How Expectations Steer Your Life & The History of the World’s Most Favorite Food - SYSK Choice

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

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🗓️ 6 April 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Well, this sucks… it turns out that nice people make less money than mean people. That hardly seems fair. This episode begins with an explanation of why this happens and how much more mean people make. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904823804576502763895892974 How you expect your life to go is a very powerful indicator of how it actually will go. Whether it is your health, happiness, how much you weigh or even how long you think you will live, your expectations have a lot to do with the final result. This is according to David Robson, an award-winning science writer who has researched the science of expectations. He is author of the book The Expectation Effect (https://amzn.to/3KfXZKR) and he joins me to reveal how having positive expectations can make your life a lot better. Do you know when and where was the first pizza made? Why couldn’t anyone make a decent frozen pizza until 1995? And what ever happened to Round Table Pizza or Godfather’s Pizza? I explore these any many questions about pizza with food writer Mark Masker author of the book Totally Pizza: The Wild Story of the World’s Most Famous Food. (https://amzn.to/3712smr). There is an assumption that if you are doodling, you are not paying attention. Many students have been reprimanded by teachers for that exact reason. Well, that is just plain nonsense. Listen as I explain the truth about doodling and why you should do it. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090226210039.htm# 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 NerdWallet lets you compare top travel credit cards side-by-side to maximize your spending! Compare & find smarter credit cards, savings accounts, & more https://NerdWallet.com TurboTax Experts make all your moves count — filing with 100% accuracy and getting your max refund, guaranteed! See guarantee details at https://TurboTax.com/Guarantees Dell Technologies and Intel are pushing what technology can do, so great ideas can happen! Find out how to bring your ideas to life at https://Dell.com/WelcomeToNow You can get a ticket for texting while driving. Put the phone away or pay! Paid for by NHTSA Listen to TED Talks Daily https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-talks/ted-talks-daily Wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you're someone who tries to drive all distracted by your phone?
0:04.0	Someone who props it on the steering wheel, or peaks down at it for a glance,
0:09.0	or just scrolls and scrolls.
0:12.0	If so, you could be the next person to get into a thunderbunder, get a ticket,
0:17.0	fear off the road, or even cause a crash that kills you or someone else. Enough already. Put the phone away or pay. Paid for
0:28.7	by Nitza. Today on something you should know how being nice can cost you a lot of money then
0:37.9	how changing your expectations can change your life from your health your
0:42.2	happiness even how you age in one study
0:45.2	the people who had the more positive expectations of aging lived for seven and a half
0:50.0	years longer than those who had the negative expectations. If we discovered a virus
0:54.4	that was reducing people's lifespans by this amount we would instantly be looking
0:59.3	for a cure. Also why doodling when other people are talking is a good thing and everything you
1:06.0	wanted to know about pizza including why frozen pizza has been such a
1:11.0	disappointment. The issue has always been the crust, right?
1:15.0	Flash-freezing the crust, it doesn't rise, right?
1:18.0	It wasn't until the 1990s when Kraft came out with Giorno Pizza in 1995.
1:26.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:29.0	Are you one of those people who just buys things with whatever credit card you grab out of your wallet?
1:38.0	Well that could be a costly move.
1:40.5	Nerd Wallet, you've heard of Nerd Wallet.
1:42.8	Nerd Wallet lets you compare credit cards side by side to maximize your spending.
1:48.0	So if, for example, you like travel rewards, you can see which credit card gives you better rewards than the credit card you've got now.
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