When Knowing Nothing Actually Gives You an Advantage & The Proven Way to Live a Long, Long Life

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

I bet you have Googled medical symptoms you are experiencing. Everyone does. But the information you get can be contradictory and often times inaccurate. However, there is a place to go online that has accurate information and you’ve probably never heard of it before. We start this episode with that. Then, conventional wisdom is that having experience is always better than being a beginner. Well, not so fast. It turns out that starting at something as a newbie gives you a real advantage if you do it right according to Liz Wiseman, who is a researcher, adviser and teacher and has been ranked as one of the top 10 leadership thinkers in the world. Liz is also author of the book, Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work (http://amzn.to/2jcNLR2). For anyone fearful of having to start a new job or career or a new anything, you need to hear what Liz has to say. Also, is there really a “Fountain of Youth?” There's something pretty close according to cardiologist Dr. John Day, author of the book, The Longevity Plan (http://amzn.to/2Aslo9a). There is a village in a remote part of China where the people who live there live a very long time and never suffer from heart disease, diabetes or obesity. What is it these people know and do that allows them such a long life? We unravel the mystery with Dr Day. Plus, how often have you apologized for something unnecessarily? We all do it: Someone steps on your foot and you say, “I’m sorry.” Why? It wasn’t your fault. Interestingly, successful people apologize less because over-apologizing weakens your message and tends to make you less competent. We explore that in this episode of the program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.0	Today on something you should know, where do you go to get medical information on the internet?
0:46.0	I'll tell you about a place that's better than most and you've probably never heard of it before.
0:51.0	Then in most situations having experience is good, but being a novice and knowing nothing might even be better.
0:59.0	Of course there's a case to be made for years of experience and practice that surprisingly in so much of the work we do today, we tend to be at our best when we know the very least.
1:10.0	Also, do you ever apologize to people even when it isn't your fault? Why you need to stop doing that?
1:17.0	And there's a remote village in China where people there almost never get sick and live a remarkably long time.
1:25.0	Why?
1:26.0	We tried to analyze it, you know, is it something in the air, something in the water, something else, but it really just kept coming back to the basics.
1:34.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:37.0	Something you should know, fascinating intel, the world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today.
1:49.0	Something you should know with my carothers.
1:56.0	Hi and welcome. You know, I'm just getting over this pretty nasty cold I had and like most people, I'm sure you probably have gotten sick
2:05.0	and gone to the internet to Google your symptoms to see what they are and what your treatment options are, what it all means.
2:12.0	And the problem is that when you do that, you often end up more confused than when you started because so much medical information online is confusing and contradictory and just plain wrong.
2:26.0	So what do you do? How do you figure out what's true and what's nonsense?
2:30.0	Well, perhaps the people who have made the most progress on this are the people at the Cochrane Collaboration.
2:37.0	That's Cochrane, cochrane.org. Cochrane.org.
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