How Notebooks Changed Your Life & Are Video Screens Really So Bad?
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How does music influence relationships?
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.
There is a lot of research on this. I think there is something like more than 1,200 studies, and they all confirm the same basic result, which is writing stuff down about your emotions makes you physically healthier.
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.
Young individuals who have a very high screen exposure show symptoms that are similar to developmental autism. They refuse to make eye contact. They have reduced language. They have reduced social interaction.
All this today on Something You Should Know.
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.
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 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. 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.
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? 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.
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. 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.
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?
Well, I guess if I've had one big idea in my life, it's to suddenly notice notebooks. And once you start noticing them, you notice them absolutely everywhere.
What are the benefits of writing in notebooks?
And I suppose just thinking about the role, the different parts they play in all of our lives and the parts they've played in our lives through history and the changes that they've made to our lives, I guess that's what got me really into them.
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