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low, wasted, pants you'll want to wear trousers at your natural waistline in order to maximize your leg line, the of longer legs is a major factor in looking taller and that something you should know the whether you have to solve a problem or come up with some new idea or just sort of figure things out its The result of your thinking, how you think and one. Probably ever taught you how to think you just think, but could you think better? Can you actually improve your thinking, so you think better thoughts. It's an intriguing idea and one that TIM person as me career out of TIM is this, baker and writer and his book is called think better, So this is something I don't think people think about, because we're so busy thinking about other things,

we're too busy thinking to stop and think about how we're thinking, if you know what I mean so high, So how did you get interested in this one of the things that really intrigue me when I was a creative director in my advertising agency was. Why is it that some people seem to be able to come up with just a fountain of New ideas bubbling forth with ideas and other people seem to be less less capable of doing that, Wasn't a question of one person was intelligent and the other person wasn't intelligent. It wasn't a question of extrovert and introvert seem to be something else. I started to investigate that really treat me ass. I start to investigate that start to look into all kinds of research that had been done cognitive, psychologists and others, and it became very, very clear to me

is that creative thinking? What I call productive thinking is a skill is a skill that can be learned, and once you know that it's it's it's. It's really interesting is amazing that that, if you can if people literally to have more ideas, better ideas, that's a that's just a great thing, so that's how I got involved with it and I've become passionate about it. It's it's something that I I've made my life when I think of great sinkers, I think of select few people who think amazing things in that that my impression is that great thinkers are are born to some extent it that they have something that the rest of us can't that their ability to think is almost magical, research is very queer. People who come with great ideas, do so because they follow whether consciously or not

systematic, approached coming up with those ideas and one of the things that they do is they do something that I call separating there thinking they separate the ice. A generation part of thinking left the kind of thinking they have when you're in the shower, when you're drifting off to sleep. Perhaps when you're driving your car, they separate that from the critical thing which is the did. That mental, and I don't mean that in a negative sense I mean the evaluative kind of thinking and simply by separating those two things you are to generate more a list of more ideas that then you can evaluate its kinda like this The analogy I like to use is paddle. If I have one end of my kayak paddle labelled creative thinking and the other end labelled critical thinking and I just paddle with the one sided: go: creative, creative, creative, creative, creative, I'm just gonna go round in circles and if I just go critical, critical, critical credit

without one how I'm gonna go run circles the other way, but if I figure had alternate these two and I go create critical. Creative critical eye can developing new forward. Momentum is exactly the same with ideas. First, the creative then come back with your critical thinking. Evaluate then do some more creative thinking back with your critical thinking to evaluate That's the whole secret and it seems like every single creative mine that we honor historical. as in one way or another done exactly. That thing It does seem that those are two very different skills that some some one might be more inclined to be a good creative thinker and not such a great critical thinker. I mean a mean, aren't those two very different skills that they are very different scale, in fact, on the creative side. What you want to do is deferred judgment,

Don't want to have any judgment just want to pour those ideas out. Just like a little kid. You know when kids are creative. What they do is that you think the literally shout out ideas like oh, I got an idea. I got an idea. I got an idea, they're not discussing them, they're, not thinking about them. Throwing them out into the universe, so the first part of the skill is the ability to judge whether it be for a while. The second part is to build ideas. What you do is you have one idea, and then you kind of sea, while if that idea leads to the next, It leads to that. You build on ideas and seek just little any variation, sometimes from one idea to another and often at the time, little variation, which turns out to be a huge plus for an idea. but in my experience I've always thought if this idea of just coming up with great idea crazy ideas, any idea we'll do it doesn't matter with Some sort of context is a total waste of time, but that you have to have

hungary's to some extent. because otherwise you're talking about things that that that are never gonna fly. The invent or of brainstorming as a man by the name of Alex osborne in the nineteen fifties, and he used to say it's a whole lot easier to aim. A wild the then it is invigorate an idea that doesn't have any life in the first by so called wild go crazy and the fourth one is go for quantity. just pour out ideas, poor up thirty, four ideas, The idea of a hundred idea and within those thirty forty or one hundred ideas, there are going to be some gems, it's kind of like sales. You know anybody in sales knows that you've got a certain closing ratio if you make sales calls you're gonna we close one. If you make twenty sales calls, you gonna make a closed on two thirty you're gonna get three sales and so on exactly the same. ideas, the more you have the moral

equally it is that one two three four will really be gems, so that the creative side of thinking the critical size very, very different it didn't expansive. It doesn't want to generate law. so I did it wants to actually evaluate and judge and focused down on ideas. It wants to use success criteria. It wants to unpack idea. It wants to discuss them If the shouting out of ideas like the creative, it's really discussing it on. What's this aspect of it, what's that aspect of it doing, have some good criteria against which to judge the idea and those then become the critical thinking skills I knows to balance the separate them in assent, creative make a law list of ideas, critical select the best of those ideas using your critical thinking and suddenly you can have some really exciting.

Yeah, but don't you think, give more people are involved in this process, the better than that, if your creating and judging your own ideas through your own lends, through your own biases that you're not such a great judge of ideas at church I think, one in the wars judge of one's own ideas, if you dont give them time to breathe more often than not. What we do is an idea comes out and we say not I'll. Never work, no, it's not my responsibility. No, the boss won't like it. No it'll get me into trouble before we give them time to breathe. Once we time to bring you kind of like a baby come out smack and on the bomb, a little give it some time to breathe and come back, and you can view it with new? I often were the worst judges of our ideas, because we're not judging the ideas were judging ourselves

or or we have an agenda like, I really need this idea to work or I'm really under the gun here and so Sutton's gotta work. So let's pick this one may not be the ass one, but we'll go with that. So there are other things at play, while and one of the things that is, that the productive thinking process takes a real, strong look at what of the criteria. What are the really appropriate criteria by which to judge Your ideas and you established criteria ahead of time so that europe, so that their not willy nilly they are not there not did she added I could gee, I'm afraid of. It are real, clear, critical criteria that you can in fact judge the ideas against they were looking for here is a systematic repeatable. roach, so that anybody I mean anybody can have ideas, better ideas. More of the time my guest

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try to implement them and they don't work change. While the reason they don't change anything they haven't done that first step figured out what really going on so that they can ask the right questions. So we don't start with mainstreaming. We start with figuring out what we going on whose affected what politicians of this problem, one of the dreams that I might have about this issue and all once you ve done that, can you begin to start generating some ideas, but the view and other steps that that you have to do as well. You gotta figure out what success is. What success gonna look like what Do you like we talk about something called the imitation of the whole of the past and all of us, experienced this. You know you try a new idea, whether it's at work or at home and the gravity of the past pulls you back. You try another one. The gravity of the past pulls you back. So how do you overcome that? Well, but in our process we called future poll and what you do. It's like taking a grappling hook and

knowing it into an imagined, wonderful future. Having latch onto that future. That is so powerful. for compelling that you literally pull yourself towards it and overcome the gravitational pull the past. Well, that's the second step in the process is: how do you figure out what that future is gonna be, so we can throw your group I hope towards it. Only then do we get the brainstorming, because then we have the ability to. First of all of all is that what were brainstorming about, and, secondly, to have that future pull that allows us at that exciting energizing future paul. It allows us to generate the kinds of answers that are going to help us get there before the step of our process is something that we call forge the solution. This is really the morton thing, because brainstorming usually ends up with or what but little embryonic ideas, what you need to do is need to take those embryonic ideas we have to put them through

george, and exactly the same way that a steel psmith might do when their creating a beautiful object at us. Your sword or something like that and your pain He is around. You burn them you. The impurities out of them, so that what happens at the other end, the forge is you come up with a powerful, workable illusion not just a little idea, but something that you can actually implement. Brainstorming as part of the process but it's by no means all of the process. Will it's interesting to hear creativity broken down into steps of a process, because I think I guess I like to think- and I think a lot of people like to think that a lot of create fifty is you no magic it just it's that aha moment that that its magic well,

isn't magic, of course, there's magic. We call it. We talk about something called the unexpected connection and that's that experience that all of us have had when suddenly we look at something that could be a tree outside the window, it could be your shoelace lying on the floor. It could be your hand as you reach for the knob of your shower and you look at it and bingo. You have an absolute insight into something you've made. Some kind of unexpected connection has one of the most powerful experiences that human beings can have, so there is magic there. The point is that you can create an environment and you can create a system and you could create process that increases the chances of your seeing those unexpected connection, because the unexpected,

actions are around us all the time everywhere. It's just that we're not open to them, but if you create a process, if you follow a process, if you, if you create a system, if you have a mindset that allows you to begin to see them, then you can see them in front of you behind you above you below you all the time there yeah? It's just that when our eyes aren't open. To give me an example, if you can of what you consider one of those great aha moments as a scientist by the name of a coolie who had been searching for years and years and years for the structure, carbon molecule, tat was his life's question and he'd he'd inundated himself with knowledge and understanding and research about this, but he couldn't. One night. The story goes he's falling asleep in front of his fireplace and he had a dream about a snake.

That is eating. Its tail, in other words, is making a kind of a circle wakes up with a start, and he realizes that what he had been doing is that he had A metaphorical way dreamed the shape of the I've been molecule, which is an excited more or less circular figure. So what happened is that when we talk about but the power of our minds, often works in the background and one of the most powerful tool that can use for creativity is something called the incubation. It means be yours. When the subject understand, it is clearly as can't let it go and no medical to sleep go on vacation and often what happens is that you're mine, in the background, is starting to make those what I called earlier. Unexpected connections and those unexpected connections can be the

at moment and the power of our minds to work by themselves? If we leave them alone sometimes is astonishing is astonishing. What you need to do, however, is you have to have been able to steep yourself in the ideas beforehand. All of us have had those aha moments when we go to sleep with a problem we can't solve this. I can't solve is what's going on here and you cup in the morning, or sometimes in the middle of the night. I got it at your mind, working in the background, but exe. For the occasional exception, Thomas edison, Steve jobs, kind of exception. I guess it does that. Even the great thinkers who come up with great ideas are really the good for one or two or maybe three, but that that year, your kind of spent after your great big success the idea isn't that funny. I think that people do have britain, hundreds of great ideas. I think that what happens is that they dont, captured and think of the last time

we were in the shower and there's the water is nicely pouring on your back or on your head and you're just kind of daydreaming. Drifting along. You probably have hundreds and hundreds of ideas, but what happens is that we don't have any can to capture them so that by the time we pull back that shower kirchner open the shower dork they're gone, we ve forgotten. We all had the expiry of having the world's greatest idea that we can't remember- and this happened- over and over and over again, if I dont think thomas edison is unique, in having the ideas, I think thomas edison is unique and having been able to capture the idea, one of the things that the creative problem solving process- gallup does is it gives you ways of capturing those ideas we all have them. It's an example of a way to capture ideas before they slip away, while real humble

It is literally write em down one of the most powerful things that any individual can do is carry around a notebook carry around a notebook and record your ideas and here's. The funny thing happens when your record, your ideas is the most basic of psychological principles. We reward psychologically. We were behaviors that are rewarding so that You kept your ideas and get rewarded by capturing your ideas. You will automatically have more ideas, in other words the more ideas you write down, the more I is ultimately you will have to write down it's one of the most basic When you talk about thomas edison earlier, you talk about some of the great minds in history, think about the leonardo DA vinci, notebooks thomas edison tons and tons and tons of notebooks, virtually every great thinker that weaken that we can name captured there. I

It's bike in most cases, writing them down, but are there other ways of course there right now today we have the ability to have little voice recorders. Today we can send telephone messages to ourselves. Every time that we haven't have an iD and not lose those gems. There's a great chinese proverb that says the strongest mind is not as powerful as the weakest and so true. He can't remember this stuff unless you right out there, who are like when the answer is simple write it down, TIM person has been my guest he's. Given you a lot to think about about thinking and the name of this book is think better. There is a link to his book, The show notes thanked him. If you were gone, cs. I bet you wondered: why did they have to be so expensive? Well, you the only one more be parker

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finding the food we eat pleasurable. We worry. We worry about how many calories, how much fat or sugar does it have an a fiber eating. become more about what we don't eat: then enjoying the food we do eat. We also think that some foods have powers to improve our health. That's! and does it recognise and other foods. We think single handedly, both we'll kill us so that science doesn't recognise well erie glass- nor is a professor of sociology at usc and author of nine books, including the gospel of food. Why we stop worrying and enjoy what we eat I bury.

oh. I wonder why is it that we are so concerned about food? Where did this come from, and why do we demonize some foods and think other foods are magical me? We have a lot of of weird beliefs about food as a healthy allergist. I got interested where those compromise why people believe what they do and really the effect that have on individuals.

Society as a whole. Is this strictly an american or a western thing that that our own people are so concerned about food or, or is this in all cultures? You know every society has had its food preferences and prohibitions, and usually these have been dictated more or less by religious teachings like judaism and Islam, prohibited pork and catholicism to creat fish on fridays. But the big difference today, it seems to me especially in the united states- is that for huge numbers of people eating is a religion. I mean we worship at the temples of celebrity chef. You know we. We raise our children to believe that certain foods are good and certain

It's bad and we engage in all sorts of elaborate rituals around food at home and and when we eat out like what do you mean what kind of rituals but, for example, we put various foods in various categories and we keep them there and then we, we kind of worship, thumb and and demonize others, and we even believe in miracles through eating, I mean when you look at surveys. Nine out of ten americans say that they believe that some foods have benefits that go beyond basic nutrition, somehow, but exactly which foods they believe in them and which ones they don't varies tremendously. So vegetarians believe that their meatless regimen will prevent just about every serious malady from from heart disease to world hunger, and at the opposite end of the spectrum, the followers of the late doktor atkins devour meet at nearly every meal, because their pursue persuaded one way or another that protein is some kind of magical potion for them

well, but but whether their right or not, and whether what they believe is true or false. what a move which what's wrong with believing what harm does it do? While it certainly is true that that eating one of the really great activities when the great joys and why and we- and we should- we should value that- be grateful that that where we were able to have good food and enjoy it with our friends and our families and at the same time, what happening as many people have lost a lot of the joy of eating because they they just taken had taken the. Right out of the equation. You know noted they restricted themselves so much in what they will eat or where they will eat or how they will heed that that they really taken the joy out of out of the diet, but you can certainly make the argument that we now have new information about nutrition, about what foods are good for you and which ones aren't and that maybe you shouldn't eat a meal that is nothing but deep, fried foods in that.

A good thing. So so we I have this information. Why not use it to eat better? I think the good news in american society right now is more people are eating. A more diverse diet were much more open to new tastes than we've been before, but the bad news is what I call the gospel of not you know: that's the belief that the value of a meal life and what it lacks, rather than what it has the less of bad stuff in a meal, the less sugar salt, fat, calories, carbs additives, whatever the suspect stuff, the better the meal, and that's a pretty strange notion, if you think

at it as we keep in watching that live, we keep narrowing what we can do, what we will enjoy, but its curious to me anyway. It why it is that we have all this concern, though. That's got too much fat and there's too many grams of fat and too much salt and sugars, terrible and and yet the poppy patients getting fatter and fat or so so we have all these people running around concerned, but it doesn't hidden doesn't seem to be helping. The interesting thing about the obesity epidemic is that is so much more interesting and so much more complicated then what were led to believe a lot of the time. You know the simple. No

in that. It's just. You know that people are eating more fast food or something really doesn't get to the heart of. What's going on. In fact, the fast food industry blossom really took off way before the obesity epidemic. People forget that it was a nineteen sixty six that signs outside mcdonald's restaurant said over two billion soul with a b, but it wasn't until much later that we really have an obese of the epidemic. If you look at the causes of o. Basically, it has a lot more to do with factors like genetics, with factors like stress patterns that people with our under and some very surprising, a very interesting factors. So, for instance, the success of anti smoking campaign has a lot to do with the of these have democratically anti smoking campaigns are great thing. Smoking is really very dangerous.

if the health, but when people give up smoking, they typically gain ten to twenty pound and the anti smoking campaigns happened at the same time that weight went way up and it's actually pretty interesting, because you're, right and people who stop smoking tend to eat more and gain weight, but you, but you can't attribute all the obesity problem in the united states of america to stopping smoking, not that many people smoke anymore. No, no. There are multiple causes of obesity and that's what makes it so interesting and so important. It ranges from increasing stress that a lot of people are under would have a big impact on on weight to genetic to these these factors, most people don't even think about like the anti smoking campaign, but it's also true. I mean I don't think you can argue with the fact that people generally more at a meal than they used to mean that the joy

cooking recipes have been shown that the recipe in the version of that book thirty years ago, the same recipe that fed six now feeds four. I think there are definitely groups of people in the us who eat a lot more than people. Then they themselves are people like them were eating earlier, but it's very easy to romanticize. You know this distant past, the glorious fifties or sixties and the american diet. If you look back at what people were eating back, then you know they were the typical meal had lots of calories lots of fat. You know it ended with meatloaf and steak and potatoes and and and hamburgers and and the pie ala mode for dessert and and whole milk with the with the meal. You know it's not what

today people we generally consider especially healthy, but but we think somehow you know in the past it was. It was all different, but I think it's pretty clear that portion sizes have gone up that did the play food in a restaurant today is much there's just much more food on the plate, because people expect more food on the plate. Well aware, and love, big portions. But again, that's nothing new. You know. If you look, if you look historically, we've always been a country that thinks big and eat being and likes big portions. You know those of us who are who are old enough to remember to remember back to the seventies and sixties. Even the fifties, when you know you'll you'll, remember the the the the all you can eat. Buffets were super popular and you'll. Remember: church, socials people from the twenties thirties forties. Remember these church socials, where people ate massive amount,

there's a spread out everywhere. So you have the notion that somehow this is a new thing, really misses the point. But to hear you talk it's almost as if you're saying in a just, don't worry about it, but clearly we have. Basically problem and we have people who don't eat very well. I think we should be always concerned about our and about our diet? But what I'm working urging is a sense of proportion and real is appear. We lost all the enjoyment. Many people have a lot of the enjoyment of eating, and that's that's very sad, because eating is one of the great pleasures. It also unfortunate if we lose the joy and are in our heating and in our food, our meals, because people get more out of a meal not just emotionally but also physically.

The food is a pleasure to eat that that's been shown about them and several studies wait. What what does that mean that people get more out of a meal physically if, if its pleasurable one of my favorite study of the many that I look that took women from prague to different countries, took women from thailand have sweet and set them food that they enjoyed. They were used to or food that they didn't enjoy when they hate the food, but they liked and enjoyed they. They absorb more iron, its literally better for you when you are enjoying the food. The importance of the joy of eating is officially recognised in various parts of the world, so you have some come company that countries and some governments in europe, for instance, that in their official dietary guidelines they talk about this one country comes right out and declares joy and food equals health.

what a difference from the perspective that many people partake in the? U S, artificial dietary guidelines are faithful more to, I guess you'd say our puritan route and they ll say anything about Joe. no not at all- and you know what's interesting- is when you think about it for centuries, all of human history. Until recently people have to survive, and now we don't have to to survive, we can eat to enjoy the food and yet all of it guidelines about what to eat our all restrictive. You know don't need this tony. That That's right! It's all about restrained and cutting things out, rather than the enjoyment and the pleasure of the buddha. The meal. just did just a few decades ago had seen that people didn't obsess about this stuff. They he ate what they ate and they when they were done, they stopped in it. so we know pick it apart kind of thing. I think that americans, you don't have

I have long enjoyed. Many americans have long been into bigness. You know, including eating a lot and having big meals, and so I don't really think that's anything new. Neither is is it? Is it new really that we we demonize some foods and and worship others? And you know if you, if you look back it, changes from period to period time to time which foods we we admire, which foods we put on the good list or the bad list, but we tend to have those live. If you look back just a couple of decades, for instance, a were widely regarded as almost lethal. There were the all these big campaigns by food activists and and nutritional reformers demonizing eggs, because eggs contain a lot of cholesterol and even though no study had shown still no study has shown that a consumption causes heart disease either

It doesn't work that way and egg abound in protein b, vitamins all sorts of nutrients at a low cost. They work well in many recipes, but egg consumption plummeted during that campaign. Will the term you just used? I think you said food advocate. You know people advocating against eggs. Why are there we'll doing this. What why are people So in an uproar about eggs or or any other food, why do people pick a food and then just go after it, and what is that, due to the This whole conversation. I think what we need is a little perspective on these things. You know our grandparents are great

parents depending how old we are or even great great print grandparents. When process food came along, they were thrilled. This was a big advance for civilization has now you could have food that were say that were convenient to use that you can. You can give food out of season and enjoy them. You could get food that were unheard of in certain places in the country of the world, what a great advance, but now we go a hundred percent the in the other direction to see, and now what we do is we think well, it's process or preserve somehow for Heaven forbid, if its canned its area- and you know we just we go through the swing back and forth to what we romanticize or idealized, but there are these people. These advocates- who are I remember in several years ago, Michael, Gibson, who was all upset about theatre popcorn that we had to get theatre.

popcorn out of the theaters, because it was going to kill you. Why, when I hear some of these people, it's impossible for me not to think about the boy who cried wolf, you know if you say that almost everything, and especially the foods that people really enjoy a lot. You know whether whether it hit the popcorn or food at the chinese restaurant in the? U s, you know that that that stuff's going to kill you and you do this time after time, then you shouldn't really be surprised when people say to themselves, at least when they're, when they're reading or hearing forget him well, but I'm not so sure, that's true, because when there's a few story, when there some new study about some food That's now somehow deadly with these people, go up on the news and- and I think people do listen as your example indicated earlier- that people do list and because the staff

worries about you know most foods? Okay in moderation is fine. That's not news! You know. Scary stories are very appealing to the news media scary stories about food work, especially well, because people are concerned for good reason about what they eat you put in your mouth. It becomes part of you, and so if somebody is out there, and especially if they have doctor by their name or something like that or they have an official founding organization behind them and they may claim that are frightening about about people's diet. It's gonna catch the attention of the media, so when the dust settles on all of this will what's the advice, because clearly you don't wanna be telling people thing matters eat whatever you want, it doesn't make any difference.

Nor do you want to say you know you can only eat, sticks and twigs. So, what's what's the advice, the moral of the story of embarrassingly simple in one way of much more complicated, otherwise been offensive, really simple. Your mom was right for fruit and vegetables eat in moderation, and everything else will be you just gray. I would add that enjoy what you re and eat meat, what you enjoy then within moderation and then be sure to include your your, your and Betty. I am fascinated by what you said earlier about. If you enjoy your food, it's been Therefore, you you get more out of it. I mean that almost sounds and almost

It's like magic, well, the body and and the mind, obviously respond to things that are positive and pleasurable, and try to shy away from things that are negative and and and are not pleasurable. So you know in a sense it's exactly what you would expect. It's just that we hear so and that that if something tastes good feels good, it's gotta be bad for you. Well would you say I think, will come as a relief of sorts to some people and their people will think you're nuts and don't know what you're talkin about an end, it's ok, very glasser, it has been. My guess is a professor of sociology at: u he's the for of nine books. And today we ve been talking about the gospel of food. Why? We should stop worrying and enjoy what we eat. There's a linked to his book at amazon in the show notes, thank you bear I appreciate you being here September

marks the end of summer and it also marks the end of watermelon season. Nothing to me anyway, nothing take more like summer than watermelon but watermelon and then there's seed watermelon. So what's the difference? Well, a lot people, including me think that seedless watermelons don't taste as good as regular watermelons. But beyond that Seedling watermelons are a lot like mules, their sterile hybrids, formed by crime sing genetically incompatible parents. So what happened farmers treat some of their watermelons with a chemical that allow chromosomes to duplicate but prevent. I'm from splitting into two cells. This creates a super squash with for complete sets of chromosomes. the fruit is not genetically modified cells contain the same dna as standard melons, just twice as many then

introduce those melons to regular watermelons this, spring will grow up to be a normal looking vine that produces flowers and fruit, but when it I to reproduce the chromosomes can divide properly. This me, is that real seeds never develop so what are those white looking seeds in seamless watermelon there what would have been the seeds but in fact there just soft seed coverings that and I grow into anything that is something you should know, we have standing sponsors on this podcast and I strongly recommend you check out what they have to offer. All of the websites in the promo code four discounts are all in the show notes for this episode. I might corrupt thanks for listening today to something you should know

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