Why Rituals Are So Important & Healthy Living Made Simple
4/11/202649 min
Where do you do your best thinking? It’s probably not where you spend most of your time working. In fact, the environment you choose can quietly influence how clearly you think, how creative you are, and how well you perform. There’s a simple shift that can make a noticeable difference. Source: Edward Hallowell author of Driven to Distraction (https://amzn.to/3PQgv1u).
Rituals are everywhere—handshakes, morning routines, lucky habits, traditions we repeat without thinking. Even people who don’t consider themselves “ritualistic” rely on them every day. But why? Michael Norton, professor at Harvard Busi...
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First 90 secondsMike Carruthers· Host0:00
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Michael Norton· Guest0:41
One of the things that researchers suggest rituals help us with, if you think of them, they're very orderly, they're very familiar. Rituals give us a sense of being in the here and now and help us to get ready for what's coming instead of off in our own minds stressing.
Mike Carruthers· Host0:55
Also, why revenge can be so sweet. And how to be healthy, what's proven to work, and the myths to avoid. For example...
Jacob Sager Weinstein· Guest1:05
There's this idea that, for example, you have to do ten thousand steps a day, that that's the magic number to be healthy. And if you look into where that number came from, it was actually made up by a Japanese company that was trying to sell pedometers, those things that measure how far you walk.
Mike Carruthers· Host1:21
All this today on Something You Should Know. Here's a question for anyone with a dog or cat.