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Speaker 1: You're about to listen to My Favorite Tip episode, where

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Speaker 1: I select one of my favorite tips that I've heard

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Speaker 1: on this show. But I want to know what your

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Speaker 1: favorite tip has been that you've heard on How I Work,

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Speaker 1: because I'm putting together a short series of listeners favorite

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Speaker 1: tips that I'll be releasing next month. To submit a tip,

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Speaker 1: email me a voice memo or a note to Amantha

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Speaker 1: at inventium dot com dot au. That's Amantha at inventium

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au and you can get my email

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Speaker 1: from the show notes. You might even want to mention

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Speaker 1: how you've applied the tip in your own life. Have

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Speaker 1: you done a workout today? Maybe you're in the middle

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Speaker 1: of one right now as you're listening to this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I know that exercise time is peak podcast listening time

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Speaker 1: in my own life. So what did you do for

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Speaker 1: your workout? You've probably been told to lift some weights,

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Speaker 1: or go for a walk or a run, or do

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Speaker 1: some other form of because we all know that aerobic

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Speaker 1: exercise in some form of resistance training is important, right

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Speaker 1: But according to author, television journalist, and former doctor Michael Moseley,

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Speaker 1: there is a third form of exercise that is actually

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Speaker 1: the best predictor of longevity that many of us never

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Speaker 1: actually do. My name is doctor Amantha Imba. I'm an

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Speaker 1: organizational psychologist and the founder of behavioral science consultancy Inventium.

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Speaker 1: And this is how I work a show about how

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Speaker 1: to help you do your best work. On today is

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Speaker 1: my favorite Tip episode, we go back to an interview

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Speaker 1: from the past and I pick out my favorite tip

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Speaker 1: from that interview. In today's show, I speak with Michael

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Speaker 1: Moseley about why we need to stand on one leg

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Speaker 1: more often.

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Speaker 2: So we've talked about erubic exercise, which is running, cycling,

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Speaker 2: swimming where you get your heart and lungs going, and

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Speaker 2: resistance exercises which is press up squats which helped preserve

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Speaker 2: your muscle. But the third form of exercises which really

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Speaker 2: important is balance. And from the age of twenty five

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Speaker 2: thirty onwards, if you don't work at it, you're going

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Speaker 2: to lose it very much use it or lose it scenario.

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Speaker 2: And the second commonest cause of accidental death in the

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Speaker 2: world after traffic accidents, is falling over and that obviously

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Speaker 2: happens when you get older. But your sort of balance

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Speaker 2: begins to go unless you work on it and so

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Speaker 2: the one legged regime is essentially a way of improving

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Speaker 2: your sense of balance. So I do it when I

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Speaker 2: brush my teeth, but I brush my teeth for a

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Speaker 2: couple of minutes in the morning in the evening, and

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Speaker 2: I stand one leg than the other leg, and that's

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Speaker 2: how I kind of keep my balance going. It's also

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Speaker 2: a good test of life expectancy. Strangely enough, they did

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Speaker 2: a study which would publish a medical journal, where they

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Speaker 2: got a whole bunch of fifty year olds and did

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Speaker 2: a range of tests and them including seeing how long

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Speaker 2: they could stand on one leg with first their eyes

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Speaker 2: open and then their eyes closed. And then they came

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Speaker 2: back fifteen years to see who's still alive, and they

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Speaker 2: found that it was the people who could stay on

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Speaker 2: one leg for longest who were more likely to be alive.

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Speaker 2: It was the single best predictor of life expectancy of

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Speaker 2: all the tests they ruan.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember how long they could stand for people

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Speaker 1: that want to challenge themselves at home? Because I do,

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Speaker 1: after hearing that you.

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Speaker 2: Should be able to manage thirty seconds with your eyes open.

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Speaker 2: If you're over fifty, you'll find it challenging to do

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Speaker 2: more than ten seconds. With your eyes closed, you stand

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Speaker 2: on one leg. Basically, you get somebody else to time you.

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Speaker 2: You put your hands on your hips, You stand on

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Speaker 2: with the matter with the left right leg, make sure

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Speaker 2: there's you know, you can grab something, close your eyes.

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Speaker 2: You will be astonished how quickly you fall over because

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Speaker 2: with that your eyes operating, it's very difficult to maintain balance,

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Speaker 2: particularly with one leg. So the people who did spectacular well,

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Speaker 2: people who were doing under five seconds, they were the

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Speaker 2: ones who were most likely not to be alive fifteen

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Speaker 2: years later, whereas the one who could do more than

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Speaker 2: ten seconds work broadly better. These were fifty year olds.

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Speaker 2: Young people should be able to do much better than that.

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Speaker 1: And how high do we have to lift our leg up?

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Speaker 2: Oh, doesn't matter, just off the ground, just off the ground.

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Speaker 2: The test is basically as soon as you shift your

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Speaker 2: planted foot or as soon as you have to put

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, I'm definitely going to be trying out

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Speaker 1: and timing myself after we've finished this interview. If you're

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Speaker 1: looking for more tips to improve the way that you worked,

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