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Something You Should Know

SYSK Choice: Interesting Math of Everyday Life & Lose Weight Without Dieting

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Everyone knows that coffee can help you think and focus and can even improve your mood – especially that first cup in the morning. Years ago, coffee advertising contained the tagline… “Coffee, the THINK drink.”  But it just may be that all the research showing how good coffee and caffeine are for mental function is flawed. If you are a coffee drinker, you are going to want to hear this. http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2012/08/21/caffeine-the-silent-killer-of-emotional-intelligence/ Then, we look at all the math you use in everyday life. Mathematician, Jordan Ellenberg, author of the book How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking (http://amzn.to/2uyMDx6) reveals just how important math is and how it is constantly changing. He also discusses how not to be tricked by statistics and numbers that are designed to mislead you. People do better work when they get a reward. It applies to people at work or kids at home – and it comes as no surprise. What’s interesting is that it actually depends on the type of reward. It doesn’t have to be a big reward, it just has to be the right reward to get people to do their best work. I’ll explain. Source: Dr. John Hoover, author of the book “The Art Of Constructive Confrontation” (https://amzn.to/2UcskBf) Why don’t diets work? Diet books and programs are as popular as ever but we continue to get heavier. Yoni Freedhoff, M.D., author of the book The Diet Fix (http://amzn.to/2vMM55m) explains the reasons why your next diet is likely doomed to fail and what works better to get the weight off and keep it off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on something you should know, you swear your morning coffee improves your mental

0:06.7

function and helps you think.

0:09.0

But it doesn't really, and I'll tell you why.

0:11.7

Then you use math all the time every day in your life, and yet there's so much we don't

0:17.4

understand about it.

0:18.4

If you would ask what's like the one biggest thing that people don't know about math, it's

0:23.8

that math is not finished.

0:25.2

The truth is that in this time, in this place, more new math is being created and progress

0:30.8

faster than any other time in place in the entire history of humanity.

0:34.9

Plus, of course people work harder when there's a reward, but it depends on what kind of reward

0:41.6

and dieting.

0:42.9

Just about everyone who's tried knows the weight loss doesn't last.

0:46.9

They don't last because people aren't willing to live like that forever.

0:50.8

That's why you need to like your life while you're losing the weight.

0:53.7

Because if you don't, you won't keep living that way.

0:55.8

All this today on something you should know.

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Something you should know.

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Fascinating intel.

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The world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today.

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Something you should know with my carothers.

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Hi, welcome, come on in.

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It's another episode of the something you should know podcast.

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