349: How to Pick Your Battles Without Being a Doormat | Feedback Friday
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
You've never thought of yourself as a doormat, but you've just found it easier to meet people halfway and go with the flow rather than waste your energy on something stupid or trivial. So how do you pick your battles -- especially while everyone who's been following the advice of medical professionals to stay home during the pandemic is feeling a little cooped up and abrasive right now? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday!
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On This Week's Feedback Friday, We Discuss:- How do you choose your battles and resolve conflict without being a doormat -- especially while everyone's a bit on edge during this long, long pandemic?
- You feel you should have strong stances on certain issues, but you don't want your bias to stop you from weighing the evidence that informs those stances. Is it wrong to not take a stand on issues because you honestly don't have all the information?
- Your friend married an African man with old-world views of gender roles, so she works full time and maintains the house because he won't help with "women's" work. Quarantine has almost broken her. How can she get him to stop thinking in the 19th century and join her in the 21st?
- You're an introvert about to move to an unfamiliar city to take up an exciting, challenging new job with a bigger paycheck. What are the most important things to keep in mind during this hard reset?
- You're a jack of all trades with no clear idea of what to do with your life, and you tend to get bored after doing one thing for a while. What might you do to focus and choose a path that will keep you occupied over the long haul?
- Your job hunt lost momentum as the reaction to COVID-19 started gearing up. You know this pandemic will pass, but what should you do to find the gainful employment you want after this is over?
- Life Pro Tip: When you have to go out and press elevator buttons and other switches, use a lighter -- then light the lighter to disinfect itself. No need to waste tissues or gloves!
- Recommendation of the Week: One Child Nation
- A quick shout out to Josh the Tradesman!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Feedback Friday. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger, and I'm here with producer Jason Nathilabo. |
| 0:09.3 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's |
| 0:12.7 | most brilliant people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact |
| 0:17.1 | your own life and those around you. |
| 0:19.5 | If you're new to the show on Fridays, we give advice to you and answer listener questions. |
| 0:23.3 | The rest of the week, we have long form interviews and conversations with a variety of amazing |
| 0:27.9 | folks from spies to CEOs, athletes to authors to thinkers and performers. |
| 0:32.7 | This week we had Brian Keating. |
| 0:34.9 | He's a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California. |
| 0:39.2 | He leads a hundred million dollar observatory, which is just way more responsibility than |
| 0:43.9 | I would ever want from myself. |
| 0:45.4 | He's a jet pilot, author of the hilariously titled Losing the Nobel Prize. |
| 0:50.8 | Science and technology are the foundations of a first world society, which we purport |
| 0:54.6 | to have yet in today's age, scientific illiteracy is somehow celebrated rather than castigated. |
| 1:01.0 | Never has science been so important and yet so poorly understood by the general public. |
| 1:05.8 | We also had Thomas Costigan. |
| 1:08.0 | Climate change is a major threat to the planet, no surprise there. |
| 1:11.5 | But while most solutions revolve around recycling or government action, Thomas Costigan has |
| 1:16.8 | some different ideas from lasers that blast clouds to create rainfall, to floating cloud |
| 1:22.8 | machines over the ocean, to artificial trees that actually suck carbon out of the atmosphere |
| 1:28.8 | at a million times the rate of natural trees. |
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