How to Build Your Vocabulary (Ep. 136)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode, we talk about becoming more flexible in the job market, dealing with frustration, and building a better vocabulary. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Cool hat College Info Geek Community Tom on Twitter Episode where we talk about love letter sites Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog, by Thord Hedengren A Book Apart Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport FiveThirtyEight Existential Comics SMBC Video about taking strategic breaks How to Remember More of What You Learn by Leveraging the Spacing Effect The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language, by Mark Forsyth The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language, by Mark Forsyth Debate.org LessWrong /r/changemyview Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:33.3	Martin because every good discussion must start out
0:37.7	as a horribly irrelevant diatribe, I've been looking for a hat.
0:41.6	Like in real life you want a hat? Yes. Because I went for a walk today and
0:46.9	today and today is the first I would say like legitimately cold day at least since the first legitimately cold
0:54.2	podcasting day maybe not day ever but it is the first of December and I just
0:59.7	realize that first chance to go on a diatribe about hats? I have and I have somehow lost all my hats.
1:06.7	So I know you have a cool hat. I do I have this pretty dope hand knitted or I don't really know the
1:12.4	differences between knitting and other things but this hand knitted or I don't really know the differences between knitting and other things but this hand
1:14.6	knitted Pokemon hat that you got me it's like a polka ball.
1:18.0	Oh wait I got you that didn't I?
1:19.3	Yeah you got me that for like my birthday or something.
1:21.3	That's right.
1:22.3	What happens if I type cool hat into Amazon? See that's what I was thinking be oh man. Oh man. Oh man. Okay so the first
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