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Something You Should Know

Hacks to Learn Better & Quirks of Your Brain That Drive You Crazy

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Where do you keep your car keys at night? This episode begins with an explanation as to why you might want to keep those keys within easy reach of wherever you are sleeping. http://worldofwonder.net/lifehack-put-car-keys-beside-bed-night/ What’s the best way to learn anything new? IT is probably NOT reading information over and over. There are better ways to engage the brain so material really sticks. Here to explain what those methods are is Ulrich Boser who has spent a lot of time understanding the science of learning. He is founder and CEO of The Learning Agency and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of the book Learn Better (https://amzn.to/30P03Wh) Lobster is often the most expensive thing on the menu at any seafood restaurant. Why? Listen as I explain how getting the lobster from the seas to your plate is no small feat – and an expensive at that. https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-lobster-so-expensive-worth-price The human brain is quirky. Some of those quirks are good but others are maddening and can cause us a lot of stress. Neuroscientist Dr. Dean Burnet has explored and researched the oddities in our brain that make us human and joins me to explain what they are, why they are important and how to better deal with them when they get in the way. Dean is a tutor and lecturer based at Cardiff University’s Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences and author of the book Idiot Brain: What Your Head is Really Up To (https://amzn.to/3ab7Dxp) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on something you should know, a better place to keep your car keys when you're home

0:06.8

asleep in your bed.

0:09.0

Then effective ways to learn anything better and easier and make it stick.

0:14.7

Brain dumps are another really effective tool, so if you read an article, rather than

0:19.9

reread it, just do a brain dump, start writing down all the things that you learned.

0:24.8

It's about 50% more effective than simply rereading that article.

0:30.0

Also, ever wonder why lobster is often the most expensive thing on the menu?

0:35.4

And quarks of the human brain.

0:37.6

Some quarks make life easy, others make us crazy.

0:41.2

One of the things I've often really quite liked about the brain, but is that the brain

0:44.0

just reacts really badly to uncertainty or of any sort, like the brain really does not

0:48.6

like not knowing what's going to happen, not knowing how things are going to pattern

0:52.1

out.

0:53.1

I thought you were really big solsum stress.

0:55.9

All this today on something you should know.

1:02.0

Something you should know.

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Fascinating intel.

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The world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today.

1:11.1

Something you should know with my carothers.

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Hi, welcome to something you should know.

1:16.9

I got an email the other day of someone who took a road trip this summer and binge

1:22.2

listened to episodes of something you should know and wrote to tell me how much they enjoyed

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