Why You Are Not As Smart As You Think You Are & How Long Can You Reasonably Live?

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It is rare to see a UPS truck turning left. Sure, sometimes they have to but they try not to. And there is a really good reason why that we can all learn from. I begin this episode with a discussion on that. (http://mentalfloss.com/article/60556/19-secrets-ups-drivers) Could it be you are not as smart as you think you are? Apparently so according to David McRaney author of the book and host of the podcast called You Are Not So Smart (https://amzn.to/2tGvPTq). David explains some of the interesting quirks and flaws of the human brain that make us think the way we do – that also makes our perception quite inaccurate a lot of the time. I bet you’ve wondered if it helps to pay your credit card bill early. Well, if you carry a balance it does. I will explain a simplified version of the math to show you how. You may not get rich from doing it but it certainly worth knowing and can save a fair amount of money over time. http://www.bankrate.com/finance/credit-cards/pay-credit-card-bill-early-and-save-1.aspx How long will you live? It’s important to grasp this because there are ramifications to the question for you, your parents and your children. Longevity continues to rise and with that comes the good and the bad. Dr. Laura Carstensen, professor of psychology and public policy at Stanford University is founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and author of the book, A Long Bright Future (https://amzn.to/2KqrvPe) offers up so fascinating insight into how wonderful it is to be living so much longer than our ancestors – and why perhaps the best is yet to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on something you should know, you don't often see UPS trucks turning left.
0:07.0	There's a reason why and a lesson to be learned.
0:10.0	Then you are not as smart and your memory is not as good as you think.
0:14.0	The very first time you remember something is the most accurate and the each continuing
0:19.0	time we recall something it gets less and less accurate.
0:21.0	It becomes more and more in line with what we know now and what we're experiencing currently
0:27.0	and our current state of mind or current beliefs.
0:29.0	Also, do you save money by paying your credit card bill early in the month or does it make no difference?
0:36.0	And longevity is on the increase and it may be increasing faster than you realize.
0:42.0	There's a fellow at Cambridge who argues that the first person ever to live to be a thousand is alive today.
0:49.0	There are people who are working on ways to try to actually uncap that cap on more talent.
0:56.0	All this today on something you should know.
1:01.0	Something you should know, fascinating intel, the world's top experts and practical advice you can use in your life today.
1:10.0	Something you should know with my carothers.
1:14.0	I record this part of the podcast just a few hours before it publishes and just a few hours before you likely hear it.
1:22.0	And as I'm recording this, I've got up on my computer monitor our statistics.
1:27.0	And one of the statistics that it tracks is series downloads of all time.
1:33.0	That means the total number of times any episode of this podcast has been downloaded.
1:39.0	And we're at 9,999,967.
1:46.0	So any minute now we will hit 10 million.
1:49.0	I mentioned it because it's a big milestone, 10 million downloads.
1:54.0	And I mentioned it because you are a part of it because you download and listen to this podcast and that helped us get where we are.
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