The Best Way to Learn Anything New & How to Deal With People You Can’t Stand

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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If you wear a certain fragrance, people will perceive you as 12 pounds thinner. That’s just one of many fascinating things I discuss about you amazing sense of smell in the first segment of this episode. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/02/scents We spend our entire lives learning. Yet we seldom think about HOW we learn. One person who has thought about it a lot is Scott Young, author of the book UltraLearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career (https://amzn.to/2yCu4cF). Scott joins me to discuss the best and worst ways to learn anything and how you can learn anything better. Gotta cramp? Reach for the pickles. There is some fascinating research I discuss on how what appears to be an effective and fast cure for a muscle cramp and it is in a jar of pickles. https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/phys-ed-can-pickle-juice-stop-muscle-cramps/ We all come in contact with difficult and unreasonable people. What is the best way to deal with them? Well, it depends on what the goal is, according to Rick Brinkman, author of Dealing with People You Can’t Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst (https://amzn.to/2YG8cMa). Rick reveals the best ways to handle jerks, idiots and other difficult people who get in your way so that you get what you want without escalating the trouble. This Week's Sponsors -Dashlane. For a 30 day free trial of Dashlane Premium go to www.Dashlane.com/sysk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:43.0	Today on something you should know,
0:47.0	Did you know the way you smell can make you appear thinner?
0:51.0	I'll explain that. Then, if you want to learn anything, you have to understand the good and bad ways to learn.
0:58.0	A lot of people, when they are learning something, will tend to cram it.
1:02.0	They will try to learn it in a short period of time.
1:04.0	And we just know from countless studies that this is actually the worst thing you can do if you want to remember things long term.
1:10.0	That if you want to actually remember things long term, you want to space it out.
1:14.0	Also today, why the next time you get a cramp, you should reach for a jar of pickles.
1:19.0	And how to effectively deal with people you can't stand. You know those whiny negative people.
1:26.0	And the problem is that when people are being whiny or negative, they tend to go into generalizations.
1:31.0	Everything's wrong, nothing's right, it's always that way. But you can't problem solve the generalization.
1:36.0	So they're kind of stuck in their own quicksand.
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