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What Makes a Family Happy & What We Can Learn from the Dead

2024/9/2
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Bruce Feiler
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Mike Carruthers
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Sue Black
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Mike Carruthers: 总结了获得忙碌餐厅预订的技巧,以及幸福家庭的关键要素。 Frank Luntz: 提供了在没有预订的情况下获得餐厅餐桌的策略,强调礼貌地解释情况的重要性,以激发服务员的同情心和帮助意愿。 Bruce Feiler: 分享了其研究发现的幸福家庭的秘诀,包括持续适应变化,积极沟通,创造积极回忆,以及共同努力。他强调了家庭会议的重要性,以及在日常生活中融入这些策略的方法。 Frank Luntz: 礼貌地解释特殊情况(例如重要的约会或会议)能够增加获得餐厅餐桌的机会。这种策略利用了人们参与他人生活并乐于助人的心理。 Bruce Feiler: 幸福家庭的秘诀在于持续适应变化,积极沟通(包括讨论家庭价值观),以及创造积极回忆。他建议进行家庭会议,让家庭成员参与到解决问题的过程中,并共同制定规则和奖励惩罚措施。他还强调了在日常生活中抽出时间创造积极回忆的重要性,这有助于增强家庭成员之间的联系,并在面对冲突时提供支持。 Bruce Feiler: 幸福家庭的秘诀在于持续适应变化,积极沟通,创造积极回忆,并共同努力。他详细阐述了家庭会议的益处,以及如何通过设定明确的规则、奖励和惩罚来管理家庭成员的行为,特别是早晨和睡前这两个容易产生冲突的时间段。他还强调了创造积极回忆的重要性,以及如何平衡家庭生活中的变化与核心价值观。他建议父母与孩子进行一对一的交流,并让孩子参与到家庭决策中,以增强他们的参与感和归属感。此外,他还探讨了科技使用、财务管理等方面的问题,并提出了相应的建议。

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Tricks like posing as a restaurant critic or dropping celebrity names usually don't work. However, politely explaining the significance of the occasion, like a special date or a crucial meeting, might increase your chances. The underlying psychology suggests that people are more inclined to help when they feel invested in your story.
  • Revealing a personal detail about the occasion can make restaurant staff more invested in helping you.
  • Visiting the restaurant in person and talking to the owner or maitre d' can be beneficial.
  • Getting upset is unproductive and won't increase your chances of getting a table.

Shownotes Transcript

While celebrities can sometimes pull it off, it can be almost impossible for regular folks to get a table at a busy restaurant without a reservation. This episode begins by offering some advice that can help. It may not always work, but it doesn’t hurt to try. Source: Frank Luntz author of Words That Work (https://amzn.to/37Ay5A8))

You probably know someone whose family seems genuinely happy. And then there are families that seem less happy and have lots of conflict. What do happy families do to create that sense of happiness? That’s what Bruce Feiler is here to reveal. Bruce is author of the book, The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More (https://amzn.to/3xH113T).) He has some simple yet powerful ways to help any family get along and be happy.

If you believe movies and televisions shows about crime, it seems an autopsy can reveal a wealth of information to help solve a murder. Is that true in real life? Does forensic science really allow the dead to speak from beyond the grave and reveal clues about how a person died? Forensic anthropologist Sue Black has some firsthand knowledge to share on the topic. Sue is author of the book, All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes (https://amzn.to/3lWzyJg)) . She joins me to sort out truth from fiction and she reveals some of the fascinating advances in forensic science.

Could people with big heads really be smarter? After all there is more room for a bigger brain. Well, it turns out - they are! Listen as I reveal how we know this to be true and how having a larger than normal head is beneficial now and when you get older. https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/actually-people-with-larger-heads-really-do-tend-to-be-smarter-but-not-for-reason-you-might-think.html)

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