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Something You Should Know

How to Kill a Good Idea (and Why You Shouldn’t) & Fighting Humans’ Deadliest Predator

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Why do people have nightmares? Do they serve a purpose? This episode begins with some fascinating facts about nightmares and the people who have them. https://www.prevention.com/health/g20516173/6-creepy-things-you-never-knew-about-your-nightmares/ Where do good ideas come from? Good ideas typically blossom in environments that encourage people to express their ideas. Yet we often shoot down people’s ideas before they have a chance to develop. One place that does NOT happens is in improv theater. That’s where someone throws out an idea and everyone adds to it to see if they can make it interesting or funny. And there may be a real lesson there for the rest of us according to Norm LaViolette an improv performer, founder of Improv Asylum in Boston and author of a book called The Art of Making it Up: Using the Principles of IMPROV to Become an Unstoppable Force (https://amzn.to/2YLvegE). Norm consults major corporations on how to use the skills of improv to nurture great ideas and he joins me to share his strategies with you. I know I’ve heard the advice that if you fake a smile that it can actually make you feel better. Or could it be that faking a smile when you don’t feel happy can actually make you feel worse? Listen and find out what the research says. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-02/msu-sfa022211.php You probably wouldn’t have guessed off the top of your head that mosquitoes are our deadliest predator - but they are according to Tim Winegard, a professor of history and political science at Colorado Mesa University and author of the book The Mosquito:A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator (https://amzn.to/31pWnHV). Tim joins me to offer a fascinating explanation of how the mosquito has killed more people and changed the course of history in ways you never knew.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on something you should know, ever have a nightmare, I'll tell you the reason why.

0:50.0

Then we spend a lot of time shooting down other people's ideas, and doing that is actually a bad idea.

0:57.0

You know, that person in the meeting, where look, we're just talking about ideas.

1:00.0

And you know, that person raised their hand, they're like, my all that means that that will be that good hair for a second.

1:04.0

And that they're poking holes. Well, the easiest thing in the world to do is point out why an idea won't work and will probably fail.

1:12.0

And anybody can do it, and it takes no talent.

1:15.0

Plus, can faking a smile really improve your mood? And the deadliest predator known to man could be buzzing around your head right now. It's the mosquito.

1:25.0

The mosquito is responsible for the depths of half of every human being that's ever lived across our planet.

1:31.0

So, 52 billion people out of the 108 billion that have existed, which from a historical impact that is astounding.

1:39.0

All this today on something you should know is hiring a challenge.

1:46.0

Oh my God, it can be such a challenge. Even if you love a challenge, you still need a hiring partner that can help you rise to that challenge.

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You need indeed. You see, indeed is the hiring platform where you can attract, interview, and hire all in one place.

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Now, that's going to save you tons of time. But more importantly, it's going to get you the very best candidates for your job.

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Now, indeed has this thing called instant match. With instant match over 80% of employers get quality candidates whose resumes on indeed match their job description, the very moment they sponsor a job, according to indeed data US.

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I love that because boom, right away your job opening is being seen by really qualified people. And even better, indeed is the only job site where you only pay for applications that meet your must-have requirements.

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