Always in a Hurry: The Illusion of Urgency & What You Never Knew About Your Neck

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Would you like to be more persuasive? Listen as I reveal what one expert says is the key to winning people over to your side. Source: Rick Maurer author of Why Don’t You Want What I Want? (https://amzn.to/4j7xgBX). Time anxiety is that feeling of always feeling pressured because there isn’t enough time to get everything done and always worrying you are going to be late. But wait! What if everything didn’t really need to get done? What if this sense of urgency you have is an illusion? I want you to listen to Chris Giullibeau. He has taken a hard look at this strange way we view and manage our time and has some startling revelations that should make you feel a lot better. Chris is the author of the book Time Anxiety: The Illusion of Urgency and a Better Way to Live (https://amzn.to/4cqGBlC) Your neck is a biological marvel. It is the tunnel that connects your head to your torso and what it does is rather amazing. The neck also has a lot of cultural significance from how we adorn the neck with jewelry, ties and collars to its role in sexual attraction. Here to discuss the amazing world of the neck – human and otherwise is Kent Dunlap. He is a professor of biology at Trinity College in Hartford, CT and he is author of the book, The Neck: A Natural and Cultural History (https://amzn.to/4lu0yw4). There seems to be a link between using bleach in your home and health issues in children. If you use bleach to clean your home and you have kids around, you’ll want to listen to this https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25838260/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! FACTOR: Eat smart with Factor! Get 50% off at https://FactorMeals.com/something50off TIMELINE: Get 10% off your order of Mitopure! Go to https://Timeline.com/SOMETHING INDEED: Get a $75 sponsored job credit to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING right now! SHOPIFY: Nobody does selling better than Shopify! Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk and upgrade your selling today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:07.4	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:10.0	Hello!
0:10.8	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:17.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:23.1	Now that's term time working.
0:24.5	Offered at Amazon.
0:26.8	Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:29.0	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
0:29.8	Conditions apply.
0:34.5	Today on something you should know,
0:39.2	a way to instantly be more persuasive in any situation.
0:45.9	Then, how to stop that feeling of time anxiety and take back control of your time?
0:50.6	I walk out of movie theaters. If I don't like the movie, I'll leave. I will sit down at restaurants,
0:53.3	and if I don't like the menu, I'll get up and go somewhere else. It doesn't matter if I've already sat down. And I think it might feel a little bit strange to some people at first, but it's going to also
0:57.5	bring you relief and you're going to feel proud of yourself.
0:59.5	Also, if you clean with bleach in your house, you need to hear something.
1:04.0	And your neck.
1:06.0	It's a biological wonder and it says a lot. The neck has played an important role in sexual communication in many different ways.
1:14.1	Males have a neck that's about 50% bigger in volume than that of a female.
1:19.2	Certainly in many, many cultures around the world, they value a long neck in estimations
1:24.8	of feminine beauty.
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