The Car’s History and Future & Inside Your Unconscious Mind – SYSK Choice
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Why is good posture important?
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?
There was something about the man. He was perfectly placed. He came from a farming family. He hated horses, which was quite crucial actually. And he took great pride in ridding the world of the need for horses.
How did the car change our world?
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.
Another word for the unconscious mind might be the uncontrollable mind. In every single human being in the world, there are horrible drives and urges. But if we deny them, if we push them away and we don't accept them, paradoxically, that makes us more likely to act on them. 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. 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.
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. 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, 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?
Well, yeah, they say about things like the steer up on the horse and things like that quite commonly. But what they miss out from what the car did was the absolute physical change it brought to the world. It created roads. It created motels. It created interstates. The physical world has been changed by the car.
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?
Well, there's some dispute about this, but an official story has emerged that the first one was built in 1885 by Carl Benz. who was an engineering genius, but he wasn't a public relations genius. And what made him a public relations genius was his wife, Bertha Ringer, or Bertha Benz. And she borrowed his car and drove 66 miles south in Germany with her children, which was astonishing.
Who were the key figures in automotive history?
No other vehicle. had done more than a mile or two at the time. Now that made it sort of the official narrative, but there are lots of close to actual cars at that time.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is good posture important?
0:02–0:30
2
How did the car change our world?
0:30–4:50
3
Who were the key figures in automotive history?
4:50–13:24
4
How did Henry Ford revolutionize the car industry?
13:24–17:00
5
What role did marketing play in the success of General Motors?
17:00–19:46
6
How did Japanese cars impact the American automotive market?
19:46–31:45
7
What is the future of the automobile?
31:45–43:22
8
What makes Honda a notable player in the automotive industry?
43:22–49:28
Speakers
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