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Something You Should Know

How Your Brain Predicts Your Reality & How To Be Calm and Why Should Be

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Is it bad to charge your phone overnight? Is it okay to use your phone while it is charging? We start this episode with some of the facts and myths about charging your smartphone and how to improve the life and performance of the battery.  https://www.makeuseof.com/myths-misconceptions-charging-your-phone-debunked/ Your brain is constantly making predictions. For example, when your doctor is about to give you a shot, your brain predicts how painful it will be. If you predict it will hurt a lot – it will likely hurt more than if you predicted that it won’t hurt at all. In other words, your predictions help to shape your reality. And it happens with many of our experiences. Here to dig deeper into this and explain why this is so important is Andy Clark. He is a professor at the University of Sussex and author of six books including The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality (https://amzn.to/3JJPUjH). Do you consider yourself to be a calm person? Of course we all have moments when we are calm and some of us are better able to remain calm in stressful situations than others. But have you ever wondered – what is calm? Is it a feeling, a skill or a state of mind? How can you get better at it? What are the benefits of remaining calm? Well, it seems there are a lot of benefits according to my guest Chris Bailey. As a writer, Chris has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, The Huffington Post, and he is author of the book How to Calm Your Mind (https://amzn.to/44cmGSu). Flip-flops are pretty standard summertime footwear for many of us. As easy and comfortable as flip-flops are, there are concerns that many foot specialists have. If you are one of those people who wear flip-flops a lot, listen as I explain just what those concerns are. https://www.ipfh.org/images/research_materials/2012_National_Foot_Health_Assessment_June_2012.pdf PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! For the first time in NetSuite’s 25 years as the #1 cloud financial system, you can defer payments of a FULL NetSuite implementation for six months! If you’ve been sizing NetSuite up to make the switch then you know this deal is unprecedented - no interest, no payments - take advantage of this special financing offer at https://NetSuite.com/SYSK ! The Dell Technologies’ Black Friday in July event has arrived with limited-quantity deals on top tech to power any passion. Save on select XPS PCs and more powered by the latest Intel® Core™ processors. Plus, get savings on select monitors and accessories, free shipping and monthly payment options with Dell Preferred Account. Save today by calling 877-ASK-DELL ! Discover Credit Cards do something pretty awesome. At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you’ve earned! See terms and check it out for yourself at https://Discover.com/match Keep American farming and enjoy the BEST grass-fed meat & lamb, pastured pork & chicken and wild caught-Alaskan salmon by going to https://MoinkBox.com/Yum  RIGHT NOW and get a free gift with your first order! Let’s find “us” again by putting our phones down for five.  Five days, five hours, even five minutes. Join U.S. Cellular in the Phones Down For Five challenge! Find out more at https://USCellular.com/findus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on something you should know, is it really a good idea to charge your cell phone

0:06.7

overnight or leave it on 24 hours a day?

0:10.5

Then the fascinating way your reality is shaped by your predictions.

0:15.7

For example, if you predict that you're going to feel an intense pain, then the pain that

0:21.0

you would otherwise judge to be just a medium pain is judged to be much stronger.

0:26.5

Being vice versa, I think this is why dentists always say to you, this will just be a

0:30.5

tickle.

0:31.5

Also, if you wear flip flops in the summer, there are some things you should be aware of,

0:37.0

and the benefits of being calm and staying calm.

0:41.4

After looking at the research on a topic, I do think that calm is not just something we

0:45.8

are or we're not.

0:48.0

Calm is really a skill.

0:49.9

The calmer we become, we become less of a victim to our own negative self-top.

0:55.9

Call this today on something you should know.

1:00.9

The average on farm income in the United States was a loss of $1,100.

1:05.0

60% of US pork comes from one company, wholly owned by the Chinese.

1:09.6

And farmers are more likely to commit suicide than veterans.

1:13.2

Folks, we got a problem.

1:14.9

I'm Lucinda, a generation farmer and founder of Moink.

1:18.3

Lu plus oik, we offer grass fed and grass finished beef and lamb, pastured pork and chicken,

1:24.6

and wild caught a laskin salmon, shipped straight from the heart of rural America.

1:29.0

Come stand shoulder to shoulder with us by putting the family farm at the center of your

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