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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to notice favorite colors. It is a

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Speaker 1: simple way to please those you care about. We have

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Speaker 1: all observed the phenomenon of little kids choosing gifts for

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Speaker 1: relatives or friends that have nothing to do with the

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Speaker 1: recipient and everything to do with the gift giver. Yep,

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Speaker 1: toy dump truck for Grandma. Why not? It takes a

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Speaker 1: while to develop the empathy to realize that what you

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Speaker 1: want is not necessarily what other people want. Curiously, many

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Speaker 1: adults don't seem to develop this empathy either, or they

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Speaker 1: recognize that their own desires might not be universal, but

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Speaker 1: when push comes to shove, they don't really think about it.

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Speaker 1: One way this plays out is that if you don't

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Speaker 1: pay attention to other people's favorite colors, you will always

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Speaker 1: choose gifts or other such things for them in your

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Speaker 1: favorite colors. I mean, you like certain colors, so they

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Speaker 1: must be good colors, right. But it's really not hard

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Speaker 1: at all to notice what other people like and keep

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Speaker 1: that in mind, whether deciding on the color of frosting

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Speaker 1: for a cupcake or the color of a binder full

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Speaker 1: of materials you're giving to a colleague, or a scarf

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Speaker 1: you're giving to a friend. If you choose based on

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Speaker 1: your recipients favorite color, they are going to feel happy,

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Speaker 1: and as a side benefit, they will think that you

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Speaker 1: have excellent taste. Finding out and keeping track of others

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Speaker 1: favorite colors is easier to do than it seems. Kids,

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Speaker 1: for instance, are used to being asked their favorite colors.

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Speaker 1: So just ask the kids in your life what their

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Speaker 1: favorite colors are and record their responses wherever you keep

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Speaker 1: information about their family, your address book, the contacts app

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Speaker 1: in your phone, a spreadsheet you maintain for adults, just

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Speaker 1: pay attention to the colors they wear and the colors

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Speaker 1: in their home, and again, make a note of what

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Speaker 1: you notice. If your sister in law gravitates toward blue

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Speaker 1: green in her clothes and home descors, you can guess

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Speaker 1: that that is her favorite color. If your work best

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Speaker 1: friend has a red planner, a red wallet, and a

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Speaker 1: red water bottle, you can assume that that is not random.

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Speaker 1: If your neighbor has a forest green car and a

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Speaker 1: forest green front door, voila. We have a pattern. So

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Speaker 1: when you make observations about the colors people lean toward.

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Speaker 1: Just write them down. Then, the next time you are

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Speaker 1: deciding on a gift, fall back on their favorite colors.

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Speaker 1: Get the sweater in blue instead of red. If your

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Speaker 1: recipient loves blue, Get the birthday cupcakes with pink frosting

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Speaker 1: for the colleague whose wardrobe leans heavily on that color.

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Speaker 1: When you pay attention to favorite colors, it is easier

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Speaker 1: to choose hostess gifts, Birthday or holiday gifts are really anything.

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Speaker 1: The recipient may not think to themselves that you choose

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Speaker 1: a gift in their favorite color. They may just know

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Speaker 1: they like what you gave them. That is doubly true

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Speaker 1: for things that require a choice but aren't even really gifts.

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Speaker 1: You have a stack of folders and you need to

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Speaker 1: pass along some info to a fellow volunteer on a project.

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Speaker 1: Which color folder do you choose the person's favorite color.

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Speaker 1: It's just a really thoughtful touch. The person will appreciate

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Speaker 1: it and think more warmly of you, even if they

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Speaker 1: can't really articulate why. This doesn't take much time and effort,

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Speaker 1: so why not give it a shot. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura, Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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