out of us is I imagine almost everybody can remember some time when they had an idea that was criticized. Oh, that's not very good. Bobby, that's, no, that's not good. And those, you take those punches and they hurt and you think, oh, well, better not do that again.
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and he is about to explain regret and break regrets down in a way that you've likely never heard before and will find fascinating. His latest book is called The Power of Regret, How Looking Backwards Moves Us Forward. Hi, Daniel. Welcome. Thanks for coming on Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me. It's good to be with you.
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Yeah, well, but if little Johnny's about to set his sister on fire, he's going to need to hear no. I'm sorry, but I hate to interrupt your creativity here, but you can't do that.
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creative activities that they participate in what are some of the uh some of the other research about creativity because you seem to have quite a bit of that knowledge that people might be surprised to hear about how it works or how it doesn't work or whatever
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Yeah, I believe that. And I think everybody, even people who don't consider themselves creative types, have had moments several times in their life where things have clicked, where ideas have come. So this idea that some people aren't creative just doesn't ring true. And clearly you've pointed out that it doesn't. My guest has been Anthony Fredericks.
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He is a nationally recognized educator and author of the book From Fizzle to Sizzle, The Hidden Forces Crushing Your Creativity and How You Can Overcome Them. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Hey, thanks, Anthony. Thanks for coming on. Okay. Thank you so much, Mike.
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Do you like white meat? Most of us do. In fact, the American chicken industry ends up with a big surplus of dark meat because Americans prefer white meat. And it's not just the taste. It seems that a lot of us are a little squeamish about dark meat because, well, when you're faced with a chicken leg, there's no hiding the fact that that's the leg of an animal.
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Up until 50 years ago, chickens were sold almost exclusively as whole chickens. But now we prefer the nondescript, neatly packaged products that don't really resemble what it used to be, standing, running, or swimming around. It turns out that other countries aren't quite so squeamish as we are.
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So I am always skeptical when I hear someone say, I have no regrets in life. I think to myself, really? Come on. You've done nothing in your life that you wish you had done differently or hadn't done at all or taken another path or asked that person out that you never did and always wish you had. Doesn't everybody have regret?
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Most Europeans actually prefer the taste of the gamier dark meat, which is nutrient-rich with higher levels of iron and zinc. And that is something you should know. I love getting those emails that start out with something to the effect of, My friend listens to your podcast all the time and suggested I give it a try and I really like it.
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Also, when it comes to chicken, you probably like white meat best. Why is that? And what makes some people creative and some people not? There have been studies.
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Right. Well, that seems to be the point, right? That you feel regretful for something as a course correction. It's a way to course correct because you did something wrong or something went wrong and you regret that.
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So what does that mean, a systematic approach to regret? I mean, regret seems to come, and there it is, and there it is. But what's the systematic approach to handling it?
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And that three-step process briefly explained is... It is.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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So I have a couple of thoughts about regret that I'd like to get you to comment on. And And that is, I sort of distinguish, and maybe you do or don't, but between regret over something that happened and regret that you got caught because of something that happened.
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I buy that. Yeah. And that's a very optimistic message and nice to hold on to that people want to be good for the most part.
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Is part of the definition of regret that it's over, it's done, something's wrong, something happened, it's over, and you can't undo it.
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it... I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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So far, we've been discussing these moral regrets, but I know there's a lot of other kinds of regrets. So let's talk about them. For example, what are the other big regrets that people have?
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I'm speaking with best-selling author Daniel Pink, and his latest book is called The Power of Regret. How Looking Backwards Moves Us Forward.
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What about this advice that seems to come and go about taking a low dose aspirin every day?
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So I could give you some advice, but it probably wouldn't do any good, so I won't. Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. In our desire to help people, it's just natural to offer them advice. Trouble is, people don't usually take it. And you know this because people probably tell you how to eat or drink or vote or dress or whatever, and you don't listen to them either.
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Because what does that aspirin do?
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I've heard it said, though, that I've heard it recommended by heart doctors that There's nothing wrong with everybody taking a low-dose aspirin because there's very little harm that it could do, and if you have heart trouble, it could help.
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Can people die from a broken heart?
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Where's the technology with heart transplants and where's heart science going?
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So why doesn't offering unsolicited advice work? Research indicates that whenever someone tells us what to do and how to do it, we get defensive, because we want to maximize our personal freedom in decision-making. It's just human nature. So what does work?
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Well, I really like how you've approached this topic of the heart, really through two lenses, the medical lens of what the heart really is and what it does, but also the cultural part of it, of how we tie the heart with emotions. This was really fun. I've been talking to Dr. Vincent Figueredo.
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He is a practicing cardiologist, and he is author of the book, The Curious History of the Heart, A Cultural and Scientific Journey. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you so much, Vincent. This was great.
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Every important situation you find yourself in can cause you to question things. Questions like, can I do this? Do I belong here? What will people think of me? How you come to the answers to those questions can have a significant impact on you. It's probably something you haven't thought about a lot, but you're going to find this really enlightening. I want you to listen to my guest, Greg Walton.
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Research on observational learning suggests that while people will resist unsolicited advice, they will follow the behaviors of others, especially when there appear to be good and reinforcing outcomes from those behaviors. So instead of telling people what they should do, model the behavior and just stay quiet.
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He's co-director of the Dweck Walton Lab and a professor of psychology at Stanford University. His work has been covered in major media outlets, including the New York Times, the Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and many others. He's author of a book called Ordinary Magic, the science of how we can achieve big changes with small acts. Hi, Greg.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So explain in more detail what this ordinary magic is and how it works.
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So give me an example of that in action, in real life.
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Of course, I just told you what to do, so telling you this completely contradicts what I told you to do. But you get the point. And that is something you should know. So you know what your heart is, right? It's that pump in the middle of your chest that's pumping blood all the time. And you want that because when it stops pumping blood, well, that's a big problem.
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But this whole idea applies not only to kids in the juvenile justice system, but this applies to everybody in life, right?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why giving people unsolicited advice is a colossal waste of everyone's time. Then, a cardiologist reveals fascinating things about your heart you never knew.
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But the heart is unlike any other organ in the body because it is somehow all wrapped up with love and emotions. We write and sing songs about the heart. People get their hearts broken. Love makes the heart grow fonder. Love makes the heart beat faster. No other organ. I mean, your spleen doesn't conjure up any particular emotions, most likely, nor does your liver.
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Do you think most of us have had an ordinary magic kind of moment on the receiving end of it? Like you said, everybody needs one of these irrational people. Have we all experienced it, do you suppose?
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Yeah, I mean, I think my parents filled that role pretty well.
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What do we do with this? I mean, this is really interesting, and I think it makes people kind of reflect on their relationships and how they've dealt with people and how they've been dealt with. But is this then a philosophy by which to live by, or is this something to just notice when you see it, or what do we do with this?
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Thank you.
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But the heart, well, that's something special. And here to tell you things about your heart you never knew about how it really works and how it all got mixed up with emotion is Dr. Vincent Figueredo. He is a practicing cardiologist, scientist, and professor of medicine, and he's author of a book called The Curious History of the Heart, A Cultural and Scientific Journey.
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Thank you.
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Doctor, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you very much. So this is such an interesting topic because I've often wondered, and I'm sure many other people have, how the heart got mixed up with love in the first place, why we associate love with the heart, and why
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Thank you.
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Why we still do, even though we now know that the heart really doesn't have anything to do with love, but we still write the songs and the poems and say the words that make it sound as if we still believe the heart and love go together. So how did this all begin?
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Also, what's the difference between a habit and an addiction? And how anyone can have a huge impact on someone else's life.
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And even though we know now that it's not really true, the mythology lingers. I mean, we still write songs and tell stories and talk about my heart yearns for you, but your heart doesn't yearn for anything.
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Isn't that weird? And nobody says, oh, my pancreas yearns for you. I mean, nobody says that. But I think what you said in the beginning, though, is so true that because we can hear the heart, you can't hear your pancreas or your lungs. I mean, your lungs work, but it's a very deliberate thing you do with them. But your heart makes this noise that reflects emotions.
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So that's what must be where the emotions are.
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Can you, in layman's terms, explain how the heart works? Is it really, really complicated, or is it basically just a pump?
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What's one thing about the heart that you suspect most people don't know that's really fascinating to you?
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Why is it so hard when someone dies and their heart stops beating, why is it so hard to start it back up again?
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When we hear someone has heart failure, what does that mean?
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So we've heard for many years that heart failure or heart disease is the number one killer. And I remember hearing, and it's always stuck with me, that a common first symptom of heart disease is sudden death. Is it really that like out of the blue?
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We're discussing some extraordinary things about the heart with my guest, cardiologist Dr. Vincent Figueiredo. He's author of the book, The Curious History of the Heart, A Cultural and Scientific Journey.
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So Vincent, I'm curious, when people have heart disease and sudden death is the first symptom, is it really so out of the blue? Is it really that Bob was fine yesterday and today we don't know why, but boom, he's just dead?
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What about people who, you know, well, there's a family history of heart disease. You know, his grandfather died at 50 and his father died at 55. So it seems like you're doomed. Is it that powerful?
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If you live long enough, I've heard this about prostate cancer, that men who live long enough, they're going to get prostate cancer. It doesn't mean they'll die from it, but they'll get it. Is the same true of heart disease? Yes.
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Today on Something You Should Know, the interesting origins of food names you've wondered about but never knew. Then, we have a problem. Humans are social creatures, but we're not being very social.
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and so you know maybe just like in the you know in the 70s and 80s where people started taking like physical fitness more seriously as a thing that they need to do to be healthy maybe we're seeing a time now where people can say you know what i want to be socially fit do you think it's a just a big part of this in a very fundamental way is electronics social media phones whatever you want to call it has just replaced it that instead of going to hang out your with your friends
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you can sit on the couch and hang out with your virtual friends, and so you've just swapped one for the other.
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When you're out talking to people and presenting this idea, what's the reaction? What do you hear? I mean, do people go, I don't know what you're talking about? Or do they say, well, yeah, this is great. I've been waiting for this. What do you hear?
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And the first step is just to commit to doing it, I guess. You've got to realize that this is something worthwhile, a goal to pursue.
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Have you looked at, like, whether or not people... I remember people in my life that were great at this. And they're kind of an inspiration to like, wow, look how he navigates all these people and interacts and makes people happy when he talks to them. Like, wow, I'd like to do that. Is there any sense of that, you know, finding a role model for this is really helpful?
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You mentioned a moment ago a book called Bowling Alone. When was that out? It was released, I believe, in 99. I don't remember that, but I love that title because, and what does he say in that?
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Well, what did he conclude? Because a lot of that decline happened before social media came. And the internet. And not only those organizations, but just involvement in church and those kind of things all seem to go down the same decline.
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Every food has a name, but where some of those names come from will surprise you. Hi, and welcome to Something You Should Know. Food names are fascinating. For example, Philadelphia Cream Cheese. You would assume it must have started in Philadelphia, but it did not. Philadelphia Cream Cheese started in New York.
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Well, earlier, I stated an assumption that if people don't know it's a problem, It's hard to fix. But do people know this is a problem? Do people lament that, gee, I wish I had more friends, I wish I was more social? Or do people, I mean, I'm sure there's people in every camp, but generally speaking, the people who are struggling with this, do they know they're struggling with this?
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You know, I bet everybody listening has a sense that this is going on, that they've noticed this lack of social connection. And it's good to hear from someone who actually studies it and can quantify it to get a sense of just how big the problem is and what we can do to fix it. Jeffrey A. Hall has been my guest.
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He is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the director of the Relationships and Technology Lab at the University of Kansas. And he has a book out called The Social Biome, How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Jeffrey, thanks. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mike.
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It was called Philadelphia because that city was associated with high-quality food products. Gatorade. Gatorade does not contain any alligator. It was a kidney specialist from the University of Florida who helped develop Gatorade, and the school's football team is the Florida Gators, so it was called Gatorade. What about spam? Not the email kind of spam, but the canned meat kind of spam.
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One thing you don't hear talked about a lot is nuclear power. And I confess, I don't know a whole lot about it, but my sense has always been that nuclear technology can produce more, better, and cleaner power than any other source... Except for the safety concern. What if something goes wrong?
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You mention nuclear power and people think of Three Mile Island or Chernobyl or the fact that nuclear power and nuclear bombs have the same origin. And for all of those reasons, and probably a whole lot more, there aren't a lot of nuclear power plants. But as you're about to hear, the people concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants aren't so concerned about it anymore.
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We have pretty much licked that problem. And in fact, there are 93 nuclear reactors in the United States. And in France, 70% of their power comes from nuclear reactors. So why aren't we building more of them? What is the future of nuclear power? Here with some insight into this topic is Marco Vischer.
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He's an award-winning journalist who has written extensively about climate policy and clean technology. And he is the author of several books, including The Power of Nuclear. Hi Marco, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So why isn't anyone talking about nuclear power? It doesn't come up much. I don't hear it talked about much. In all the conversations about energy and alternative forms of energy like wind and solar, no one ever mentions nuclear.
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Well, I find it really surprising that you, as a journalist who writes a lot about clean energy, that you are so pro-nuclear, because I don't know why, I would just think you would not be, but... But let's go back. When did nuclear power become a thing?
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It got its name from a contest. And there is no official explanation for its meaning, but most spam enthusiasts assume spam is short for spiced ham. Why is it called a Frisbee? Well, it comes from the Frisbee Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. They get the credit for this. The empty tins that the pies came in were perfect for launching across a field.
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So the first nuclear power plant went online when?
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And so when did it fall out of favor? It seemed to have, you know, people that don't like nuclear energy point to Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and talk about nuclear waste and all that. At some point, because it seems like it came online and this was a great thing, and then something happened.
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The first plastic version was called the Pluto Platter Flying Saucer. Wham-O bought the rights to that and stamped Frisbee on it instead. And marshmallows, marshmallows started out as medicine. In the 1800s, juice from the roots of the marshmallow plant were extracted and cooked with egg whites and sugar. It was whipped up and given to children to soothe sore throats.
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So I'm sensing from what you're saying that despite people's fears about nuclear power, that in fact it is clean and it is safe. And if that is true, then why hasn't that truth that nuclear power is clean and safe, why hasn't that truth pushed nuclear power forward and pushed the critics aside?
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Well, I remember hearing another argument like, well, what if one of our enemies blew up a nuclear power plant and all this radiation escaped and that that wouldn't be good?
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But if you're right, and I don't have any reason to think you're not, but if you're right, if nuclear power is really so great, why aren't more people screaming from the mountaintops that we need more nuclear power plants?
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And that's why we have marshmallows. And that is something you should know. I'm sure you've heard the statement, the phrase, that human beings are social creatures. We need social interaction. It's critical for our well-being and survival. People need people. The problem is we're becoming less social, and many of us don't even realize this.
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How much nuclear power is there now? If you know, how many plants are there in the U.S. or around the world? And how much of our electricity comes from nuclear right now?
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What's the general mood of people? If you took the temperature of people, do they care? Are they pro-nuclear, anti-nuclear? Is it moving one way or the other? What is the temperature?
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This is a real problem, according to my guest, Jeffrey Hall. He is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the director of the Relationships and Technology Lab at the University of Kansas. He's co-author of the book, The Social Biome, How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us. Hi, Jeffrey. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hey, it's a pleasure to be here.
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Is there any other anti-nuclear power argument besides the safety, besides the concerns about the waste, besides what we've already talked about and what people have heard? Is there any other argument?
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Well, I freely admit that I know very little about nuclear technology and nuclear power, and a lot of what you said surprised me.
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But as you were talking, and this is kind of breaking the rules of being a good interviewer where I'm supposed to focus exactly on what you're saying, but I was Googling a few things that you were saying to see if it were true, and everything you said is backed up, that there isn't a lot of evidence to support the critics saying,
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of nuclear power, although there are critics and they do have their arguments. I've been speaking with Marco Vischer. He's an award-winning journalist who's written extensively about climate policy and clean technology, and his latest book is called The Power of Nuclear. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Marco, I appreciate you coming on and explaining all this.
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I'm sure you're familiar with the fact that people say um, ah, and you know a lot. These things are called speech disfluencies, and we say them while we're putting our next thought together before we speak. It's assumed that people have always done this throughout human history in all languages.
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But one researcher looked back through the literature for several centuries and could find no mention of people using um, ah, and you know. The first discussion of these things appears in early 20th century writing and seems to coincide with the beginning of the phonograph and the radio.
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So explain what you mean when you say that we have become less social. When did this start? Why did it start? And what are the consequences of it?
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After the 1920s, when radio really started to be popular, discussions of um, ah, and you know became widespread. And the assumption is that this is because with the invention of the phonograph and the radio, people could actually hear what they sounded like when they spoke and started noticing that people were saying um, ah, and you know. By the way, the very first recorded ah...
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was made by Thomas Edison in 1888. And that is something you should know. You know, we are always looking to attract new listeners, and you as a current listener, well, current listeners are the best source of new listeners because you tell somebody you like this podcast and suggest they listen, they're more likely to give it a try. So please tell people about Something You Should Know.
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It really does help us. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience.
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Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice.
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He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts.
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Also, why people only recently started saying um, ah, and you know. And the renewed interest and push for nuclear power.
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But if that's your way of being and you know no different, you don't even know there's a problem. So how do you even begin to want to fix it if you don't know that this isn't normal?
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How do you... You know, I see this, especially with younger people, when you're in a store or you're watching them interact with a stranger, like somebody that works at the store, that they're very... They're not very pleasant. They're not unpleasant. They just, it's very, you know, bottle of water, please. There's no play. There's no social interaction. It's just the transaction.
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And I see that a lot, that the people just don't engage.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show.
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But how do you convince people of that? Again, if they don't notice, if they don't see it, if they think what they're doing is fine, what are the benefits that you can point to and say, well, maybe if we did it this way, it would be better? How would it be better?
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Meaning pay attention and listen and participate. You got it. Is the goal then to convince people to do this or to convince people to help people to do this? Because, again, if they don't see it as a problem, then how are they going to say, well, this doesn't apply to me. I don't know what he's talking about.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster, which strikes close to home for me, having just been... through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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We're discussing the human need to be social and how many of us are not meeting that need. My guest is Jeffrey Hall, author of the book The Social Biome, How Everyday Communication Connects and Shapes Us.
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So, Jeffrey, I think people have heard the statistics that loneliness is on the rise, people have fewer friends, but it doesn't seem to be something that people, I mean, I don't hear a lot of talk about addressing the problem.
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Today on Something You Should Know, why do you get a runny nose when it's cold? Then, come along on a fascinating tour of our solar system. We'll visit the Moon and the planets, Mars, Saturn and Mercury.
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I was out walking my dog last night, in fact, and saw this very bright star in the sky. And so I whipped out my phone. I've had that app that you can point at a star and it'll tell you what it was. And it was Jupiter. And it was really bright. Is it always really bright or it's just there's something about last night that made it bright?
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So whatever happened to Pluto? You know, that used to be a planet, now it's not. So what is it and what happened?
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Talk about Saturn, because there's a planet that's, you know, kind of a show off. It's got the rings and, you know, it's pretty spectacular. What are the rings and what's Saturn like?
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So they're like little moons orbiting Saturn, like our moon orbits earth.
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When you look at and you take a journey through our solar system, which you've just taken us on, and it's pretty fascinating, but you get the sense that most of it is so inhospitable. Does it ever make you think, why us? Why Earth? Why is this so friendly to life and nothing else is?
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Well, this is really interesting. I've learned a lot. I feel like I know my neighbors better in the solar system, so thanks for taking us on a little tour. I've been talking to John Moores. He has been a member of the science and operations team of several space missions. He's written nearly a hundred academic papers in planetary science, and the name of his book is
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is Daydreaming in the Solar System, Surfing Saturn's Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space Exploration. And if you'd like to read it, you can get a copy at Amazon. There's a link in the show notes. Thank you, John. Thanks so much, Mike. Great to be here.
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I bet it hasn't been more than a day or two or maybe three since you've had yourself a sandwich. Who doesn't love a good sandwich? So what makes a sandwich a sandwich? Where did they originate? I know I've heard something about the Earl of Sandwich having something to do with it, but is that the real story? Is a hamburger considered a sandwich? What about a hot dog?
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something you should know fascinating intel the world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today something you should know with mike carruthers hi there welcome to something you should know i want to start today with a with a question i bet you have asked yourself and that is when you go out in cold weather
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What makes a sandwich a club sandwich? Well, you're about to discover all of this and a lot more with my guest, Barry Enderwick. He's the biggest expert on the sandwich you are ever going to find. And he has likely eaten more different kinds of sandwiches than probably anyone on the planet. He has a book out called Sandwiches of History, The Cookbook.
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All the best and most surprising things people have put between two slices of bread. Hey, Barry, welcome to Something You Should Know. Well, thank you for having me. Great to be here. So first, I guess I have to ask, why are you such a sandwich devotee? Why are you so into sandwiches?
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Well, that's a good reason. And, you know, who hasn't had a sandwich? I mean, everybody's had a sandwich. Where did they come from? Do we know? We've all heard this story about the Earl of Sandwich or something, but you probably know the real story. So what is the real story?
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Well, and doesn't it seem that the sandwich was inevitable with or without him because as sooner or later, and probably it did happen that several people probably figured, you know, if we put this between two slices of bread, it would probably be easier to eat.
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The modern sandwich, though, that we think of when we think of a sandwich, I mean, where did that come from? Was there a birthplace of the modern sandwich?
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Is there a sandwich? Can you get a sandwich almost anywhere on earth? Does every culture have something that seems like a sandwich?
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Why does it make your nose run? Well, it's perfectly normal for that to happen, and no one is sure of all the reasons why it happens. But here's what we do know. The nose is kind of a fancy air conditioner, and one of its jobs is to warm and humidify the air we inhale. When the air is unusually cold, the nose kicks into high gear to warm and humidify it.
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It shouldn't be as good as it is. And then you taste it and it's just like this, like this present of, wow. Wow. I wasn't expecting that. That was fabulous.
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I'm sorry. They're not for everyone. They're not for everyone. They are not for everyone, and I'm one of those people that they're not for. Not for everyone. And was there ever a point in time, because it seemed like sandwiches were fairly, I don't know, pedestrian until, with some exceptions, like some great deli sandwiches. But, you know, people didn't make exotic sandwiches at home.
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It was just, you know, peanut butter and jelly and, you know. ham and cheese or bologna and cheese. But at some point it kind of got more involved. Like maybe that was in the 70s or 80s where people started making like real sandwiches. Or is this just my imagination?
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Blood vessels dilate, mucus tissues swell and secrete extra mucus, and this extra mucus results in a runny nose. In addition, as the newly heated, newly moist air is exhaled, the moisture in it condenses when it hits the colder outside temperatures and then drips out as fluid.
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And I remember when he first showed me that or made one for me and I thought, this is not. It's peanut butter, mayonnaise, and lettuce. I've had that. It's great.
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And sandwiches historically, it seems, for the most part, contained meat. But now there's a lot of non-meaty sandwiches.
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But I think people who are going to eat a sandwich, if you said, Hey, let's go get a sandwich. But it's going to be a vegetarian sandwich. Most people would kind of, the air would go out of the balloon. You know what I'm saying?
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What's the deal with these little dainty finger sandwiches and cucumber sandwiches you think they serve at Buckingham Palace or something? Those to me don't seem like real sandwiches. They're sandwiches, but they don't fit the mold of a big hearty sandwich. Yeah.
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There's not much you can do about it unless it becomes really severe, and apparently there is a prescription available from your doctor. But it's just normal. And that is something you should know. So you must know something about the solar system. I'm sure you learned in school that we have a sun and that planets revolve around the sun.
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What about the legendary peanut butter and jelly? Do we know where that started?
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But yet it's so simple, and yet it's very, very popular. Certainly with kids, it's very popular.
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One non-meat sandwich that seems to hold its own is a grilled cheese sandwich. People really have always enjoyed grilled cheese sandwiches, sometimes with tomato in it or whatever. But do we know the origins of that? Or again, it just seems like anybody could have figured that out.
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Give me some other interesting sandwiches and how they're made because people can always rewind this and listen back and get the recipe. What's a really cool sandwich to try that you think people would be surprised that it's so good?
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That we are the third closest planet to the sun and the only one that supports life. So what would it be like to travel around the solar system? What would that experience be? Well, hang on. We're about to take a fascinating podcast tour around the solar system with John Moores. He's been a member of the science and operations team of several space missions, including the Curiosity Rover mission.
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What's another interesting piece of lore about sandwiches or some really, really horrible sandwich or something?
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So when is a sandwich not a sandwich? And that's an open-faced sandwich because it defies the rule, but it's still called a sandwich. Why?
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Right. Well, and as you point out, if it's in a cookbook, where else would you put it? If it's an open-faced sandwich recipe, where else in the book would it go besides with the other sandwiches? Right. So every sandwich has bread, and one food that is closely associated with bread is butter. So how does butter fit into the whole sandwich story?
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Well, this has been fun, and you've made me kind of hungry. I've been talking to Barry Enderwick. He is kind of the quintessential sandwich expert, and he's author of a book called Sandwiches of History, the Cookbook. All the best and most surprising things people have put between slices of bread. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks again, Barry. This was great.
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Thank you. I appreciate it. This was a lot of fun chatting with you. It's one of those hypothetical questions you hear about, that if someone drops a penny off the Empire State Building and it hits someone below... would it go right through their head and kill them? And the answer, according to a book that has a lot of these kind of questions, like the title of the book is Can a Guy Get Pregnant?
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But the answer is, if you drop a penny off the Empire State Building and it hits someone in the head, it probably won't kill them. In fact, you might be able to catch it. It would be going at about 100 miles an hour, but the wind resistance would keep it from going any faster.
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He's written nearly 100 academic papers in planetary science, and he's co-author of the book Daydreaming in the Solar System, Surfing Saturn's Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space Exploration. Hi, John. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me, Mike. So you've studied this, and I just want to get a sense of, like, what is the solar system like?
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However, if you dropped a ballpoint pen, that would be deadly because the streamlined design would minimize the resistance and that would probably kill you. And that is something you should know. I can't express how important and how helpful it would be. If you would just share this podcast with someone you know, it's easy to do using the share function on whatever podcast app you listen to on.
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And really, it helps us so much to help grow the audience and get the word out about this podcast. Something You Should Know is produced by Jeff Havison, Jennifer Brennan, and executive producer is Ken Williams. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Also, what would happen if you got hit by a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building? And the history of the sandwich and some incredible sandwiches you really should try.
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I mean, is it quiet? Does it smell like something? I mean, before we start our journey here, what is it like?
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And how do we know that we know this? Because nobody's ever been to Mercury or Saturn or Jupiter. So when you talk about what these places are like, how do we know what they're like?
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So take me on a little tour of the solar system and start wherever you want, but just let's hop around and see what things are like because I don't think I really have a very good sense of that and would love to.
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And it reminds you of home because why? It has mountains and it's solid and it looks like it could be earth kind of reminds you of? Exactly.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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So let me ask you this. Let's pause our journey here. So when you watch science fiction TV shows or you look up in the night sky, it all looks very random. You see little specks of things as the spaceships on TV go by. But our solar system is very ordered in the sense that we have the sun and these planets orbiting around it, where do they come from? Did they all come from the same place?
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Are they related at all? Or are they just rocks in the sky that orbit around the sun?
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We are on a tour of the solar system, and our tour guide is John Moores. He is author of the book, Daydreaming in the Solar System, Surfing Saturn's Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space Exploration.
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So, John, what about the sun? I mean, obviously we can't go there, but what is the sun? How long is it going to last? What does it do?
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So what's the next stop on our tour of the solar system?
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So, Russ, my sense of video games, and I'm not a big gamer, is that the improvements were pretty incremental, but maybe not. I mean, it seems like there was Pong, and then it got a little better and a little better, and look at what we have now. But were there big milestones along the way, or was it just a little bit of improvement every step of the way?
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Something I've always wanted to know, because we've talked about the addictive quality of video games and how so many young people, boys in particular it seems, just can't stop. And people say it's like a drug and it releases this dopamine. Do you think that, and you wouldn't probably have a good opinion on this, is that purposeful or is that a side effect?
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When it comes to having fun, one destination, one place people go for the express purpose of having fun... are amusement parks. But when I think of amusement parks, I think of things that run on electricity, rides and games and things that light up. So how far back can amusement parks go before electricity? Because if you don't have electricity, what do you have?
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I've heard that amusement parks before Disney were, you know, tended to be kind of seedy and, you know, unsafe and kind of and that he was the game changer. Is that true?
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The amusement parks before Disney was my description accurate or is there more to it than that?
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You often hear about these odd, weird kind of festivals or amusement parks. What did you find? Was there a weird one that you thought was particularly interesting?
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So in the category of fun, since you look at the history of fun, what did you find? Anything that you found that people do for fun?
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I try to wash my hands a lot because I remember we did a segment here quite a while ago about how we don't realize how many times we touch our own face throughout the day.
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It was interesting because I haven't really thought about it much before, but a lot of the fun people have. is accompanied by dressing up, costumes, pretending to be someone else. You know, from Halloween to some of these festivals, Renaissance fairs, those kind of things. There's a lot of dressing up going on that I guess adds to the fun.
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Well, before you go, I want you to tell the story about that I saw in your book about the video game GoldenEye that came out in the mid 90s. It's a pretty interesting story.
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And if there are germs on your hands, on your fingers that you picked up from some surface somewhere, and those germs can cause a cold, and then you touch your eye or your mouth or your nose, well, those germs can get into your system and you can get sick from that. I don't know if that's exactly how it works, but I remembered it. It sounded right.
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Well, this has been fun. Well, I guess it should be fun because it's the history of fun, and I really appreciate you sharing all these stories. Rush Frustik has been my guest, and the name of the book is The Book of Fun, An Illustrated History of Having a Good Time. And you will find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Russ. Great, thank you.
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There is not a person alive, I suspect, who hasn't at some point in their life struggled with sleep. You can't fall asleep. You can't stay asleep. You sleep, but you're still tired all the time. You sleep too much or you sleep too little. Sleep can be a real problem for virtually everyone. And here with the latest research, techniques, and advice on the subject is Dr. Guy Leschziner.
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He is a neurologist in London where he leads the Sleep Disorder Center, which is one of the largest sleep services in Europe. He's also author of the book The Nocturnal Brain, Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep. Hi Guy, thanks for joining me from London. Thanks very much for having me on. So I must tell you that I love the subject of sleep.
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We've talked about it a couple of times on this podcast. And one of the things that I love about it is that, you know, it obviously affects everyone. Everyone has different experiences with sleep. Everyone has a different relationship with sleep. And what is your relationship with sleep?
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So I try to wash my hands a lot, but I admit I'm impatient and probably don't wash them long enough. According to the CDC, 80% of all infectious diseases are spread by touch. The Center for Disease Control recommends that you wash your hands for at least 15 seconds,
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It is so interesting that sleep is such a dominant part of our lives. We spend a lot of time doing it, and when we don't do it well, it screws up the other time when we're not doing it. And yet, as you say, it's kind of almost a nuisance. Like, well, you have to do that, and you have to sleep, and yeah, I guess it's important.
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But nobody really spends a lot of time thinking a whole lot about it, but it's so critical.
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So why do we sleep? What happens when we sleep? What does it do for us beyond the obvious, you know, then we're not so tired the next day? But what is going on there?
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quality of sleep. Not all sleep is the same in that you could sleep eight hours and maybe feel really rested and somebody else could sleep the same eight hours and not feel so rested, yes?
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However, studies show that the reduction of skin bacteria is nearly 10 times greater if you wash your hands with soap for 30 seconds rather than 15 seconds. When people wash their hands, the most commonly missed areas are fingertips and fingernails. And here's something else important to consider. Hot or warm water is no more effective than cold water when you wash your hands.
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What about people's sleep requirement? You hear people say, I can get by on a couple hours of sleep. I'm one of those people that if I don't get a good night's sleep, I feel the effects. I suffer the next day. And some people seem to skip by on very little. What's the science say?
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Can you, quote, make up sleep? In other words, you have trouble sleeping and so you add extra hours on the weekend and it all evens out.
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In terms of, I've heard the expression, you know, sleep hygiene, that how we create our sleep environment, what we, the rituals we go through, those kinds of things can have a real impact on our sleep.
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It may feel better, but it doesn't help you clean your hands any better. And that is something you should know. People need fun. Kids like to play. Grown-ups like to play. We like our fun and have throughout the ages. Toys, games, sports, amusement parks, festivals. They have all been fun parts of our lives. And some of the stories of how this fun was created are interesting and worth telling.
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When people have trouble sleeping, are there a million different reasons depending on the person, or is there typically a reason or two why?
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So sometimes I'll have trouble sleeping because, you know, something exciting happened or is about to happen or, you know, anticipating tomorrow. And is, is that just, is that insomnia or is that just something exciting is happening?
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Are there things that people either don't know that if they did know would help them sleep better, or perhaps some things people think they know that by not knowing the truth are helping them sleep worse?
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When people are diagnosed with a true sleep disorder, it's not just that they're having some trouble sleeping now and again, but they have something really wrong. Are these sleep disorders generally based in biology or psychology or what?
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And here to tell them is Russ Freshstick. Russ has written about games and technology for over a decade. He's co-founder of Vox Media's gaming site Polygon, and he is author of a book called The Book of Fun, an illustrated history of having a good time. Hi, Russ. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you for having me. So let's start with board games.
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What about dreaming? Why do we dream? Is it just the brain's got to do something while you're sleeping so it does that and it plays little movies or is there more to it or what?
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What do you think? I mean, people have theorized that, you know, dreaming predicts the future, that dreaming helps you solve problems that you can't solve while you're awake. What's your sense?
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This idea that, you know, if you dream about this, it must mean that, that's a pretty weak connection.
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I've read and heard it said that one of the ways, if you're having trouble sleeping, one of the ways to improve your sleep is to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, seven days a week, do it regularly, and that that consistency will help improve pretty much anybody's sleep. Yes?
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I imagine board games have been around for a long time in some form or another, right? Yeah.
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habits but making sure that it doesn't become an obsession what is that thing that i have and i know a lot of other people have that ability to if i say i'm going to wake up tomorrow at five o'clock in the morning and i set the alarm for five o'clock in the morning i'll wake up about two minutes before five just before the alarm gets off i don't know how i do that how do what what is that
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There are a lot of electronic devices, sleep trackers, that people wear to kind of track how much they sleep, how much they move around when they sleep, how often they wake up, that kind of thing. What do you think about those sleep trackers?
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Well, this is really helpful because, as I said, so many people, pretty much everybody, at some point in their life has trouble with their sleep. And this is some excellent information that can really help everybody. Dr. Guy Leschziner has been my guest. He is a neurologist in London, and he is author of the book The Nocturnal Brain, Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep.
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You'll find a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes for this episode. Thanks, Doctor.
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If you hate your job, you should probably leave as soon as possible. It turns out that job dissatisfaction has real consequences.
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In a study at Ohio State, people who reported greater levels of dissatisfaction with their jobs when they were in their 20s and 30s scored lower on measures of overall mental health by the time they hit their 40s compared to those who had been consistently happy with their work.
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While the study started analyzing guys when they were in their twenties, it's likely that older men dissatisfied with their jobs face similar effects as well. It turns out that being unhappy at work also takes a physical toll.
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Those people with low job satisfaction were more likely to suffer from 13 different health complications, including frequent colds and sinus problems, than those who enjoyed their work. The good news is that if you leave a job you hate for one that is more satisfying, many of these problems just disappear. And that is something you should know.
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And why is it that you think that board games stick? Why is it that they have just transcended time and people still play them? What is it?
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And now I will simply disappear after I ask you to please share this podcast with someone you know. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Today on Something You Should Know, do you really wash your hands as good as you should? Then the history of fun, the fascinating backstories of board games, amusement parks, and toys like Legos.
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When I hear the term board game, my mind immediately goes to Monopoly. And I think it's true for a lot of people. What is it about Monopoly that, I mean, it's popular around the world, that what is it that makes it so enduring?
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Speaking of Monopoly, talk about the scandal, I guess it's a scandal, that McDonald's had with their Monopoly game.
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When I think of toys for children, certainly dolls are about the simplest and most enduring toy ever. I can think of. How far back do we know dolls go?
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I remember reading that there were several toys that became very popular that were really the result of something else. They were kind of accidental discoveries, like the Slinky is one of them. So where did the Slinky come from?
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Since we're talking about fun, um, I think Legos have to be part of the conversation because anyone with kids, maybe people without kids, spend hours building Lego things. They're almost addictive. So tell the Lego story.
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One toy that escaped me completely, I didn't get the fascination, is the Rubik's Cube. Well, I guess I get the fascination. I just couldn't do it, and I didn't have the patience to keep trying. Who's Rubik?
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Also, if you hate your job, you should probably quit as soon as possible. And how well and how much do you sleep? It's important.
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Well, I've never been capable of doing it. One toy that's been around for a long time that people have tons of fun with and always have... is the squirt gun. So how old is that?
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I remember that water guns, water pistols were so small and you constantly had to keep refilling it until somebody came along and figured out, you know, we could put this big tank, this big storage tank on it and call it a super soaker. And it seems like that was the next big evolution in squirt guns.
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Ask pretty much any teenage boy what they like to do for fun, and video games are going to be pretty close, if not at the top of the list. So what is considered the beginning of the modern video game?
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Well, that's really surprising. 1958, there were video games. I had no idea. I thought Pong was the first video game. And so if it was in 1958, it must have been a pretty primitive game.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Are there machines that are hooked up to run it?
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We're talking about fun and all the things we do to have fun. Russ Frushtick is my guest. The name of his book is The Book of Fun, an illustrated history of having a good time. I have a new sponsor I'm really excited to talk about. It's Caraway Cookware. You know, I'll never forget, we did a show a while back that looked at how much plastic we consume.
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Yeah, because when you think about it, there are a lot of those kind of words, products that start with K much more than, say, N or F.
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It would seem to me you could make the case that there is kind of a simplified language movement in the sense that texting tends to get simplified. People use the letter U for the word U. People abbreviate in ways to make it quicker, and yet you still know exactly what they mean. And yet if you try to put that in a document, in a letter, in a report...
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You're chastised for that, but in texting, it's completely acceptable.
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Is the resistance to simplified spelling more of a resistance of, oh, it's just too much trouble, it's going to cause trouble, and let's just not bother? Or is the resistance coming from real gatekeepers who want to keep English the way it was written, the way it was intended, the way that they're purists, in other words?
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Even the purists have to acknowledge that English is always changing. I mean, if you compare English today to English 200 years ago, it's a very different language. So you can try to hold the gate closed, but it's never closed. There's always evolution. But the spelling stuff doesn't seem to be subject. I mean, words come and go, but spelling seems to be pretty constant.
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So there are very distinct differences in the way some words are spelled in American English versus English English. Do we know why that is?
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Have there ever been any examples that you can think of off the top of your head of words that the simplified spelling was just so good and so practical that it won or not?
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There are so many little quirks in English that seemingly make no sense, like why so many words that start with PH are pronounced as if it were an F. Why?
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Well, I think that's brilliant. It's not that people are bad at spelling, it's spelling that's bad at spelling. And I think that lets a lot of people off the hook. The rules are so crazy that it's understandable why people might be bad at spelling. I've been talking to Gabe Henry, and the name of his book is Enough is Enough, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell.
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There's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Gabe, thanks. Thanks for letting people off the hook. I appreciate it so much. Thank you, Mike.
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Maybe you've thought about this before. I certainly have. If you stand in the middle of a major city and just look around and think about the infrastructure that makes that city work, it's mind-boggling. I mean, the network of roads, how the water gets in there.
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I mean, how does all that water get pumped into a city and then into all the buildings and all the way up to the tall buildings so that there's enough water everywhere that that it's available on demand to anyone. Then there's the electricity and the gas lines and wiring for the internet. There are so many things that have to work to keep a city working.
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And the same thing is true for smaller cities and towns on a smaller scale. There are systems that have to work. And here to give a peek into how the infrastructure systems work is Sybil Darable. He is a professor of urban engineering and director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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He's author of a book called The Infrastructure Book, How Cities Work and Power Our Lives. Sybil, hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks a lot for having me, Mike. So let's start with water, because I've always been amazed. You look at the Empire State Building in New York. Somehow the water gets all the way up to the bathrooms near the top of that building. It must be some amazing pump.
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When there's infrastructure for something new, like one day... a city has to decide, okay, we need to wire the internet for everybody and the city's already here. How do you do that?
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But do people from like different cities ever get together and say well how did you guys do that because we need to do that and we're not really sure how to do that so can we see how you did that or you just people just do what they do?
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What happens to all the waste water, the waste from the toilet? Where does it all go?
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I'm going to guess that you are less likely to use cash to pay for things than you used to. I think that's true for most people. And the problem is that that's having an effect on your bank account. Hi, and welcome to this episode of Something You Should Know. We're not yet a cashless society, but we are a lot closer than we used to be.
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And when you say when the water comes in, you treat it, what does that mean?
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Release it, put it in the sea?
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But the solid stuff that gets pulled out of wastewater, where does that go?
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So you mentioned before, like, they'll put fiber optic cables in the old Western. So is there a lot of old infrastructure underneath cities that, I mean, because you don't take it out, right? I mean, you just build beside it.
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Consumers generally report that they prefer to pay for purchases with plastic rather than cash. And consumers generally concede that they know they are more likely to spend more money when they use plastic or their digital wallet than if they use cash. There just seems to be something to the idea that by not using real money to pay for things, you're likely to spend more.
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So natural gas that runs in pipes everywhere, throughout cities, towns, everywhere, that natural gas is odorless naturally. It doesn't have a smell.
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Let's talk about transportation. And sometimes you look at a city, particularly an older city, the way the roads go and the highways, and it doesn't really look like there's much of a plan, but there's always a plan, right? Yeah.
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Where's everybody going?
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Going back to water for a moment, For years, people have talked about desalinization, that that was going to help with droughts and things, that if we could take the water from the sea and take the salt out of it, that we would have plenty of water, but always the cost of doing that was so prohibitive that you couldn't do it on a big enough scale. So where are we with that?
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Has the price come down?
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Now let's get a little more granular. You are likely to spend more money with a credit card than a debit card, and you're likely to spend more with a debit card than with cash. So just by using cash instead of plastic, you will spend less. But even that gets more interesting. The next time you need cash, skip the ATM and go to the bank and ask for new $50 bills. Why?
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Typically, does everybody exist that works on those in silos, or is there somebody that oversees the whole thing?
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Now, you had said earlier that, like in a city, they try to keep electric and water apart so one goes down one side of the street and one goes down the other. Is that a thing? Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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But wait a minute. So if you have a street and you've got water going down one side and electricity going down the other side, the buildings on the other side need the other guy. So the electricity has to cross the water to get across the street to the people over there and the water has to cross the electricity to get to the people over there.
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And what about the aging of all of this? To me, I would think that would be what keeps people up at night, is that this stuff gets older by the day, and much of it was built a long, long time ago, and isn't it just a time bomb waiting to go off? Oh, absolutely.
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Because research says you're more willing to spend older bills than newer ones, and you're much more willing to spend smaller denomination bills than larger ones. So skip the plastic, stuff your wallet with new $50 or maybe even $100 bills, and it's almost for sure that you will end up keeping more of your own money. And that is something you should know.
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What is something that some city somewhere has done uniquely that you think is very forward-thinking or different or unique about just a solution to an infrastructure problem that nobody thought before?
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As I said at the start of this, Whenever I'm in a big city like New York and I look around, I look up and I think, how does this all work? And it's great to get a little insight into some of the ways that it does work. I've been speaking with Sybil Darable.
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He is a professor of urban engineering and director of the Complex and Sustainable Urban Networks Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He's author of a book called The Infrastructure Book. How Cities Work and Power Our Lives. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Great, Sybil. Thanks for being here.
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Have you ever not done something fun just because you didn't have someone to do it with? like going out to eat or going to an event. Just because you don't have someone to go with is not a good reason not to go. First of all, one of the reasons we don't do things alone is we fear we will be judged by others as one of those people who has no friends.
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Yet, according to a study published by the Journal of Consumer Research, The judgments that we fear we will get are much harsher than we would ever give if we saw somebody out doing something alone. The same study looked at people's prediction of how they would enjoy an activity if they did it alone, going to an art gallery in this case, versus how they actually did enjoy it.
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And it turned out people's predictions were off. People enjoyed doing things alone much more than they thought they would. So the next time you don't do something just because you have no one to go with, Maybe step out of your comfort zone and you might be surprised how much you enjoy it. And that is Something You Should Know.
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Something You Should Know is produced by Jeff Havison and Jennifer Brennan. The executive producer is Ken Williams. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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If you remember back to your early days in school, you probably recall being stumped by the fact that the way many words in English are spelled makes no sense at all. Why, for example, these three words, rough, tough, and cough? None of these words have an F in them, but they are pronounced as if they do.
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And I'm sure it wouldn't take you long to come up with a bunch of words that are spelled differently than the way they're pronounced. Why? Why don't we change the spelling to make it easier for everyone? Well, here to explain these strange oddities of English is Gabe Henry. He's the author of a book called Enough is Enough, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell.
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Today on Something You Should Know, the problem with paying for everything with plastic, not cash. Then, weird ways many English words are spelled, nothing like they sound. Why hasn't anyone fixed that?
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Hi Gabe, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, happy to be here. So first, I'm curious if other languages have this same problem, if they have words that are spelled in nonsensical ways the way we do in English.
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It sure is. So why didn't someone many, many years ago say, you know what, we need to have a meeting. We need to sit down, look at this language we've got here, and standardize some things so it's not so crazy.
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Well, you would think if anybody had the chops to, anyone had the right influence to change the language, it would be Noah Webster since he was the dictionary guy. So if he couldn't do it, so where are we now?
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I mean, as you say, people have tried throughout history, but are people trying now or have we pretty much thrown in the towel and we've just said, this is the way we spell these words, live with it.
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Well, like so many things that never get off the ground, there's no money in it, right? There's no profit motive for changing the language, at least not directly, that anybody could probably see. And so if there's no payoff, then there's no payoff.
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Also, why doing fun things alone may be more fun than you think. And infrastructure. All the systems that make a city or town work.
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I know one of the things that confounds people who don't have English as their first language are some of the weird silent letters we have, like the B in doubt, or the B in debt, or the L in salmon. Do other languages have silent letters like that?
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You know what I wonder, and maybe you know the answer to this, if you ask someone who has had to learn English as a second language as an adult, and also learned another language as an adult. They've learned two additional languages beyond their native language. How does English compare to the other languages?
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Is English a particularly difficult foreign language to learn, or are all foreign languages difficult just in their own way?
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Well, I think even people, many people who are native English speakers have trouble with spelling. I've always felt I was a pretty good speller, but I know plenty of people who who grew up having trouble spelling fairly common English words.
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We're talking about why so many words in our language are spelled in a way that has no resemblance to how they're pronounced. My guest is Gabe Henry. He's author of the book, Enough is Enough, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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So, Gabe, in one sense, we do have some simplified spelling, at least in terms of the way some products are named. Rice Krispies with a K or Krispy Kreme or Kool-Aid. They are spelled differently than the correct way of spelling them, which helps make them stand out. But you could also say they're spelled correctly in the sense that they're spelled the way they're pronounced.
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Yes, we all eat and chew our food, but we don't all eat and chew our food the same way. Hi, welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. I suspect every man has probably been told once or twice or more that he eats too fast and that he should slow down, enjoy your food. Is there really a gender difference in how men and women eat?
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What is the point of all of this? I mean, it's clearly fascinating, but what do we do with this? And therefore what?
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But it doesn't seem like you have to go back to hunter-gatherer days thousands and thousands of years ago to see a difference. There's a difference between today and 50 years ago or 100 years ago.
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Well, see, that's something that I have always wondered about because I can remember growing up, there was that neighborhood, and I grew up in the suburbs in Connecticut, and neighbors were social with each other. My mother used to walk into the back door of the house next door just unannounced for coffee in the morning every once in a while, and we had parties together.
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And that same neighborhood, that never happens anymore.
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Well, researchers in South Korea hooked up electrodes to the jaws of men and women and gave them some rice to eat. And the results? Men do eat faster than women, on average twice as fast. There are two reasons for this. First, men take bigger bites. And secondly, they generally chew their food faster than women. The advice is not for women to speed up their eating.
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Right. And then it does seem that the smaller the community, the more social and the more everybody knows everybody.
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But it isn't just, I mean, the technology problem, I get that. And I've always been so fascinated by and disturbed by the fact that when you see people together who are on their phones with somebody else, why are they together? But I remember, I think I may have mentioned this on another episode of a similar topic, but I remember having a conversation with someone
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who I knew and, and, and I said, I met this guy and he lives on your street. Do you know him? And she said, I make it a point not to know my neighbors. And I thought, well, what an odd, what is the benefit of that? What, why? And I didn't really get an answer, but what a strange, I thought that was a very strange outlook on life that make sure you don't know your neighbors.
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Well, as I said at the very beginning here, this is an interesting topic that I don't think people ever think about, this difference between autonomy and social connection and why we need to balance them. I don't think people take this into account.
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I wonder if even in small communities where people were more social, if even they are less, they're still more social, but they're less more social because of technology and other things.
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Well, I find it interesting that you don't hear people lamenting about the loss of social connection. I don't hear people saying, I wish we got together with the neighbors more often. I wish that somehow, you know, we've grown accustomed to this, and I think for many people it seems all right. In other words, if you don't perceive a problem, then there's nothing to solve.
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It is for men to take smaller bites and slow down. At the very least, you reduce your risk of choking, but there are other health benefits to eating slower as well. People who eat slower tend to eat less, which is good for your waistline, and you will improve digestion when you eat more slowly. And that is something you should know. Humans have a need for social connection.
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Well, I've really enjoyed this conversation because it's opened up my eyes. I mean, this is something I've never really thought much about, this social paradox, but clearly it's a thing and it's important to understand it. I've been talking to William von Hippel. He's author of the book, The Social Paradox, Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness.
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And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. William, thanks. You've been here before, and every time we talk, it's always interesting. Thanks. Thank you. It's fun to chat. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster.
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which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you.
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I'm sure you feel stress at times, maybe a lot of the time. But there's this interesting thing that we humans do, is we compound our own stress by worrying about the what-ifs. We have a problem, we might feel stressful, and then we pile on with, well, what else could happen? What else could go wrong? What if this doesn't work out? So now we're stressing about things that aren't even real.
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That's a lot of stress, a lot of unnecessary stress. And here with some insight into this and ways to really reduce the stress you feel is Jennifer Tates. She's a clinical psychologist and assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at UCLA. She frequently writes for publications like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review.
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She's author of a book called Stress Resets, How to Soothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes. Hi Jennifer, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So talk about human stress, why we do it the way we do it, why it affects us the way it does.
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We cannot survive and thrive alone. People need people. We've discussed this many times here. Yet people also have a need for autonomy to do things and have things our way and not be subject to the desires of the group. It's a tricky balance and there are a lot of reasons to believe that this balance has gotten out of whack.
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Well, that sounds horrible.
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Well, it makes you wonder why we do that in the first place. I mean, what purpose does it serve?
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Today on Something You Should Know, the problem with eating too fast and who's most likely to do it. Then, the price we pay for having fewer friends and less social connection.
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Well, I imagine, and you and I were talking before the conversation started about the fires in California because we're both close by. If you've lost your house, if you've lost everything, as I have friends who have, I can't imagine many things more stressful than that. I can't imagine making it worse in your mind than it really is.
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But maybe you do because maybe you think this is the end of the world when, in fact, you know, people adapt and recover and move on.
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Yeah, I have found when I stop myself, and I imagine most people have had this experience, that you can really work yourself up into a, you know, this is the worst thing that's ever happened to me. But if you stop and think about it, you know, you won't even be thinking about this a week from now or two weeks from now. But in this moment, it feels like the end of the world.
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Now, you may not have given this a whole lot of thought, but this conversation you're about to hear will fascinate you as you start to understand this social paradox between the need for connection and autonomy and why it is so important. Here to discuss it is William von Hippel.
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It does seem that there are people who handle stress better than others, just like naturally. They just seem to have that water-off-a-duck's-back kind of approach to life that nothing bothers them. And then there are other people at the end of the spectrum who take everything as if it's just the worst. And is it worth trying to move your position on that spectrum?
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before we even get into exercises to help.
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I'm sure everyone has had the experience of being in a very stressful situation and getting so involved and consumed by the stressful situation and how you're responding to it that you later look back and go, what was that all about? Why was I so stressed? Why did I react the way I did? I wish I hadn't done that.
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He's a former professor of psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia, a former professor of psychology at Ohio State University, and his research has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, The Economist, the BBC, and many other places. He's author of a book called The Social Paradox, Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness.
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And so I'm wondering if you could talk about some first aid in the moment things that people can do. And sure, you have to remember to do them and make yourself do them. But some things in that moment of stress when things really feel out of control that you could grab onto and try to do that would really help.
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One more?
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Hey, William, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, it's great to talk to you, Mike. So let's start with an explanation of what this paradox is between autonomy and connection and why it's important. And let me just have you explain that.
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Yeah, I love that one. And I try that one frequently that, you know, you should probably do the thing you exactly feel you shouldn't do or wouldn't do because that's what's going to make you feel better because you should go out to dinner even though you don't feel like it. And when you do, you'll feel better.
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What is it that goes on when people get in those kind of panicky modes? Road rage is perhaps a stereotypical example, but you get so upset, you get so stressed out, and later you look back and go, what the hell was that about? Why did I get so upset? Why did I get so upset?
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People often, I've heard the advice when you're stressed out is to, you know, write it down, to write down your thoughts and what's bothering you, that that somehow has a magical effect.
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Anything else or any real magic trick that we haven't talked about that really seems to resonate with people that you can share?
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Well, that is some great advice. And this is the perfect conversation for a podcast because people can go back and listen and re-hear what you said and get your advice again and implement it into their lives. Jennifer Tates has been my guest. She is a clinical psychologist and assistant clinical professor in psychiatry at UCLA.
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The name of her book is Stress Resets, How to Soothe Your Body and Mind in Minutes. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Jennifer, thanks.
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When you're writing a document on your computer, what font do you use most often? Some fonts are more attractive than others, and size counts. Research from Wichita State University revealed which fonts people find most appealing. Georgia and Times New Roman were rated the most attractive, while Arial, Courier, and Veranda were considered the easiest and most legible fonts.
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There is a font called Comic Sans, and you'll probably find it in your list of fonts that you have. Comic Sans came in last place. Size seems to matter, too. People liked Times New Roman when it was bigger. People like Veranda in a 10-point size and Ariel in a 12. And that is something you should know.
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If you had a podcast, and I listened to it all the way to the end like you just did, I would probably tell people about your podcast... So I'm going to ask you to do the same thing. Tell people about my podcast and ask them to listen. Send them the link. It's really easy to do. There's a share button somewhere on the app that you're using. I'm Mike Carruthers.
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Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice.
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He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts.
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Also, choosing the right font to use that's most liked and easily read. And the ways we deal with stress and why we're not very good at it.
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And can you give me an example, a quick example or two of the social paradox in life and in action?
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We know that? Do we, in other words, do rich people who cut themselves off realize they've cut themselves off and are therefore unhappy about it? Or do they think, well, I'm a rich person and that's what we rich people do?
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And yet, in that case, it isn't either or. There are... you could say the suburbs where they're not, it's not rural, it's not little towns, but it's not big cities either. It's kind of somewhere in the middle. And what about those people?
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And so if you took a bunch of poor people and gave them a million dollars, would they become more autonomous and leave their friends behind? I mean, what's the desire there?
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We're discussing this social paradox, the need for autonomy and the need for social connection. My guest is William von Hippel. He's author of the book, The Social Paradox, Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness.
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So William, you said that poor people are more connected, have more connections than rich people. You also said that poor people are less happy. But we also hear that, but it's that social connection, that's what makes people happy.
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So what is it about religious services that has this effect?
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So, Sarah, it's interesting to think about it as we were discussing how one of the best ways to deal with or solve a problem is to get away from it, to not try to solve it, to think about something else, that it is in the getting away from it that the clarity comes.
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It also seems to me that when you're handling those day-to-day hassles, what you're saying to yourself, particularly about yourself, can have a real impact on how you view the problem, how you solve the problem. And trying to be conscious not to beat yourself up in your own head is probably a real helpful strategy.
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So far we've talked mostly about dealing with trouble, with hassles, with problems of everyday life and strategies to do that. But you had mentioned in the beginning of this conversation about vitality, about living life with, I guess, like a sparkle. So let's talk about that.
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What are some of the other science-backed strategies that people could possibly use to live their life, to have that vitality that you're talking about that we haven't talked about so far?
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So often, though, it seems that doing those things, doing something for somebody else or trying to develop relationships, those are all the things you don't want to do when things aren't going well. It's like you said earlier, it's exactly the opposite of what you should be doing is what you feel like doing.
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You know, that's so true. And you know, the perfect example is the thank you note. Nobody sends thank you notes. And one of the reasons is that it's like overstating it. It's like, you know, I'm grateful, but I don't want to sound like too gushy. And yet the person who gets the thank you note is like, oh, my God, that's great. That's great. Thanks for sending the thank you note.
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It makes them feel wonderful. But people don't send them because they don't want to seem like they're too gushy.
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Well, you know what stands out to me in what you're saying is that, and this kind of ties a bow around all we've been talking about, is you really have to be intentional because it's so easy for life and the little hassles of life to knock you around, push you down, if you let it.
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And if you're a little more intentional about keeping those things in perspective, handling them in a way where you don't get... absorbed by them, and just doing the things that you're talking about that help you keep the right attitude as you work through the day makes a big difference. I've been speaking with Dr. Sarah Boardman.
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She's a clinical instructor in psychiatry and attending psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. She's founder of PositivePrescription.com, and she is author of the book, Everyday Vitality, Turning Stress into Strength. And you will find a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Sarah. This is fun. Good conversation. Thank you.
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When you walk into an Italian restaurant, you pretty much know what's going to be on the menu. Same thing with an Indian restaurant or a Chinese or Thai or Japanese restaurant. We have a sense of what the foods from those cultures and countries are. And we have those kinds of restaurants all over the U.S.
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But if you go to other countries, do you see a lot of restaurants that call themselves American restaurants? And if you did find one, would you be able to predict what would be on the menu? Is there an American cuisine? What is American food? Well, that's what Paul Friedman set out to discover. Paul is a history professor at Yale University.
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He's author of a book called Ten Restaurants That Changed America, and his more recent book is called American Cuisine. Hi, Paul. Welcome to Something You Should Know. It's a pleasure to be here.
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When you go to other countries, I haven't really thought about this and I don't do that much international travel, but do you see countries that have, quote, American restaurants?
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. I'm not a real big germaphobe, but when I first came across this first story I'm about to tell you about, I just, I ran to a sink and washed my hands. You know, even though we're becoming more conscious of germs and the need to clean and disinfect things, one thing many of us are not especially careful about is our cell phones.
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There are foods that I can think of that to me signify American food, you know, meatloaf, chocolate pudding. I mean, it just, there's something very American about it, that there is something that is American food.
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But are there foods that are rooted in America just because the ingredients are very American? I mean, there is a phrase about American as apple pie. Did apple pie start here?
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Do Americans, and I guess people in general, you typically eat as adults what you grew up eating, what you ate as a kid?
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Various studies have been published with headlines like, Your cell phone has more germs on it than a toilet seat. Which is likely true. But of course, not all germs are harmful. Still, when you think about it, your phone has a lot of opportunity to pick up germs and bacteria because...
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That's interesting. I never thought, because I have kids that like barbecue sauce and liked it from a fairly young age. That's
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When you look back at what Americans were eating in the 50s or the 60s, it seems very meat and potatoes, that there wasn't a lot of adventurous eating going on.
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And they changed in the 1970s because why? What happened? What caused the change?
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You take it everywhere, you put it down in all kinds of places on all kinds of surfaces, so it's exposed to a lot of germs that can hitch a ride. There was a video put out a while ago that showed that, for example, a toilet seat has about 1,200 bacteria per square inch, a kitchen counter has about 1,700, a checkout screen at a supermarket has 4,500 bacteria per square inch,
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I remember it. And you can look back and see, because people post ads, old print ads on Facebook and stuff of food from the 50s and the 60s, you know, jello molds and fondue. And my recollection is a lot of that stuff, TV dinners, was all horrible.
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Is there anything, like when you think of Italian food, you think of pasta, and it's all over the world, and you think of Japanese food, you think, I don't know, rice. But is there anything that Americans have exported to the world that is truly American? I'm thinking something like breakfast cereal or something.
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It's interesting that you say that a lot of things like breakfast cereal have not caught on in the rest of the world and yet our exports of fast food have. There's McDonald's everywhere. There's Kentucky Fried Chicken everywhere. That worked. That's right.
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You mentioned a few minutes ago pot roast. And I remember my mother used to make pot roast. We used to have it all the time. And so did everybody I knew. But if you wanted pot roast today, I don't know anybody that has. I don't know anybody that eats it.
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I find that sad.
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I have such fond memories of my mother and my grandmother cooking in the kitchen and I cook. And, you know, there have been lots of people who have tried to push that and reinforce that, you know, the galloping gourmet. And then more lately, you know, Chris Kimball at Cooks Illustrated and Milk Street has really tried to.
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push the idea that cooking isn't as hard as you think, you can do it quickly, and it can really taste good. But it doesn't seem to really catch on.
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uh you would think they would cook at home more but that's just logical and not the way you know psychology is not all logic and i've heard things like you know more people watch cooking shows than actually cook and that a lot of cookbooks and cooking instruction has had to get so simplified because like it used to say you know
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But you should not use conventional household spray cleaners because they're too harsh for the screen, or paper towels because they can be too rough and scratch the screen. And that is something you should know. Just the fact that you are alive and listening to this means you are well aware of how life can wear you down.
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butter the bottom of the pan and people were turning the pan over and buttering the bottom of the pan and putting it on the fire and it would light on fire. And all of that is so strange to me.
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I wonder why cooking shows on TV are so popular and yet cooking is not so popular or not as popular as it used to be. Because you would think that if you're watching this food be prepared on television and it looks so good and, you know, the people taste it and say, oh, it's wonderful, that that would inspire people to want to say, I'm going to make that.
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Do we know, and since you're an historian, was American cuisine, has it stayed more or less the same over the time America's been here, or did people in the 1800s eat vastly different food than we eat today?
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Yeah, there are those big events that come along and hit you hard, but what I'm talking about today are the little things, the daily hassles, those things that happen that shouldn't happen, but they happen anyway. And they're irritating, and they take up your time, and they create frustration and anxiety and... And you know what I mean.
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Well, this has been fun to take a look at what American food is, how people around the world perceive it, and how it's evolved over time. Paul Friedman's been my guest. He's a professor at Yale University. He's author of a couple of books. His most recent one is called American Cuisine, and you'll find a link to that book in the show notes. Thanks, Paul. Okay, thanks so much for having me.
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Well, it appears that unhappiness causes chronic stress, which can suppress the immune system, and so people get sick. Happy people are also more likely to adopt a healthy lifestyle. So cheer up. Happiness appears to be strong, preventative medicine. And that is something you should know.
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Most of us likely don't have much of a strategy to deal with these inevitable, seemingly minor events. So meet Dr. Sarah Boardman. Sarah is a clinical instructor in psychiatry and attending psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical College. She's founder of PositivePrescription.com and author of the book, Everyday Vitality, Turning Stress into Strength. Hi, Sarah. Welcome.
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Today on Something You Should Know, what's the dirtiest thing you come into contact with every day? I'm sure it's close to you right now. Then, the importance of coping well with the little hassles in life.
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Why should we worry about and talk about the seemingly small hassles that we all face every day? I mean, it's part of life. We deal with them as best we can. So as a psychiatrist, what do you see as the problem with all these hassles?
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well, who hasn't woken up in the morning, and it's a great day, and then life starts happening, and then this happens, and then this goes wrong, and the car won't start, and by noon, that great day sucks.
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Well, and you say that the antidote for this is vitality, which seems to be the thing that all these little hassles suck away from you. So what do you mean by that? And what do you mean by vitality? What is it?
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Yeah. Well, don't you think, though, that how you perceive your day is a lot of that is in your head, that if you're one of those people who just complains and complains about every little thing that happens and you see your day through that very negative lens, well, then that's your day. Somebody else could be having the same day and think it's a great day.
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It really depends on, don't you think, on how you perceive it.
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Also, can being happy improve your health? Sort of. And what is American cuisine? It's kind of hard to define.
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Well, it's interesting as we discuss this and zero in on it, I don't think people necessarily realize the toll that these hassles take because by their nature they're small and any one of them is probably not the end of the world and we deal with them individually and we don't realize the cumulative effect of these everyday hassles.
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And so you're suggesting that we create these uplifts in life to counteract and to fend off the wear and tear of all the hassles of everyday life by doing specifically by doing things like what?
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So I want to get a better sense of the timing of all this, just because it's my personality that if I have some hassle going on, if I just discovered, for example, that my credit card was billed for something it shouldn't have been billed on, it's hard for me to get up and go for a walk because I want to go solve that problem first. Then I maybe could go for a walk. What's the timing of this?
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Do you fix the problem and then go for a walk? Do you go for a walk and fix the problem while you're walking? Or do you just push everything aside, go for a walk and come back? What's your sense of that?
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Yeah, well, that truly is my experience, that if I sit here and try to hammer out a solution, it's a lot harder and probably a worse solution than if I go take a shower and then things just pop into my head. Psychiatrist Dr. Sarah Boardman is my guest. The name of her book is Everyday Vitality, Turning Stress into Strength.
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So, Alex, I wonder if we learn from those regrets that you were talking about. Do we take those regrets and then say, you know, next time, given the opportunity, I'm going to go for it? Or do we just lament our regret and don't learn from it?
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As I listen to you talk, I wonder, psychologically, what is it that makes somebody want to be more of an explorer versus somebody who wants to not explore so much? And even within the same person, some days you want to try something different on the menu, and some days you just want to go with what you know you like.
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What is it that drives the desire to explore? Is it just simply curiosity that I wonder what that's like, so let me go check it out? Or is there something else?
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And is there therefore some evolutionary deep satisfaction that exploring gives you because it's kind of worked its way into us or no?
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Well, that is really interesting that people know what's meaningful, but they can't tell you what it is. But they know what it is, but it's unspeakable.
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Yeah, because you often hear things like people who go in the military or people who were drafted into the military and desperately tried not to be, but they will often talk about their days in the military as not a great time, but as a meaningful time. They seldom is it a joyful time, but there was something very meaningful about it. And even my son...
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He wanted to go to a military camp, summer camp, when he was 12 years old. And we tried to talk him out of it because it was a Marine camp and he was 12. And he went and it clearly was one of the most meaningful things that ever happened to him. But he doesn't describe it as a wonderful time.
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Do you think or is there evidence to show that this is something people think about? I mean, I think about this, but I don't know, do other people think about, should I take more risks, should I try new things, or not?
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Lastly, anything else about this whole idea of exploring that you think people would be fascinated to know?
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Well, I find this helpful because sometimes I think I play it too safe. And then other times I think, why did I do that? That seemed pretty risky at the time. But everybody's different, and not everybody is the same in all situations, and it's really good to get this perspective from you. Alex Hutchinson has been my guest.
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He's a columnist for Outside Magazine, and he's author of the book The Explorer's Gene, Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map. If you'd like to read his book, there's a link to it at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Alex.
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We all know how important it is to exercise. Yet for many people, when you say the word exercise, they think of aerobic exercise, running, walking, biking, swimming, exercise class, things that get your heart rate up. Yet there's another important kind of exercise, and that is strength training. Building muscles by lifting weights, essentially.
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Somehow strength training, in many people's minds, just isn't as important. And then there are the fears that if you lift heavy weights, you'll get all bulky like the Incredible Hulk. which is extremely unlikely. Or you sometimes see people lifting weights, but they're very light weights. And doing that's probably fine, but it doesn't really build muscle. Yet as you age, muscles deteriorate.
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That's why you often see older people having trouble getting out of a chair, or getting out of a car, or having trouble opening a jar, or lifting something. It's lack of muscle strength. And as you're about to hear, keeping your muscle strong not only helps with those things I just mentioned, but has a lot of other benefits, too. Here to discuss this is Michael Joseph Gross.
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He is a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and he's author of a book called Stronger, The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives. Hey, Michael, welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you. So let me ask you first to address the disparity between aerobic exercise... And building muscle. Why there's a difference and why they're two different things and not part of the same thing.
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Which I think still persists to some extent. And so explain how important muscle is.
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. So for the past eight years that I've been doing this podcast, sitting here interviewing people and editing the show and putting it all together, sitting here with me has been my dog, Taffy. And sadly, Taffy died the other day. She was 15 years old and getting up there.
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So I've heard that exercise in general helps fight depression and is good for mental health. I hadn't heard that specifically strength training was, that it was just exercise in general.
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So Kenneth Cooper wrote that book, Aerobics, and it was a huge book. Has he ever restated his position or modified his position about strength training?
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When we talk about strength training, lifting weights, building muscle, there is a lot of confusion as to, you know, what does that mean? How big a weight? You don't want to hurt yourself if you lift weights that are too heavy. So what does it mean to strength train and what are the parameters? How do you do it?
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Taffy was a Lasso Apso Shih Tzu, Jack Russell Terrier, and we had her DNA done, and she was a little bit of everything. And she was not the friendliest dog to strangers. You had to really earn her friendship, and it took a while. Taffy was a rescue dog, and I always had this sense from her that she was really, really grateful to have been rescued.
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And talk about just the immediate benefits of just having stronger muscles.
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She was very loyal, followed me everywhere, my wife everywhere. She was a great dog, and she's really, it's very sad to sit in here and do this, and she's not there anymore. So this episode we are dedicating to the memory of Taffy. First up today, people have a lot of common questions about flying, and I've got some answers.
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Do we know what diseases, other than being able to move around in the world better, what specific diseases, besides the mental health thing you mentioned, does strength training improve, if any?
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I think one of the things that puts people off on this whole topic. If you say you need to exercise, well, I can walk. I can walk fast. I can walk on a treadmill. I could even run a little bit. That's very easy for me to do. I walk into a gym and look at this big thing of weights.
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I wouldn't, many people would say, I wouldn't even know where to start, what to do, how to put my toe in the water with any of this.
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One of those questions is, do you really need to turn your phone on to airplane mode? Well, it's tricky because you're supposed to, but probably nothing's going to happen if you don't. There has never been an incident where the interference from a cell phone has caused a crash.
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And what do we know? Cause you know, people here, if you're going to do aerobic exercise, you should do it, you know, a minimum of three times a week, more is better. But what about strength training? How much do you have to do and how, and when does it start to, the effects wear off if you don't do it for a while? What, just that, that type of information.
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However, it's been said that cell phones can interfere with radio frequencies, potentially harming communication between the pilot and air traffic control. What if your plane is struck by lightning? Well, it happens, but planes are built with a protective metal that's engineered to prevent electric buildup while protecting the plane from power surges, so nothing much is likely to happen.
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I mentioned it at the beginning, but we didn't really address it. And that is the fear that people have, the reason that they don't lift weights is the fear of getting big muscles and looking like a bodybuilder.
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Most of us have, I think, have, you know, older people, grandparents, people we know who are older and encouraging this seems like in older people, encouraging this would seem to be a great idea.
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Well, you couple that with all the other benefits you mentioned, mental health benefits, weight control, help with diabetes. I mean, there are so many reasons to do this. And I've been doing strength training for a long time. And I don't know if I enjoy it, but it feels good. It feels good to do it. It feels good to feel strong. I've been talking with Michael Joseph Gross.
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He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, and he's author of a book called Stronger, The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Michael, appreciate you coming on the show today. Thanks, Mike. It's been a pleasure. I think there's a tendency to believe that memory loss, mental decline, is something that old people have to deal with.
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But when does the process of mental decline actually begin? It actually begins at 35. A study of about 50,000 people aged 10 to 89 was conducted by MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital. And here's what they found. Working memory, that ability to hold onto facts, names, numbers for a short amount of time, that peaks at around age 25.
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And it holds steady until about age 35 and then slowly starts declining. Long-term memory actually increases until about retirement age before it starts to decline. We also know that adults hold on to their memories longer than in previous generations. Apparently we're doing something right, although no one's exactly sure what that is. It may be education, diet, crossword puzzles, who knows.
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But it is clear from the research that the more you exercise your brain, the stronger it gets. And that is something you should know. I can't tell you how dog-eat-dog competitive it is out there in the podcast world, competing against bazillions of, literally, millions of podcasts.
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Why do airplane wings have red and green flashing lights? Well, the lights are there to signal to planes crossing in their path. The red light is always on the left side while the green light is always on the right. This way, the crew on another plane can determine the direction of travel of your plane. Why do planes still have ashtrays in the bathroom when smoking is prohibited?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why do commercial airliners still have ashtrays? Then, when is it best to take a risk and try something new, or when should you play it safe?
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Well, even though smoking is not allowed and hasn't been for a long time, the FAA actually made ashtrays a requirement. That's because in the event that some passenger pulls out a cigarette and starts to smoke it, there will be a place to put it out. Can the doors on a plane be opened in mid-flight? No. Planes are designed so the door remains shut throughout the flight.
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There is so much more pressure inside the plane than outside the plane that the door is constantly being forced closed. You would have to be Superman to open it. And why do airplanes leave that long white trail in the sky? Well, these condensation trails form when humid exhaust from jet engines cools very quickly in cold, dry air at high altitudes.
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It's kind of like the fog that results when you exhale on a cold day. And that is something you should know. When you're faced with the opportunity to try something new, does that sound exciting or scary? Are you someone who likes to stick to the tried and true, do what you did before? Or do you like going out on a limb and trying something different?
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It can be as small as trying something new from a menu, or just get the same thing you always get, or take a vacation to a new destination, or go back to the same place you always go. It's your willingness and desire, or lack of it, to explore. That's what we're about to look at with my guest, Alex Hutchinson.
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He's a columnist for Outside Magazine who has contributed to the New York Times and the New Yorker. He's author of a book called The Explorer's Gene, Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map. Hey, Alex, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi, Mike. Thanks for having me. So when I first saw this, I started thinking, well, what do I like to do?
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Am I more the explorer? Do I like to stick with the tried and true? And the answer really is it really depends. And, you know, some days I want the same thing that I got before on the menu and other days I want to try something new.
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explore and to exploit and to try and think be thoughtful about when you're doing each one so here's an example from my life that i would like to get you to comment i have a tendency like if if we're gonna go somewhere on a vacation my my tendency is to go back to where we've been before because it's comfortable i know what to expect and yet when i go somewhere new
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I almost always love it, and the next time want to go back there. So I'll stretch and try something and explore and usually like it, but my tendency is the tried and true.
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Also, memory loss starts a lot sooner than most people think, and I'll tell you what you can do about it. And strength training, building muscle, it has a lot of benefits.
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So I imagine everybody has heard this idea that, you know, people on their deathbed say, That looking back, they wished they had taken more risks. They wished they had asked that girl out. They wished they had taken that job in that other place or that they had explored a little more. You know, I don't know if that's true or not.
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There's always that wondering about the road not taken. No matter what you do, you didn't do that other thing, and I wonder what if I had.
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So it does seem, and I think I put myself in this category of, I don't want to look back and wonder what if. I don't want to regret. I've got plenty of those that I don't want to keep doing that. And so avoiding regret drives a lot of the decisions I make. And I imagine a lot of people are like that.
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Because who doesn't have one of those regrets, whether it was, you know, the high school dance or whatever. One of those, if only I had asked her out or if only I had gone to that thing. And you'll never know. So you'll always regret it. And if you had to do it over, you probably would do different.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know, and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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But in the research of looking how people make these decisions, What about personality? I mean, there do seem to be some people who are very cautious, and the stress of trying something new might be overwhelming, and maybe they're better getting that same old hamburger at the restaurant.
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That's code SOMETHING50OFF at factormeals.com slash SOMETHING50OFF to get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box. And I'll put that code in the show notes to make this simple. So, Ramit, it seems like, listening to you talk about this, that it really requires like a shift.
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Like, rather than talking about money as a problem that needs to be solved, it's much more of a proactive activity to plan ahead.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. Every time I've had to hire someone, it had to be done fast. But as I've discovered anyway, hiring can be very time-consuming. And even still, there are no guarantees. Which is why when it comes to hiring, Indeed is all you need. Right? The trick to finding the right person is to make sure a lot of qualified people know about your job opening.
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What about the issues? In fact, the one you just mentioned, skydiving issues. You want to go skydiving. Well, I don't want you to go skydiving. I don't want your parachute not to open and die. So now we're at odds about that. There are some things that you might want to do that's fine for you, but I don't want you to do that. I don't want us to do that because I don't.
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Where do you find specifically, what are the things that, the stumbling blocks here, the bumps in the road that couples run into?
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You know, just this idea of talking about money, and what you're talking about is just a couple talking about their finances. But we have in our culture this kind of money's not something you talk about. You don't talk about money with anybody. That's not polite.
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So let's talk about credit card debt, because that is a big elephant in the room that, you know, people make their minimum payments perhaps. And so the elephant is fed for the month, but it's still a big elephant in the room.
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But you also have to change your behavior because if you keep spending money and putting it on your credit card, you'll never get there. Exactly right.
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It is such an important topic. And it does seem that certainly a lot of people... Just don't talk about it. Don't want to talk about it. Just kind of hope for the best.
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Well, this is certainly a refreshing way to talk about money and to make it fun certainly is appealing. And it's a topic that's on a lot of people's minds right now. I've been speaking with Ramit Sethi. He's author of the book Money for Couples. And Ramit also has a podcast called Money for Couples. And I'll put a link to the podcast and a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes.
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A lot of how you perceive the world you do through your sense of smell, from how food tastes, which is really largely the sense of smell, to who you are and who you are not attracted to. The human sense of smell guides you towards good things and away from bad things. And how it all works together is really interesting. Here to explain it is Jonas Olofsson.
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He is a professor of psychology at Stockholm University, where he directs the Sensory Cognitive Interaction Lab. He's also author of a book called The Forgotten Sense, The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose. Hi, Jonas. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you. It's great to be here. So, compared to other creatures who roam the Earth...
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Where do we humans rank in our ability to smell? I mean, when you watch a dog, for example, they're almost always smelling and sniffing their environment, and we've heard they have a really great sense of smell. But how do we compare to dogs or to other creatures? Are we near the top of the list?
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And sometimes the smell is very pleasurable. Sometimes it can make you sick. It's so disgusting. Probably most smells are somewhere in the middle. But why do we have that reaction? Why isn't a smell just a, yeah, I get that. I smell that. But sometimes it's like, oh, that's horrible.
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And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers. Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. I imagine you do at least a little online shopping. Seems like everyone buys some stuff online. We certainly do in this house. We have something delivered at least several times a week.
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But are there people, because I could smell something, presumably for the first time, and say that's really great, and you could smell the same thing, presumably for the first time, and say that's horrible. Or would we need to have associated with it something else prior?
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i'm myself a big fan of swedish fermented herring the surströmming so i might be one of those with a particular genetic setup but are there smells that are universally disliked i'm thinking like decaying garbage things like that that nobody's nobody smells that and goes god that's great
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If you are an online shopper, there is something about online shopping you may not know about. It's called cart abandonment discounts.
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Not that I'm aware, at least. No. It's hard to imagine that people would smell like flowers or... And I've heard like vanilla or cinnamon. Like, if you smell that, how could you say, God, that's terrible?
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That's really amazing, because Chanel No. 5 is and has been a very popular perfume forever, and to find that people really dislike it like that, particularly women, surprises me.
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And basically what that means is if you go shopping online and you get as far as putting something in your shopping cart but not buying it, you just leave it in the shopping cart, or maybe you put it in the shopping cart and then remove it, well, the retailers can see all that activity.
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I wanted to ask you about that because it does seem very normal that people get used to smells. You can walk into a really stinky barn full of cows and pigs and everything else, and it's overwhelmingly bad, but only for a while. Then all of a sudden you kind of don't notice it anymore. After, what, 20 minutes or so, it's like you become accustomed to it.
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We all smell. We all have a scent. And I've heard, and everyone's heard, that there is some connection between scent, a person's scent, and their attraction, a human attraction. Can you talk about that?
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And they will sometimes, not always, but sometimes, then offer you a further discount, hoping that what's going on there is that you're just on the fence about buying whatever it is that you put in the shopping cart, and maybe with a little incentive, meaning a better price, that may push you to make that purchase.
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That really surprises me because I've never talked about that with anybody. No one's ever... It's never come up in conversation. And is a good body odor very subjective? Like somebody could find me that I smell great and others would say, no, he's not.
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that I think is so great is how it can transport you back in time, how you can smell something that reminds you of some memory and it just, you're instantly back there. It is so powerful and at least it is for me.
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According to the website CrazyCouponLady.com, it was only recently, just a few months ago, that Amazon started doing this. Now, these discounts aren't always easy to spot. Sometimes a retailer will send you an email, or you might just see a lower price on the product page for that item.
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Is it normal for your sense of smell to deteriorate over time in kind of the same way people's eyesight tends to get worse over time? Is it just a normal product of aging?
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What do we know about smell as it affects your behavior, your mood, your productivity?
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But in any event, if there's something you want to buy and you're in no big hurry, you might try putting it in your shopping cart and see if a better price doesn't come along. And that is something you should know. A topic on the minds of many people at the start of a new year is money. This year, this time, I'm really going to get my financial affairs in order.
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Well, as the title of your book says, smell is really the forgotten sense in that we never really think that much about it. We certainly don't give a whole lot of thought to how much it enhances the taste of food or helps us pick a mate. But it's involved in so much of our lives, and yet it's all so quiet. Jonas Olofsson has been my guest.
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He's a professor of psychology at Stockholm University, and he's author of the book, The Forgotten Sense, The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose. And there is a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks for bringing smell into the forefront, Jonas. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much.
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Tonight, just before you go to sleep, just before you close your eyes, open them and take a look around. What do you see? Hopefully, you'll see nothing, but most of us have some sort of light in our bedroom. It's coming from a clock or a gadget or... a nightlight in the hallway or a streetlight outside, and researchers say that's no good.
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These researchers used hamsters for a study about nightlight because hamsters are physiologically similar to humans. One group of hamsters got to sleep in total darkness. The other groups had to sleep exposed to dim light, either red, white, or blue. Then the hamster's behavior was observed the next day.
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The ones who slept in total darkness seemed pretty happy and enjoyed going about their tasks the next day. The ones who slept with the dim red light had a pretty good day, but the hamsters who slept with the blue or white light, they didn't do too well. They showed signs of depression and weren't all that interested in doing their tasks. Generally, they were cranky hamsters.
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And since hamsters are physiologically similar to humans, the recommendation is that if you need a nightlight or an illuminated clock in your room, the best thing to do is get one that glows red. Otherwise, try to keep the room as dark as you can. And that is something you should know. As you probably know, every week we deliver three new episodes of Something You Should Know.
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At least that's what a lot of people hope for. But as we have discussed many times here with other guests, managing your money gets tricky, especially if you're part of a couple, because couples often disagree on what to spend money on, how much to save, what's a priority. If you can relate to any of this, I want you to listen to this next conversation with Ramit Sethi.
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Ramit has a best-selling book that's been around for a while called I Will Teach You to Be Rich. And he has a brand new book out that is already a big bestseller called Money for Couples. Hi, Ramit. Welcome back to Something You Should Know. Thanks for having me back. So let's start with this question. Why do you think that money is such a touchy subject for couples?
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Why do couples avoid it or don't talk openly about it? That it's just something we'd really rather not discuss.
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Yeah, well, when you explain it that way, who wouldn't want to do that? Who wouldn't want to make the topic fun? Because it's a topic, whether you discuss it or not, it's there. It's there and it's either going to be trouble or if there's a way to make it fun, then let's make it fun.
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Well, it does seem, and I can speak from my own experience, but also just from talking to other people, that... A big part of the problem is because so much goes unsaid, undiscussed, assumptions are made, and I know what I think you should do, but I don't ever tell you, that we just don't sit down and talk about it.
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Today on Something You Should Know, a clever way to get discounts online for products you want to buy. Then, money and couples, and the best way to discuss the topic.
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My sense is you don't want to talk about it because here's what's going to happen or here's the fear of what might happen is... I'm going to want to do this and you're going to want to not do that. And then we're going to argue about it because I want to spend money and you want to save money or you want to spend it on this and I want to spend it on that.
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And then it turns into a fight and we can just avoid that by staying quiet.
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But what happens to those arguments about the monster energy drink? They're still there.
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When you have your first conversation, how do you prepare for that? How does it start? Because that's what keeps people from doing it, I think, is how it's uncomfortable to imagine sitting down and having this discussion. So walk me through it.
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So on a practical level, like how long is this conversation? Because I'm fearing that it's like hours. No, no, no, no.
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Also, there's something going on in your bedroom while you're sleeping you need to pay attention to. And all the extraordinary ways your sense of smell affects you, including your love life.
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We're talking about couples and how they handle money. My guest is Ramit Sethi, author of the book, Money for Couples. I really love it when I find a great new podcast. And then, of course, I have to share that with everyone. And one I really want you to listen to is Curiosity Weekly. Curiosity Weekly from Discovery makes sense of some of the biggest questions and ideas shaping our world.
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It's all about new discoveries happening in science and tech. They have expert guests that make it all make sense. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.
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What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff. Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly.
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So Patrick, Apple has this customer loyalty, customer fan, customer, I don't know what you call it. Was that like, yeah, it's cult-like. Is that by design, did they work at that or is that a byproduct of all this other stuff you're talking about?
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MitoPure is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A that supports your health by encouraging cellular renewal. Since I started taking it, I can tell I have more energy and I notice I recover faster after I exercise. I did some research on this too. There's some real science here that supports what I'm saying. And so does my experience.
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And according to the legend, and maybe it's just legend or maybe it is so, and you would probably know, Steve Jobs is the heart and soul of Apple, that he is Apple.
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Ich meine, ich verstehe, Apple ist eine große Firma und sie machen viele Dinge und sie haben Stäube und viele schöne Malls und so weiter. Sie sind so groß, weil was?
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But Apple is worth so much money because of electronic devices that it sells. Is it in any other business? I mean, because people will tell you, you know, McDonald's doesn't make money off hamburgers. They make money off the real estate that the restaurants are on. Is... Ist da eine ähnliche Formel oder ist Apple das, was sie ist?
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MitoPure is the only urolithin A supplement on the market that is clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. Und MitoPure ist gezeigt, dass es eine Doppel-Digit-Erhöhung in Muskelkraft und Stabilität gibt, ohne eine Veränderung im Übungen. Aus meiner eigenen Erfahrung habe ich mehr Energie und Kraft und fühle mich überall besser jeden Tag. Und wer will das nicht?
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Sie verkauft Smartphones und Computern und das ist der Grund, warum wir so viel Geld verdienen.
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So where is Apple headed and is AI like a thing for Apple? Is that like a big shiny thing, an object to look at for them or they're making phones and computers?
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Wow, ich hätte das nicht gedacht, aber das ist ziemlich erstaunlich. Ich meine, das ist ein ganz großer Schritt nach oben.
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Well, that seems like a monopoly, doesn't it? Well, only if you have an Apple phone, though. If you don't have an Apple phone, maybe you can use those other apps, right?
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Well, that surprises me, and I had read that somewhere recently, that Apple's share of smartphones is a lot smaller than I think most people believe.
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What I find so astonishing from the things you say and write about, that Apple has been in China for so long, doing so much, that Apple has changed China. And that Apple has been training people to make electronics in China so well, that now China makes really good electronics themselves that are not Apple electronics.
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Well, this is quite a story, the relationship between Apple and China that, as you point out, hasn't been written about or talked about much. Patrick McGee has been my guest. He is author of a book called Apple in China, the Capture of the World's Greatest Company. And there's a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Patrick, thanks for coming on and telling this story. All right.
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Thanks, Mike.
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Wer mag nicht lachen? Lachen bringt uns eine Art von Freude und Glück, auch wenn es nur für ein paar Minuten ist. Es ist so freundlich und es verbindet uns mit anderen Leuten. Wir mögen Leute, die uns lachen können. We like to laugh so much that we seek out comedy to make us laugh more, to force that feeling because it feels so good. What is comedy? Is it magic? Is it an art form?
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What makes something funny? And what makes some people funnier than others? Well, here to delve into this is Jesse David Fox. He's senior editor and comedy critic at Vulture. He hosts the podcast Good One, where he interviews comedians about their comedy process. And he's author of a book called Comedy Book, How Comedy Conquered Culture and the Magic That Makes It Work. Hey, Jesse, welcome.
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Oh, thanks so much for having me. Hey, so why do we have comedy? Do we know? What... What itch does it scratch? What does it do for us? Why is it?
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One of the things about it that I've always found fascinating is how you could... Sit alone in a room and watch a movie or something really funny and not laugh much. But it's when other people are with you that it becomes a collective laugh that that makes it funnier.
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Wissen wir, ich meine, natürlich haben Dinge wahrscheinlich lustig gewesen, solange die Leute da waren, aber als es tatsächlich ein Ding geworden ist, wie, wie, das ist Komödie.
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Komödie scheint mir, weil man sich an alte Komödie zurücksehen kann, Ja. Ja. Ja.
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Vielen Dank. Und diese Promo-Codes sind immer in den Show Notes. Sie sind auf einem Website, sodass Sie sie immer verwenden können. Und ich hoffe, dass Sie das tun. Hi, willkommen zu diesem Episode von Something You Should Know. Zuerst einmal, verabschiede dich. Du hast Gas in deinem Auto gepumpt, nachdem der Pump aufklickt.
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Das könnte eine unmögliche Frage sein, aber gib es mal einen Schuss. Sure. There are lots of really good comedians. Lots of very funny people. But then there are these standouts. Richard Pryor, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno. People that just... seem to be head and shoulders above everybody else, at least in terms of their success.
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Maybe not in terms of their funny, but why do you suppose, what is it about them that catapults them higher than others?
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Ich erinnere mich, ich habe vor ein paar Jahren ein Jahr lang auf Stand-Up gearbeitet, aber ich konnte das Lifestyle nicht verstehen. Aber es war Spaß. Und ich wurde ein bisschen ein Student davon. Und ich erinnere mich, Jerry Seinfeld und Jay Leno im Konzert zu sehen, oder in einem Club. Und ich war so beeindruckt, wie...
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Yet it looks so easy and yet there is such a rhythm and an art form and a science to it that you walk out of there and your stomach hurts. And they do it in a way where you're laughing and then they give you a little break and then you're laughing again and then you get a little break. And it kind of...
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jumped out at me as I witnessed it and realized there is a real, to the guys who are at the top, there is such a science to it, as well as art, that just floors me. I mean, it is so enjoyable to watch.
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Talk about political correctness and it seems like, and there were complaints about how that was having a real dampening effect on comedy, that you couldn't talk about things you used to be able to talk about because someone might get offended.
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Du willst nur die letzten wenigen Drohnen ausdrücken, um den Tank so viel wie möglich zu füllen. Well, it's a bad idea. It's a bad idea for your wallet, your car and the environment. First of all, it can spill gasoline onto the ground, which is bad news for the environment, because that gasoline has to go somewhere. But topping off damages the onboard refueling vapor recovery system.
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Was ist mit der Komödie? Und was ich meine, ist, dass Comedy-Clubs in den 80ern wirklich groß waren. Und dann ist es ein bisschen weggefallen. Ich meine, es hat immer Comedy-Clubs gewesen, aber es war groß in den 80ern und dann ist es ein bisschen weggefallen. Aber du hast es vorhin erwähnt, dass es heute mehr Komedien gibt. Also wo ist die Business?
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It's a charcoal canister that collects potentially harmful fuel vapor during the refueling process and then absorbs it using activated carbon. Wenn Sie diese Filter überfüllen, kann das zu schlechten Leistungen führen, Schaden an das Fahrzeug, das Check-Engine-Light kommt an und Sie werden mit völlig unvermeidbaren Reparaturen verbunden.
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Was denkst du, ist die Zukunft der Komödie? Ich meine, sie ist klar entwickelt und verändert. Sure, yeah. You know, the thing about comedy is it's...
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Well, as much as I enjoy looking at and dissecting the elements of comedy, sometimes I really don't want to do that. I just want to enjoy it. Like, you can look at it too closely. And sometimes it's just fun to laugh. I've been speaking with Jesse David Fox. He is a senior editor and comedy critic at Vulture. His podcast is called Good One. And the name of his book is Comedy Book.
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How Comedy Conquered Culture and the Magic That Makes It Work. And there's a link to his book in the show notes. Jesse, thanks for coming on here today. Oh, thank you so much. It was a real pleasure. All cancer is scary. And pancreatic cancer is really scary. One big reason is that people often don't discover it until it's too late to do anything.
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And the other scary thing is no one really knows why people get it. But research at UC San Diego discovered a link between sunlight and pancreatic cancer. It seems that people in countries with weak sunlight have a higher incidence of pancreatic cancer. Weak sunlight is due to considerable cloud cover or high latitude, meaning far from the equator.
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Auch Gasstationen sind mit Vapor-Recovery-Systemen geeignet, die Gas zurückholen, den Sie nach dem automatischen Schutzausgang pumpen, und das geht zurück in den Gasstationen-Tank. Also erinnere sich, Topping-Off bedeutet, dass Sie für Gas bezahlen. that's going back to the gas station.
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It seems that with weak sunlight your body cannot produce a lot of vitamin D and that's that vitamin D deficiency which may be a risk factor for pancreatic cancer. The researchers discovered that people who live in sunny countries near the equator have only one-sixth the incident rate of pancreatic cancer as those who live far from the equator.
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The importance of sunlight deficiency strongly suggests, but doesn't prove, but suggests that the vitamin D deficiency may contribute to the risk of pancreatic cancer. While you can get vitamin D from your diet, experts say most people also require additional vitamin D to be produced by the body when skin is directly exposed to sunlight.
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Skin exposed to sunshine indoors through a window will not produce vitamin D. Cloudy skies, shade and dark colored skin also reduce vitamin D production. And that is Something You Should Know. Something You Should Know is produced by Jennifer Brennan, Jeff Havison, and the executive producer is Ken Williams. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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So for all those reasons, when the pump clicks off by itself, avoid that temptation to squeeze out just a few more drops. And that is something you should know. There is a 50-50 chance, here in the US anyway, there's a 50-50 chance that your smartphone is an Apple iPhone. And or maybe you have an Apple computer or an Apple watch or something Apple. Apple is a big company.
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Heute bei SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW. Warum ist es eine schlechte Idee, den Tank an der Gasstation zu öffnen? Dann die unerzählte Geschichte von Apple und wie sie so viel Geld machen, außer von Telefonen und Computern.
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They make a lot of things. They have an almost cult-like following. Your iPhone, if you have one, was most likely made or assembled in China. Fast alle Apple-Produkte werden in China hergestellt. iPhones, iPads und viele MacBooks werden dort hergestellt. Einige von ihnen werden in Indien und Vietnam und hier in den USA hergestellt, aber China ist der große Spieler.
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Wir werden einen sehr interessanten und sehr anderen Blick auf Apple nehmen, als ihr jemals gehört habt. Mit Patrick McGee. Er war der finanzielle Zeitungsprinzip Apple-Reporter von 2019 bis 2023. Vorher war er Reporter bei The Wall Street Journal. Und er hat ein Buch geschrieben namens Apple in China, die Capture of the World's Greatest Company.
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Hi Patrick, danke, dass du auf Something You Should Know gekommen bist. Danke so sehr, Mike. Also, du könntest wahrscheinlich drei Stunden dauern, um diese Frage zu beantworten, aber ich hoffe, dass du nicht. Was ist Apple? Was macht Apple Apple? Warum ist es so eine schwarze Sache auf der Helle, die jeder, weißt du, anzieht? Was ist es mit Apple?
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Das bringt sicherlich viele Fragen. Aber bevor ich über China frage, Let's go back further to the beginning of what made Apple Apple. And a lot of people point to Steve Jobs as the reason he is the driving force of that company or was. Do you buy that?
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Aber originally Apple was a personal computer company. That's what their first product was, was selling personal computers, yeah? Yep. And they were made here, were they not?
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By Apple, not contracted out. That all changed when?
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Auch die interessante Verbindung zwischen Sonne und pancreatischem Schmerz und Lachen. Was macht etwas lustig? Und warum genießen wir Komik?
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I don't know anyone that has the insight you do into this. And I've always wondered, and I just... There are plenty of companies that do things and build stuff in China and have a history and all that. But there's something about Apple that just... ist so, ich weiß nicht, unabhängig, so großartig, in so vielen Leuten Augen.
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Ich meine, wie viele andere Firmen legen sich außerhalb des Stores ein, um, ich weiß nicht, Tage zu haben, um einen Schauspieler zu bekommen? Ich meine, es ist einfach, was ist das? Absolut.
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All das heute auf SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW. We talk a lot about health on Something You Should Know and I guess it motivates me. I mean, I'm not a nut about it, but I try to take care of my health. I want to preserve my mobility and strength as I get older. And I recently started taking this supplement. Maybe you've heard about it. It's called MitoPure.
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We're talking about Apple, its incredible success and its relationship to China. My guest is Patrick McGee, author of the book Apple in China, the Capture of the World's Greatest Company. We had a guest on a while ago. I'll never forget. He talked about how much plastic we all consume. And the estimate is about a credit card's worth of plastic per week.
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Now, that plastic comes from a lot of sources. And a big one is the cookware we use, as well as cutting boards and food storage containers. Now we have converted to Caraway Cookware in our house. I have gotten rid of all my non-stick cookware because it's that coating that's part of the problem. In fact, two and a half minutes is all it takes before a non-stick pan overheats and releases toxins.
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And who wants that? And there have been some wonderful unintended consequences to this shift to Caraway Cookware. First of all, it's very non-stick, but not from toxic chemicals. It cooks evenly, it's gorgeous cookware, comes in different colors that will look great in your kitchen. And the big payoff has been how much money we save because we cook more meals at home than we used to.
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Often it seems that peer pressure is, I don't know, it's just so random. The influence just happens. It's why your mother didn't want you hanging around with the wrong crowd, because just because you were with them, their influence would rub off on you and you would behave like them. But sometimes it seems more organized, like stopping smoking. I mean, fewer, far fewer people smoke now.
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Hi, hey, here we go with another episode of Something You Should Know. And we're going to start today with one of my pet peeves. And that's when a doctor or a dentist consistently makes you wait well past your appointment time before they see you. Now, I understand things come up and occasionally it happens, but it's when it happens all the time. I don't know.
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Because of peer pressure, but it all got a kickstart from things like high taxes on cigarettes, a lot of places banning cigarette smoking in the buildings. It became, that kind of pushed it along.
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Mostly, though, we've been talking about big things, drinking, smoking, drugs, solar panels. You know, that's an expensive investment. But does this all work on every level? In other words, if you hang out with kind people and watch them being kind, you're more likely to be kind. But it's really kind of hard to put your finger on kind as opposed to smoking or drinking.
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Do you know if peer pressure is the same in all cultures or is it particularly a Western thing that peer pressure has so much importance and significance?
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What's so interesting about this is that peer pressure just has to happen. You can't force it on somebody. You just have to model it. It has to be something that's very organic in daily life as opposed to a goal, like we're going to change his behavior by pressuring him.
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I guess it's because if I made appointments with people and showed up 40 minutes late all the time, that would be a problem. And apparently I'm not the only one who is bugged by this. According to a survey, one in five patients say they have switched doctors because of long wait times. I would be part of that one in five. 30% of patients have left a doctor's appointment because of a long wait.
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Are there any other examples, the one you gave about solar panels, like when one house puts solar panels on the roof, it drastically increases the chances that other people in that neighborhood would do the same thing. Are there other examples like that that's kind of keeping up with the Joneses, I guess, but...
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Can you think of an example of peer pressure where if I thought about it at the time, I would realize, oh, this is peer pressure and maybe not fall for it?
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Yeah. Well, it's really interesting that we're influenced in so many ways by our peers without knowing it, recognizing it, being aware of it at all. And we're doing the same thing to other people.
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Well, it really makes you think about all the people that maybe have influenced you in your lifetime and all the people you have influenced somehow in your lifetime. Robert Frank has been my guest. He is a professor at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. The name of his book is Under the Influence, Putting Peer Pressure to Work.
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Now, the average wait time is about 20 minutes, and Stephen Reimer of the Yale Medical School has studied this problem and says nobody should have to wait more than 20 minutes without a good explanation. And that's the other thing. Anticipated wait is a lot easier to take than not knowing how long you're going to wait. So if it's going to be longer than 20 minutes, someone should tell you.
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And as I always do, I have put a link to that book that directs you to Amazon in the show notes. Thanks for being here, Robert. Okay, good to talk with you, Mike.
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There has no doubt been times in your life when you have felt shy. Often when I think of times I have felt shy, I also had that feeling of being intimidated by the situation or by someone. So everybody feels shy sometimes, and some people feel shy a lot of the time. So what is shyness? What's the difference between a shy person and an introvert?
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How do you make sure shyness doesn't become a problem? Here to discuss all this is Lynn Henderson. Lynn is the founder of the Social Fitness Center and the founder and co-director of the Shyness Institute. And she's author of The Shyness Workbook. Hi Lynn, welcome. Thanks so much, Michael. Glad to be here. So everybody knows what shyness is and what it feels like, but how do you define it exactly?
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And it seems to me that it's pretty situational. I mean, I have felt shy sometimes and not felt shy other times.
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Why is that? Is it just because you just don't feel secure or what?
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So does shyness serve a purpose? It seems like it's kind of protective in a way.
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If they don't, you should go to the desk and ask why you have to wait so long. Dr. Reimer says you should also tell the doctor, not just the staff, that this bothers you. People are timid when it comes to criticizing their doctor, but it's the doctor who sets the appointment policy. The doctor is responsible for your wait. No other business would survive if customers were kept waiting so long.
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Yeah, because I would imagine that shyness tends to disappear if you're with people you know.
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And they may be lying.
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How can you never be shy? I can't imagine going through life and never being shy, being so sure of yourself that you don't, or so I don't care that you could, you would ever say that.
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And when people say they're shy, do they usually mean that in a negative way? They're shy and I wish I wasn't?
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What's the difference between being shy and being an introvert?
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And so what is the prescription for shyness? I mean, it does seem, as you just pointed out, it can be charming. Maybe it's not something you fix. Maybe it's fine the way it is.
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That's interesting. You're right. If you see someone who's really good looking and they're not talking to anybody, you think, well, what a snob. How stuck up are they?
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Today on Something You Should Know, what to do when your doctor makes you wait well past the appointment time. Then, understanding peer pressure. It's really interesting how peer pressure can determine how much you and your friends weigh.
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Well, it does seem oftentimes, just thinking of experiences I've had, that I'll walk into a room and feel shy right away, but it goes away pretty quickly.
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And doctors need to understand that your time is valuable. And that is something you should know. We've all heard the term peer pressure. I'm sure you know what it means. Yet I've come to learn from my guest who you're about to meet that that term is a bit of a misnomer, at least the pressure part. It's not so much pressure when you think of pressuring someone or coercing someone.
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Yeah, but not a lot better. I mean, it's still not the same experience as speaking in front of strangers.
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Yeah, because you can only do one thing at a time, I guess, or your brain can only do one thing at a time. And if it's doing that, it's not telling yourself how horrible you are.
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What in your mind is the difference between shyness and problematic shyness?
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I'm getting the impression that your work and your experience is that the more you do the things that make you feel shy, the less shy you will feel in the future.
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But it does seem that even if you're afraid to ask Susie out, and you finally do, and maybe the relationship doesn't work out too well, so now you need to ask Becky out, that having asked Susie out doesn't make it any easier to ask Becky out.
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It's more about modeling behavior. Your behavior that you model influences other people's behavior. And your behavior is influenced by other people's behavior. Probably more than you imagine. So how does this all work exactly? What makes it so powerful? And how can we best use peer pressure to get people to change? Well, joining me is Robert Frank.
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You just said positive expectations. And, you know, I think of the, hey, you don't want to go out with me, do you? Kind of, you know, that's not really telegraphing positive expectations that it is in the ask.
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But when you say it will work out, what will work out?
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It just may not be Susie.
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Or Becky.
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Is there something about shyness and not wanting to be the center of attention? Is there some connection to that?
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My sense is that shy people in the Monday morning quarterbacking of a social interaction are pretty hard on themselves.
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Well, on one hand, it's encouraging to hear that the more you push past your comfort zone and make an attempt to be social, the easier it will get. But as hard as it might be, you've got to just get up the nerve to go out and give it a try and meet people.
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He is a professor of management and economics at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has been a columnist for The New York Times for more than a decade, and he is author of the book Under the Influence, Putting Peer Pressure to Work. Hi, Robert. Welcome. Nice to be with you, Mike. So everyone's heard of peer pressure.
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So everyone's been in the situation where you're at a party or you're at a function and you see someone you want to talk to, but you don't. You just, there's something that holds you back from saying something. Is that shyness?
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I remember somebody saying, you know, that shy people are concerned about what other people think and evaluating them negatively. And you know what other people are thinking? Nothing. They're not thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves. And they're not negatively evaluating you. They're probably more worried that you're negatively evaluating them.
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That's got to help when you realize that you're not the only one, that everybody has moments like this and that there is comfort in numbers.
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Well, I think a lot of us think of shyness as like a character trait. Like, you know, he's tall and he's kind of shy. But shyness can be a real problem. So it's good to hear that if it is a problem. you can do something about it. And even if it isn't a problem, it's nice to know that everybody has dealt with this and that we all struggle with it at some time or another.
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Lynn Henderson has been my guest. She's founder of the Social Fitness Center and co-director and founder of the Shyness Institute. The name of her book is The Shyness Workbook. And there's a link to it at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks, Lynn.
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I'm sure we've all had that experience, you know, when you just click with somebody. Not just in romance, but it happens in friendships, it happens in business relationships, and it sort of feels like magic. So what is it? What's going on? Well, research about people who click indicates that these encounters are actually more important than we once imagined.
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If a relationship does develop after you clicked, it is often more meaningful and passionate than if you didn't click right away. So what makes people click? Well, much of it is a mystery. But interestingly, a few things do seem to pop up. Shared adversity, for one. People who have been through similar tough times often click. Vulnerability.
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But how do we know it's a real thing and how do you measure it and how do we know it works?
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When you share your true self with someone, it is often reciprocated and a bond is immediately formed. And proximity. In a college dorm room, for instance, people are twice as likely to click with the person in the next dorm room than they are with the person two doors down. And the chances of clicking drops 50% with each door farther down the hall. And that is something you should know.
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Also, why do you just click with some people but not others? And shyness. Why do we feel shy in the first place?
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Well, I remember too that one of the arguments given for people to give up smoking was that if you have kids and you smoke, they're much more likely to smoke because their parents smoked.
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Because I'm an adult. That's what I heard anyway.
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Yeah, because I'm an adult. I don't want to spend too much time on the smoking example, but what I find so fascinating is that today, secondhand smoke irritates almost everyone. We don't want to be around cigarette smoke. It smells bad. It's annoying. But it didn't used to be. I mean, people's houses smelled. Airplanes were horribly stuffy with cigarette smoke. And nobody seemed to care.
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And now they do.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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So the term peer pressure really isn't accurate. It isn't pressure. It's not trying to force someone to do something. Because if those people in the waiting room were sitting there fully clothed and told this guy, really, come on, take your clothes off, and pressured him to do it, he'd leave. He'd run.
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And it's so unconscious. It's not that someone is trying to get you to eat more or suggesting that you eat more. It's just being around people who eat more then you're likely to eat more and gain weight.
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It's so interesting to hear that because it doesn't feel like that. I don't feel like I'm being influenced by people around me in things like how much they drink or how much they eat, nor do I think I'm influencing them. But clearly from what you're saying, that is going on.
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We're discussing the science of peer pressure. And my guest is Robert Frank. He is a professor at Cornell University's Graduate School of Management. And he is author of a book called Under the Influence, Putting Peer Pressure to Work.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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So Robert, one of the things about peer pressure when it comes to parenting, for example, is that we hear that peers can have a greater effect on kids than their parents. Is that true?
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Today on Something You Should Know, a strange reason why you sometimes feel cold even when you're not, then understanding what real wealth is and how to achieve it.
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Hi and welcome to Something You Should Know. In the winter, it's common to feel cold. When the weather is cold, you likely feel cold. But here's something weird. If you watch somebody else who is clearly cold, it's more likely to make you feel cold. Researchers in England showed subjects videos of people who were cold and noticed that the body temperature of the people watching dropped.
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Well, I love that example about Warren Buffett, because as you say, I mean, clearly he has all the wealth in the world, and yet he's 95, so people probably wouldn't want to change places with him. And it just shows you the value of time. And yet when we look at our own lives, we perhaps don't value our time as much as we should.
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Yeah. But people think, well, if you have a lot of time, or especially if you look at time as you have a lot of free time, that that's somehow... You're lazy. You don't have anything to do. That kind of time is not an asset.
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Talk about social wealth, because that's one kind of wealth that I think people tend to overlook, that friends and social connections can be like the first thing to go when there's something else to do.
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So how can being cold be contagious? Well, it seems that it's because we're social creatures and much of human success results from our ability to work together in complex communities. This would be hard to do if we were not able to rapidly empathize with each other and predict one another's thoughts, feelings, and motivations.
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And don't you think people have a sense of this, that we know we should be putting more effort into our social relationships and all that, but somehow it just gets pushed aside?
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Do you think, well, you would know, when you ask people to sit down and figure out what's important to them in these five areas, do people have the answer? Do they know if they think about it, or do they have to really struggle with that?
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Well, this is such a different way of looking at wealth and really a more comprehensive way of looking at wealth, all kinds of wealth that all add up to a happy life. And I appreciate you sharing it. Saw Hill Bloom has been my guest. He is an entrepreneur and managing partner of SRB Ventures, which is an early stage investment fund.
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Interestingly, they also showed subjects videos of people who were visibly hot, but it did not cause the people watching to increase their body temperature. And that is something you should know. Stop for a moment and think of someone who is wealthy. And most likely, you thought of someone who has a lot of money. Money is how most of us measure wealth.
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He's author of a book called The Five Types of Wealth, A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Sahil, thank you. I really enjoyed the conversation. All right.
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Take care.
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Isn't it strange that we have all this digital technology, the internet, social media, all these things at our fingertips that seemingly can bring us closer together? Yet in some ways it can be argued that these same technologies can also drive us apart. Here to make that case for you is my guest, Nicholas Carr. He writes for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.
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And he was a Pulitzer Prize winning finalist for a book he wrote called The Shallows, which he was here discussing a few years ago. His latest book is called Super Bloom, How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. Hey, Nicholas, welcome back. Thanks, Mike. It's good to be here. So you claim, if I understand you correctly...
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You claim that the Internet and all these tools of digital communication are really incompatible with the way humans are meant to communicate and that it is worsening, not strengthening relationships. So if that's true, explain what you mean.
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So here's the thing, though. What you're saying isn't entirely news to people. We've all heard there are podcasts, there are books and seminars, and there's plenty of information out there about the dangers of digital technology, the dangers of social media. We've talked about it here many times. People already know this.
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But as you're about to discover, there are actually five types of wealth. And it's important to cultivate all five, not just financial wealth. Although that is one of them. But all five types are crucial to leading a satisfying life. And joining me to explain all this is Sawhill Bloom. He is a successful entrepreneur and the managing partner of SRB Ventures, an early stage investment fund.
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Okay, well now you've made the case that we have a problem and we need to change our behavior, but change it to what? What are we supposed to do?
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So give me some examples of that.
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He has a biweekly newsletter called the Curiosity Chronicle that has a big following. Sahil spent three years doing research and conducting thousands of interviews with people around the world on the topic of personal wealth. He's author of a book called The Five Types of Wealth, A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life. Hi, Sahil. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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So explain why we're talking about this, because as I said, for most of us, wealth means money. So why do we need to dive deeper into these other types of wealth? So frame this picture for me.
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Well, this is something I think everybody who uses the Internet, which is everybody, thinks about. And listening to your research into this topic gives people—is more fuel for the fire that— something's going to need to change. I've been speaking with Nicholas Carr. The name of his book is Super Bloom, How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.
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So what are the five types of wealth?
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And if you'd like to read it, there is a link to his book at Amazon in the show notes. Nicholas, thanks for coming on today.
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Particularly in the winter months, it seems, a lot of people experience nasal congestion, a stuffy nose. In fact, nasal congestion is one of the most common medical conditions in the country. It affects millions of people and costs billions and billions of dollars every year to treat. But here's the thing.
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Also, why a stuffy nose isn't really what you think it is. And while the Internet and all its tools can be great, the technology can also tear us apart.
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Nasal congestion is hard to treat because it's more of a sensation than an actual physical obstruction of airflow. In other words, it feels like you can't breathe, but air is actually flowing through your nose. Research shows that the feeling of nasal congestion has more to do with the temperature and the humidity of the air you breathe.
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Turns out that breathing cold, dry air helps reduce the sensation of congestion. This is because of sensors in your nose. Cooler air leads to a greater feeling of airflow and a less sensation of obstruction. And that is something you should know. You know, our business, the podcast business, is a highly competitive business. There are literally millions and millions of podcasts.
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So we're always trying to get people's attention and have them come listen to our podcast. And you can help by just telling a person or two that you know that you listen and suggest that they do. You can even send them the link and suggest they listen so they too will hopefully become a regular listener. I'd appreciate that. I'm Mike Carruthers.
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Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster. which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice.
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He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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And what does that mean to feel rich? Seems like if you feel rich, whatever your definition of feel rich is, then you're rich.
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So how do you determine that? How do you come to that conclusion that enough is enough, that this is enough, when we're bombarded with messages that, oh, you should want more. Oh, you should get a bigger house. You should get a better car. You should do more.
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All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Do you find that people who seem to have one of the five types of wealth pretty well handled have the others well handled? Or if they have one handled, then the others don't do so well? What do you see?
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So explain to me, because I don't think people think of investing in these things, what investments in the other four look like. Examples would help.
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Before you go on to investments in the other types of wealth, let me just remind people we're talking to Saul Hillblum. He is author of a book called The Five Types of Wealth, A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life. For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to.
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The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show. Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster.
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which strikes close to home for me, having just been through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels. Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you.
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So, Sahil, you talked about investments in time wealth. Let's talk about the other wealth. Let's start, say, with social wealth.
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So Caroline, that example you just gave a moment ago of you and your daughter, if I were in your shoes, it would never even really occur to me to validate what she was feeling. I would rush to correct her why what she's feeling is wrong.
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What MitoPure is, is a precise dose of something called Urolithin A. I've read a lot about it. It's a natural compound. that's produced by gut bacteria. And MitoPure is this precise dose that encourages cellular renewal. MitoPure is the only urolithin-A supplement on the market clinically proven to target the effects of age-related cellular decline. And that's the thing.
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What happens when, what is it that happens when you validate me for whatever reason? What goes on in my head when I hear that?
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It's like a magic elixir that just changes everything. From what you're saying, it's not hard to do if you just remember to do it.
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I mean, I've heard of validation in this context for a long time, but is there like emerging science here or is this just kind of a tried and true method that people just don't use?
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I would imagine that one of the reasons people don't want to validate as I think about people that I know. To validate is... It's not to agree with them, but it elevates their position. It gives them some validation that what they think is correct.
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And I've been in situations with people where I don't feel like I want to do that, that I don't want to give them an inch of anything because I have my position and I think I'm right. And yet... As I listen to you, I think it probably would be helpful to validate for all the reasons you've said, but it doesn't feel right.
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Well, I'm really glad we had this conversation because, you know, I have and I'm sure everyone has heard about validation at times and how important it is. But I never really knew exactly how important it is or also how it worked and why it worked. And I appreciate you coming on and explaining this all. I've been speaking with Caroline Fleck.
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She is a licensed psychologist and adjunct clinical instructor at Stanford University and author of the book Validation. How the skill set that revolutionized psychology will transform your relationships, increase your influence and change your life. There's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Caroline, thank you for being here and explaining it.
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Imagine how many words you say or write every day. And a lot of those words are pronouns. You know, he, she, we, they. Pronouns. And despite what you might think, pronouns are a fascinating category of words. All languages have some sort of pronouns, but English pronouns behave differently and have evolved differently than in other languages. Here to explain all this is John McWhorter.
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He teaches linguistics, American studies, and music history at Columbia University, and he hosts a podcast called Lexicon Valley. John is the author of 23 books, including his latest, Pronoun Trouble, The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. And since you use these pronouns all the time, I think you will be fascinated by the stories he's about to tell you. Hi, John.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi. Thank you for having me. So I get that you're a word guy, a language guy. You like that. But why pronouns? Why single them out? Why single them out and talk about them as a group?
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So give me an example. What is so interesting about pronouns?
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So I can say you and talk to you, or I could say you and talk to a group of people, hundreds of people, and it's still you.
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So talk about I and me because I think people, well, I hear people get it wrong or what I think is wrong or maybe it isn't wrong. So talk about those.
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Do you know your blood type? You probably should and I'll tell you why. Hi and welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. There are four blood types, A, B, AB, and O. Blood types were first discovered in 1900, and the person who discovered them won a Nobel Prize for it in 1930.
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And yet who says it's a problem now? I mean, just English teachers?
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The idea that we... In your example, me and Billy went to the store. And when you're corrected, it's not only that you change me to I, but you change the order, that Billy always goes first. It's Billy and I, not me and Billy. Is that true in other languages? Does everybody else go first and you're at the end?
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of pronouns that's that would be quite unprecedented is it completely up to the whoever is speaking as to when to use the pronoun versus the noun is it just to mix things up i mean is is there a proper way to do it or it just sometimes you use the name and sometimes it's he
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Yet here we are, over a hundred years later, and science still has no idea why we have different blood types. However, knowing about blood types is what allows for life-saving blood transfusions.
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Earlier, doctors had tried blood transfusions, but unless they just happened to match up a donor and a receiver by chance who had the same blood type, or if the donor had universal type O, the patient would die. Because your immune system knows your blood type and recognizes another blood type as an invader it cannot defeat. In 1952, some people were discovered to have no blood type at all.
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It's called the Bombay phenotype, because Bombay, which is now Mumbai, is where the first people with this were discovered. It is very rare. One in 10,000 people in India have this, and one in one million people outside of India have it. And people with no blood type must get transfusions from other people with no blood type. Even the universal type O can kill them.
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And that is something you should know. There's a term in psychology I know you've heard before, validation. To validate someone is to acknowledge their experience. It's not agreeing or disagreeing. It's simply acknowledging the validity of what they believe. And it turns out to be a very powerful way to connect with someone and deepen the conversation and deepen the relationship.
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So why does validation work so well? And how do you do it exactly? Well, here to discuss this is Caroline Fleck. She is a licensed psychologist, adjunct clinical instructor at Stanford University, and author of the book Validation, how the skill set that revolutionized psychology will transform your relationships, increase your influence, and change your life. Hi, Caroline.
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Today on Something You Should Know, why are there different blood types? And do you know yours? Then the new science of validation, validating another person's experience.
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Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So, I just explained what validation is from my understanding, but let me have you start by putting a finer point on that.
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And can you validate someone that you don't like, you don't agree with, you have nothing in common with? Can you still validate them?
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Ah, yeah. I would think that's a huge difference because I've had people tell me things that I certainly don't. agree with, but I honor their right to believe and say what they believe and say.
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And you do that, why? What is the magic of validation? What does it do?
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And so can you give me some like very typical everyday examples of validations? Because we've been talking about it as something that people supposedly know what that is. But what does it look like?
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So if validation is so powerful, why don't we just do it naturally? Why don't we just kind of revert to that?
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What are some ways, because most of us don't deal with schizophrenics or governments or anything, but just like in everyday life with my kids or my wife or my, like, how would validation, some examples like that would be really helpful.
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All this today on Something You Should Know. We talk quite a bit about health on this podcast, and I can tell you, I try to take care of myself. I mean, I work at it. And for a while now, I've been taking this supplement called MitoPure. And I can tell you, I feel stronger. When I exercise, I recover faster.
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Well, that is such a great example, and I want to ask you a question about it. We're talking about the power of validation, and my guest is Caroline Fleck, author of the book Validation, how the skill set that revolutionized psychology will transform your relationships, increase your influence, and change your life.
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Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids. What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff.
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Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly. Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. So, Janice, it's interesting that we're talking about how your body can make you happy, but it also seems true that it works the other way.
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Like when you're in pain or you're sick, it makes you pretty unhappy, and that's your body just feeling pain and sickness.
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What about food and how that works with our body to affect happiness?
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So knowing what you know, like how do you incorporate this into your life?
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See, that's what I think is so important about this, is the awareness of that. Because if you're upset about something, some problem you're having, you tend to think, I need to solve this problem in order to feel better again.
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But you're saying there are other things you can do that might help you reframe the problem or view it differently or not be so down about it that has nothing to do with the problem.
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but it just seems too simple, right? It's like, this is too easy, it couldn't possibly work, it must be more complicated than this, when in fact, it really isn't.
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Well, and certainly exercise. I think everybody has heard that message, that exercise can have a real effect on your mood and your happiness if you do it. You've got to do it, but exercise is another thing your body can do to affect your happiness.
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Well, this is so useful because, as I said in the beginning, I think people think that if you have a problem, if something's going wrong, you need to deal with that. You need to resolve that in order for you to feel happier about it. And in fact, there are things you can do that affect your happiness that have nothing to do with the problem.
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things to do with your body that most of us never think about. Janice Kaplan has been my guest. She's the former editor of Parade Magazine, author of a couple of books, and her latest is called What Your Body Knows About Happiness. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thanks for sharing this, Janice.
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Around the first of the year is a time when people take stock of who they are and where they're going, how they're getting there. And one of the common concerns or complaints that people often have about their lives is they don't feel they're good enough. They're not living up to their potential. They should be doing better.
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These people are what you would call self-critical, and self-criticism can be a real source of trouble. And according to my guest, it may also be a symptom of perfectionism.
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Ellen Hendrickson is a clinical psychologist at Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Scientific American, and Psychology Today. She's author of a book called How to Be Enough, Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists. Hi, Ellen. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So I would imagine that this idea, this feeling people have of not being enough, of being hard on themselves, self-critical, is a pretty common problem. A lot of people deal with this.
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Yeah, well, if you're a perfectionist and nobody's perfect, so you're never going to be satisfied. You're always going to feel like you're not doing it right. You're not doing it well. You're not doing it good enough.
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And why do we do that? Why are we so self-critical when we're harder on ourselves than we are on anybody else or that anybody else is on us? But where does that come from?
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Well, here's something that I've noticed, and I get you to comment on this, but you would use the phrase that a perfectionist does things to a level that is higher than required. And so higher than required means, for example, you don't have to get straight A's. A couple of B's are okay, but boy, when you get straight A's, Everybody talks about that.
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Your parents gloat about my son has straight A's. It wasn't required, but man, that's something. And the same with when you perform at work. You know, you didn't have to do that, but boy, the fact that you did that, that is fabulous. And that feels great. So maybe it sort of was required, at least in my head.
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Hi, welcome to Something You Should Know. We're doing this episode around the holidays, and a lot of people travel around the holiday season. If you're an air traveler, you have no doubt noticed that occasional suitcase that goes round and round on the carousel after all the other passengers have long gone. Have you ever wondered what happens to that suitcase and all the other unclaimed baggage?
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So how do you fix that? If you've grown up your whole life as a perfectionist or someone who just has to hit it out of the park with everything you do, how do you then dial that back?
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So then what is the goal here? I mean, are we trying to just be able to accept that we don't have to do our best? Well, what is the goal?
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Ladies and gentlemen. What are you doing? What do you mean? Just keep it simple. I'm making the promo. Just keep it simple. Just say, hey, we're the Brav Bros. Two guys that talk about Bravo. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we're the Brav Bros. No. Oh. Dude, stop with the voice. Just keep it simple. I've seen promos on TV, dude. This is how you get the fans engaged.
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Well, I suspect some effort is made to find the owner, but if they can't find the owner, that bag and its contents could end up at the unclaimed baggage center in Scottsboro, Alabama. It's a store, basically. It's a store that's a block long, and they've got just about everything you can think of, including designer clothes, jewelry, electronics, some of them with the retail tag still on them.
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And did that work?
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It would seem, though, that if you have always done this, it would be so hard to separate these two. It's like scrambling an egg. You can't unscramble it. It would be so hard if I've always based my self-worth on how well a job I do. How do you ever say, oh, no, I'm not going to do that anymore? And I know what you said, not completely, but even a little bit.
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It seems like that's where my worth comes from.
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It does seem that this goes way back to school. I mean, at school, especially if you want to go to a college where that's the goal, you are your grades. I mean, that's who you are. And everyone's disappointed if you don't get the grades to get into that college. So it's all about your performance. And you kind of learn that in school.
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They've even got a museum with some of the really odd stuff that's come in over the years. You will be amazed at what they have. And there's really good news. You can shop online. And the prices are pretty impressive. You can check out the unclaimed baggage store. There is a link to it in the show notes. And that is something you should know.
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I guess it's hard not to. Like you say, it's the culture. We like people who are winners, who perform well, who are at the top of their game. And the only way to get to the top of your game is to focus on your performance.
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Well, what you just said a moment ago is so right on the money from my perspective, and that is to realize the difference between trying to impress people and trying to connect with people. Those are two very different things in that by trying to impress people, to some extent, as you just described, you tend to push them away because nobody wants to be around somebody who's perfect.
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You've probably heard that expression that happiness is a state of mind. And while that's probably true, there's another piece to this. Happiness is also a state of body. In other words, what you do with your body can affect your happiness or your state of mind more than you probably ever imagined. So how does that work? Well, you're about to find out from Janice Kaplan.
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I mean, how boring is that?
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So if I'm a perfectionist listening to you and thinking, well, you know, I like this, but like it's hard for me to imagine putting my toe in the water here. What's a good first step or a good way to frame this so you could like test it?
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Well, that's a very different and refreshing look at perfectionism. You know, what's interesting too is that sometimes people self-describe as perfectionists In a bad way, oh, I'm such a perfectionist, you know, and it's a problem. Whereas other people will take pride in their perfectionism. Your view is really different and I think really helpful. Ellen Hendrickson has been my guest.
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She's a journalist and former editor of Parade magazine, and she's author of a book called What Your Body Knows About Happiness. Hi, Janice. Welcome.
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She's a clinical psychologist at Boston University Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders. And she is author of a book called How to Be Enough, Self-Acceptance for Self-Critics and Perfectionists. And if you'd like to read it, there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. Thank you for being here today, Ellen.
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Ever reach into your pocket and pull out some old receipt or open a drawer and there's receipts in there from who knows how long ago? We get receipts for almost everything, but most receipts can be tossed out. Sure, if you plan to deduct the purchase on your taxes, you'll need to keep the receipt longer, but for everything else... Well, here are a few guidelines.
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For cash receipts, if you use, say, a money management software program, once you've entered that amount into your computer, you can toss the receipt. If you keep receipts for clothes you've purchased, well, once you've removed the tags and worn the clothes, you really don't need to keep the receipt anymore.
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For restaurant receipts, you should probably keep those and other charge card receipts long enough to check the amount against the credit card statement. But after that, unless it's a tax deduction, you can throw restaurant receipts away.
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Business, job hunting, medical expenses, and charitable donations, those receipts should be kept longer, at least long enough to discuss with your tax preparer to find out if you need to keep them for your taxes. Also, if you bought anything that came with a warranty, you should probably hold on to the receipt until the warranty runs out. And that is something you should know.
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So first, explain the general principle here of how the body affects your mind and how it can impact your happiness and how, in general, how this works and why it works.
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So give me an example of how those things are working.
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Doesn't that sound like overly simplistic, like, you know, a soft chair? I mean, it makes sense in a way, but it sounds like it can't be that simple.
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This is how you get listeners. We're trying to get listeners here. If we just say, oh, we're two dudes that talk about Bravo, people are going to get tired of it already. We need some oomph. All right, then fine. Let's try to do it with your voice. Bravo, bros. Good job.
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So as fascinating as that is, so what? I mean, what can we do with that? in our lives other than observe that and say, well, that's kind of interesting.
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Today on Something You Should Know, what happens to all the lost luggage at the airport that never gets claimed? Then, what you do to your body can affect your mood and happiness. For example...
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But how? How does that work? What's the mechanism that makes that work? Is it hormones? I mean, how does that make you happier?
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You say that the colors blue and green are important to this discussion, so can you explain how?
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Also, why most receipts you keep you could probably throw away. And understanding the feeling of perfectionism and what it's really trying to tell you.
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Thank you so much for having me. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin. Listen to Curiosity Weekly and you'll discover things like how neuroscientists are studying TikTok and social media habits to see which chemicals are being released in your brain that make you so obsessed.
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Something you should know. Fascinating intel. The world's top experts. And practical advice you can use in your life. Today, Something You Should Know with Mike Carruthers.
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Today on Something You Should Know, how the type of music you like can affect your love life. Then, the magic of notebooks, simple notebooks, and how just writing down your thoughts does wonders.
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What about the, because, you know, there's different kinds of notebooks, and then somebody had to like formalize that there's the three ring binder, there's the spiral notebook, there's the yellow legal pad, there's the, like, where did all that come? Or is that just, you know, somebody just came up with an idea or whatever?
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Well, it would seem like maybe that adding lines to the page must have been somewhat revolutionary or not. I think so.
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But that three ring binder, that thing always puzzled me because you always pinch yourself when you open and close it. And I mean, I get the purpose of it. You can put pages in, take pages out. But why three rings? Why three holes? Why do we know that?
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And you have a 33 and a third less chance of pinching your finger in that thing. Exactly, yeah, absolutely. Well, that's a real plus, because... Yeah, well, you wonder why three because two does the job as evidenced by you in England and two does the work.
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tend to have better sex lives, tend to communicate better and have longer lasting relationships. That's because most of us develop specific musical preferences while we're growing up and our taste in music can reflect our childhood, our emotional connections and even our values.
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I don't think I know what that means.
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Letter being eight and a half by 11? Yes. I imagine you look at notebooks differently than I do, than most people do. So what is something that really just amazes you about notebooks?
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What is double entry bookkeeping?
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One study even broke down compatibility by music genre, and their findings suggest that devotion to country music makes both men and women less attractive to someone of the opposite sex who does not like country music. Men who liked heavy metal music were found more attractive, while women who liked heavy metal music were not.
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Well, as I said right at the beginning, who would have thought that the story of notebooks would be so interesting? And yet, when you think about it, they are so important to all of us, and yet you can't imagine life without notebooks. I've been talking with Roland Allen. He is, well, he's the foremost authority I've ever met on the subject of notebooks.
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And he is author of the book, The Notebook, A History of Thinking on Paper. And there's a link to that book at Amazon in the show notes. This was great. Thank you, Roland.
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How many times have you heard people talk about the dangers, the problems, the concerns about putting a screen, a computer screen, a tablet or a smartphone, putting a screen in front of your face for an extended period of time?
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We've heard everything from it messes up your sleep to the problem of overstimulation, that people can become addicted to their phones and can't put it down, to who knows what else. The idea is that screens in front of your face for a long time is bad. But why? How is it bad specifically, since so many people seem to do it an awful lot of the time?
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You're about to find out from this next discussion with Dr. Richard Cytoic. He is a professor of neurology at George Washington University and author of a couple of books, including Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age, Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload. Hi, Richard. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thank you for having me, Mike.
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So first explain what you mean by our Stone Age brain, because, you know, I don't think of my brain as Stone Age, but so explain that.
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Guys liked women who liked classical music, while women shied away from guys who liked classical music. And both men and women who like jazz and blues tend to be more open to new experiences. And that is something you should know. Whether you're at home or work or school or maybe in your car, wherever you are, I suspect you're not more than a few feet away from a notebook of some sort. A big one?
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And the symptoms of not handling it are what? And so what happens to us?
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So can you explain why it is that it is so hard for so many people to put their phone down once they've picked it up and started doing what they're doing, It's really, really hard for them to put it down, and there must be a reason.
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I have certainly seen it, witnessed it, especially in younger people, when they've got a screen in front of them, it is so hard for them to stop. Like, they just, they cannot stop. But I'm wondering, what does that say about people's lives, that they cannot stop? Because they could stop if there was something better to do.
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They could stop if all of a sudden their house caught on fire, or if somebody gave them a million dollars. I mean... If there was something better to do, they could stop.
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So my observation, when I see people on their phones a lot or on their tablets, If you were to ask them, you know, is this a problem for you? People would chuckle and go, yeah, I spent too much time. But I don't think they see it as a problem problem in the sense that they can't identify the harm. In other words, if there's no problem, there's nothing to fix.
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If people don't perceive it as a problem, how are they ever going to want to fix it?
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But specifically, what is the harm? Because it's one thing to say that, you know, this is ruining your life and your mind is being taken over by... tech giants and all that, but all that's kind of vague and doesn't really land right. But what specifically is the harm in spending too much time on your phone?
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A small one? Maybe a diary or a notepad for making lists? There is probably a notebook somewhere nearby. To which you might be thinking to yourself, yeah, so what? How is that a topic worthy of a Something You Should Know segment? Well, it is. It's actually far more interesting than you ever imagined.
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Well, I don't think anybody who has kids would disagree with anything that you just said. The problem is that the peer pressure of, I mean, to have a kid to go to school as a teenager in high school and not have a phone, I mean, he was... I know.
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You see, somehow, early on, humans figured out that they couldn't keep everything in their heads... And they started writing things down in notebooks of some sort. And that is where this fascinating story begins. Here to tell it is Roland Allen. Roland works in the book publishing business and has written a few books of his own. His latest is called The Notebook, A History of Thinking on Paper.
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Well, also wrapped up in all of this, and it's very hard to untangle these things, is all the problems that you're talking about But there's also a lot of convenience. I mean, there are parents who would say, my kid has to have a phone. I have to be able to get in touch with him. I have to know where I'm picking him up.
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Right, but it's their perception. And so you're going to have a hard time telling them, you know, let's go back to the good old days when kids didn't have phones, even though... Well, I think their perception is wrong.
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Well, I think what you pointed out is when you take phones away from kids, because my son went off to a camp where he couldn't have a phone for a month. Mm-hmm. Oh, for a month? He was a different kid. I mean, when we saw him at the end of the month, he was just like, wow.
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Yeah, it was the month of July.
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Hi Roland, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, thanks for having me on. So notebooks are one of those things that you never talk about it as a topic with other people. You never go to a party and go, hey, Bob, so tell me about your notebooks. I mean, no one does that. And yet they're everywhere. Everyone's got probably multiple notebooks.
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Well, here's another thing, too, is I can live without my phone. And often I don't have it. And people get upset. I tried to call you. You didn't respond. You didn't pick up. You didn't text back. And so it's not just people who feel like they want to be on their phones. It's other people who think you should be on your phone. So you better have it handy.
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Right. Well, I've always felt, and it's been my experience, that if you respond to people right away, you are training them that you respond right away. And if you respond by taking a day, then people know if you really need to get a hold of him, I wouldn't text him because he doesn't respond right away. So you get a reputation based on how you respond.
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So let me ask you, do you practice what you preach or might you sometimes pick up your phone and start endlessly scrolling like everybody else does?
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And the answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. And it is certainly worth asking that question a lot more often. I've been talking to Dr. Richard Cytoic. He is a professor of neurology at George Washington University. And the name of his book is Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age, Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload. And there's a link to his book in the show notes.
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You know, a notebook's kind of like a fork or a spoon. It's always there, but you never talk about it. So why are you talking about it?
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Richard, thanks for coming on today.
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When you hear or read, say, a shampoo will make your hair five times silkier, well, that sure sounds impressive. But what does it actually mean? Well, it actually means nothing. It's one of those numbers used in advertising and by politicians that has no real meaning. Charles Seif, the author of a book called Proofiness, says there is no way to measure your hair's silkiness in the first place.
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Also, how advertisers try to trick you and how you can prevent that. And just what are the dangers of spending too much time in front of a video screen or smartphone? Well, there are several. Here's one.
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Let alone measure that it is now five times silkier than it was before. Or when Vaseline says it delivers 70% more moisture than other leading brands. Well, what in the world does that mean? How do you measure how much moisture something is delivering? There is something about a number or a statistic that sounds convincing on the surface...
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But with a little critical thinking, you can offer Uncover the Truth about some of these claims. And many of them are meaningless. And that is something you should know. Well, that wraps up this episode. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope if you did enjoy it, you will tell people about this show.
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And is there any idea when the first something like a notebook began?
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Certainly today here in the U.S., when you say the word notebook, people probably think of school. The notebooks in school are kind of your first official real notebooks. But notebooks, I mean, how do you define a notebook? What is a notebook to you? I mean, a shopping list is kind of a notebook, but what is it to you?
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And why do you do that? Why do you discount electronic notebooks and things like that? Just because you needed to focus the topic or you think there's a substantial difference?
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I know there has been research, and I know, as do most people know, that there's an intuitive understanding that there's something about writing something down. It makes it more sticky. It makes it more memorable. There's a magic. There's something to writing things down.
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When you look back at the history of notebooks, like who are the superstars of the notebook world?
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Do we know when the first notebook was made? Like somebody said, you know, people are writing stuff down. Maybe we should create a book, call it a notebook, and then people will have an actual book instead of having to hunt for a piece of paper or however they did it before.
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As you're talking, I'm thinking about all the notebooks that I've had, that I've written in from the time I was very young through all the way through high school, college, and even since then, I've had notebooks to write things down. And wouldn't it be great to look in there and see what I wrote?
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So when you're writing in a notebook, generally you're writing notes to yourself, for yourself. When you write a letter, you're writing a note to someone else. So which came first?
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Our topic today is notebooks and how important they are to all of us. My guest is Roland Allen. He is the author of the book, The Notebook, A History of Thinking on Paper.
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So, Roland, there's something I've heard so many times in talking to people, and I know this has been researched, but when you talk to people about writing things down, there's often an answer that starts this way. The simple act of writing it down makes all the difference, or words to that effect. There is something magical that seems to happen when you write something down.
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You probably like music. Most people like music. But the question that we're going to start with today is, what kind of music? Hi, and welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. I'm Mike Carruthers, and if you are hoping to find a good relationship, the music you listen to really matters. According to a study in Psychology of Music, men and women with similar taste in music
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It is. It's magical. And it's probably hard to explain why that is so.
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Because I mean, I understand the stress part, but just writing it down doesn't do anything. If you're stressed about something, just writing it down doesn't fix whatever you're stressed about. But yet it has this magical effect.
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Yeah, like if I'm at the store and my wife wants me to pick up eggs, a text is probably fine. But only if I have the ringer on to hear the notifications, because it's happened plenty of times where she's texted me to get something and I didn't think to check my phone. I didn't hear the text come in and I forgot.
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And maybe if she had called, there would have been a better chance for me to feel the phone ring or hear the phone ring and get the eggs.
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But isn't there sort of a hierarchy of methods depending on how urgent it is? Like if you need to talk to me right away, call me. If you maybe need to talk to me pretty soon and communicate pretty soon, text me. If it can wait a little longer, email me. If it can wait even longer, send me a letter in the mail. But like there is this kind of, at least that's the sense I have of those methods. Yeah.
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So talk about video meetings, Zoom meetings, which have become pretty normal since COVID, where people, six, eight people will be on a Zoom call and everybody can see each other. And, you know, there's something about that that makes it more stressful than, say, just a phone call.
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And yeah, I suppose you can turn your camera off or not turn it on in the first place, but I think that sends a message that, I think it sends a message of either that you don't care as much, or maybe you had a bad night and you look like hell, or something. So you can't turn your camera off if everybody else's is on. What do you think?
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And there's just always the issue of, you know, you got to make sure you got to look at what your camera sees before the call. Make sure nobody sees your socks on the floor or, you know, whatever it is. And, you know, how's your hair look and all that? And what are you wearing? And it just seems like a lot of, I would just rather not.
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So I know you say that things like typos actually send a message, send emotion. Talk about typos.
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Well, this is great because we all use some or all of these modes of communication you're talking about. And I don't think most of us think about, wait a minute, this would be better on a phone call. This would be better in a text. And it really does make a difference. Andrew Brodsky has been my guest. The name of his book is Ping, The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication.
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And we're going to start today with some practical advice you can use in your life if you're a beer drinker. Hi, and welcome to another episode of Something You Should Know. We drink a lot of beer in this country, yet there are some misconceptions about beer and how to drink it. For example, people believe that beer should be served ice cold. Actually, it should be served at 44 degrees.
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You understand enough about money to know that you can't buy everything you want. That would be crazy. But maybe you could buy everything you love, really love. It's a unique way to look at how you spend your money and opens up a conversation you have probably never heard before. But you're about to hear it now as I discuss this with Jen Smith.
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Jen is a personal finance expert and co-host of the Frugal Friends podcast. She has written for or been featured in Forbes, Money Magazine, Business Insider, and others. And she is co-author of a book called Buy What You Love Without Going Broke. Hi Jen, welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So start by explaining the philosophy here, because you're not saying buy what you want, but buy what you love.
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But if you were to ask a bunch of people, what do you need? What do you want? And what do you love? That people are pretty clear about what's in those individual buckets?
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The reason is that taste buds become dead to the taste of the drink when it's served any colder than 44 degrees, which means you're really not getting the most enjoyment out of the beer. Drinking from a bottle is best. Well, not really. Much of the taste of beer or anything else is smell.
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Well, where in the equation, though, is like how much do you have? You've got to afford all this.
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So I get the philosophy, but maybe you could give like an example of some of, plug some things into those holes of what you're talking about. So for like example this instead of that or this, to get a better sense of like how somebody would go through this process.
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When you just gave that example, so maybe you buy the cut vegetables, but is there a goal there? How much are you going to save doing that, and how do you know that's worth it? There must be some sort of barometer or something there
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When you drink out of a bottle, the aroma doesn't make it to your nose because the bottle opening is too small. Many people believe that canned beer is cheap beer. But cans are actually a great way to protect beer. In the old days, beer in a can could sometimes take on an aluminum taste. But today, most cans have a water-based liner, so the beer isn't actually touching the aluminum.
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We all know people who seem to lead a simpler life. They're not driven by getting all the latest gadgets and the newest car and all that. And they seem quite content that way. And maybe it's a personality-driven thing, but then there are people who really want to have everything and are very, you know, let's call them materialistic.
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How do you decide, whatever personality you are, how do you decide what it is right now, with all the things that I would love to have, what should I have right now?
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Something that I think happens a lot is that people convince themselves that if I buy this thing, this car, this house, this computer, whatever it is, that that's what's going to make me happy. And they convince themselves of that. So they justify buying it. But in a short time, it's just a house. It's just a car. It's just a computer. It does what it does. We get used to it.
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Now you need something else because now something else is going to make you happy because that thing that you bought didn't make you happy for the rest of your life. And that that's what drives a lot of what people buy.
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You might think that all beer bottles are the same, but they're not. Clear bottles or green bottles might be pretty, but they don't do much to protect your beer from light. Light interacts with the hops in beer and can make it go bad. Dark beer bottles work best to help retain its flavor.
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So how do you monitor your spending? How do you keep track of this so you can make those right decisions?
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Well, I love that idea. I mean, whoever stops to think like you did, right? you know, I don't really like beer. Why am I doing this? And you just go along with the crowd or you go along because, you know, that's just something to do. And so why? Why do that? Why not do something you want or just stay home and read a book? But it makes so much sense.
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Now, you might think beer causes a beer belly, and maybe it does, but beer is not the worst offender in the alcoholic beverage category. Many cocktails are much more fattening than beer. Margaritas are probably the worst. And that is something you should know. When you choose to communicate with someone miles away or just in the other room, you have a lot of options.
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And yet I don't think people really stop and think, yeah, let's rethink this whole thing.
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But like you say, it is always a moving target. I mean, it's never like you do this once and now your life is fine. It's always shifting and changing, and you've got to kind of stay on top of it. And your needs change. Your desires change. I mean, what I wanted in my 20s is not what I wanted in my 40s. You know, everything changes.
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What happens when you throw into the equation the fact that you have debt to pay off? You have credit card debt, and you also have to live your life, and you want to do things that are important to you, but you also have that nagging debt that you need to attend to.
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Well, I love this, and I really like that idea of the 90-day review of your spending, and you discover you're spending all this money on beer, and you don't even like beer, so it became very easy to cut it out of your budget. But unless you actually do that kind of review, you never know. I've been talking with Jen Smith.
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You didn't used to, but now you can telephone or text, email, FaceTime. There's all kinds of apps. Or you could just walk over and talk to the person. What's interesting is that which mode of communication you choose to use sends its own message, which I don't think most of us think about. Some means of communication are much more effective than others depending on the circumstance.
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She's a personal finance expert, host of the Frugal Friends podcast, and she's author of the book, Buy What You Love Without Going Broke. And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. Hey, Jen, thanks for coming on and talking about this.
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If you've ever had a hostile boss, you know it can be very stressful because you just don't know how to deal with them. Well, there's some interesting research that says the best way to deal with a hostile boss may just be be hostile right back to them. Not by yelling or insulting the boss. That's not going to work.
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But rather doing things like ignoring the boss or acting like you have no idea what he or she is talking about or putting in a half-hearted effort. While these are passive-aggressive forms of retaliation, they do seem to work on several levels.
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In some interesting studies, they found that people who did not retaliate this way had higher levels of distress and less job satisfaction, as well as little commitment to their work. People who did retaliate in these passive-aggressive ways didn't seem to have those negative consequences. They also didn't feel that retaliating hurt their careers either.
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Today on Something You Should Know, some things you probably believe about beer that just aren't true. Then, how electronic communication can help or hurt your message.
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Also, a great way to handle a hostile boss and an insightful glimpse into how we spend our money.
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Plus, those employees who fought back gained the admiration of their co-workers. We tend to respect people who fight back and don't take the abuse, according to the researchers, and having the respect helps employees feel more committed to their work even if the boss is a jerk. And that is something you should know.
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Well, this is one of those episodes where I certainly learned a lot, and I hope you did too. And if you would like to share this knowledge with some people you know, that would really help us by helping to grow our audience.
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For a long time now, I've been recommending The Jordan Harbinger Show as another podcast you might want to listen to. The Jordan Harbinger Show is different than something you should know, but as you'll see, it aligns well with this audience. Meaning, if you like this podcast, you're probably going to like that one. The Jordan Harbinger Show.
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Each episode is a conversation with a different, fascinating guest. Recently, he had on Amanda Ripley talking about how to survive an unthinkable disaster, which strikes close to home for me, having just been... through the fires and mudslides in California and evacuated twice. He also spoke with Jay Dobbins, who's a former ATF agent who went undercover with the Hells Angels.
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Now that's a conversation worth hearing. And listening to his conversations will make you a more critical thinker about the world around you. Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show, and there's a good chance it finds its way into your regular rotation of podcasts. The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
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Here to dig a bit deeper into this and explain why it's important to understand is Andrew Brodsky. Andrew is a management professor at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and CEO of Ping Group. Andrew is author of a book called Ping, The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication. Hi Andrew, welcome. Thanks for having me on, Mike.
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So let's start here, because I remember years ago when I first saw this happen, and it just bothered me. And that is how people will use electronic communication, meaning text or FaceTime, or even just the phone function on their phone, to communicate with someone who is 10 feet away. For example, my son might text me from his bedroom, what's for dinner?
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And he could easily get up and talk to me, but he doesn't. And I see this a lot.
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But I'm not sure he sees it that way. I doubt he would say, yes, I'm using low effort to ask what's for dinner. I think he sees it as the most convenient, efficient, and yeah, it takes less effort, but he doesn't see it as low effort. He sees it more as an efficient way to get the message to me.
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Well, to me, that's the big aha here, because I don't think people think about what message am I sending by the method I choose to send it. The means of communication in itself is sending a message.
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And I find it interesting that this is so not on people's radar. Like, I know people who will have very important, potentially minefield kind of conversations that I can't imagine doing any other way than in person, and they'll do it on text. And I think, wow, I mean, there are so many things that could go wrong here, and this is way too important to be texting about it. But they do. They do.
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And that just floors me.
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there does seem to be like a timeline where these things become acceptable over time. It seems there was a time when you can't have that kind of conversation in a text, but it gets normalized because I guess so many people do it that then it becomes the, you know, the standard and for better or for worse. Yeah.
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We're talking about the different methods of communication we use and what message it sends. My guest is Andrew Brodsky, author of the book Ping, The Secrets of Successful Virtual Communication.
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So, Andrew, is there a hierarchy of for me, an in-person conversation beats every other kind and text is probably at the very bottom of that list. But is that an objective list or is that a subjective list?
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Or how it is that you can fly from Florida to England on a plane using recycled plastic jet fuel. And how AI can now read hieroglyphics from Egyptian pyramids. What's so great about Curiosity Weekly is there's so much to learn about science and tech, and these guys seem to have their finger on the pulse of the most interesting stuff.
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Food science, the science behind social media, the science of algorithms, computer science, and it's all explained in a fascinating way every week on Curiosity Weekly. Listen to Curiosity Weekly wherever you get your podcasts. So Margie, there are those things I'm thinking of. I can remember, for example, buying your first house, my first house. And it was tight.
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You know, it was like, boy, nothing better go wrong. There better not be a leak in the roof because, I mean, we are right at the edge here. Do you do it? Do you not do it? And, you know, if things had gone wrong, people would say, well, that was reckless. You really couldn't afford it. You shouldn't have done it. If things go well, go, oh, that was so brave. Boy, you really took a chance.
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But it could have gone either way.
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Of course, when you don't take a risk, you'll never know. And maybe that feels comfortable for some people that, you know, you can imagine, well, if I had, you know, if I'd done that, it would have just gone to hell. So I didn't do that. And thank God I didn't do that.
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I imagine we all know people who have that, I know people who have that ability to just not care. You know, they just, they don't worry about what's going to happen. They don't worry about what people are going to think. And they seem to have an advantage because they're not shackled by that anxiety of, yeah, but what if it doesn't work?
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what will everyone say and so i think there is a real power here in being intentional about what you put your focus on i love that what you said about when we don't do something and we worry about what will happen that that is so much worse than what actually happens most of the time that it's that anticipation of horror is much worse than any horror that usually ever happens
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I would suspect that everybody listening has had experiences like you've been talking about, that there's something that they regret not doing or that they regret not doing sooner because it's more difficult now. And you've, I think, given people a lot of courage to move forward and do something, even if it's scary, because it's the courageous thing to do. Margie Worrell has been my guest.
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You know, as someone who enjoys grocery shopping, I noticed a long time ago, and I'm absolutely certain you've noticed this too, that no matter how hard you try, it seems like more often than not, you get in the checkout line that is slower than all the others.
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She is a leadership advisor and author of several books. Her latest is called The Courage Gap, Five Steps to Braver Action. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Margie, thank you. It's always a pleasure speaking with you.
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Is your home or workspace tidy? What does it mean to be tidy? What are the benefits? Some people seem to be naturally tidy. Others, not so much. Here to discuss the importance of tidy and how to do it is Tyler Moore. He's the creator of the popular Tidy Dad Instagram, TikTok, and website.
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Well, this phenomenon has actually been studied, and the reason why that happens, well, there's a couple of reasons, but one of the big reasons is that random interruptions, like a price check or a chatty customer, can really slow the line way down. And those interruptions can happen at any time and in any line.
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He's a public school teacher in New York City who has been featured on Good Morning America and in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the New York Post. And he's author of a book called Tidy Up Your Life. Hi, Tyler. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks so much for having me. So let me ask you, when you hear the phrase, you write the phrase, tidy up, what does that mean to you?
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What does tidy up mean? Because I think it means different things to different people.
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Don't you think, though, that there's, I don't know if it's a personality trait or maybe there's a gene, but, you know, some people are just better at this than others. They like things in order and they make it a priority to keep things orderly. And other people don't and they're messier. And other people, most people are probably somewhere in the middle.
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Where do you think, to get specific here, where do you think is a good place to start if you are so inclined to tidy up?
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So if there are, for example, three checkout lines open, you have a two out of three chance of not being in the fastest line. The more open lines, the worse your chances. What's actually more interesting is really the whole system is flawed. If supermarkets did it the way banks and airports and hotels do it, you would actually get out of the store faster.
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I remember hearing the advice, and I've used it, is that when it's time when you finally get in that mood to do some of what we're talking about here, to start with some surface, some place that's very visible. And don't go clean the back closet. Clean something that you can look at and you'll see and go, yeah, that felt pretty good to clean that up.
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Yeah, makes all the sense in the world. And I think everybody has that tech problem. I mean, we certainly do. We have a drawer so full of cables that God knows what they're to. We probably don't even have the device anymore, but we still have the cables.
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What you just said about coffee cups made me smile because we have in our cupboard in the kitchen where we keep the coffee cups, I don't know, two dozen coffee cups. We use four of them pretty regularly, and the others just are in the back there.
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But we don't throw them away because, you know, Aunt Sarah gave us that teacup that no one has ever used in the history of the world, but we can't bear to throw it away. Right.
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And that is to have one line and have the person at the front of the line go to the next available checker. So why don't supermarkets do it that way? Well, room is a problem. There's really no place to put that line. But a bigger factor is customers don't like it. But here are a few suggestions. It's not just how long the line is.
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There is that thing, though, like we have all these coffee mugs, but it doesn't bother us enough to do anything about it. I mean, no one has even brought it up. We just kind of notice it, but we don't like it just hasn't risen to the level of we really need to do something about it. Probably if we get some more coffee mugs and we have no place to put them, something's going to have to give.
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I think everybody has struggled with organizing their kitchen properly. And I don't even really know what that means to organize your kitchen other than you pick a drawer and you put all the spatulas in there and now your spatulas are organized.
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If the cashier has someone bagging groceries for them, that line will move faster. Also, it's not just the number of people in line. People with a lot of items in their cart take a lot longer and slow the line way down. Another tip is, you know, just don't sweat it. Because it turns out there are probably plenty of times you probably were in the short line, you just tended not to notice.
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Since you talk to people and people watch your videos and communicate with you, what are the other big problem areas that people seem to talk about?
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And you know that space is full of stuff, but you have no idea what exactly is in there.
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Human beings are more likely to notice setbacks when things don't go right. But they often do. And that is something you should know. How many times have you not done something and later regretted it, perhaps saying to yourself, I wish I'd had the courage to do that. I wish I had been braver. It just seemed too risky. Yet courage is something most of us admire in other people.
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Well, it's like that kitchen junk drawer. We have that. And the only time anybody bothers to clean anything out is when you can't close it anymore because so much junk is sticking out of the top. And you look in there and you don't even know what most of the stuff is in there. And there's notepads and pencils that don't work and pens that ran out of ink and whatever.
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Because no one ever cleaned it. Stuff only goes in it. Nothing ever comes out. I found a dog license from a dog that had died like years ago, still sitting in the junk drawer.
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Do you think, though, that people really sit around and worry about this? I mean, you do, and the people who watch your videos and read your book clearly have a motive to want to fix something. But I wonder if just in general people really worry so much about this, or it's just some people.
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All these things that you're talking about, I think, nag all of us. And in many cases, it's not naggy enough to, like, want to do anything about it. It's just kind of frustrating. But I think you've given people some inspiration that it's really worth putting in a little effort to learn how things work, discover where things are, tidy things up, and it just kind of lightens the load.
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I've been talking to Tyler Moore. He's the creator of the popular Tidy Dad Instagram, TikTok, and website. And he's author of a book called Tidy Up Your Life. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Tyler, I appreciate you coming on and explaining all this. All right. Thanks, Mike. Thanks for having me.
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I came across an article several years ago about weird dreams that I always remember because I have been known to have weird dreams. And I found it again and thought I would pass this along to you because weird dreams, it turns out, could be a warning. A warning that you're really stressed out. The article quotes sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright, who passed away a few years ago.
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She explains in this article that when your stress levels are high, your sleep cycle gets interrupted. She said, So if you've been plagued by weird or disturbing dreams, try to get a little more sleep and avoid caffeine and alcohol close to bedtime. And that is something you should know. The very best way you could support this podcast, and it takes very little effort, is to share it.
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Are those people born courageous or is courage something you can develop? And if so, how? Those are the questions Margie Worrell is here to answer. She is a leadership advisor, keynote speaker, and has worked with organizations such as NASA, Dell, Morgan Stanley, HP, Google, and Johnson & Johnson. She's the author of several books, including The Courage Gap, Five Steps to Braver Action.
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Send the link to someone you know, maybe a couple of people, and ask them to listen. It helps our audience grow, and that's what we're trying to do. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Hey, Margie, good to have you here. Mike, terrific to be with you. So let's start with your definition of courage.
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Is courage, do you think, something some people are born with? There are people who seem very courageous. Did they come out that way or did they work on it or what?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why do you always seem to pick the slowest checkout line in the grocery store? Then, personal courage, how to do something brave that could change your life.
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But how do you tell? I mean, sometimes when you feel afraid of doing something. There's that little voice in your head that says don't. That might be something to listen to. Maybe you shouldn't. And maybe that voice is keeping you out of harm's way.
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So let's take a real simple example that I think anyone who went to high school can relate to. You know, the guy who wants to ask the girl on a date or to the prom or something, and he puts it off and he puts it off. And he knows, you know, he might get rejected. You know, maybe she's out of his league. But if he never asks, he'll never get the date. But asking, he's afraid of something.
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So what is he afraid of?
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I wonder if people who are courageous, people who are able to manage this well, if they have a lot of failures, if they try a lot of things because they're courageous, it would seem that many of them maybe weren't such great ideas, but they tried them anyway.
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So, Mary Ellen, when you study people who talk to themselves, how does, if at all, the language they speak to themselves in change anything?
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One thing you talk about that I find really interesting is about kids. Kids spend a lot of their time being talked to. But you say, well, you explain it, but about the importance of kids talking out loud themselves.
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Okay, and I get that. It sounds logical, but kids need to talk because what happens when they do? What's the benefit of doing this? That's what I think I need to hear.
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What not to say on a Zoom call or a conference call. That's a good way to start this episode. Hi and welcome to Something You Should Know. Conference calls or Zoom meetings have become a standard part of the workday for many of us. And the fact that everyone comes to these meetings but is actually at a different location can really drag down the effectiveness of these meetings.
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You know, that's really interesting because you don't hear that message much, but it makes total sense that if kids aren't talking, then they're not developing the skill of talking. They're just having to listen or passively watch a tablet that just doesn't engage that whole part of the deal.
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What about the idea of talking and emotions? You know, we hear, and the reason people go to therapy is to talk about things, to talk about their emotions. What's the connection from your perspective?
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Well, I've never talked about talking this way before. It's an unusual way to look at the topic, and I appreciate you joining me. I've been speaking with Mary Ellen MacDonald. She is a cognitive scientist and professor of psychology and language sciences at the University of Wisconsin. She's author of the book, More Than Words, How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World.
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And there's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. When you hear the word brainwashing, you probably think of cults or kidnappers who manipulate people into thinking or believing something. Which is true, that's brainwashing, but brainwashing is more than that.
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So here is some great advice regarding things not to say on a Zoom call or a conference call where multiple people are present from different locations. The first thing not to say is, are we all on? No one person can answer that, so everyone will talk at once. And of course, the people who aren't on can't hear you ask if we're all on, so there's really no point to that. Can everyone hear me?
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And it's usually a negative term in the sense that we often say people have been brainwashed, but only because they believe something we don't. You aren't brainwashed, and people who believe what you believe are not brainwashed either. Only people who believe something different. The other thing about brainwashing is that we all like to believe we can't be brainwashed. Really? I'm not so sure.
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Here to dive into this topic is Rebecca Lamov. She is an historian of science at Harvard University and author of the book, The Instability of Truth, Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyperpersuasion. Hi, Rebecca. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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So we hear that term brainwashing a lot, and I'm not sure I know exactly what it is, if it's a real thing or if it kind of describes persuasion in a different way. What is brainwashing?
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But is brainwashing, I think of brainwashing, not knowing much about it, is basically bombarding you with something so much of the time, so often, so many different ways, that you come to believe something that is not true.
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or did she pretend to believe in order to survive?
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So Patty Hearst and other examples that you talk about are pretty extreme examples. Is brainwashing by its definition extreme, or can you kind of lightly brainwash somebody?
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Well, I would think we're essentially all being brainwashed to some extent all the time. I mean, most of what I've come to believe isn't through rigorous research and analysis. It's affected by what I saw my parents believe, or what I saw my friends believe, or what teachers taught me in school. That all of that is a form of brainwashing. But we don't use the term brainwashing.
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Brainwashing is a negative term. Like... You aren't brainwashed to believe what I want you to believe. You've been brainwashed to believe what I don't believe.
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Again, no one person can answer that, so everyone will talk at once. Did everybody get the agenda? Again, no one person can answer that, so everybody talks at once. Let's keep this short. Well, that makes it sound as if the meeting is pretty unimportant and maybe unnecessary. Let's do a quick roll call. I've heard that one. Well, why do a roll call?
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Well, it's interesting what you said about, you know, it's the end of a conversation that, oh, that you're just brainwashed because you don't believe what I believe is the rest of that sentence that doesn't usually get said. It's never, we're all brainwashed in this together.
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Can anybody be brainwashed?
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Well, it would seem, I mean, we all have to have a position on something some of the time, and how we got to that position could probably be argued as brainwashing. I mean, Republican or Democrat, one thinks the other has been brainwashed.
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First of all, you can see who's on a Zoom call or a conference call, and no one really cares who's there or who isn't. It's just a waste of time. And who hasn't heard this? We'll just wait a few minutes for everyone else to get here. why they're late, let's start the meeting. And then when someone who is late shows up, they interrupt the meeting and say, sorry, I'm late.
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The idea, though, going back to the cults, that people would say, well, I would never fall for that. I would never believe that. Does that happen? Do people get recruited into cults and go, this is crazy. I'm getting out of here. And they don't fall for it.
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And so the people who are more likely to be brainwashed, why is that? What do they have in common that makes them more susceptible?
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Do people who have been brainwashed like a Patty Hearst, and when they get out of it, do they ever say, I have no idea why I fell for that? Or do they know, are they aware of what's going on and fall for it anyway because they just seemingly have no choice?
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Well, why would you interrupt a meeting to announce that? If you eliminate these phrases from Zoom meetings and conference calls, things can move along much quicker. And that is something you should know. Of all the creatures on Earth, we humans have one special ability that truly sets us apart. The ability to speak, to communicate with a complicated language. And so we talk.
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Is there a line between persuasion and brainwashing, or are they two different things, or one is just an extreme version of the other?
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So brainwashing. So when people throw around this idea that, oh, you've been brainwashed because, you know, you're a liberal or a conservative or whatever, that's not really brainwashing. It's just that's what you believe. But, you know, it's not destroying your life and your family doesn't speak to you anymore. I mean, it's just you got to believe something.
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So you believe that and you're entitled.
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Well, I would think that it's less what you believe as to how you got there that is brainwashing or not brainwashing. It's what happened to you to get you to the point where you now believe what you believe.
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And so do we need to be on guard that people are trying to brainwash us? Or is this really much more of an extreme thing that, you know, unless you're walking into a cult's front door, this is not really something to concern yourself with?
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We talk to each other. We talk to ourselves. We talk to inanimate objects. We talk. And as it turns out, talking does more than just communicate. Interestingly, talking is hard work. In fact, we can understand speech 50% faster than we can create our own speech. That's how hard it is. And all the things that go on in your head that allow you to speak spill over into many areas of your life.
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You know, for so many people, I think the idea of being brainwashed is hard to fathom. Like, I can't believe someone would come to believe that or fall for that or join that culture. So it's interesting to get some insight into this. I've been speaking with Rebecca Lamov. She is an historian of science at Harvard and author of the book, The Instability of Truth.
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Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyperpersuasion. There's a link to her book at Amazon in the show notes. And Rebecca, thanks. Thanks for explaining all this.
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If you've had your car insurance for a long time, you might think your loyalty is rewarded by a lower premium. Often it is not. In most states, there is a practice called price optimization. Essentially, it is a practice the insurance industry uses to get more money out of customers who are not likely to shop around.
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They use software that tracks your spending habits, like what you buy at the grocery store, how often you change cable providers, and they use that data to set your rate, according to the Consumer Federation of America. Basically, if you think you're not going anywhere, they'll take the risk of hiking up your premium, knowing you're not likely to leave.
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Groups like the Consumer Federation of America have fought this industry practice for some time, and now 18 states and the District of Columbia prohibit price optimization. If you are in a state that still allows it, and you call your insurance company and tell them that you want a better rate, you're still not likely to get as good a deal as if you shopped around.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
Here to tell you about this is Mary Ellen MacDonald. She is a cognitive scientist and professor of psychology and language sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. And she is author of a book called More Than Words, How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World. Hi, Mary Ellen. Welcome to Something You Should Know.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
So when you think about it, talking is a pretty special ability. It allows us to communicate and form relationships and communities and societies, which is very special, but help me understand what else it does beyond that.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
Today on Something You Should Know, what not to say on a Zoom or conference call. Then, talking. It's something we all do and need to do because talking has so many benefits.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
And how do you know this?
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
What is the difference between talking to yourself inside your head and talking out loud to someone else?
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
It seems to me that when I speak... Versus when I talk to myself in my head, when I speak, there's something more permanent about it. It's stickier. It's not just a fleeting thought, but it's, you know, said out loud. The world has heard it and there's something more permanent about it.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
Also, why you really should shop around for car insurance. And a look into brainwashing. What it is and what it isn't.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
I want to go back to something you said, and maybe it just is what it is and there's no story here. But you said people, there are some people who report they have no voice in their head. So when they read, what does that look like for them? Because when I read, I hear the words in my head. That's how I read.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
You know what's interesting to me? Children are always talking to themselves. If you peek into a child's room while they're playing, they are narrating everything they're doing.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
people will point at make fun of people who talk to themselves but everybody talks to themselves out loud i mean when you're home alone you'll talk to yourself there's nobody alive that doesn't do that we're often not totally aware of the behaviors that we do and i can easily predict that muttering to yourself when nobody else is around
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
And you know, I think people do it as just a knee-jerk reaction. So say you're walking down the street all by yourself, and a bird comes and hits you in the head or something. Everybody will say, what the hell was... They will say it out loud as a knee-jerk reaction to that, and there's nobody listening.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
They're saying it to themselves for reasons I don't necessarily know, but it happens all the time.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
I like the way you say, ah!
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
No, that's okay. Well, yeah, go ahead. One more time.
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Why You Should Talk More Often & How People Get Brainwashed
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I love that what you said about when we don't do something and we worry about what will happen, that that is so much worse than what actually happens most of the time. It's that anticipation of horror is much worse than any horror that usually ever happens.
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I would suspect that everybody listening has had experiences like you've been talking about, that there's something that they regret not doing or that they regret not doing sooner because it's more difficult now. And you've, I think, given people a lot of courage to move forward and do something, even if it's scary, because it's the courageous thing to do. Margie Worrell has been my guest.
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She is a leadership advisor and author of several books. Her latest is called The Courage Gap, Five Steps to Braver Action. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Margie, thank you. It's always a pleasure speaking with you.
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He's a public school teacher in New York City who has been featured on Good Morning America and in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the New York Post. And he's author of a book called Tidy Up Your Life. Hi, Tyler. Welcome to Something You Should Know. Thanks so much for having me. So let me ask you, when you hear the phrase, you write the phrase, tidy up, what does that mean to you?
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What does tidy up mean? Because I think it means different things to different people.
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Don't you think, though, that there's, I don't know if it's a personality trait or maybe there's a gene, but, you know, some people are just better at this than others. They like things in order and they make it a priority to keep things orderly. And other people don't and they're messier. And other people, most people are probably somewhere in the middle.
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Where do you think, to get specific here, where do you think is a good place to start if you are so inclined to tidy up?
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I remember hearing the advice, and I've used it, is that when it's time when you finally get in that mood to do some of what we're talking about here, to start with some surface, some place that's very visible. And don't go clean the back closet. Clean something that you can look at and you'll see and go, yeah, that felt pretty good to clean that up.
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You know, as someone who enjoys grocery shopping, I noticed a long time ago, and I'm absolutely certain you've noticed this too, that no matter how hard you try, it seems like more often than not, you get in the checkout line that is slower than all the others.
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Yeah, makes all the sense in the world. And I think everybody has that tech problem. I mean, we certainly do. We have a drawer so full of cables that God knows what they're to. We probably don't even have the device anymore, but we still have the cables.
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What you just said about coffee cups made me smile because we have in our cupboard in the kitchen where we keep the coffee cups, I don't know, two dozen coffee cups. We use four of them pretty regularly, and the others just are in the back there.
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But we don't throw them away because, you know, Aunt Sarah gave us that teacup that no one has ever used in the history of the world, but we can't bear to throw it away. Right.
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Well, this phenomenon has actually been studied, and the reason why that happens, well, there's a couple of reasons, but one of the big reasons is that random interruptions, like a price check or a chatty customer, can really slow the line way down. And those interruptions can happen at any time and in any line.
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There is that thing, though, like we have all these coffee mugs, but it doesn't bother us enough to do anything about it. I mean, no one has even brought it up. We just kind of notice it, but we don't like it just hasn't risen to the level of we really need to do something about it. Probably if we get some more coffee mugs and we have no place to put them, something's going to have to give.
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I think everybody has struggled with organizing their kitchen properly. And I don't even really know what that means to organize your kitchen other than you pick a drawer and you put all the spatulas in there and now your spatulas are organized.
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So if there are, for example, three checkout lines open, you have a two out of three chance of not being in the fastest line. The more open lines, the worse your chances. What's actually more interesting is really the whole system is flawed. If supermarkets did it the way banks and airports and hotels do it, you would actually get out of the store faster.
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Since you talk to people and people watch your videos and communicate with you, what are the other big problem areas that people seem to talk about?
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And you know that space is full of stuff, but you have no idea what exactly is in there.
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Well, it's like that kitchen junk drawer. We have that. And the only time anybody bothers to clean anything out is when you can't close it anymore because so much junk is sticking out of the top. And you look in there and you don't even know what most of the stuff is in there. And there's notepads and pencils that don't work and pens that ran out of ink and whatever.
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Because no one ever cleaned it. Stuff only goes in it. Nothing ever comes out. I found a dog license from a dog that had died like years ago, still sitting in a junk drawer.
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And that is to have one line and have the person at the front of the line go to the next available checker. So why don't supermarkets do it that way? Well, room is a problem. There's really no place to put that line. But a bigger factor is customers don't like it. But here are a few suggestions. It's not just how long the line is.
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Do you think, though, that people really sit around and worry about this? I mean, you do, and the people who watch your videos and read your book clearly have a motive to want to fix something. But I wonder if just in general people really worry so much about this, or it's just some people.
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All these things that you're talking about, I think, nag all of us. And in many cases, it's not naggy enough to, like, want to do anything about it. It's just kind of frustrating. But I think you've given people some inspiration that it's really worth putting in a little effort to learn how things work, discover where things are, tidy things up, and it just kind of lightens the load.
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I've been talking to Tyler Moore. He's the creator of the popular Tidy Dad Instagram, TikTok, and website. And he's author of a book called Tidy Up Your Life. And there's a link to that book in the show notes. Tyler, I appreciate you coming on and explaining all this. All right. Thanks, Mike. Thanks for having me.
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If the cashier has someone bagging groceries for them, that line will move faster. Also, it's not just the number of people in line. People with a lot of items in their cart take a lot longer and slow the line way down. Another tip is, you know, just don't sweat it. Because it turns out there are probably plenty of times you probably were in the short line, you just tended not to notice.
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I came across an article several years ago about weird dreams that I always remember because I have been known to have weird dreams. And I found it again and thought I would pass this along to you because weird dreams, it turns out, could be a warning. A warning that you're really stressed out. The article quotes sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright, who passed away a few years ago.
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She explains in this article that when your stress levels are high, your sleep cycle gets interrupted. She said, ideally, your dreams get progressively more positive as you sleep, so you wake up in a better mood than you were when you went to bed. But when you're stressed out, you wake up more often, which disrupts this process and allows unpleasant dreams to recur all night.
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So if you've been plagued by weird or disturbing dreams, try to get a little more sleep and avoid caffeine and alcohol close to bedtime. And that is something you should know. The very best way you could support this podcast, and it takes very little effort, is to share it. Send the link to someone you know, maybe a couple of people, and ask them to listen.
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It helps our audience grow, and that's what we're trying to do. I'm Mike Carruthers. Thanks for listening today to Something You Should Know.
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Human beings are more likely to notice setbacks when things don't go right. But they often do. And that is something you should know. How many times have you not done something and later regretted it, perhaps saying to yourself, I wish I'd had the courage to do that. I wish I had been braver. It just seemed too risky. Yet courage is something most of us admire in other people.
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Are those people born courageous or is courage something you can develop? And if so, how? Those are the questions Margie Worrell is here to answer. She is a leadership advisor, keynote speaker, and has worked with organizations such as NASA, Dell, Morgan Stanley, HP, Google, and Johnson & Johnson. She's the author of several books, including The Courage Gap, Five Steps to Braver Action.
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Hey, Margie, good to have you here. Mike, terrific to be with you. So let's start with your definition of courage.
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Is courage, do you think, something some people are born with? There are people who seem very courageous. Did they come out that way or did they work on it or what?
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But how do you tell? I mean, sometimes... when you feel afraid of doing something. There's that little voice in your head that says don't. That might be something to listen to. Maybe you shouldn't. And maybe that voice is keeping you out of harm's way.
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So let's take a real simple example that I think anyone who went to high school can relate to. You know, the guy who wants to ask the girl on a date or to the prom or something, and he puts it off and he puts it off. And he knows, you know, he might get rejected. You know, maybe she's out of his league. But if he never asks, he'll never get the date. But asking, he's afraid of something.
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So what is he afraid of?
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Today on Something You Should Know, why do you always seem to pick the slowest checkout line in the grocery store? Then, personal courage, how to do something brave that could change your life.
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So when somebody says to you what you just said, like, I don't want to feel those emotions, I don't want to get rejected, I'd really like to meet somebody, and I know it's not the end of the world if they say no, you would say what?
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I wonder if people who are courageous, people who are able to manage this well, if they have a lot of failures, if they try a lot of things because they're courageous, it would seem that many of them maybe weren't such great ideas, but they tried them anyway. Yeah.
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Finding the courage and bravery to do something important. That's what we're talking about with Margie Worrell. She's author of the book, The Courage Gap, Five Steps to Braver Action. Thank you so much for having me. It's a bit similar to Something You Should Know, which is why I think you'll like it, but it takes a different spin.