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Something You Should Know

What Really Controls Your Behavior & How Being Too Clean Can Make You Sick

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to successful online dating, the two things that seem to matter most are your screen name and your profile picture. I begin this episode by explaining what works best as determined by researchers who reviewed thousands of online profiles of people who were successful online daters and people who failed miserably. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150212212100.htm What determines your behavior? Is everything you do the result of your free will or is your behavior determined by something else? Could it be you are not responsible for your own actions? Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University joins me to make the case that we are not responsible for what we do – that it is determined by all sorts of biological influences. What he says will either make you a believer – or make you crazy. Robert is the author of several books including the bestseller, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. https://amzn.to/2LWQRZR Do you know what you look like – really? You’d think so but actually other people are probably better than you at identifying photos of you that REALLY resemble what you like you. Sounds odd, right? We shall explore why that is and why your self-image may be somewhat distorted. http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=154010&CultureCode=en Are we too obsessed with being clean? Are we over-sanitizing our world? It looks like it. Marie-Claire Arrieta, assistant professor at the University of Calgary in Canada is co-author of the book Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Your Child from an Oversanitized World https://amzn.to/2vj6r7S . She joins me to explain the unintended consequences of keeping our homes, our children and everything else in our lives TOO clean. Those consequences include an increase in asthma, allergies, resistance to antibiotics and much more. Her website is www.LetThemEatDirt.com This Week’s Sponsors Hoka One One. Get free expedited shipping on your first pair of shoes by going to www.hokaoneone.com/SYSK and use the promo code SYSK FIXD. Buy 2 FIXD devices and get a third one free plus get 10% off your already discounted price at www.ListenToMyCar.com and use the promo code SOMETHING Simplisafe.com. Check out this incredible security system and if you order one through this special link, Simplisafe will donate a security system to a family in need. Go to www.Simplisafe.com/something Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today on something you should know, the secret to successful online dating is a good screen

0:07.7

name and a great photo.

0:09.4

I'll reveal the best strategies.

0:11.9

Then, how you behave?

0:14.0

Is it free will or biology?

0:16.0

If you want to say it was free will that you decided to floss your upper teeth before

0:21.7

your lower ones rather than the other way around, go for it.

0:25.5

Basically, I think it's perfectly fair to say that what we call free will is the biology

0:31.7

that hasn't been discovered yet.

0:33.8

Also, do you see yourself the same way other people see you?

0:37.9

Probably not.

0:39.2

And are we just a little too clean and sanitized for our own good?

0:43.8

We shouldn't be cleaning kids just because they look dirty.

0:48.1

Getting a dog is also recommended because just having a dog at home reduces the chances

0:52.9

of a child to develop asthma and allergies.

0:56.1

All this today on something you should know.

1:01.2

I just learned discover credit cards do something pretty awesome.

1:06.0

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

1:11.4

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

1:14.4

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

1:19.2

All the cash back from that trip you sort of learned how to snowboard also doubled.

1:24.6

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

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