Microvacations, Why Sand Matters and Why We’re Running Out of It (w/ Vince Beiser), and Savings Plan Tricks
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to stay sane at work by taking a microvacation; an easy trick for building the best savings plan; and why sand is one of the most important materials in human civilization — and why we’re running out of it.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com — and learn about sand from author Vince Beiser — to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- To Stay Sane at Work, Try Taking Microvacations
- To Build the Best Savings Plan, Think of the Present Instead of the Future
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help it get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.0 | Today you learn how to stay sane at work by taking a micro vacation, an easy trick |
| 0:11.8 | for building the best savings plan, and you'll learn from author Vince |
| 0:15.3 | Bizer why Sand is one of the most important materials in human civilization, and why we're |
| 0:20.6 | running out of it. |
| 0:21.6 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:23.1 | Did you manage to get away from the office this summer? |
| 0:25.6 | Because it's healthy to take a vacation from work. |
| 0:28.0 | Don't feel like you missed your chance, though. |
| 0:29.7 | Because we've got some advice from a time management coach |
| 0:32.0 | that might help you use up |
| 0:33.0 | those vacation days and stay sane at work. I like it. Yes I feel like I need to |
| 0:37.4 | take this advice. I feel like you do too Ashley. Not that I don't like seeing |
| 0:40.7 | you around the office. Sure. In 2017, 52% of American workers |
| 0:46.2 | with paid vacation days left some of them unused. That added up to a whopping |
| 0:50.8 | 705 million unused vacation days overall or 2 million years, which is about |
| 0:57.6 | how long it's been since humans appeared on Earth. |
| 1:00.7 | And working too much has been linked with heart problems, mental health issues, and a decrease in work quality in general. |
| 1:06.0 | But a recent study by Glassdoor found that worries about job security are the main reasons people don't take vacations. |
| 1:13.0 | So what can you do? |
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