Speaker 1: Guess what will?
Speaker 2: What's that mango?
Speaker 1: So you know I've been obsessed with life hacks forever
Speaker 1: and it all goes back to this Wired article I
Speaker 1: read back in two thousand and six. It was about
Speaker 1: this TV show in Japan called The Edo Family Dinner Table,
Speaker 1: and the whole show was just full of ridiculous little tips,
Speaker 1: like if you don't have someone to water your plants
Speaker 1: when you're away, just set them on a water soaked
Speaker 1: diaper and apparently apparently the plant slowly absorbs the water
Speaker 1: over vacation. Or if you want to turbo charge your sled,
Speaker 1: you can spray some nonstick PAM under the sled. But
Speaker 1: my favorite thing from it is how to immediately become
Speaker 1: more flexible.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. And so what's the trick here?
Speaker 1: Well, if you can't touch your toes, instead of just
Speaker 1: leaning over, if you take both arms and point them
Speaker 1: out at ninety degrees to one side, and then you
Speaker 1: slowly wind mill them around all the way to your toes,
Speaker 1: you can actually get closer to touching your toes. It's incredible.
Speaker 3: I kind of thought this one was going to involve
Speaker 3: PAM as well, like under your feet.
Speaker 2: He just slipped out into a split.
Speaker 1: That'd be great. But since it's a new year, we
Speaker 1: thought what better way to embrace our best selves than
Speaker 1: trick and cheat our way to results. So that's what
Speaker 1: today's show is all about. Let's dig in.
Speaker 3: Hey, their podcast listeners, welcome to part Time Genius. I'm
Speaker 3: Will Pearson and as always I'm joined by my good
Speaker 3: friend Mangesh how Ticketer and sitting behind that soundproof glass
Speaker 3: running the audio equipment from a handcrafted Nordic track down.
Speaker 2: That's impressive.
Speaker 3: I guess he's getting his skiing in while he does this.
Speaker 3: That's our friend and producer Tristan McNeil. Now today, we're
Speaker 3: ringing in twenty eighteen with a look at some unusual
Speaker 3: ways to better your life in the year ahead. So
Speaker 3: we're gonna check out some fun life acts like you know,
Speaker 3: how to beat an ice cream headache. We'll also get
Speaker 3: a bit more ambitious with ideas like how to be
Speaker 3: a better list or how to cram a year's worth
Speaker 3: of trash into a single Mason jar, And of course,
Speaker 3: to start the second year of ptg off Right, We've
Speaker 3: also got a ridiculous quiz lined up as well.
Speaker 2: So who's playing today? Mango Yeah.
Speaker 1: Today, we're going to have a very special guest, my wife,
Speaker 1: Lizzie Jacobs. She's been producing a fun new show for
Speaker 1: American public media called Mashup Americans. But she also hates
Speaker 1: whenever I talk about life acts, so we'll give her
Speaker 1: a little quiz about him.
Speaker 3: All right, So to get us started, I thought we
Speaker 3: should acknowledge the inspiration for today's show, which is the
Speaker 3: age old practice of making New Year's resolutions. That's something
Speaker 3: humans have done for thousands of years, going all the
Speaker 3: way back to ancient Rome, when Julius Caesar rejiggered the
Speaker 3: calendar and named January first the starting point for each
Speaker 3: new year. And Caesar named the first month in honor
Speaker 3: of the two faced god Janice, who was believed to
Speaker 3: look both backwards at the previous year and boards into
Speaker 3: the future. So by offering sacrifices and making promises to
Speaker 3: be good, ancient Romans hope to win Janis's favor in
Speaker 3: the year ahead.
Speaker 1: Right, So fast forward a few millennia to today, and
Speaker 1: every January, a little over half the population pledges to
Speaker 1: lose weight, or quit smoking, or I don't know, spend
Speaker 1: more time outdoors, all in the hopes of making the
Speaker 1: new year better than the last one. And you know,
Speaker 1: this lasts for about a month or so until our
Speaker 1: old habits kicked back and we're right back to where
Speaker 1: we started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess without the threat of you know, Janice
Speaker 3: looming over us, maybe people's resolve isn't what it used to.
Speaker 2: Be back then. Is blaming on janis, but everything on Janis.
Speaker 1: According to the University of Scratton, more than ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the people who make resolutions fail to keep them.
Speaker 1: And of course I'm guilty of this every year when
Speaker 1: I claim I'm going to write my friends more or
Speaker 1: finish my novel which is tentatively titled How to Write
Speaker 1: Your Friends More. But the main reason for that low
Speaker 1: success rate is that we set ourselves up for failure
Speaker 1: by choosing goals that were already at achieving.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's weird because we tend to go
Speaker 3: for things that we've already tried and failed at, you know,
Speaker 3: during the past year or so, whether that's going to
Speaker 3: the gym more often or eating better whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: Right, And so the science actually shows us that we
Speaker 1: get a sense of satisfaction just from the idea of
Speaker 1: accomplishing a difficult goal, which is why so many people
Speaker 1: like making resolutions. In the moment, we feel good about
Speaker 1: saying that we're going to lose weight this year, and
Speaker 1: we predict that we'll still feel that way in the future.
Speaker 1: But then when it's actually time to follow through, that
Speaker 1: initial happy feeling is faded, and suddenly the prospect of
Speaker 1: running three miles a day or whatever doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: fun anymore.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you say that, because this actually brings
Speaker 3: us to our first life act, because there just might
Speaker 3: be a way to make ourselves think more concretely about
Speaker 3: the future. And this comes from the research of Hal Hirschfield,
Speaker 3: who's a marketing professor at UCLA School of Management. So
Speaker 3: they're using fMRI scans and they discover that people process
Speaker 3: information about their future selves in a different part of
Speaker 3: the brain than the one that deals with their thoughts
Speaker 3: about their presence self. And here's the crazy thing is
Speaker 3: that this part of the brain that's associated with future
Speaker 3: selves is actually the same one that's connected to thoughts
Speaker 3: about strangers.
Speaker 1: Wait, so are we actually thinking or seeing our future
Speaker 1: selves as strangers?
Speaker 3: I mean, we kind of are, actually, But this is
Speaker 3: where things get interesting because it was a different study,
Speaker 3: and Hirschfield was looking at students and having them examine
Speaker 3: digitally aged pictures of themselves, and amazingly, tests showed that
Speaker 3: this helped the students develop more empathy for their future selves.
Speaker 2: Isn't that kind of strange?
Speaker 3: And so when this happened, they were less likely to
Speaker 3: procrastinate on things like studying for exams. And so apparently,
Speaker 3: if we can make our future selves feel less like strangers,
Speaker 3: we can actually use that motivation to better accomplish goals
Speaker 3: in the present.
Speaker 1: That's so bizarre, And I thought you were going to
Speaker 1: tell us just to make more manageable goals like this year,
Speaker 1: I'm going to learn to make an omelet or.
Speaker 2: Something, but you should though, you should learn to make
Speaker 2: an omlin someday.
Speaker 1: But you're saying, if you want to keep your New
Speaker 1: Year's resolution, just get in touch with your future self, right,
Speaker 1: which I mean, I guess is actually pretty easy now
Speaker 1: with asks like old define and aging booth or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can get super old and second it's pretty neat.
Speaker 3: But you know, as we mentioned, one of the most
Speaker 3: common resolutions people make is to exercise more often. I know,
Speaker 3: when we were in college, you always would say I'm
Speaker 3: gonna start lifting weights on Monday, but then you just
Speaker 3: go play basketball, and then it was Tuesday and you'd
Speaker 3: have to wait until the next Monday.
Speaker 1: I know, if a basketball is so much more fun.
Speaker 3: Well, if you want a better shot at enjoying that workout. Actually,
Speaker 3: here's another hack, and it's a quick science tip that says,
Speaker 3: just smile and seriously, like the whole thing comes from
Speaker 3: this long standing belief among some athletes that smiling while
Speaker 3: exercising makes the workout feel easier, and it turns out
Speaker 3: they're right. So there's a study done earlier this year
Speaker 3: and researchers from Ireland and Wales teamed up to see
Speaker 3: if a group of recreational runners perform better while smiling
Speaker 3: or scowling. And the whole smile factor was downplayed to
Speaker 3: the runners, you know, just so it didn't skew the
Speaker 3: outcome of the test, and so they were only told
Speaker 3: that the experiment would test factors relating to quote running economy,
Speaker 3: which is, you know how much oxygen someone uses to
Speaker 3: run at a given speech, So you can almost think
Speaker 3: of it like economy, like how much gas do you
Speaker 3: need to get somewhere? So first the researchers measured the
Speaker 3: runners under normal circumstances. They weren't given any special instructions
Speaker 3: or any techniques. They just had to run on a
Speaker 3: treadmill until they were exhausted. Then, on a different day,
Speaker 3: each of the runners undertook a series of four six
Speaker 3: minute runs, using a different approach each time, some including
Speaker 3: smiling or frowning continuously through the run.
Speaker 1: And I mean, it seems like you're telegraphing this like that,
Speaker 1: the smiling runners outpaced the frowners.
Speaker 2: Well, not across the board.
Speaker 3: I mean, a few of the volunteers actually did best
Speaker 3: while frowning, and the researchers suggested that this might have
Speaker 3: been because those frowns were like their game faces, you know,
Speaker 3: that game face you get on when every time we're
Speaker 3: about to start a podcast, and that maybe helped their
Speaker 3: you know, determination to perform well. But the most economical
Speaker 3: results came when the runner smiled, and so the group's
Speaker 3: running economy was as much as two point seven to
Speaker 3: eight percent higher during the smiling runs than it was
Speaker 3: during the others.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, So do we have any idea why that is?
Speaker 3: Well, according to the lead researcher, the smiling likely helped
Speaker 3: prompt this reduction and muscular tension. Now, there's one catch
Speaker 3: to this, Because the smiling has to be sincere, you
Speaker 3: can't fake it, so most of the runner's smiles became
Speaker 3: more unnatural the longer the session went on.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine trying to run.
Speaker 3: Six minutes with a sincere smile on your face? So
Speaker 3: if you want to boost your performance while running, it's
Speaker 3: best to smile sincerely mango. In fact, one researcher suggests
Speaker 3: that you save your smile for near the end of
Speaker 3: the race and then use it in thirty second burst.
Speaker 3: You know, so you don't wear out that sincerity.
Speaker 1: I love that you can just pocket you into sincerity
Speaker 1: and then pull it when you need small slam.
Speaker 3: There's nothing more sincere than planning out your thirty second smile.
Speaker 1: It's all over my Google calendars. Here's one for any
Speaker 1: listener who wants to be a better performer but doesn't
Speaker 1: actually want to break a sweat. So the next time
Speaker 1: you're at a karaoke bar and you need to hit
Speaker 1: a high note in your soulful rendition of I don't
Speaker 1: know my heart will go on, just try lifting a
Speaker 1: potted plant over your head. As you sing.
Speaker 3: So if people don't look ridiculous enough doing karaoke, you know,
Speaker 3: you might want to add a fern to the mix.
Speaker 1: I guess here, Well, it doesn't have to be a plant,
Speaker 1: But lifting something heavy above your head actually can help
Speaker 1: you hit high notes in the higher registers. And this
Speaker 1: is one of those old chestnuts I learned at mental flaws.
Speaker 1: But basically that weight makes your muscles tense up, which
Speaker 1: in turn forces your larynx to stretch a little, and
Speaker 1: that will actually help you land the high notes and
Speaker 1: impress all the people who would have otherwise thought you foolish.
Speaker 3: All right, well, I'll keep that one in mind, manga.
Speaker 1: So, staying on the subject to sound, did you know
Speaker 1: that our left and right ears are actually each equipped
Speaker 1: to hear different kinds of sound. So our right ears
Speaker 1: are better suited for deciphering speech patterns, while our left
Speaker 1: ears are better with musical qualities like pitch or timber
Speaker 1: or loudness.
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 3: I've read a little bit about this, and I might
Speaker 3: be mixing up the sides here, but isn't the idea
Speaker 3: that they're right ear is paired with the left hemisphere
Speaker 3: of the brain, which is the side that's better at
Speaker 3: processing verbal information.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, you're completely right. So weirdly, the same kind
Speaker 1: of right ear preference shows up in other species. So
Speaker 1: I was reading about this earlier, and it's common for
Speaker 1: rats and dogs and also sea lions. Oh but one
Speaker 1: really cool thing I found out is that even apart
Speaker 1: from its left brain connection, our right ear is also
Speaker 1: physically better for hearing speech.
Speaker 2: Oh, so what do you mean by that?
Speaker 1: So this comes from this joint research effort from UCLA
Speaker 1: and the University of Arizona. But when you hear a sound,
Speaker 1: the tiny cells in your ear expand and contract to
Speaker 1: amplify the vibrations, and then inside these inner hair cells
Speaker 1: convert the vibrations and send them to the brain. And
Speaker 1: that's simplistic, but that's kind of how your ear works.
Speaker 1: But the team measured the hearing of three thousand newborns
Speaker 1: using two different kinds of sound, and they looked at
Speaker 1: these rapid clicks like those found in speech, and then
Speaker 1: sustained tones like those found in music. And the results
Speaker 1: showed that the left ear actually gave extra amplification for
Speaker 1: tones like music. Well, the right ear did the same
Speaker 1: thing for sounds like speech.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So The weird thing is that your auditory processing really
Speaker 1: begins with the ear itself, and that's before your brain
Speaker 1: gets involved. And if you want to be a better listener,
Speaker 1: all you have to do is make sure you're using
Speaker 1: the correct ear for whatever you're trying to hear.
Speaker 3: That is pretty neat, and I guess helpful when you're
Speaker 3: at a cocktail party to know which side of your
Speaker 3: face you need to really lean in with. I always
Speaker 3: think about which side of the face I gotta lean
Speaker 3: this side of my face and really hard here. It
Speaker 3: actually reminds me of something else that we're a little
Speaker 3: too quick to attribute to our brains, and that's the
Speaker 3: all too familiar pain of brain freeze.
Speaker 1: So I think I know where you're going with this,
Speaker 1: and this is an amazing trick. I not only use
Speaker 1: this all the time, but I've taught my kids this.
Speaker 1: But in the words of Kanye, I'm gonna let you finish.
Speaker 2: Thanks Kanye.
Speaker 3: All right, So, as I was saying, most people go
Speaker 3: along with the brain freeze name and assume the pain
Speaker 3: is in their brain, which is why you know we
Speaker 3: instinctively grab our heads or start rubbing our temples when
Speaker 3: we scarf down ice cream or drink something really cold,
Speaker 3: but there actually aren't any pain receptors in the brain
Speaker 3: at all. Instead, scientists think the pain is due to
Speaker 3: these spasms brought on by the quick cooling of blood
Speaker 3: vessels in the back of the throat. So the next
Speaker 3: time you need to relieve that brain freeze, you can
Speaker 3: drink something warm or just place your tongue against the
Speaker 3: roof of your mouth and that helps warm up those
Speaker 3: blood vessels and gets the brain freeze to go away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's the trick, I know, Just shove your
Speaker 1: tongue against the roof of your mouth and that headache
Speaker 1: just melts away. But this isn't something I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell my kids. But there's also an other way to
Speaker 1: lessen that pain, and that's to use swear words.
Speaker 3: I love how we're talking about resolutions for twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: and a good one maybe to get to your kids
Speaker 3: to swear more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're already from New York, so right.
Speaker 1: But this is a real thing. So, according to a
Speaker 1: study at Kiel University, people who curse freely can endure
Speaker 1: pain almost fifty percent longer than those who watch their language.
Speaker 1: WHOA yeah, and the researchers had sixty four volunteers stick
Speaker 1: their hand into a tub of freezing water for as
Speaker 1: long as they could while repeating their favorite swear word.
Speaker 1: Then they repeated the experiment, but they got to use
Speaker 1: a benign word instead. And shockingly, the volunteers who swore
Speaker 1: endured nearly two minutes of pain, while those who use
Speaker 1: the benign words, so something like eggplant over and over
Speaker 1: and over, they lasted just a minute and fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3: That is wild. Then that's a huge difference. So do
Speaker 3: researchers know why cursing, you know, lessens the pain?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not exactly sure, but their best guess is
Speaker 1: that the swearing helps us downplay the threat in order
Speaker 1: to overcome it. But the curious part is that the
Speaker 1: curses kind of have to mean something. So, just like
Speaker 1: your smile earlier, if you want to lessen your pain
Speaker 1: by swearing, you have to limit your casual curses. And
Speaker 1: as the researcher put it, swearing is emotional language, but
Speaker 1: if you overuse it, it loses its emotional attachment.
Speaker 3: Well all things in moderation, I guess, all right, Well,
Speaker 3: before we get into more life acts, why don't we
Speaker 3: take a quick break. You're listening to part Time Genius
Speaker 3: and we're talking about some quirky ideas to make life a.
Speaker 2: Little bit easier.
Speaker 3: So mego I mentioned this upfront that we would cover
Speaker 3: some life hacks that may be a bit more ambitious
Speaker 3: than using dental floss to slice up a cake or
Speaker 3: some of the other really silly things you find if
Speaker 3: you're looking online for life hacks.
Speaker 1: But I almost love the dumb and useless life hacks
Speaker 1: as much as the good one. Oh yeah, Like there
Speaker 1: was this one that said, uh, never forget where you
Speaker 1: park your car in a parking lot, just tie a
Speaker 1: helium balloon to the antenna.
Speaker 2: I'm not as good.
Speaker 1: I love that, like it just assumes that you always
Speaker 1: have freshly filled helium balloons up of course, of course,
Speaker 1: and there was this other one where where you turn
Speaker 1: your hoodie around so the hoodie parts in front of
Speaker 1: you and it's considered an accessible snack pocket. So the
Speaker 1: picture I had this like fresh popcorn in the hood
Speaker 1: in front of this coder so that he could just
Speaker 1: burrow his face in the popcorn whenever he needed to bite.
Speaker 1: And that was also he didn't have to move his hands.
Speaker 1: It's so dumb.
Speaker 3: I could totally see that being marketed toward coders. That's
Speaker 3: pretty terrific. Although I will say that those kind of
Speaker 3: life hacks do kind of give life hacks a bad name,
Speaker 3: especially when you compare them to things that are really useful.
Speaker 3: You know, like how hand sanitizer gets tree sap off
Speaker 3: your hands, which is actually pretty useful when you're bringing
Speaker 3: in Christmas trees or getting rid of them, and otherwise
Speaker 3: you kind of have to sit there for like fifteen
Speaker 3: minutes just your hands and scalding water.
Speaker 1: I hate the stickiness of tree SAPs.
Speaker 3: Stands sticky at all and much less tree sap, so
Speaker 3: it drives me crazy. And then there was that trash
Speaker 3: hack that you told me about that that I think
Speaker 3: also fits the bill here.
Speaker 2: Do you want to talk us through that one?
Speaker 1: Definitely? So this one is related to this zero waste
Speaker 1: lifestyle movement that's really big right now, and it's basically
Speaker 1: an effort to reduce the insane amount of trash that
Speaker 1: we produce on an individual level. And to give you
Speaker 1: an idea of why this might be necessary, consider the
Speaker 1: fact that the average American produces about four point five
Speaker 1: pounds of trash each day. Which is over sixteen hundred
Speaker 1: pounds per year.
Speaker 2: Ah, that is a ton of trash.
Speaker 3: Actually literally, that is almost a ton of trash that
Speaker 3: every single person produces.
Speaker 2: It's crazy crazy.
Speaker 1: So obviously, with a population as large as ours, that
Speaker 1: kind of trash production adds up fast. So here's a
Speaker 1: clever way to reduce your role in the problem. Stuff
Speaker 1: an entire year's worth of your garbage into a single
Speaker 1: Mason jars. Yeah. I mean it might sound crazy, but
Speaker 1: that's what Lauren Singer did, and it completely changed the
Speaker 1: way she looks at trash.
Speaker 2: Well, if Lauren Singer did it. Who is Lauren Singer.
Speaker 1: She's a graduate from NYU's Environmental Science program, and she
Speaker 1: runs this blog about sustainability called Trash Is for Tossers.
Speaker 1: And a few years ago, Singer got some pressed because
Speaker 1: she realized that her interest in living sustainably hadn't extended
Speaker 1: past the classroom. And as she put it, I've got
Speaker 1: this quote here. One day I went home after class
Speaker 1: and opened my fridge to make dinner, and I realized
Speaker 1: that every single thing I had in there was packaged
Speaker 1: and plastic. So she made this decision to go plastic
Speaker 1: free and started making other changes in her life to
Speaker 1: live a less wasteful life.
Speaker 2: And so that's where the mason jar comes in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was kind of her way of keeping crack
Speaker 1: of the small amounts of waste that she just couldn't
Speaker 1: shake because like, even so she's sworn off buying, I
Speaker 1: don't know, packaged goods and plastic and whatever, there's still
Speaker 1: some random bits of paper and plastic that can't be
Speaker 1: recycled or composted. So if you think about like fruit
Speaker 1: often comes with these little stickers, or the bits of
Speaker 1: plastic used to connect the price tag to your clothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of that's unavoidable waste. Then that goes into her
Speaker 1: trustees sixteen ounce mason jar.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: But so she crams a full year's worth of garbage
Speaker 3: into just one jar. How is that possible?
Speaker 1: She's actually even more efficient than that. So Singer claims
Speaker 1: to have used the same jar for four years straight.
Speaker 2: No way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if that's true, it means she's personally saved
Speaker 1: over six thousand pounds of trash from heading to a landfill.
Speaker 3: I think she's hiding our trash. But that is incredible
Speaker 3: if this is true. But it also sounds like one
Speaker 3: of those resolutions that's too hard to achieve, So on
Speaker 3: the blog or anywhere else that this singer have any
Speaker 3: tips for people who are just starting to consider how
Speaker 3: to cut down their trash.
Speaker 1: Or yeah, she's got a whole process laid out, So
Speaker 1: she suggests people start by getting to know their trash,
Speaker 1: kind of like what she did by looking at her
Speaker 1: fridge and examining that she had too much plastic packaging.
Speaker 1: But once you've identified what kind of trash you produced
Speaker 1: the most of, you can start looking for solutions and
Speaker 1: ways to reduce it. So if you think about the
Speaker 1: fact that, like you're throwing out a lot of wasted food,
Speaker 1: you can start composting or maybe change the way you
Speaker 1: grocery shop so you're doing it more often but buying
Speaker 1: less each time, and that way you don't end up
Speaker 1: with all this excess food you can't use. But then
Speaker 1: the next step is to make smarter daily choices. And
Speaker 1: this is just little stuff like bringing reusable bags or
Speaker 1: coffee mugs with you when you're on about, or you know,
Speaker 1: refusing plastic straws when you get offered them. But Singer's
Speaker 1: biggest advice is to transition to a DIY approach. And
Speaker 1: this is the one we'll all get held up on.
Speaker 1: But it's things like making your own cleaning products using
Speaker 1: apple cider vinegar, or baking soda or using citrus juice.
Speaker 3: For that.
Speaker 2: Wow, I mean that is interesting.
Speaker 3: And for me making your own cleaning products, that does
Speaker 3: feel like a big hurdle to getting one hundred percent there,
Speaker 3: So I'm just not going to try it all. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I do admire the commitment. One thing I do find
Speaker 3: appealing about singers single jar approach is just how much
Speaker 3: it limits her options because only allowing yourself such a
Speaker 3: tiny space for trash, it really restricts your choices, you know,
Speaker 3: for what you can consume.
Speaker 1: Exactly Like you might look at a box of oreos
Speaker 1: that look delicious, but you quickly realize how much less
Speaker 1: work you have to do by eating an apple.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's another tip for improving your lifestyle, and
Speaker 3: that is to limit your options. It sounds counterintuitive, but
Speaker 3: when it comes to choice, less is actually better, at
Speaker 3: least according to Sena angar And. She's a psychologist at
Speaker 3: Columbia University and she studies this paradox of choice. She
Speaker 3: says that the greater choice can be a problem because
Speaker 3: of the added strain it puts on your ability to
Speaker 3: process information, you know, so think of all the time
Speaker 3: you spend weighing your different options, not to mention the
Speaker 3: fact that more choices also means a higher chance of
Speaker 3: making a mistake and maybe even passing up on a
Speaker 3: better option.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I like that idea, but what's alternative
Speaker 1: just settling for good enough?
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, that that is the solution.
Speaker 3: And Sheena conducted a few experiments to test her theories
Speaker 3: about choice, and she found that people got more pleasure
Speaker 3: from choosing a chocolate from an assortment of five than
Speaker 3: when they choose from thirty.
Speaker 2: And when I think about that.
Speaker 3: Specific example, I actually get it because it is kind
Speaker 3: of stressful when you're trying to choose from that thing
Speaker 3: of thirty and you're looking through the guid and you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: it's just the one with peanut butter or not. But
Speaker 3: the idea is that if you know, if someone didn't
Speaker 3: make the absolute best choice, they'll still be happier in
Speaker 3: the long run because they didn't suck all the fun
Speaker 3: out of the experience through all this endless deliberation in
Speaker 3: the process.
Speaker 1: That's that's very funny because I think about things like
Speaker 1: video stores and one of the reasons I loved browsing
Speaker 1: in them as a kid, or libraries too, is that
Speaker 1: because you have this entire world and you have to
Speaker 1: walk out with only one or two choices, Like, there's
Speaker 1: so much pressure to pick well, but then there's the
Speaker 1: fun in choosing that and deliberating. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess it's paralyzing if that's what every decision is like.
Speaker 1: If I always had to choose from three thousand chocolates
Speaker 1: to pick from, i'd probably avoid chalk, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But speaking of choice, there's one that I didn't even
Speaker 1: know I had, and that's which direction your ceiling fan
Speaker 1: spins in. I don't know how I've gone so long
Speaker 1: without hearing about this, but apparently most ceiling fans have
Speaker 1: a two settings for your blade rotation, and that's clockwise
Speaker 1: or counterclockwise.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't think I've ever heard that either. So
Speaker 3: does the direction actually make a difference?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. So it turns out that we should
Speaker 1: be changing our fans with the seasons, just like we
Speaker 1: do with our clocks, and in the summer, ceiling fans
Speaker 1: should spend counterclockwise to produce a breeze from the air
Speaker 1: they force downwards. And then in the winter, the fans
Speaker 1: should be switched to its clockwise setting and that way
Speaker 1: the warm air that's risen to the ceiling gets pushed
Speaker 1: down from the side of the room and more warm
Speaker 1: air will be drawn upwards.
Speaker 3: That's pretty interesting here. Yeah, all right, so we've covered
Speaker 3: a few tips for making home life a little more enjoyable,
Speaker 3: and now I think we should think about work life.
Speaker 1: What do you say, Yeah, I'm for it. But before
Speaker 1: we get started, let's take a quiz.
Speaker 3: Okay, it's quiz time and we've got Lizzie Jacobs in
Speaker 3: the studio today. Now, Lizzie's the producer of Mash Up Americans.
Speaker 3: She also has an Emmy, a Peabody, and a couple
Speaker 3: of bestsellers to her name from her work at story Core.
Speaker 3: But that's not even her most impressive work. I think
Speaker 3: you could say her biggest prize is being married to Mengo.
Speaker 3: And she's here to play a very important life hacks quiz.
Speaker 3: So welcome, Lizzie.
Speaker 4: Thanks, I'm so glad to be here.
Speaker 3: Now, before we put you to the test, why don't
Speaker 3: you take a minute to tell us about your new show,
Speaker 3: Mash Up Americans.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, so.
Speaker 5: The mash of Americans is a show hosted by two
Speaker 5: first generation Americans, Amy and Rebecca, and they just like
Speaker 5: to talk to and celebrate some of the most exciting
Speaker 5: mashups in America today, and those are people who are
Speaker 5: first generation American, who are in mixed cultural couples, are
Speaker 5: from mixed cultural families, and just really about being at
Speaker 5: the inner section of culture where that is a very
Speaker 5: exciting place to be.
Speaker 1: So, Lizzia, I'm around your work a lot, so I
Speaker 1: know a little bit about this. But do you want
Speaker 1: to talk about some of the fun interviews you've been
Speaker 1: doing recently.
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, We've gotten to talk to a lot of
Speaker 5: exciting people. One of the really fun interviews was with
Speaker 5: Randall Park from Fresh off the Boat. He's just so
Speaker 5: charming and he had this kimchi recipe that came to
Speaker 5: him from I can't remember his name, but a Jewish
Speaker 5: comedian and then he was like, but he's Korean, so
Speaker 5: then he had to make it his own and all
Speaker 5: this anyway, he was just like a totally lovely person.
Speaker 4: That was really fun. And then we had.
Speaker 5: DJ Rika on talking about twenty years of Basement bannga,
Speaker 5: And that was super exciting to talk with the woman
Speaker 5: who began it all about, you know, the whole twenty years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Basement Banger was this huge event in New York
Speaker 1: City where all sorts of celebrities would come to do bangra.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was the longest running ever night like
Speaker 5: nightclub night, twenty years. The only time they didn't open
Speaker 5: was after a Hurricane Sandy because they literally there was
Speaker 5: no electricity. But other than that they were open well,
Speaker 5: you know, first Thursday of the month every month. And
Speaker 5: even though I lived in New York for twelve years,
Speaker 5: I never went to it because I'm totally a night life.
Speaker 4: Low life, so I didn't.
Speaker 5: I never made it out, but I was excited to
Speaker 5: talk about it afterwards.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: What an interesting project, and no surprise, because you're always
Speaker 3: working on interesting projects. But I have to be honest,
Speaker 3: the reason that we brought you on today is because
Speaker 3: Mango says you shudder every time he says the.
Speaker 2: Words life hacks. Is this true? And if so, why
Speaker 2: do you hate them so much?
Speaker 5: I'm shuddering actively right now.
Speaker 4: I hate the word life hack, So I'm okay.
Speaker 5: With like hacking, right, computer hacking, fine, good has you know,
Speaker 5: important to the world.
Speaker 4: Iikia hacks.
Speaker 5: I like that because there's a lot of good things
Speaker 5: you can do with those flat you know, flat pack
Speaker 5: boxes of furniture to make. But life hacks just always
Speaker 5: to me, seemed to reduce to some thing that some
Speaker 5: young dude just figured out and thinks he figured out
Speaker 5: even though grandma's have been doing it forever.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: It's just like I actually saw there was a life
Speaker 5: act the other day about how to make tacos from tortillas.
Speaker 5: It's like life back, you can take tortillas and make
Speaker 5: taco It's like, yes, you can, because that's what they're
Speaker 5: made of.
Speaker 4: Like it was just one of those things, you.
Speaker 5: Know, or life heck, you know, try to sipper your
Speaker 5: laundry before you do it's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your mom did that, you just.
Speaker 4: Didn't no attention.
Speaker 5: So I find it to be kind of this like
Speaker 5: columbusy or you know, sort of like dutification of culture
Speaker 5: that bothers me.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Mango's got some pretty good ones.
Speaker 3: He had one the other day that if you feel
Speaker 3: you're spending too much time sitting at your desk. If
Speaker 3: you've eaten a banana that day, put it in your
Speaker 3: chair and then you won't feel like sitting down.
Speaker 2: I thought it was pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 5: I thought you're gonna see the bana, but it smells
Speaker 5: so bad you had to get up and go to
Speaker 5: the trash can at least once.
Speaker 2: But I don't know. Yeah, that could be.
Speaker 3: That's another like, Wow, you're good.
Speaker 5: I'm probably bitter about them because they should just have
Speaker 5: a career as a life hack artist.
Speaker 3: Well it's a good thing, because I think we're about
Speaker 3: to put you to the test on these What what
Speaker 3: game were we playing with Lizzie Mango.
Speaker 1: It's called real advice from history or nonsense life hacks.
Speaker 1: We just made up.
Speaker 2: Perfect all right.
Speaker 3: So we're going to read a statement to you, and
Speaker 3: all you have to do is tell us whether it's
Speaker 3: actual advice from history or a nonsense life hack we
Speaker 3: just made up.
Speaker 2: You ready for these?
Speaker 4: I'm as ready as I'll ever be.
Speaker 3: Okay, here is number one. If you need to take
Speaker 3: a pie out of the oven, but don't have an oven,
Speaker 3: mit handy, just use a metal dustpan to scoop up
Speaker 3: the pie ten and keep it from over baking. It's
Speaker 3: this real or something.
Speaker 2: We made up?
Speaker 4: I have to Can I ask a clarifying question here?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm just gonna answer. I'm gonna say that's real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's real. This came from sixty years ago and
Speaker 1: it works. But as household Hacker points out, you have
Speaker 1: to use a metal dust pen and not a plastic one.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Right, because everyone has a metal dust pan, handy, and
Speaker 3: everyone wants to be sticking their dustpan in the oven.
Speaker 3: That is just you're the baked pie, right right? All right, Well,
Speaker 3: she's one for one. Here we go number two. To
Speaker 3: deal with shards of broken glass that you might not
Speaker 3: see while sweeping, spread a little cracked corn on your
Speaker 3: floor and invite a chicken or two into the house.
Speaker 3: Within a half hour, a hungry hen will eat both
Speaker 3: the seed and the glass, leaving a polished floor you
Speaker 3: can walk barefoot on.
Speaker 4: No, that's a nonsense.
Speaker 5: That's nonsense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, it's kind of not fair because
Speaker 3: Lizzie's used to your bowl mango, so she was able
Speaker 3: to read through that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, two for two. Let's see how you do on
Speaker 2: number three.
Speaker 3: To keep a beach umbrella standing upright in the sand,
Speaker 3: Stack five to ten bagels on top of one another
Speaker 3: on the ground, and insert the umbrella pole through the
Speaker 3: bagels to give the base of the pole extra weight.
Speaker 5: That's a tough one. I'm gonna say it's.
Speaker 4: Nonsense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nonsense. We made up.
Speaker 3: I was keeping my fingers crossed on it. Yes, it
Speaker 3: is nonsense. Okay to left. Number four. If you're doing
Speaker 3: work around the house, use an old potato as a
Speaker 3: pin cushion to hold your nails, screws, and toe.
Speaker 4: Oh totally, that's that's real.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's real. Supposedly, an old potato is a handy
Speaker 1: way to carry around your nails and screws without misplacing
Speaker 1: them on the floor and stepping on them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you always have an old potato.
Speaker 4: So perfect.
Speaker 3: All right, last one, let's see if you can get
Speaker 3: a perfect score. Number five. An easy trick for slicing
Speaker 3: tough bread with a dull knife is to heat up
Speaker 3: a knife, so you just submerge it in boiling water,
Speaker 3: then watch how easily it cuts through the loaf. Is
Speaker 3: this real or something we made up?
Speaker 4: I'm going to give that a real That sounds real
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's real advice, and Gizmodo's actually recommended this trick
Speaker 1: for slicing perfect cuts of cake as well.
Speaker 3: Wow, so so mango. So I think Lizzie may have
Speaker 3: aced this one.
Speaker 2: How'd she do?
Speaker 1: Yeah? She went far from five, which entitles her to
Speaker 1: a certificate of genius, which we'll put up on the.
Speaker 4: Fridge and I will use every day.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to share so many more life acts
Speaker 3: with you, good listeners. I hope you'll all check out
Speaker 3: mash Up Americans. But thanks again for joining us, Lizzie.
Speaker 4: Thanks Will.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to part time genius. Okay, so Will, what's
Speaker 1: your idea for making the workplace a little more bearable?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Two words? Coffee nap.
Speaker 1: Well you heard it here first, folks. Coffee and naps
Speaker 1: will make work easier apparently.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I didn't say coffee and naps. I
Speaker 3: say coffee naps. And this sounds crazy because we tend
Speaker 3: to think of caffeine as a way to stay awake,
Speaker 3: But if you drink some coffee right before you take
Speaker 3: a quick nap, you can actually maximize your brain's alertness.
Speaker 1: So I hate this idea already because I love both
Speaker 1: coffee and napping, and I wouldn't want to mix those experiences.
Speaker 1: I mean, to me, it's like when castandz on Seinfeld
Speaker 1: tried to add sandwiches to and TV to his love
Speaker 1: making for everything, and it's screwed everything up. But my
Speaker 1: kid cousin actually mentioned this to me, and that all
Speaker 1: his friends are actually doing in college. So I want
Speaker 1: to know why.
Speaker 2: Does this work?
Speaker 1: All?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: So, the way caffeine works is by clogging up receptors
Speaker 3: in your brain that are typically filled by a molecule
Speaker 3: called a dentizine. The basically, brain activity produces a dentizine,
Speaker 3: and when enough of it builds up, it fills the
Speaker 3: gaps in the receptors and it creates this feeling of
Speaker 3: tiredness or fatigue.
Speaker 1: So the caffeine takes the place of the adentizine, which
Speaker 1: leaves you feeling wired rather than tired.
Speaker 3: Right, But it doesn't muscle out the adentizine or anything
Speaker 3: like that. Instead, what happens is the caffeine competes for
Speaker 3: the empty spots in these receptors. Caffeine claims some of
Speaker 3: the spots and a dyentizine gets the others, and that
Speaker 3: that's why no amount of caffeine can stave off sleepiness completely.
Speaker 3: I mean, eventually, the a dentizine filled receptors, they will
Speaker 3: take their toll at some point.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's interesting. It's almost like filling seats on a
Speaker 1: roller coaster or something. But why are coffee apps the
Speaker 1: way around that problem?
Speaker 3: Well, so sleep is the body's way of clearing out
Speaker 3: a dentizine, and generally it takes about twenty minutes for
Speaker 3: caffeine to work its way through the bloodstream to the brain.
Speaker 3: So if you down some coffee and then immediately take
Speaker 3: a twenty minute nap, by the time the caffeine hits
Speaker 3: your brain, it'll have less a dentizine to compete with.
Speaker 3: Then when you wake up, you'll feel way more alert
Speaker 3: than if you just had some coffee or just taken
Speaker 3: a nap.
Speaker 1: That's pretty ingenious. So I'll have to fight off my
Speaker 1: knee jerk reaction and try this sometime soon. So we've
Speaker 1: established that coffee anaps can help you get through the day.
Speaker 1: But what else have you got?
Speaker 3: Well, no matter what kind of job you have, there's
Speaker 3: a good chance you wish it paid a little bit
Speaker 3: more than it does, and we can't help you nab
Speaker 3: a big raise or anything like that. But I do
Speaker 3: have a tip for how to save some of the
Speaker 3: money you've already made, and it's a pretty simple one.
Speaker 3: Don't shop on your smartphone.
Speaker 1: But it's always with you and that's.
Speaker 2: Part of the problem.
Speaker 3: So according to some research from doctor Ying Zoo of
Speaker 3: the University of British Columbia, people take a different approach
Speaker 3: to shopping on a touchscreen device than they do on
Speaker 3: a laptop or a desktop. She breaks down the distinction
Speaker 3: this way. She says, the touch screen has an easy
Speaker 3: to use interface that puts you into an experiential thinking style.
Speaker 3: When you're in an experiential thinking mode, you crave excitement,
Speaker 3: a different kind of experience. When you're on the desktop
Speaker 3: with all the work emails, that interface puts you in
Speaker 3: a rational thinking style. While you're in a rational thinking style,
Speaker 3: when you assess a product, you know you look for
Speaker 3: something with functionality and specific uses.
Speaker 1: So we're more likely to make frivolous impulse buys on
Speaker 1: a smartphone and practical purchases on the PC pretty much.
Speaker 3: And Zoo conducted an experiment where students were offered the
Speaker 3: same collection of products on an iPod touch and then
Speaker 3: on a desktop PC, and in both cases, students went
Speaker 3: for the more indulgent items on the iPod and more
Speaker 3: practical items on the PC.
Speaker 2: Is that wild?
Speaker 1: That's crazy?
Speaker 3: But apparently there's just something fun about the touchscreen interface
Speaker 3: that encourages us to opt for more hedonistic purchases like
Speaker 3: movie tickets or pizza delivery. So if you're trying to
Speaker 3: save some cash, delete that Amazon app and step away
Speaker 3: from your smartphone.
Speaker 1: That's so funny, because like, we don't use things like
Speaker 1: seamless on our desktop, but we do use them on
Speaker 1: our phone and iPad at our house, and so we
Speaker 1: probably order more from it. But I would say, like,
Speaker 1: if the mere thought of, you know, separating yourself from
Speaker 1: your iPhone gives you separation anxiety, actually have one last
Speaker 1: money saving life act that I want to share as
Speaker 1: an alternative, And it's really good because if you do
Speaker 1: it right, you can turn one first class airplane ticket
Speaker 1: into entire year's worth of free meals.
Speaker 3: Wait, one ticket into an entire year's worth of free meals.
Speaker 3: What is this black magic of which you speak?
Speaker 5: Mango?
Speaker 1: It's super simple and one I admire for its ingenuity,
Speaker 1: but also think is a little shameful and will never
Speaker 1: use because I'd be way too embarrassed about it.
Speaker 2: All right, so what is it here?
Speaker 1: You goes so first by yourself a fully refundable first
Speaker 1: class ticket on your favorite airline, and the destination doesn't
Speaker 1: matter at all because you're not actually going anywhere. Then,
Speaker 1: once you have your ticket, proceed directly to the swankiest
Speaker 1: VIP airport lounge you can find and stuff yourself with
Speaker 1: free food to your heart's content. And then prior to
Speaker 1: your departure you can probably guess what's coming. You exchange
Speaker 1: your ticket for a later day and come back and
Speaker 1: do the whole thing over and over.
Speaker 3: That is downright diabolical, mego, And also, there's no way
Speaker 3: this could ever work, so it already has some genius.
Speaker 1: In China used this exact ploy a few years ago
Speaker 1: and he was able to pull it off without a
Speaker 1: hitch over three hundred times that year.
Speaker 3: No way three That is crazy, And the airline never
Speaker 3: got suspicious of the same dude changing his itinerary hundreds
Speaker 3: of times without ever taking a flight.
Speaker 1: Well, obviously, like that's eventually why he stopped. But uh,
Speaker 1: you want to know the best part, Like since he
Speaker 1: was just exploiting a loophole and not actually breaking any rules.
Speaker 1: They couldn't do anything but ask him pull it to stop.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, And so did he stop?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he recognized that the jig was finally off,
Speaker 1: but he still had one last hand to play. He
Speaker 1: returned his ticket for a full refine.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, well played by this dude.
Speaker 3: And I know it's gonna be tough to top that one,
Speaker 3: but I still have a few life hacks I'm itching
Speaker 3: to try.
Speaker 1: Well, now's your chance, because it's time to celebrate the
Speaker 1: new year with the very first backed off of twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: What luck.
Speaker 1: So you know, when a light bulb goes out, you
Speaker 1: can shake it and hear a little rattle and you
Speaker 1: know it's dead. I didn't realize there's a similar test
Speaker 1: for batteries. Like if you drop a battery on the
Speaker 1: floor and it bounces, it means it isn't fresh. Older
Speaker 1: dead batteries bounce, while newer ones just thud.
Speaker 2: Oh that's weird. That's pretty cool, all right.
Speaker 3: Well, if you're in a storm and the electricity goes out,
Speaker 3: do you know what works as a tiny candle?
Speaker 2: Crayola crayons.
Speaker 3: Now your kids may not love this, but you can
Speaker 3: actually burn them one by one to give yourself some light,
Speaker 3: and according to life hacker, they'll last you fifteen to
Speaker 3: thirty minutes each.
Speaker 1: So this is such a stupid life hack, but I
Speaker 1: love it because I hate getting my handsticky or like
Speaker 1: frosting on my face. But if you have to eat
Speaker 1: a cupcake, take a knife and cut the bottom off
Speaker 1: and then press it to the top to turn it
Speaker 1: into a little cupcake sandwich.
Speaker 3: A great nickname for somebody. We need to decide who
Speaker 3: to call little cupcake Sandwich. All right, Well, if you
Speaker 3: hate crying while cutting onions, you can try this trick.
Speaker 3: You just freeze them for fifteen minutes before you start slicing.
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. So I've actually tried so many tricks
Speaker 1: for cutting onions, from like wearing onion goggles to wedging
Speaker 1: some bread in front of your like top lip, and
Speaker 1: none of it works. So I can't wait to try this.
Speaker 1: But if you're drilling something into a wall, holding an
Speaker 1: open envelope under the strew actually catches all the wall particles,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to sweep up after all.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, if you want to boil a lot of
Speaker 3: hard boiled eggs, but you don't have a that's large enough.
Speaker 3: You just put them in the oven in a muffin tin.
Speaker 3: You bake them for thirty minutes at three hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty degrees. You can actually do twenty four of these
Speaker 3: at a time and not have to worry about water
Speaker 3: boiling over.
Speaker 1: Oh I like that. So I know you've got a
Speaker 1: lot of sensitive documents on hand. And if you ever
Speaker 1: need a shredder but don't have access to a shredder,
Speaker 1: writer Lisa Kadaiyama suggests stuffing them into a stalking and
Speaker 1: then running them in a washing machine. And no one
Speaker 1: should be able to read your embarrassing love letters after.
Speaker 3: Wow, you really got to want to get rid of
Speaker 3: some letters to be willing to do that. That's good though, Well,
Speaker 3: you know we both love dumb life hacks, and not
Speaker 3: that your washing machine one was that was a very
Speaker 3: reasonable one. But I've got one that may be the dumbest.
Speaker 3: Then it comes from Gizmoto. So if you're tired of
Speaker 3: fighting for a handrail to hold on to in the subway,
Speaker 3: or you just don't want to deal with all those germs,
Speaker 3: as you know, I don't really like dealing with them.
Speaker 3: Just bring a toilet plunger on the subway with you.
Speaker 3: All you have to do is you plunge it up
Speaker 3: to the ceiling of the train and you hold onto
Speaker 3: the handle. You don't have to fight anyone for space.
Speaker 3: It's such a brilliant idea, and I have no idea
Speaker 3: why I haven't thought of this.
Speaker 1: I love the idea of people commuting with their plungers
Speaker 1: just because they're like scared of germs instead of I
Speaker 1: don't know, like carrying hand sanitizer, no plunger. But I
Speaker 1: do think you went today's edition.
Speaker 2: I thought so.
Speaker 3: I knew that one was gonna take the crown. Well
Speaker 3: that's it for today's episode. Now, I know there are
Speaker 3: so many life acts that we didn't mention today, so
Speaker 3: we'd love to hear those from you guys. Feel free
Speaker 3: to email us part Time Genius at HowStuffWorks dot com.
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