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Are You Treating Your Clothes All Wrong? & The Power of Being Quiet

2024/10/21
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Mike Carruthers: 本期节目探讨了正确洗涤衣物的方法和保持安静的重要性。在衣物护理方面，嘉宾Zach Posniak强调了冷水洗涤、避免使用织物柔顺剂和烘干纸巾等技巧，并解释了干洗的原理和污渍处理方法。 Joe McCormack则从时间管理和效率的角度出发，阐述了保持安静对深度思考、专注工作和人际交往的积极作用，并建议人们每天安排固定的安静时间，以提高生活质量。 Zach Posniak: 洗涤衣物时，应先按颜色再按重量分类；冷水洗涤更环保节能，并能保护衣物；热水洗涤只适用于顽固污渍；氧漂白剂可以有效保持衣物洁白；过度清洗衣物会造成浪费；烘干衣物时，应使用带有湿度传感器的程序，并尽量晾干衣物，避免使用织物柔顺剂和烘干纸巾清洗合成衣物和吸水性衣物；干洗并非不用水，而是使用非水性溶剂；干洗后的衣物应取出塑料袋晾干，以防止变黄；使用酶性去污喷雾可以有效去除污渍，需要将喷雾充分作用于污渍后再清洗；如果污渍洗涤后未去除干净，不要烘干，可以再次清洗，并尝试提高水温。 Joe McCormack: 现代人过度依赖科技，导致人们逃避安静，将忙碌视为有意义和高效的象征；科学研究表明，专注和深度思考需要较长时间的无干扰状态，而安静有助于实现这一点；安静有助于人们更好地准备和计划，避免盲目地度过每一天；许多人感到不适，因为他们习惯了外部刺激，无法忍受安静；即使是精英人士也缺乏安静的时间，习惯性地忽略了安静的重要性；建议从每天安排5分钟的安静时间开始，不必追求完美，重要的是坚持；安静的时间能够提升人际交往的质量，使人更有效率和专注；安静的时间可以用来做任何事情，例如冥想、计划、思考、阅读等等；安静的时间可以帮助人们更好地处理问题和做出决定；人们怀念过去安静的时光，而现代人习惯于被打扰，导致生活变得模糊不清；缺乏安静的时间会影响人际沟通的质量；建议人们在不同的角色中，思考当天最重要的事情；提前准备能够提高效率，减少时间浪费。

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The episode begins with a detailed exploration of the U.S. $1 bill, focusing on the significance of the number 13 in its design.
  • The Great Seal of the United States prominently features the number 13.
  • The eagle on the reverse side holds 13 arrows and an olive branch with 13 leaves and 13 olives.
  • The unfinished pyramid symbolizes strength and stability, with 13 layers of bricks.

Shownotes Transcript

You have seen a dollar bill hundreds of times, but have you ever really studied it? It’s fascinating. And the number 13 plays a prominent role. This episode begins with a short tour of a U.S. $1 bill. https://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/riddles/jokes/dollar-bill-trivia)

You spend a lot of time with clothes – wearing them, buying them, and washing them. How you care for your clothes is important. If you care for them the right way, they will last a lot longer and look a lot better. You will also probably save yourself a lot of time and money. Joining me to explain the right and wrong ways to care for clothes is Zach Pozniak. He is a fourth-generation fabric-care expert and dry cleaner. He is all over social media offering popular advice on this topic https://www.instagram.com/jeeves_ny/ and he is the author of the bestselling book, The Laundry Book: The Definitive Guide to Caring for Your Clothes and Linens (https://amzn.to/3Nu3I2Z).)

When was the last time you carved out some quiet time in your day to just sit alone with your thoughts? Today, people are constantly seeking distraction and stimulation from other people or their smartphone with zero quiet time. Yet, that quiet time can deliver huge benefits to you. For one thing, it allows you to be better prepared and more deliberate about what you do rather than just race through your day reacting to whatever comes along. And there is so much more to this as you will hear from my guest Joe McCormack. He is an entrepreneur and writer who in 2022 launched the Quiet Works program to help people manage the noise in their lives. He is author of the book Quiet Works: Making Silence the Secret Ingredient of the Workday (https://amzn.to/3NwuKa9).)

There is some controversy around those baby “cocktail” carrots sold in the store. Some people claim they are unsafe to eat and that they don’t taste as good as regular carrots. Listen as I reveal where these carrots come from and whether you should eat them or not. https://www.eatingwell.com/article/8068373/baby-carrots-vs-regular-carrots/)

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