This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

We have many roles in life, child, brother, sister, parent, business person, citizen, Shmoopee,

and Fryeater King at Fryein' Buy Deep Fight Alligator Parts franchise number 317.

Each role requires us to act differently, but our roles can blend if we're

not careful, and this causes trouble when their behavior clashes. I mean, when we approach

Shmovie with the same gusto that we use to wrestle an alligator into the fry-and-by-friolator,

it can completely ruin a romantic candlelit dinner. So to keep our lives running smoothly,

we need to keep clashing roles separate,

and we can do that by setting up the environment so that we automatically assume the role we

need when we need it. Grandma Cuddles, founder of the infamous Grandma Cuddle's childcare and

metalworking chain, has to juggle way more roles than her folks the exterior would suggest.

At any moment, she might play the part of professional babysitter, astute business owner,

trainee for ultramarathons, or actual grandmother to her family.

Of course, there's no evidence that any of her relatives have survived as long as she has,

but I'm sure that's just coincidence.

Grandma Cuddles finds that it can be

tricky to switch between entrepreneur and babysitter and extreme athlete and mom, but contextual clues

can help. And these are clues like clothing, locations, and devices, which can be the signals that

she uses to choose her role automatically. Using clothes is a great way to do context. By instinct,

humans judge books by their covers and people buy their clothes. We look at other people and we

decide who we think they are. Pink Mohawk and leather tutu? That makes one impression. But the same

person wearing a three-piece suit and patent leather shoes makes a completely different impression. Of course, you can't see their underwear, but that's the

...