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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Then the things we all do that put our personal safety at risk and how to protect yourself from danger.
It's as simple as just being more aware. In a society where we're all walking around buried in our cell phones, people don't realize that that alone makes you such an easy target. If you're looking at your phone, you have no idea who and what's around you.
Also, how kissing is good for your physical and mental health, and where great ideas come from and don't.
If you look at the emergence of great ideas throughout history, you know, this idea that the way that we find creative inspiration is kind of locking ourselves away and waiting for that light bulb moment, that actually turns out to be kind of the exact opposite from what works.
All this today on Something You Should Know.
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Chapter 2: Why do people panic-buy before a storm?
Hi. Thank you so much for having me.
So this topic always concerns me a little bit because I don't want to come across as too alarmist and everyone has to be afraid of their own shadow because there's bad people out there and you could be a victim. But on the other hand, there are bad people out there and you could be a victim. So where's the line? How do we stay vigilant without going overboard?
that's actually a great question and something that i get a lot and honestly it's a it's a line that you have to walk because you want to move through the world with a level of awareness but you don't want to become hyper vigilant or you know some people like to call it paranoid so the way i look at it and what i teach and what i believe in is that knowledge is power and for me personally the more aware i am and the more that i know
The more confident I am moving through the world, knowing that if God forbid, I found myself in a dangerous situation, I will be able to handle it.
And having that knowledge in the back of my mind, it doesn't mean that you live with it in the forefront and every corner you're walking around, you're scanning your surroundings and you're paranoid, but you have a level of awareness to you so that you just feel strong as you live your life.
So you're the perfect person to ask this of. Ever since I was little, my mother used to tell me, be careful. Be careful. Well, what does that mean? What would I be doing differently if I wasn't careful? And I don't know always what I'm looking for. I wouldn't know a serial killer. I don't care how vigilant I am until he tries to kill me.
I don't know that he's a serial killer and vigilance isn't going to help.
That's where intuition comes into play. And that's something that I talk about all the time as well. It's because as a society, especially for women, we're taught to minimize that, to question ourselves in the fear of we'll come off as being dramatic or we overreact to everything. So I think...
empowering your intuition and leaning into your gut feeling is one of the most important things that you could do because oftentimes you're in a situation or you meet someone and this doesn't even have to be a dangerous situation. This could just be a person that's a little bit of a snake and somebody you don't want in your life.
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Chapter 3: What everyday behaviors can enhance personal safety?
all your purse, your carry on your check bag, and make sure that you do your research where you're going, because things that are legal in the States might not be legal elsewhere, like a stray bullet. Let's say your husband's a hunter and, you know, you have no idea that there's a stray bullet in the bottom of the duffel bag that you're bringing on a girl's trip.
You're, you know, some wedding God knows where. And that is something it just, it can save you from, uh,
Chapter 4: How can situational awareness protect you from danger?
A very large headache, let's just say the least. And then while you're traveling, again, just having that level of awareness. Another tip, something that I see all the time, so many people display their valuables and their personal information just blankly. out in the open.
So I, you know, standing in line for security, a thing that you could implement right now is hold your boarding pass and your ID face down. I've been standing in line so many times where the person in front of me and the person behind me, I could look and I could see their full name and their home address just because they're holding their driver's license. And again,
It boils down to the whole thing where odds are that person is a great individual. You're not, you know, you're not at risk for anything happening, but you don't want that information out in the open. And just by simply holding it face down, it just protects your identity, protects your home address. And it's simple things like that. You know, I had this happen to a friend.
This is just an interesting one that some people might never think of. But I had a girlfriend use a restroom at an airport and she used the hook and just to put her purse on in the back of the door. And it was close to the top. And while she was using the restroom, a hand came over and grabbed her bag and ran.
And in that bag was her wallet with her ID and her passport and everything that you need when you're traveling. And she never got that back. So something else that I always say is don't use that hook if it's close to the top. Keep your purse, keep your bag, keep it on you. Or, you know, sometimes there's like a little toilet paper holder next to you. Put it there instead.
It's something that's so simple and a lot of people don't think of.
Wow. That's amazing that somebody would have reached over the top of the stall and grabbed her purse. How would they even know it was on the hook?
That's a great question. They must have been watching. And that's, you know, sometimes crime is simply opportunistic. And that's where taking those tiny little precautions, those steps to keep yourself and your belongings safe, you don't know what it will save you from at the end of the day.
You know what's a situation where things could go bad really fast and happen to almost anybody who's driving is road rage. You make a mistake, somebody gets upset, and things escalate really fast.
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Chapter 5: What role does intuition play in personal safety?
And much the same with ideas that there's a lot of trial and error and false starts along the way that in hindsight tend to get glossed over when we tell the story later.
Yeah. So you said that the idea of sitting down and trying to come up with ideas is somewhat counterproductive for many people. So what does work? If that doesn't work, do you just wait until... I don't know, something happens.
Well, I think there's an important point to clarify. Sitting down and trying to generate ideas is probably one of the best things that you can do. But the idea there is to not put too much pressure on yourself and not say, well, this has to be a great idea. In fact, there's some interesting research that shows that Sometimes we're our most creative.
We make the most unusual connections when we're low on sleep or, you know, maybe cognitively it doesn't feel like we're at our peak. We can actually kind of make new connections that we wouldn't otherwise. So one big thing that I advocate is thinking about creativity as a process like archaeology. And part of what an archaeologist is doing after they
have surveyed the landscape and kind of understand where they are, and then they've gridded their terrain to make their search more systematic so they know where they're finding things and where they haven't. The next stage is just try to get as much stuff out of the ground as possible. And really, I think that is one of the strongest things that you can do. More is more.
Just try to generate as many ideas as possible and then wait to go back later to say, well, what did I find here? What was actually valuable?
I always find, though, that when you generate a lot of ideas, you've got so many things that now you're too close to it and you can't really see the forest for the trees and now you can't really evaluate them.
That's such a fantastic point. You know, we actually ran a study about this same idea. What we did is we had people generate ideas. Sometimes it was for fundraisers, sometimes it was just like for humorous captions to New Yorker cartoons. And so people came up with a bunch of ideas, and then we said, okay, we want you to go through, and we want you to submit only your very best ideas.
Submit only the top ideas, and you could win a monetary bonus if those ideas were in fact rated by others as very strong, and you might lose money. There was a monetary penalty if you submitted subpar ideas. So what we found is that people, when they went through their list, while they pruned some of them, they submitted many good ideas, but they also submitted many subpar ideas.
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