How to Use Failure To Make Your Good Ideas Better & Why You Check Your Phone 86 x a Day

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

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🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Imagine that while you are sleeping, a cleaning crew gets into your brain to clean out all the toxins so that your brain works better the next day. I know it sounds weird but it is exactly what happens. Listen as I begin this episode with that explanation. http://ens-newswire.com/2013/10/18/brain-cleans-itself-of-toxins-during-sleep/ Most great breakthrough ideas fail first and then get modified before they became a success. It often happens multiple times. Being open to learning from those early failures and being able to adapt your ideas is what helps make ideas prosper according to Safi Bahcall. Safi is a physicist and biotech entrepreneur and author of the book, Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases and Transform Industries (https://amzn.to/2GsXA8u). Listen as Safi offers insight and great examples of how important inventions and breakthroughs have happened by learning from failure and how we all can do it. Often the reason you get upset or stressed out is because things aren’t the way you think they SHOULD be… Traffic should not be so heavy, your doctor should not keep you waiting – that type of thing. Listen as I explore how to change that thinking to relieve yourself of unnecessary frustration. http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2015/04/frustrated/ When I think of compulsive behavior, I think of people who wash their hands a lot or check to see if they locked the door or turned off the coffee pot 50 times a day. While that seems to be extreme compulsive behavior, how is it any different than checking your smart phone 86 times a day? (That's the average). Science writer Sharon Begley has explored this in her book Just Can’t Stop: An Investigation of Compulsion (https://amzn.to/2IAUnHj). She joins me to reveal why compulsive behavior isn’t necessarily bad and explains at what point it does become a problem and what to do about it. This Week’s Sponsors -ADT. To get a secure smart home designed just for you go to www.ADT.com -BetterHelp. Get help with a counselor you will love at www.BetterHelp.com/SYSK -Ollie. For 60% off your first order plus a free bag of dog treats go to www.myollie.com/try/something -Hers. For $10 off your first order (while supplies last) go to www.ForHers.com/something -Capterra To find the best software for your business visit www.Capterra.com/something -Capital One. What's in your wallet? www.CapitalOne.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on Something You Should Know, something amazing happens to your brain every night
0:06.9	while you're sleeping.
0:07.9	I'll explain that.
0:09.4	Then, what it takes to turn your great ideas into reality.
0:13.9	In our culture, we tend to emphasize our skill and genius and we miss the fact that so many
0:20.2	of the great breakthroughs have a very large component of luck.
0:24.5	And what you want to do is cultivate your own luck.
0:27.8	Then, how to stop being stressed and frustrated when life doesn't go the way you think it should.
0:34.0	And a lot of people have compulsive behaviors.
0:37.3	You do if you check your phone a lot.
0:40.0	Not being able to leave it behind, not being able to turn it off.
0:43.3	That's a compulsion.
0:44.3	It's not a mental disorder, but it definitely is a compulsion.
0:47.4	And the reason is that we feel that if we are not always looking at it, we'll miss something.
0:51.8	And that triggers an anxiety that many people find intolerable.
0:56.2	Call this today on Something You Should Know.
1:00.8	I just learned, Discover Credit Cards do something pretty awesome.
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1:11.1	That's right, everything you've earned doubled.
1:14.0	All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant?
1:18.1	Doubled.
1:19.1	All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard?
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