A lot of people drink coffee in the morning to kickstart the day. Interestingly, how you drink it (when, how many cups, length of time between cups, etc.) influences the kick that you get. This episode begins by explaining the best way to consume your morning brew for maximum benefit. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a15327/coffee-most-caffeine/ I’m sure you’ve had a gut feeling about something. You didn’t have to think about it – you just knew! That is your intuition at work. But what is it? Is intuition just a knee jerk reaction to something or is it something more – perhaps some deep inner wisdom? Is it reliable? Should you trust it? Joining me to talk about that is Elizabeth Greenwood. She is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, and GQ, and she is author of a book called Everyday Intuition: What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice (https://amzn.to/3H0TN4U). It is astonishing to contemplate all the things around you that have been manufactured. Everything you can see that is not a plant, an animal or dirt – someone manufactured it. That means a person designed it, got the materials, assembled it, packaged it up and shipped it. How does that happen? What is the process that keeps it all going? Here to discuss this is Tim Minnshall. He is an engineering academic who works at the University of Cambridge, and he is author of the book, How Things Are Made: A Journey Through the Hidden World of Manufacturing (https://amzn.to/43bsRHf). Why do cars break down? Surprisingly, they mostly break down for just one of a few reasons – which are often preventable. Listen as I reveal what those reasons are and how to prevent them from happening. https://roadsidesurvival.com/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! CARAWAY: Get 10% off your next purchase, at https://Carawayhome.com/SYSK or use code SYSK at checkout. Caraway. Non-Toxic cookware made modern. MINT MOBILE: Ditch overpriced wireless and get 3 months of premium wireless service from Mint Mobile for 15 bucks a month at https://MintMobile.com/something ! FACTOR: Eat smart with Factor! Get 50% off at https://FactorMeals.com/something50off TIMELINE: Get 10% off your order of Mitopure! Go to https://Timeline.com/SOMETHING INDEED: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING right now! QUINCE: Elevate your shopping with Quince! Go to https://Quince.com/sysk for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: How should you time your morning coffee for maximum benefit?
200 milligrams of caffeine is what you'll find in most 12-ounce cups of coffee, and this amount will bring most people to their peak performance levels for about two hours, at which point the caffeine begins to slowly leave your system. Anything more than 200 milligrams in a two-hour time frame can result in diminishing returns. And that is something you should know.
How many times have you heard the advice to go with your gut, use your intuition? What is your intuition telling you? That's putting a lot of responsibility on your intuition. But what exactly is intuition? It's not a thing. There's not a spot in your brain where your intuition lives.
And if you type in a search engine, the case against intuition, you will see a lot of people have concerns about the reliability of what is called intuition. The dictionary definition of intuition is the ability to understand something immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. You know, that gut feeling.
But critics say intuition can be used to justify pre-existing beliefs rather than arrive at objective truths. Some say it can be just a justification to come to a quick decision rather than taking the time to deliberate and think something through. And the fact is, intuition can be wrong. It can be right. but it can be wrong. So how valuable is it?
Let's dive a little deeper into intuition with someone who has studied it, Elizabeth Greenwood. She's a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, and GQ. She is author of a book called Everyday Intuition, What Psychology, Science, and Psychics Can Teach Us About Finding and Trusting Our Inner Voice. Hi Elizabeth, welcome to Something You Should Know.
Hi, Mike. Thanks so much for having me.
So let me start by saying that I use my intuition. I get gut feelings, but I'm also suspicious of them. I worry sometimes that intuition might also just be a knee-jerk reaction or a shortcut to a decision that really should take more thought. just by saying, well, it was a gut feeling. And I get it. I get that we all have gut reactions to things.
And I think of it more as your collective wisdom telling you something more than anything else.
Well, Mike, I hear you. I don't think you're alone in that feeling toward intuition of what even are we talking about when we talk about intuition? Is it just this out there woo-woo thing? So I hear you there for sure. I spent several years interviewing experts of all
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Chapter 2: What is intuition and how does it really work?
Maybe you feel comfortable at ease and your body kind of exhales, sighs a little breath of relief, or you walk into that room and your throat constricts and you feel uncomfortable. Maybe you don't even notice your throat constricting, but there's something happening in your body giving you a signal based on prior experience. So it's as simple as that.
It's pattern recognition that happens incredibly quickly.
The idea of intuition, though, most people have is not what you just said. It's some sort of mystical, magical, you know, women's intuition or, you know, my intuition told me to do this thing and the car didn't hit me. It's more magical than that.
That's right. And intuition can feel magical. And that's because intuition is knowledge that is not always linear. It's not always, I can't say how I got from A to B. And that can make you doubt it. That can make it feel mystical. Because intuition is really this very complex...
ensemble of neurological functions such as memory activation all of these things working in tandem um to come up with getting quote an intuition a gut feeling it's also a very embodied experience and that's why we hear it called a gut feeling so sometimes an intuition will come to you in a physically embodied way. And in our culture, we've really separated the brain from the body.
So when we get something that feels like our body knowing something, we do have a tendency to distrust that or lump it in as something that is irrational. when really we store so much of our memories and emotions in our bodies. So it's not that this is irrational. It's just another form of rationality. And it's always based on past experiences. This isn't based on nothing.
Sometimes an intuition can come out of the blue and feel almost mystical, but it's, always based on prior experience. Intuition in that way is everything that's ever happened to you.
So why not just call it collective wisdom? Why give it a name like intuition, which adds that magical thing to it?
You'd have to ask neuroscience and linguists that question. I can't really answer that. But I will say that there are neuroscientists and people working in the sciences that do study intuition. They don't have a different name for it. This is just what we've conquered.
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Chapter 3: Can intuition be scientifically measured and tested?
called it, and I totally hear you that this does feel like something that is a collective wisdom, but I think intuition also is very personal for people. It's knowing without knowing why, and the ways in which people know can be very different from person to person. Some people are more verbal. Some people are more somatic, embodied.
But it is that knowing without knowing why and being able to trace point A to point B. But this is a highly adaptive trait. This is something that evolutionary psychologists look at. And I think at its most essential, it is a kind of protective instinct of toward or away. When you place a... paramecium in a petri dish and put sugar in it, the paramecium will swim toward the sugar.
It will swim away from an electric shock. And that, in its most essential, is a form of intuition.
Can you test for it? Can you and I take a test, the same test, and see which of us has more or better intuition?
Well, there are several metrics that scientists use to study intuition, and the most famous among them is called the Iowa Gambling Task. And this was developed in the 1990s by the neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. So the Iowa Gambling Task is this.
there are two decks of cards one deck pays winnings when you select from that deck and the other deck uh and the other set of cards deduct winnings and this is they you really mix it up and make it in this very complicated system where there is a system but it's really hard to figure out Meanwhile, scientists are monitoring the participants biofeedback.
And what they notice is that people running the experiment, they are recording signals from participants bodies that measure when people are considering the bad choices, the cards that deduct winnings versus the good choices. And what they find is that people are often completely unaware of those signals, but in the end, they learn to make the good choices based on this low-level biofeedback.
And they really can't tell you why. They'll just say, oh, well, this card seemed like the right card to choose. They might feel a sense of kind of being repelled by the quote-unquote bad cards. So the people who are more interoceptive, more aware of these very subtle bodily cues, they are drawn to the profitable decks. and they stay away from the low-paying decks.
So that's just one example of a test that people run to measure intuition.
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Chapter 4: Is women's intuition different from men's intuition?
Right.
But but you don't hear the other people saying, yeah, my intuition told me to go to the other store and I didn't win a thing.
I hear you. And I think that that is a great example of a memory bias of the way in which we will prioritize a story that we like that really kind of rhymes with our worldview. What I really like. emphasize for people who do want to become more intuitive or become even just more familiar with the way intuition shows up for them is becoming a little bit systematic about it.
Chapter 5: How can you distinguish between intuition and anxiety?
The neuroscientists I interviewed say that intuition is pattern recognition based on expertise, based on having expertise in a certain domain. So what I really advocate for is people becoming experts in themselves. So if you have an intuition to say, go to that liquor store or to walk on the left side of the street that day versus the right side of the street,
i think that you should notice that and you should notice how that intuition shows up for you when you feel an urge or pull one way or another does that come to you as a sentence in your mind is it a feeling in your body and how is that different than say something else like anxiety or fear or just plain old habits that we are all accustomed to.
So I really recommend people clocking when they have an intuition. I keep a note on my phone of these sorts of things, whatever kind of inclination I'm having that day, how I knew it and how it panned out, because then you do actually have some hard data to pull from rather than our very fallible memories and storytelling that we all do.
We're discussing intuition with my guest, Elizabeth Greenwood. She's author of the book, Everyday Intuition. What psychology, science, and psychics can teach us about finding and trusting our inner voice.
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Chapter 6: Should you trust your intuition and how reliable is it?
Chapter 7: What is the hidden process behind how things get made?
Also, why your car is most likely to break down and how to prevent it. And how things get made. And a lot of things get made.
Chapter 8: What are the common reasons why cars break down and how to prevent them?
Every single thing you can see, unless it's a plant, a rock, another person or some other animal, has been manufactured. Once you start to think about it, it's almost overwhelming. Every single thing has a manufacturing story behind it.
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If you're one of those people who needs coffee to get your day started, it turns out there's a little bit of science to it. Esquire Magazine You should wait 15 minutes after waking up to drink your first cup of coffee, they say. Given your body's desire to get more sleep, what's known as sleep inertia, it's natural to wake up tired. But this usually wears off in about 15 minutes.
If you've already had your first cup of coffee by then, it can lead to you consuming more caffeine than you ultimately need. You should take an hour and a half, at least an hour and a half, break between cups of coffee. Many people drink a cup, don't feel anything, so they drink another cup, and then they start to feel it. But that's not because the second cup is kicking in.
That's the first cup of coffee. Caffeine takes about half an hour or so to reach its maximum effectiveness. So that kick you're actually feeling is coming from the first cup. After another 30 minutes, the second cup kicks in, and now you've got a lot of caffeine in you. And try not to drink too much coffee.
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