It sucks when you have a cold. I’m sure you’ve heard that you should drink a lot of fluids and get rest and eat chicken soup – but there are other things you may not have heard before that can help alleviate the symptoms of a cold while you wait for it to go away. And since this is cold season, we begin this episode with great ways to ease the misery of having a cold.
Everyone knows being neat and tidy is preferable to being messy. But wait! Not so fast. Says who? There is a case for being messy. Because it turns out that life is messy and often life doesn’t fit neatly into categories, files and folders. Tim Harford, journalist, economist and author of the book Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives (http://amzn.to/2Die1Cw) explains why being neat isn’t always the solution and suggests ways to embrace the messiness of life and use it to your advantage.
Also, I’m sure you’ve noticed that whenever you cry, you get a runny nose. Why? Listen and find out.
Then, sooner or later – and probably sooner, you will need to clean something. And no one knows better how to keep your life clean and sparkly bright than Jolie Kerr. Jolie is an advice columnist and host of the podcast, “Ask a Clean Person.” She is also author of the book, My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag (http://amzn.to/2Df2BPL). NO ONE loves to clean like Jolie and you will love her cleaning hacks that I know you will use within hours if not minutes after hearing them.
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The Power of Being Humble in a Narcissistic World & Where Stars Come From
SYSK Choice: Unusual Facts You Never Knew & Your Solution to Too Much Paper
What Love Does To You & The Oddities of Death
Is Junk Food Really So Bad? & How Buildings Affect Your Health and Behavior
SYSK Choice: The Survival of the Friendliest & The Quickest Way to be Debt Free
What Makes You The Person You Are & Understanding Extreme Weather
Toxic Positivity and The Harm It Causes & What’s Your Real Biological Age?
SYSK Choice: The Evolution of Counting & Our Obsession With the Unexplained
Why Some People Stand Up to Bullies and Others Don’t & Where Idioms Come From
Is The Shopping Mall Dead? & When Less Is Really More
SYSK Choice: How to Get the Truth From Anyone & Fascinating Bird Facts
Why The Negativity Effect Rules Your Life & What You Never Knew About Liquids
Bonus Episode: Why We Must Defeat Climate Change and How to Do It
What Happens When You Love Things Instead of People & What Will Likely Kill You
SYSK Choice: Understanding Time and Space & The Steps to a Perfect Apology
Understanding Taste and Flavor & Why It’s Good To Get Angry - Sometimes
How to Avoid The Summer Travel Chaos & Preventing Regrets About Money
SYSK Choice: The Psychology of Design & How to Be a Better Conversationalist
How Toxic Individualism Is Destroying Relationships & The History of Fragrances
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