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Something You Should Know

How to Get People To Tell the Truth & What You Never Knew About Birds

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When you learned to drive, you were likely told to keep your hands at 10:00 o’clock and 2:00 o’clock on the steering wheel. Is that really the best and safest place? This episode begins with a discussion on how to best steer your car. http://www.thedrive.com/start-finish/9882/team-oneil-shows-how-to-position-your-hands-on-the-wheel How do you get someone to tell you the truth when they don’t want to? Jack Schafer knows. As a former FBI agent, he has developed a technique based on some simple psychological principles, that will get people to tell you things they never meant to. Jack is author of the book The Truth Detector: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide for Getting People to Reveal the Truth (https://amzn.to/30we8WU) and he joins me to explain how you can use this technique and why it is so effective. How you describe yourself during a job interview is tricky. For example, it’s tough to brag about how humble you are because how humble can you be if you are bragging about it. There are other words besides humble that are likely left out of your self-description the next time you go on a job interview. Listen and I will tell you what they are. https://www.themuse.com/advice/5-words-you-should-never-use-to-describe-yourself-in-an-interview You probably see birds every day – probably lots of birds. Yet, you likely don’t think about them much. Nevertheless, they are fascinating creatures with amazing abilities. For example, did you know that all birds are dinosaurs? Science writer Jennifer Ackerman has written articles for Scientific American, National Geographic and The New York Times. Her latest book is called The Bird Way (https://amzn.to/2ZOvQpw) and she is here to reveal some fascinating information that will give you a new appreciation for birds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I just learned Discover Credit Cards do something pretty awesome.

0:05.6

At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you've earned.

0:11.0

That's right, everything you've earned doubled.

0:14.0

All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup-dumpling restaurant doubled.

0:18.8

All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard also doubled.

0:24.2

And the best part, you don't have to do anything ridiculous to get it.

0:28.0

No, Discover does it automatically.

0:30.9

Seriously though, see terms and check it out for yourself at Discover.com slash match.

0:38.2

Today on something you should know, where do you hold your hands on the steering wheel?

0:44.8

I'll tell you why it matters.

0:46.7

Then meet a guy who has a technique that will get you to tell him almost any truth.

0:52.4

I mean, you'd like to think you wouldn't tell him your social security number, right?

0:56.6

Yeah, you'd like to think that, but it's going to happen.

0:58.8

I told the student, I'll get your social security number.

1:01.3

He says, no, you wouldn't. I would never give that up to anybody.

1:03.9

Over the course of the class session, I was able to slowly elicit his social security number.

1:09.9

Then when you go on a job interview, there are some words you should probably never say.

1:15.4

And you see a lot of them every day. They're fascinating. They're birds.

1:20.6

All birds are dinosaurs, which is always a surprise to people.

1:24.5

But all birds descend from a line of dinosaurs that somehow made it through whatever cataclysmic

1:31.8

event killed off their cousins.

1:33.9

All this today on something you should know.

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