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Something You Should Know

A Brilliant Way to Be More Productive & Why We Have Skyscrapers

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Science, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

10% of the human population is left-handed but what about other animals? Do they have a preference for which paw, foot, fin or wing to use? And what about the octopus? Do they prefer one arm over the other 7? Listen as I begin with the fascinating explanation? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/202307/does-owner-left-handedness-influence-left-pawedness-in-dogs#: If you are productive, you get a lot of things done. At least that is the conventional view of productivity. I invite you to come and listen to a different approach to productivity from Laura Mae Martin. She is the Executive Productivity Advisor at Google and author of the book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing (https://amzn.to/4bLfnF4). I promise you will come away from this discussion with some great ideas you can implement in your day that will make you more productive and make your life easier. The modern skyscraper is a recent invention. After all, skyscrapers couldn’t have really existed much before electricity or the invention of the elevator. But in the last 130 years or so, skyscrapers have come to define the modern city and they keep getting taller and taller. You are about to get a peek into this fascinating industry most of us know very little about from Jason M. Barr. He is a professor of economics at Rutgers University-Newark and one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of skyscrapers. Jason is author of a book called Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers (https://amzn.to/3yMPIgV). We think taste is all about eating – but you really do “eat with your eyes.” In other words, the color of food and what it looks like before you eat it impacts what it tastes like. Listen as I explain. https://zoe.com/learn/how-color-changes-taste-flavor PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! Indeed is offering SYSK listeners a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING Seasons change. Why not your tech? When you shop online at https://Dell.com/Deals you’ll have access to exceptional tech and electronics, plus free shipping! Luckily for those of us who live with the symptoms of allergies, we can Live Claritin Clear with Claritin-D! eBay Motors has 122 million parts for your #1 ride-or-die, to make sure it stays running smoothly. Keep your ride alive at https://eBayMotors.com We really like The Jordan Harbinger Show! Check out https://jordanharbinger.com/start OR search for it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on something you should know, people can be left-handed, but what about a dog or a cat or an octopus?

0:41.0

Then the science of productivity that gets things done and it starts with

0:46.2

planning your day. The real reason for that is because it's a dress rehearsal for your

0:51.9

brain.

0:52.6

It eliminates resistance.

0:54.2

So there's all kinds of studies that if you write down

0:57.3

work out 8 to 9 a.m.

0:59.6

You're way more likely to actually work out. Also, how food looks before you eat it affects how it tastes when you eat it.

1:08.0

And the fascinating world of skyscrapers seems like they're getting taller and taller.

1:14.0

First of all, when you're just looking at the world's tallest building, there's only been

1:18.4

12 record breakers since 1890s. So they don't really occur with the kind of frequency that we may see them

1:26.2

occurring.

1:27.2

All this today on Something You Should Know.

1:30.0

Hey, here's something you should know. Some experts estimate that up to 77% of the population

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