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Something You Should Know

The Surprising Link Between Money and Happiness & When Questions Are More Important Than Answers

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When guests come in to your home, what do they notice most of all? If you are having guests into your house this holiday season you will want to hear this surprising list of things people notice when they come through your front door. http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/home-and-garden/what-guests-really-notice-in-your-home/ss-BBnq4Uw#image=8 Money matters. It determines your lifestyle, how long you must work and forces you to make decisions on how to spend it. So it would seem that having more money would make you happier. But not always. Joining me to discuss the role of money and its relationship with happiness is Laura Rowley who has been a personal finance columnist for Self magazine and The Huffington Post and is author of the book Money & Happiness: A Guide to Living the Good Life (https://amzn.to/2SdFXgT). We spend a good deal of our life looking for answers to questions and problems. Interestingly, there are times where it may be more important to find a better question. That’s according to Hal Gregersen, Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of the book Questions Are The Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life (https://amzn.to/2DXAWWT). Hal joins me to explain the process of coming up with better questions which can lead to greater insight into any problem.  We all have to wash our hands in public bathrooms. So what is the best way to dry them afterwards? Some people prefer paper towels, some hot air dryers. But what does the best job of leaving you with clean germ-free hands? We’ll explore that in this episode. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2010.04838.x/abstract This Week's Sponsors -BetterHelp For 10% off your first month of counseling go to www.BetterHelp.com/something, promo code SOMETHING Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today on something you should know, what do guests really notice when they walk into your home?

0:07.0

The answers may surprise you. Then can having more money make you a happier person?

0:13.0

What's the time that you're found is people who have five or more friends outside their immediate family are 50% happier than people who don't.

0:21.0

Well, it takes time to cultivate this friendship. And if you're so busy earning so that you can spend more and more and more,

0:27.0

you're going to have time to invest in that.

0:29.0

Also, what's the best way to dry your hands in a public bathroom?

0:33.0

Plus, asking the right questions, it may be more important than searching for the answer to solve a problem.

0:39.0

Which is why Einstein purportedly said,

0:43.0

if you were to get him 60 minutes to figure out the answer to a problem,

0:49.0

he said, I take the first 55 minutes and figure out the right question.

0:52.0

And then if I can get the right question, the answer becomes obvious.

0:56.0

All this today on something you should know.

1:02.0

Something you should know, fascinating intel, the world's top experts,

1:07.0

and practical advice you can use in your life today.

1:11.0

Something you should know with my carothers.

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Hi, welcome to the something you should know podcast.

1:19.0

Have you ever asked yourself, when people come over to your house, what do they notice?

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This time of year especially when people come for the holidays or they come for a party

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or just some sort of holiday get together, you probably make every effort to tidy up and make your home presentable.

1:37.0

But what is it that people really notice when they walk into your home?

1:41.0

According to the website pop sugar dot com,

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here's what guests really pay attention to.

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