Why Pets Behave So Strangely & The Surprising Rhythm of Your Brain - SYSK Choice
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How does your shoulder posture affect the messages you send to others?
Today on something you should know, how you hold your shoulders tells people a lot about you. Then things you never knew about pets, dogs, cats, hamsters, and I bet you never knew this about goldfish.
A goldfish that has everything that it needs can live to be about 20 years old. And they eat everything and they disrupt a lot. So now goldfish are ranked as one of the most destructive invasive species on the planet.
Also, is it true people with big heads are smarter? And why you should plan your work around your brain, because your brain is on a schedule.
We know that creative work seems to be much better if it is undertaken first thing in the morning and last thing at night, whereas the peak zones for focus actually happen slightly later in the morning.
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People with depression often slouch their shoulders. It's a good idea to be aware of how you hold your upper body. When people see broad, straight shoulders, they're likely to read that as strength and confidence. When they see someone slouching, it sends the opposite message. Interestingly, a study showed that if you deliberately sit up straight, it can actually make you feel more proud after a success, increase your persistence at an unsolvable task, and make you feel more confident in your thoughts. It also seems that good posture can make you feel more alert and enthusiastic, less fearful, and give you higher self esteem after a stressful task. And that is something you should know. Two thirds of U.S.
households have at least one pet living in that household. Cats, dogs, hamsters, turtles, birds, fish, and who knows what else. And while we pet owners like to think we understand our animals pretty well, there is much more, I suspect, that you don't know, things you've always wondered about. And that is why Eleanor Spicer Rice is here. She is an entomologist and author of a the author of many nonfiction books, one of which is called Your Pets Secret Lives The Truth Behind Your Pets Wildest Behaviors. Hi, Eleanor, welcome to something you should know.
Hi Mike, thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here.
And so let me first ask you about the science behind all this, uh because you know, people say, Oh, you know, when your cat does this or your dog's tail does that, and I don't know if they know what they're talking about, and how would anybody know what they're talking about? How what is this real science?
Yes, it is. What I did was I took our most kept pets in the United States, North America, and I went to the peer-reviewed journal articles and I found the studies that were absolutely the most jaw-dropping studies to me, the ones that I didn't know.
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