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Something You Should Know

Why You Ask for Help All Wrong and How to Do It Right & The Myth of “Expert” Financial Advice

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

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

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

There is only one right way to build a fire. It has always been this way and it is unlikely anyone will ever come up with a better way. Interestingly, you probably already do it. I start this episode with an explanation on how to build the perfect fire. http://www.pratt.duke.edu/news/fire People tend to ask for help all wrong! Humans like to help, we get joy from helping and if you ask the right way, you will often get the help you want. It’s HOW you ask that really matters. Social psychologist Heidi Grant, author of the book Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You https://amzn.to/2MRA4Ep has explored the research and when you hear what she has to say, you will become better and more effective at asking for help. How you prepare some food has an impact on how healthy it is for you. For example, you shouldn’t cut strawberries until just before you eat them – but for garlic the opposite is true. You should peel and chop and let it sit for a while first. Why? I’ll explain and tell you how to make several other foods healthier. http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/25/health/eating-foods-wrong/index.html Why are there so many financial gurus, websites, books, magazine and TV shows offering advice on how to invest your money? Is it really that hard? Not according to financial journalist Helaine Olen who writes for the Washington Post and is author of the book The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated https://amzn.to/2tuVnUr. Helaine explains why so much financial advice is horrible and how anyone can do a great job managing their own finances. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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Today on Something You Should Know, turns out there is only one right way to build a fire,

0:07.0

any fire, and I'll tell you how.

0:09.0

Then there's so much we don't know about how to ask for help.

0:13.0

When someone has said no to us for whatever reason, when we've asked for help before,

0:17.0

that's the last person we're going to go to, right?

0:19.0

We figure, well, they turned me down last time, they're definitely not going to help me this time.

0:23.0

In fact, the office is true.

0:25.0

The research is really clear on this.

0:27.0

People who have turned you down are actually much more likely to help you.

0:32.0

Plus, how to make the food you eat even healthier,

0:35.0

and the case for managing your own money and not listening to the financial gurus.

0:40.0

Financial industry makes billions of dollars, selling Americans on the idea that they're incompetent

0:47.0

at personal finance management, and they need their guidance to do it right.

0:52.0

And in fact, a lot of times the advice for getting is pretty bad.

0:56.0

All this today on Something You Should Know.

1:01.0

Something You Should Know, Fascinating Intel,

1:04.0

The World's Top Experts, and practical advice you can use in your life today.

1:10.0

Something You Should Know, With Mike Karothers.

1:14.0

Everybody has their own favorite way of listening to podcasts.

1:18.0

If you listen on an iPhone as I do, there's a good chance you use the podcast app that came with the phone.

1:25.0

I know some people don't like it, but I think it's fine.

1:28.0

But if you have an Android phone, it didn't come with an app.

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