How to Improve Your Luck & A Much Better Way to Die

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Apr 25, 2024

Discover how luck and chance impact your life and learn ways to improve your luck. Find out about the risks of pesticides on produce and the secrets of aging and longevity. Explore the role of randomness in shaping our lives and the fascinating biology behind aging and death.

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Pesticide Risk Is Produce-Specific

Consumer Reports found risky pesticide residues in about 20% of tested produce, especially bell peppers, blueberries, green beans, potatoes, and strawberries.
Imported produce, notably from Mexico, showed higher risky levels while nearly all organic samples looked safer.

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Use Persistence To Amplify Luck

Be persistent and send your work to multiple outlets to raise the odds of success rather than relying on a single attempt.
Combine persistence with real skill or quality, since luck amplifies ability but can't replace it.

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Luck Often Compounds Over Time

Luck clusters: initial advantages or disadvantages often compound over time through cumulative advantage or disadvantage.
This explains why some people seem to have a string of good or bad luck rather than an even spread.

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Just how much pesticides residue is on the produce you buy? Should you be concerned? Should you buy organic? Consumer Reports recently did an investigation into pesticides on fruits and vegetables and I begin this episode with some of the surprising results. https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-contaminants/produce-without-pesticides-a5260230325/

Luck is just around the corner. It may be good luck or it may be bad luck but chance and luck have a huge impact on how things turn out for you. When you understand how luck and chance work in your life, you can do things to improve your good luck and minimize the bad. Joining me to explain how all this works is Mark Robert Rank, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the book The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World around Us (https://amzn.to/3W1mDb4).

Every living thing will die one day. What’s interesting is that some living things - for instance a butterfly - may live only a few days before it dies while a tortoise or whale might live hundreds of years. Why do something age quickly and others slowly. Can we somehow slow down human aging so we live longer than we do now? A lot is going on to understand the aging process and slow it down according to my guest Venki Ramakrishnan. He is a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist and author of the book Why We Die (https://amzn.to/49KII0z) Listen as he offers some fascinating insight into how aging works and we can slow down the inevitable.

You’ve probably heard the advice to, “Stop and smell the roses.” While that’s certainly a good idea, you may also want to stop and listen to the birds sing and chirp. Listen and I will explain how bird songs are good for your soul. https://www.treehugger.com/why-do-birds-sing-5179422

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