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Something You Should Know

SYSK Choice: How Luck Happens & Questioning What We Tell Ourselves

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

People hate unsolicited advice – and they seldom follow it. Still, that doesn’t stop us from dishing it out to those we are trying to help. Well maybe there is a better and more effective way to influence people other than just telling them what we think they should do. I’ll tell you what it is. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/do-the-right-thing/201407/giving-people-advice-rarely-works-does Some people have all the luck. But why? Why are some people luckier than others? Can you create a life that has more luck in it? Can you be one of those people that other people think of as lucky? Absolutely, says Janice Kaplan. Janice is the former Editor-in-Chief of Parade magazine and her new book is called, How Luck Happens: Using the Science of Luck to Transform Work, Love, and Life (http://amzn.to/2Dp0wiH). Janice joins me to discuss how luck really works and how anyone can craft a luckier life. Organic onions, swordfish and gluten-free muffins are just 3 things you shouldn’t buy at the supermarket if you want to save money. I’ll explain why and give you a few other things NOT to buy. http://www.mc3cb.com/pdf_nutrition_articles/2011_3_8_7%20Worst%20Supermarket%20Rip.pdf Has this ever happened…? You send an email or leave a voicemail for someone to get back to you – but they don’t. As a result, you start to imagine why they don’t. And the why is usually a negative story. Why do we do this? And how can we stop doing that? Scott Gornto is a therapist and author of the book , The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Stop Jumping to Conclusions. Free Yourself from Anxiety. Transform Your Relationships (http://amzn.to/2DjTHix). Listen as he explains this interesting quirk in human behavior and why it gets us into trouble. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I just learned Discover Credit Cards do something pretty awesome.

0:05.2

At the end of your first year, they automatically double all the cash back you've earned.

0:10.7

That's right, everything you've earned doubled.

0:13.6

All the cash back from eating at your favorite soup dumpling restaurant?

0:17.6

Doubled.

0:18.6

All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard?

0:22.7

Also doubled.

0:23.9

And the best part, you don't have to do anything ridiculous to get it.

0:27.5

Oh, Discover does it automatically.

0:30.5

Seriously though, see terms and check it out for yourself at Discover.com slash match.

0:37.5

Today on something you should know, people don't like unsolicited advice.

0:43.9

So I have some advice I'm giving unsolicited advice that works much better.

0:49.0

Then, what if you could craft a life that made you luckier?

0:52.9

Where things just go your way?

0:54.7

Very often, people who are the luckiest are actually the people who are the most optimistic

1:00.8

and who are the most positive because they can take an event and they can see the bright side of it.

1:05.8

They can see the positive side of it.

1:07.8

Also, a list of things you should not buy at the supermarket that will save you some real money.

1:13.7

And we all tend to tell ourselves stories, negative stories about why things happen or don't happen.

1:19.7

And yet, from the research I did, you know, a good 90% plus

1:23.8

of the time these stories that we tell ourselves aren't true.

1:26.3

If a good part of the time, I'm making myself miserable with these stories that I'm going to do my part individually

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