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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SYSK Choice: The Best Advice is Not to Give Any & Overcoming Cognitive Dissonance
What Distractions Do To Your Brain & What You Never Knew About Your Pharmacy
Bonus Episode: Saving the World One Meal At a Time
How Peer Pressure Really Works & Is Shyness Normal?
SYSK Choice: Simple Steps to Being Happier & How Fungi Powers Life
Bonus Episode: A Charged Up Success Story
How to Learn Anything Better and Faster & The Mosquito: Humans' Worst Enemy
Science Behind Love and Friendship & How to Get Better At Saying No
SYSK Choice: How to Successfully Negotiate Anything & The Unknown Benefits of Walking
Weird Factors That Distort Your Thinking & How Animals Perceive the World
Using Data to Get What You Want & What You Didn’t Know About Weather and Nature
SYSK Choice: The Key to Mega-Successful Products & Public Speaking Made Easy
How to Learn From People You Disagree With & Ways to Turn Down Your Anxiety
The Science of Creativity & What You Never Knew About the Periodic Table of Elements
SYSK Choice: People Behind the Great Firsts in History & Job Search Strategies That Work
Why Perfectionists Aren’t So Perfect & How Advertisers Target You
What to Do When You Feel Stuck & How Alternative Health Practices Can Actually Work
SYSK Choice: How to Avoid Eating Plastic & Overcoming Cognitive Bias
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