How to Stop Overspending, World Population Growth, and Big 5 Personality Traits
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
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- This Simple Money Trick Could Help You Stop Overspending
- How the Big 5 Make Up Your Personality
- This 10-Minute Personality Test Can Measure You on the 5 Main Personality Traits
- Improving World Health Will Reduce Overpopulation, Not Make It Worse
- Stage 5 of the Demographic Transition Model | Population Education
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.2 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.2 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.2 | Today you learn a simple money trick to help you stop overspending on impulse buys, |
| 0:11.5 | the big five traits that make up your personality, |
| 0:14.0 | and will answer a listener question about the population of the world. |
| 0:17.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:19.0 | Cody, how bad are you with like impulse purchases? |
| 0:22.0 | Oh boy, it depends. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm not like a candy bar at the checkout line kind of person. |
| 0:26.5 | Sure. |
| 0:27.5 | But if I'm out anywhere in the universe and there's coffee nearby, |
| 0:31.3 | I'm just gonna buy it. I'm actually kind of bad with online shopping. |
| 0:34.9 | Like I find that when I'm under stress or have some anxiety about something, |
| 0:39.6 | I am on an online shop and looking for things and it's weird like sometimes and I love to just like put stuff in my |
| 0:46.7 | cart and then just suddenly my myself control kicks back into gear and I'm like no I'm not going to buy these things and then I'll get back on task but |
| 0:54.0 | like that's sometimes my stress relief. |
| 0:56.0 | You know sometimes if you fill your cart on a website and then you just leave it for a while |
| 0:59.5 | to send you a coupon after a week or two. |
| 1:01.2 | I've heard that. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, it hasn't happened to me. |
| 1:03.3 | But yeah. We see you, we're going to buy this. Maybe you'll buy it if we give you some |
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