A Smart Guide to Friendships & English Tips From A Master Grammarian - SYSK Choice
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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.
It's absolutely normal to go through these breakups with friends and actually every seven years we lose about half our friends. Also, about half of our friends don't consider us their friends. What we do know is that the longer a friendship has lasted, the more likely it is to continue to last.
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.
I get asked a lot about effect and effect. The one with the E is a noun and the one with an A is a verb. So, your behavior affects me, that would be an A. Your behavior has an effect on me would be an E. All this today on Something You Should Know.
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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, 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. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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. 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.
Thank you so much for having me.
So this is kind of an obvious question maybe, but why are friendships so important?
So many reasons. I mean, connection is related to our mental health and wellbeing. Research finds that loneliness is as toxic as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And that our level of connection actually predicts how long we live even more so than our diet and our exercise, for example.
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