How to Respond When People Say NO! & Why You Need More Friends & How to Find Them

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

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🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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What’s the secret to a happy life? Probably the best people to ask are people who say they are happy. So we begin this episode by revealing what happy people say is what makes them so happy. John Izzo, author of The 5 Secrets You Must Know Before You Die (https://amzn.to/2DdJDLA) Probably the one word you hear more than any other throughout your life is –NO! For some people no means no but for others it means something else entirely. BJ Gallagher, author of the book Yes Lives in the Land of No (https://amzn.to/2JXlPNh) offers some great advice for handling the word no when people tell you that you can’t have or do something. Since you will hear NO a lot for the rest of your life – this is worth listening to. Who doesn’t love going to a live concert? And yet when you really dissect the experience, it is probably not as good as we tell ourselves it is. I’ll reveal what one writer has to say about the concert-going experience that you may not have thought about before. (http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a39525/live-music-overrated/) We humans need people. We are social creatures. We thrive with others. Yet many of us are alone and isolated with few, if any friends. Someone who is very concerned about this is Radha Agrawal, who is an entrepreneur, investor, inventor, speaker, and community builder. She founded Daybreaker a grassroots, early-morning dance phenomenon that is now in over 25 countries. She is also author of the book Belong: Find Your People Create Community and Live a More Connected Life https://amzn.to/2DfaczU. Radha explains not only why friends are important but how and where to go and find them. This Week's Sponsors -SimpliSafe Home Security. For great home security with no contracts or hidden fees go to www.Simplisafe.com/something Calming Comfort Blanket. For 15% off the posted price of this incredible blanket to help you sleep better, go to www.CalmingComfortBlanket.com and use the promo code SOMETHING. -LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. To redeem a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit and launch your first campaign, go to www.LinkedIn.com/SOMETHING Madison Reed. For 10% off plus free shipping on your first order go to www.Madison-Reed.com/something Jet.com. For a great online shopping experience go to www.Jet.com Lincoln. To learn more about the Lincoln MKC go to www.Lincoln.com/wondery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, want to know the secret to happiness?
0:06.0	I'll tell you what happy people say it is.
0:08.7	Then all your life people tell you know, and it's what you do with that know that really
0:13.8	matters.
0:14.8	It's like you're going down a road and a tree falls across the road.
0:18.6	Now that tree is a no, so you say, hmm, what are all the possible ways I could either
0:25.2	get around that no, over that no, under that no, or turn the no around and make it work
0:30.8	for me.
0:31.8	Plus the reality of going to live concerts, it's really not as much fun as we think it
0:36.8	is.
0:37.8	And why you need more friends and how to get them, and you probably do need more friends.
0:43.7	One in four Americans have zero friends to confide in, and this number has tripled
0:47.8	in the last 30 years.
0:48.8	One in three Americans above the age of 65, one in two above the age of 85 is socially
0:54.7	isolated and completely alone.
0:56.9	All this today on something you should know.
1:02.0	I just learned, discover credit cards do something pretty awesome.
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1:12.2	That's right, everything you've earned doubled.
1:15.1	All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant doubled.
1:19.9	All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard also doubled.
1:25.4	And the best part, you don't have to do anything ridiculous to get it.
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