Hi, we're here from curiosity

come to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about why it's okay to put play before work,

a surprising reason why pirates may have worn eye patches,

and how life bounced back surprisingly quickly after the asteroid killed the dinosaurs.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

It might be time to revisit that old saying,

Work before play, because research

from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business

suggests that it is perfectly okay

to do the fun stuff first.

And importantly, without hurting your ability to enjoy it.

So you know, if you feel like you can't enjoy something unless you get all your work done

first, that may be a myth. This comes from research published in the

Journal Psychological Science and it featured four studies on the

expectations and reality of delayed pleasure. So for example in one study students were recruited to go to the

spa before or after taking their midterms. It wasn't an actual spa but it was

a massage chair and footbath set up in the lab.

Close enough, right?

The researchers predicted that the students would not want the spa session before taking

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