I’ve been using a popular navigation app on my phone for years to get from point A to point B, and it’s super useful, particularly in a place where I might not be familiar or if I’m traveling somewhere pretty far away from home. I have noticed though there are times where the route that […]
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In the National Football League there’s a penalty for something called prolonged or excessive celebrations, like what might happen after a player scores a touchdown. It’s considered unsportsmanlike conduct in the context of a football game and it makes perfect sense, and for that reason in real life, if you’re like me, and I’m perhaps […]
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When you buy bagels at a store where they pre-sliced them, they’re often cut through the center of the bagel, and a lot of people cut them that way at home as well. That means if somebody takes the top half, which often has toppings on it, like sesame seeds or poppy seeds, what’s left […]
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One of the more interesting concepts in psychology is called the “help-rejecting complainer.” That is somebody who brings problems to you and tells you they want your advice. As soon as you offer any, though, they either negate it, tell you why it won’t work, or tell you they already did that. That kind of […]
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When I was growing up, we had a fireplace in the living room and on the mantle of the fireplace was an old-fashioned mantle clock. I don’t know where it came from, how my parents got it, and it never worked. It was always at just about 10 o’clock as I recall, and they later […]
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Like most people, my wardrobe probably follows the 80-20 rule, where I probably wear 20% of the things that I own, 80% of the time. I noticed a shirt in my closet that I hadn’t worn in months, and I decided to put it on. I went to a breakfast and lunch place that day […]
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Recently, when I put on a pair of pants I hadn’t worn in a while, I reached into the right pocket and found a dollar. It is always fun to find money in an article of clothing or somewhere else in the home that we forgot about. In fact, the personal finance expert Susie Orman […]
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I dropped my car off at a car repair shop that is just a three or four minute drive from my office, but a 20 minute walk, and I always prefer the walk because I see so many cool and interesting things on my way back. And this is a route that I’ve driven many […]
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The tremendous relationship expert, John Gottman, has theories and data about why relationships are successful. One of the concepts he talks about is related to when one person in a couple is looking to get some attention, affection, or something else by beginning a conversation, and the reaction of the other partner could be “turning […]
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