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today, something you should know. Something you should now fascinating into the world's top experts and practical advice. You can use your life today, something you should make. Rather, as I welcome there's something you should go. You know most of my life, I had dogs, I didn't, have a pretty cool. When I was in high school boxes, but for the most I have lived my life with at least one dog in the house and sometimes more one dog in the house, so I've always in fascinated by what makes dogs tick, what they like, what they don't like, and what, as a pet owner, you should and should not do, and at least when it comes to my dogs few, if any, Well, actually, none of them could have ever described as a picky eater does seem that most dogs will eat what you pay.

In front of them as long as they're hungry enough, but according to polish cooper, author of the book, twenty seven secrets, your dog wants you to no doubt I do have two favorite flavors. According to research, they are liver and chicken, which is they something you didn't know that you probably also heard that you should not give chocolate to a dog which is true, but what you may not know is. You should also not give dogs meat from your table. The fat kind, and in the meat we eat could actually give a dog of fatal attack of pancreas Titus. My current dog taffy got up pretty bad out of pancreas Titus after getting into something and actually won, David letterman's dogs died from pancreas Titus after it got a hold of whole ham, chicken, turkey, bacon. Any kind of meat for humans is poor, probably a bad idea for a dog ever wonder.

your dog thinks about all day. Well, like many, you whence they think mostly about food and romance doggie romance dogs cannot think about the future. and they do not dwell on the past and they, have no idea that one day they will die. So, what's left to think about besides food and romance and that is something you should know- the have you ever had a bad day. Of course you have probably had some really really really bad days where it seems it. Nothing goes right, Then you also have those days where everything just seems to go your way. So often it appears to be the result of chance things you're just line a perfectly on those great days or they followed completely on the bad days. But what if you could have

or control over whether or not you have a good day? Well, perhaps you can care web is taking a look at the behavioral science, the neuroscience and psychology that we can all used to make every day or at least stays better days care line is the author of the book. How to have a good day. Welcome caroline here. I delighted to be here so who doesn't want want good day, but how do you define a good day day, a good day to you? Well, over the years I worked with hundreds, perhaps even thousands of clients and ask them that same question asked them. What is a good day for you, I also ask them lots a bad day. And what will give you more good days and so over the years, but I notice was that actually there were pretty common themes emerged across countries across age groups across gender across industry, and it was pretty much what I'm sure you would say, which is that

we like to feel as if we are using our time in a way that feels like it's directed at things that matter to us? We want to feel that we're doing well at what we're doing, and we feel about the interactions that we're having that will bring the best of ourselves to the problems that were solving and that we feel like we ve got the energy harry on, so I would imagine that that most people would agree with that. But, but is it your sense that we're not having the those days often and yeah I mean people are not not feeling engaged at. The statistics suggest that thirty percent of us in the? U s feet engaged in the weather we do, which is leaves a lot of people not feeling engaged and what I noticed over the EU. was that, although I had wonderful jobs, many different types of jobs even in really good jobs. There are lots of people having days where you want Then you would like more mobile down. You know

the dave he struggled wants that third question really effectively saying. Yes, I do feel I feel really exciting. The next day, but it does seem before we get into that? It does seem that a lot of whether or not I have a good day. Actively, not whether I feel good or not good, but whether my day goes well has a lot to do with what other people do or die yeah. That's already five point game. I'm definitely not one of those people who says you know just and in front of the mare in the morning and chance everything is also, and everything will be all some I unite. There is luck and what I become interested in was: what's all wiggle room. You know within an around the constraints that we all face as human beings. What is there that research tells us? We can do to improve our lot

Where is the control that we have that when no already exploiting so you know, I'm not saying that every day can be amazing people often say to me: well, why didn't you right how to have an amazing day or how to have an awesome day, and I've got a sort of try to answer which is well over sam british, that unite. We say that threat it is also because I think you know I think good is more reasonable as an aspiration. I think luck often comes into awesome, but good is something that we we have, have more control over them. We we tend to think so. I've been where how do we start this? The deep matter message that I would say it's rule of my work and the thing that I'm perhaps most fascinated by is that the reality that we experience is actually a construct. You know we we think we're experiencing objective reality, but actually

brain can only process a tiny amount of what's around us at any. Given time I mean by one estimate, we can process consciously fifty bits of information, we're surrounded by trillions at any given moment. So you know the the reality that we think we're experiencing is we quite significantly shaped by our perceptions and in that's something that many people will know of his information by so whatever is top of mine, for you will determine what it the eu, then go on to see or hear. So if you go into a conversation expecting someone to be a jerk, your brain will make sure that you see everything that confirms that you're right, that they are a jerk. And so there are a number of quite simple mental tricks that you can use to acknowledge and sort of hack. The fact that your brain will always make sure that you see more of what's already top of mine view so put that concept.

Of confirmation by us put that into a real life situation too, to illustrate how it works. Have you, if the gorilla studies unit on selective attention yeah, where they showed people the au that had a gorilla running through it, and then nobody actually saw the gorilla exactly exactly so that was Wkrisha bringing down simons of iconic study where they had bunch people playing basketball and the idea was that you counted the passes, in the people wearing a white teachers. There was but you weren't black t, shops and reliably. Half the people don't see the fact that half way through the video, there's a woman in a gorilla suit. You don't know it's a woman but she's in she's in a big guerrillas you what's cross, the field of play stands still for quite a long time beats the chaff than walks off. Only half the people watching actually see the gorilla and that was one of the first studies in the field of selective attention, which is to say that

and you are looking out for one thing- you are very very very likely to not see the other thing and there are lots of studies like come. that has been so little homage is to set that too, that guerrilla study, like one done with a bunch of radiologists at harvard that had them look through a bunch of, scans and, lastly, lung scans. There was a picture of a plastic guerrilla printed and eighty three percent of the radiologist didn't see the gorilla because they want looking for it So what does this mean? For us? It means that if you take a few seconds, we're going into a meeting that matters a raven frankly just sitting in the beginning of the day and say: ok What is my aim? What what? What really matters to me here? Yes, this person that I'm going to talk to you might have been a jerk in the past. But what is it I want to have top of mind that I'm really can look out for and if its

more collaboration that you're looking for and you decide to say, I'm gonna look out for signs of collaboration. You will magically see more of that because, It's a gorilla that you ve decided to look out for, and if you didn't, you probably mess it. It's just that powerful. While everybody has that experience, I mean if, if you deal with the same people all the time you you create these precautions, the ideas that you know. If I talk to this guy phone he's gonna go on for ever and I'm gonna ina he's a windbag or orse she's a she's, an idiot, and she doesn't know what she's talking about. So, if you go, the conversation with ad preconceived idea, that's exactly what you're gonna see, yeah, etc. Andy get into a vicious circle. You know if you ve got a colleague who has been under performing or A spanish he's been annoying you and you know, that's that's what you ve got top of mind brain will make sure that you see things that confirm your expectations, and you know that can get you into a very tricky. Tricky vicious

As I say so. I am not saying that you know your stance is not being annoying or but your colleague isn't big annoying. I am just saying that you know that There is a lot that we miss every single day by by design right, I mean otherwise our brains would get overloaded like a computer with all of its keys pressed at once, so it is important and necessary that were able to filter out stuff that doesn't seem eleven is just the brain sometimes gets it wrong is too was relevant, not relevant. We can be a bit more deliberate and sort of setting the filters if you like, ran to decide what we should say and what we should ignore. While I vote this thought in, and it's been my experience that one of the reasons people miss things they missed that guerrilla, in whatever it is they are doing, is they're trying to do too much they're trying to take on too many things. It turns out that actually account brain as well is only being able to press the sentiment of information at any given time.

can only really do one thing at a time. So when we think we're multitasking, what were asking all conscious brain to do up is: is the poor things poster actually trying juggling things and want it's doing is instead of doing them in parallel is switching frantically from one task to that's it. You know you ve got your email and you may be a conference. Call at the same time you may be trying to talk to someone has just come in to talk to you and you think you're dreadfully masterfully doing all of these things at once, but actually what you're doing is your brain is frantically switching for one thing too: to another to another and in each of those switches your brain is losing a better time. mental energy. So the research is pretty clear that actually we may tween turned four times as many mistakes when we multitask and which is exactly as you said, and then we also slow ourselves down with. We feel super busy were actually tippit

we're taking about thirty per cent longer, even on two simple tasks. We were running in parallel, so you know if you want to get more done and you want to do better. One of the most powerful. pensions. Is this question of how d ye do one thing? At a time? More often them we typically do these days with all of the incoming messages that distracted MIKE today on something you should know, is caroline web she's author of the book, how to have a good day so now that kids are back in school and soccer season. To start it, and then there's guitar lessons and everything else. I've, been so busy, I'm running around all the time. So when I need healthy fuel fast, I know exactly where to turn daily harvest harvest delivers perfectly portion cups of frozen organic fruits and vegetables right to my door, you have to do is add water or your favorite milk, to your cup. Then you just blended or hate it.

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tune into planet money every week for entertaining stories and insights about how money shape your world stories that you will not find anywhere else listen now to planet money from and pr wherever you get your podcast. So caroline, I think for me I have a lot of things to do and I am tempted to multi task. I know that vice stop in write it down, and then say, I'm gonna do this and then I'm gonna do this. So I'm not keeping track of what has to be done in my head, but it's actually on a piece of paper it just comes me down and then allows me to go one two, three four and then get it all gets done. Absolutely then that's it. That's another aspect of the limitations of all a brain and working with that rather than against it. So we have something we're working memory, just like computers, which is our mental scratch pad, and you know we can- we can we hold a certain amount in the space and, if you

all worrying about nineteen things which a lot of us all or ninety nine things, all the time you're using up some of that mental capacity and it's just in very hard to get any good thinking done if you're, using your working memory to kind of think about god what all the things I need to do. So I do talk about the power of actually outsourcing You're working memory to a piece of paper when, while feeling overwhelmed, is very helpful to actually said, take a piece of paper in a word your notepad function on your phone or whatever and just say: okay, water, all the things that are on my mind and then that actually essentially clears the cash. It creates. More space we to think said tat. You use that working memory on the real stuff that matters, so there is really good science behind, in saying that you have other and also- and I've heard other people talk about how you know it's, it's very common to tackle the simplest easiest things in the beginning of the day be

It's it's easy to check those off the list and really that's the time to use your the early part of the day is the time to go after the bigger tasks, but I actually like the fact that I can check the off my list. It kind of creates a momentum for the day, so I like doing those the things early cause. Then I look and go hey. Look. I've got all this done. Look at me, go yeah, that's right! I mean actually the research on goal. Setting is very clear on that that, yes, of course, it's great to have lofty goals we want, but we are actually more effective when we have broken down those big goals into really small, tiny give us that that boost that, so that there is room nearer and nearer chemistry that underpins is that we are more likely to bring lights. To repeat things feel rewarding so visa for small goal and achieve it. You bring feels like all right. Ok, I'm going to feel, like you know, doing more! and I also like what you're saying about being careful about advice around

how you should start your day, I'm basically a vampire. In I'm such a late night person. So a lot of the advice about this is what do first the morning just doesn't work for me. May neither in fact There are so many time management gurus. That say you know really shouldn't check your email first thing in the morning and I no more, not check my email first thing in the morning, then I could fly to the moon. I mean how do you not check your email first thing in the more I couldn't not do that and how long it's not like you Is it so draining to check your email, like? Oh I'm spent for the day, but then Gets it listen and in its done, but but I think that I think that so going back to what we want the principle, the channel Jews, the if you open your email and then you find something depressing then, given the way that selective attention were so you got that negative thing. Of mind is very easy, then, to see

the thing that is negative after that, so I think that's you know, that's the principle. If that's the principle then just make sure that is setting our intentions before you open your email. You know that can take honestly thirty seconds to psycho masses. Today, ok or I so I want to really pay attention to ok all right now have a look at the email. You know well, I would if I do look at my email. I would assume there's something depressing in there that I'm not looking. So in our least, I've got a chance, the maybe there isn't some. Depressing and I'll go look at it, so it doesn't. It doesn't matter but everybody like you say, everybody has their own way of doing things, but that just I don't

there is a one size fits all in and you have to find what what works for you, but my pete can peak thinking, hours and rules in the afternoon. You know really meant that's exactly the opposite, so what you read in the productivity literature in general yeah. So if I'm thinking about time when I want to just right- and I want to you- know- really have sort of a really in depth coaching session with you know, treasured client, you know I'll definitely sort of skew it towards late morning to to afternoon so you know you could know yourself. You gotta figure out. What are you rhythms when he shoppers when you clearest and in a work without so back to the main point of this conversation, which is to try to make sure that every day or most days are good days, what can we do? One of the things that I like to keep front to mind is the fact that such is really clear that, when your generous unkind to other people, you get an enormous boost

when you're feeling low or tired, it can feel I exactly the last thing you want to do to kind of think about. What can I give to other people in terms of warmth, kindness? But actually it's really. It's really reliable marty's l on his sir. Arguably the leading light in the field of positive psychology once said that it was most reliable intervention that he had ever come across tons of boosting a sense of well being immediately. There was a day when I was walking down the street here in new york and it was pouring with rain, just as it has been the last couple of days actually and There was a woman ahead of me. He was carrying a paper bag with shoes in it, and I am almost I don't know why, but because of the rain, the the bag was falling apart and I was carrying a double bind groceries. So I went over to her and I took the outer bag and I gave

to her- and she was so grateful, but I walked home on. feeling. Amazing like I was you know new norms, we connected to the human race and very full of the boundlessness of my you know my existence and I only just made it home. For my you know, my other bank fell apart myself, but you know I I did that. Yes, I did that, would because I wanted to help also honestly because I knew the research and it just at the edge of the you know the edge of this real thing. Knowing the research just makes you perhaps a little bit more willing to give a bit of time to stop and give directions to the tourists. That's lost to give a hand to the person. That's you know that struggling in the office and if you know that- and you know it's going to give you a boost, then you know that's a useful thing to carry into each day. If you could just to

full of other really quick strategies or concepts that people can can take with them. That will help them improve the day. So learning learning is a huge booster. It turns out that we were inherently Y to find learning new things rewarding and then, of course, there's all of the good research which I'm sure lots of people already know about the power of gratitude. One of the things that I think people, perhaps a less aware of I think most people know that taking time to count our blessings into say, ok, what do you know? What is good? What is what am I appreciating here? I think most people know that that's that's a powerful and many people will know the research saying that even you know, if you do that for two weeks. Six months later, you have a boost to your sense of psychological, well being what

a lot of people may not know. Is that link back to selective attention and the fact that if you do it, if you say ok, I'm having a bad, I have just had a bad commute. Let me force myself to think of three things that are grateful for all three things that I appreciate in the environment around me. Maybe it's some someone's wearing a nice hat or you see someone you know helping someone else with the if they're shopping this falling out of their rainy bag. You know just putting good things top of mind is not just going to make you feel better, but it's going to make you more likely to see other good things because of the top of mind affect the fact that whatever is top of mind for us dry, whatever we then notice next, and so in that something which we can all cues and that it is an intervention I use pretty much most days whenever I feel a bit tents orbit. Grumpy us

Ok, let me notice threeg of things in the next five minutes and it works, even if you do it through gritted teeth. It also like the grumpy type. But well, but you know, can I use all of this stuff in I really really do I've always been interested in what the smallest amount of intervention that can truly honestly buildings, my own life, that is easy to build, so the grain of you know an average daily busy routine, so I've been using suffer a really long time, and I guess I mean I- I will admit that possibly it's made mia a moderately happy person great. The good news is so. Can anyone else be a happy person and have a good day if they follow the advice? Caroline, web has been my guest. The book is how to have a good day, and you will find a link. that book at amazon, in the show it's for this episode of the podcast thanks charolais. You re welcome.

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Read about his life. You wonder why he so famous, because he didn't complete a lot of things, your favorite page, it says in the last fifty years insect footsteps have become quieter, but that's exactly what I mean. That's why you need this. Fine. I can remember why that is, but that is not an extraordinary thing. How do they measure it? Why I like this that, but this is one of my favorite. Mad ones. Is forty. Six percent of the population of Japan hides when someone rings the doorbell, so nearly half of japanese. If you go to their house and ring the doorbell they'll hide. That's you You really want to know the back story to that idea. Yes, I do do you haven't? Well, that's just very shy.

It. Just very, very shy people, oh yes! This is a this really struck me when I found this one at computers cannot generate random numbers that you would think. That's the simplest thing to do. Isn't it you can ask a six year old to generate random numbers, but computers can't do it they have to. They have to have an algorithm because computers don't invent anything, they have to be instructed. So some coder has to write a sort of fake random number sequence, but it will always eventually repeat itself. Now you think: okay, that's kind of interesting piece of trivia, but it's much more interesting than that. If you go again the source finder- and that is something I do know about. The reason this is important is because obviously, all lottery numbers

ah here ethically random, because otherwise a lottery wouldn't be a luxury but they're, not random. There's an algorithm for every lottery sequence ever invented and if you're really good at computing and programming in you can work out what the algorithm is. Not only what the numbers are likely to be, but where the winning ticket is likely to occur in the united states and their several people in the united states, who are being upwards of ten twenty million dollars a year by working out whether where the shop is whether winning ticket is like the bay and then they go to the shop and they buy. Basically all would take it in the shop they might. But you have five thousand dollars whether ticket for something and they get rich doing it. And it's because they worked out? The computers can generate random numbers. Will one of the other interesting things about computers I found is that you say that the computers that basically operate

the nuclear weapons in the united states still run on floppy discs. That's a bit worrying is that he hath like would thinks so yeah. But you know, that's just me so astronauts have to near fans. You know those things that go round, so they don't suffocate suffocate in their own exhaled brow. I think that's a really interesting facts, but because, because the breath doesn't go anywhere, there being no gravity, it just hang around their mouth and nose and because, a breath of carbon dioxide. You suffocate, I think, that's really fascinating. So here's a couple I like drinking one glass of wine makes you more attractive drinking, second glass of wine undoes. All the good work that the first glass of wine did flights from J f k. Airport in new york are sometimes delayed, so the turtles can be moved off the runway and being left handed. interests. May a boy's born in the winter are more likely to be left handed.

Born in the winter, but I think that's pretty interesting. your turn where you could just talking about the the floppy discs Joe in the second world war us navy sailors were given detailed instructions on what to do if caught by a giant, clam chowder thought that was pretty necessary advice. I'm in the johns. What are the chances, but apparently they were anti matter, cost seventeen billion pounds per gram that, sir, what's that about sum

How many billion dollars is that is very, very expensive to make another world war one during the second world war, the allies considered dropping glue on the nazi troops to make them stick to the ground. I saw one. I know this is one of my favorites in the book MIKE actually, and you can test this, you can do it in two ways. You can do it online or you can do it for yourself. It is the most extraordinary counterintuitive fact. Ninety six percent of people can tell the difference between the sound of hot and cold water being poured. You wouldn't think you would be able to iD, but it it absolutely right. Try online, just put hot and cold water being poured sound or something into google, and it is the most extraordinary thing.

something intuitive you know that's hot water and that co water is the same water being poured into her into a jog. What's this tree sleep at night, I didn't know that yeah they they do it to rest their branches. There's an eye Just reading about tr trees on the most extraordinary things they communicate with each other underground, they ve got a kind of radio network under the earth. They said

warn each of things and the latest information the trees, not any delay. They sleep at night, rest, their branches, but they ve got a kind of heart, beat what a foot a built in pump a hot pump, because people are always wondered how it is that the moisture gets from either from the leaves into the body of the trunk or up from the ground through the wet into into the drunken up the branches and what they ve discovered is that they have a very slow kind of heart beat, for example,

what is a human heartbeat, you probably know this. I can never remember how many beats a minute is a heart. I think I think the average resting heartbeat is somewhere between sixty and one hundred beats a minute. A blue whale's heart beats about nine times a minute, very, very slow, because it's such a big thing in the trees as it were hot, doesn't actually have a physical heart, but the pump mechanism is very, very slow.

so you don't notice it and they've just got this new technology. They realized that this regular beat and it's pumping slowly pumping the water up and down the tree trunk, because all the latest research about plants plants. Ah you know we we take them so much for granted, like so many things in the world, but there's a mimosa plants, for example, learned from experience. I mean that is so weird. Isn't it if you, because mimosa plants have a thing when they're threatened, they can close up their flowers and they leave they curl up into a ball. If it's you know the storm or something like that and say what they did. They took these memories of plants in a in a pot and they dropped them off a table and the moat moser plant, knowing they could fail. The gravity is something's happening so closed up and they did it again. It goes up again and after the third time they stop closing up, because they think oh you're, crying wolf, nothing's going

It happened. How can a mimosa plant think how? How does that happen? I just I find that extraordinary. That's what we do at q. I it's always every day, something completely weird. We learn that sneer and I think everybody today learn something, but whether they, leave it or not janet. It has been my guest, he's a television producer in the uk and the latest book to come out of his cue. I series is one thing: Three hundred and forty two quite interesting facts to leave. You flabbergasted the books. just out, and there is a link to it in the show notes. Thanks John if you ever have to present an idea in a meeting, try not to go first rate It shows that, in a meeting the first idea presented is often attacked by every one in the room, because energy levels are high at the start of any meeting, you're, better

to present your idea about halfway through the meeting after people have had a chance to settle in also, try to use fewer words, people who are insight. You're about an idea or even just insecure, about speaking, tend to over explain things Less is more remember in the movie apollo. Thirteen Tom hanks said anne and so did the real apollo astronaut Houston. We have a problem that concise way of presenting information that sticks. It's a lot better than Houston sorry to bother you, but in- and I could be wrong about this, but something's not quite right, and that is something you should know rating Reviews help us a lot. I appreciate it if you can go to itunes, Google play tune in stitcher wherever you listen and take just a second and leave us a rating in review. I, like her brothers thing.

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