Mike Carruthers

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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 and welcome to another episode of something you should know we're going to start today with something i'm sure you've wondered about i mean we all know that it is dangerous to talk on your phone while you're driving

But why?

I mean, it doesn't seem like it should be that tough.

Psychologists at the University of Kansas discovered the answer.

It seems that when you're driving and you're on the phone, your brain is trying to do two things at the same time, and consequently it can't do either one of them very well.

They found that the part of the brain that controls vision becomes less active when you're having a conversation.

So even though your eyes are open and you can see everything, you miss critical visual information, like that car coming at you at the intersection.

This is why you're four times more likely to have an accident if you're talking on the phone.

The University of Kansas researchers also found that your hands have nothing to do with it.

In other words, talking on a hands-free device doesn't really lower your risk of an accident.

And that is something you should know.

We're about to talk about something that you may not even know is a thing.

And it is something called visual intelligence.

And I'll let my guest explain it in more detail in just a moment.

But basically, visual intelligence is when you look at something or someone or someplace, what is it you see?

What is it you don't see?

How do you interpret it?

How is it different than what other people see?