How to Get People to Tell You the Truth & How Noise Affect Your Health and Happiness

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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How accurate is Wikipedia? If you go to one of their articles, how likely is it to be accurate and objective. This episode begins with some surprising facts about Wikipedia and its accuracy. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/wikipedia-explained-what-is-it-trustworthy-how-work-wikimedia-2030-a8213446.html People lie. In fact everyone lies. Many times those lies are small and inconsequential – other times they are a very big deal. Pamela Myers is one of the leading experts on lies and deception and she joins me to take us on a journey into how deception works, how to identify it and how to get people to tell the truth. Pamela Myers is author of the book Liespotting (https://amzn.to/2K8Bj2b) and you can her her TED talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_6vDLq64gE. If a store posts a sign that says “You Break It You Buy It” can they actually enforce that? Accidents happen – so how can you be forced to pay for something just because it slipped or because you happened to walk by it when it fell and broke? Listen and find out what the law says. https://blogs.findlaw.com/common_law/2012/01/if-you-break-it-must-you-buy-it.html The world is getting a lot louder. And all that noise is taking a toll on you – even if you don’t really notice it. Listen to some fascinating insight on what noise does to you physically and psychologically from Mathias Basner. He is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on how noise affects sleep and health. This Week’s Sponsors -Bitsbox. Get $25 off any Bitsbox subscription of $50 or more by going to https://campaign.bitsbox.com/something enter promo code SOMETHING at checkout. -Simplisafe. For free shipping and a 60-day free trial go to www.Simplisafe.com/something -Article Furniture. For $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more go to https://www.article.com/sysk -Capterra. To find the best software for your business for free go to www.Capterra.com/something –Airbnb. To learn more about being an Airbnb host visit www.Airbnb.com/host Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, is Wikipedia really a reliable source of information?
0:07.9	We'll explore that, then everyone lies.
0:10.9	So how do you get someone to stop lying and tell you the truth?
0:14.6	The best way to get to the truth is to have incredible rapport and to be enormously warm
0:20.5	towards somebody, be truly curious, do not judge them, assume they have a reason for
0:25.2	doing what they may have done, because everyone has a reason they did something that is usually
0:29.2	pretty interesting.
0:30.6	Also today, if a store has a sign that says, you break it, you bought it, you really have
0:35.9	to buy it, and the world is getting louder, and all that loud noise is taking a real toll
0:41.8	on you.
0:42.8	Whenever you come home from a concert or a bar and you have that ringing in your ears, at
0:48.4	that point you basically know that you have done damage to your auditory system, and that
0:53.0	damages we know now is likely permanent.
0:56.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:49.4	Maybe this has happened to you as it has happened to me, or they come home and they have a paper
1:56.3	to write or a project to do.
1:58.9	Somewhere in the instructions from the teacher is, but you can't use Wikipedia.
2:04.7	Wikipedia is not a good source to use for this particular paper or project.
2:10.5	I've always thought, well why is that?
2:13.5	Because Wikipedia is so inaccurate or so unreliable that it's not a good source, or
2:19.3	is it because Wikipedia is so good, it's so accurate that if you use Wikipedia, well,
2:26.2	there's your paper, there's your project, all done.
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