Destress with the Mediterranean Diet; Fall in Love with Your Job; The Top Magazines in the World

On this week’s episode we discuss:

Destress with The Mediterranean Diet

The Power of Scent on your wallet

The link between intelligence and a growth mindset

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Episode Transcript

Unknown (00:08):
Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the
podcast. I'm Gib Gerard. We areso excited to bring you today
some rapid fire intelligence,little bits of intelligence,
little stories from the radioshow that we get to bring to you
in succession here on thepodcast. I absolutely love it.
So here, without further ado, isme and John Tesh,

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well, Gib, I just discoveredthat you and I are smarter than
the average person. I doubt it.
I knew you were, but wasn't sureabout me. The test is if you're
willing to change your mind. Oh,yeah. According to research from
Harvard Business School, theyfound that a willingness to
change your mind is a hallmarkof a growth mindset, which is a
key to success. Yeah.
I mean, anytime that you'rewilling to take new data and re

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examine your thoughts, yourphilosophies, your you know, all
of the all of your worldview,but with new data, that means
that you are educated and you'rewilling to there's a basis for
the thoughts that you have, asopposed to, as opposed to just
it being on feeling. And I will,I will add to that, that what is
the line? It's the sign of aneducated mind to be able to hold

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to conflict, conflicting ideasin your in your head at once.
That that that concept of beingable to hold those conflicting
ideas and compare them to eachother, that in and of itself, is
the sign of a of a smarterbrain. So yes, being willing to
change your mind is absolutely asmart Yeah.
And the researchers at theHarvard Business School went on
to say a growth mindset helpsyou see setbacks as temporary

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and not a reflection of yourworth. Exactly.
It's not, it's not, it's notabout who you are. It's about
what you can do and how you cangrow well. Said
this just in Gib the secret toworkplace happiness is to
remember what you love aboutyour job. A study by the
University of Alberta findingthat encouraging employees to
simply rethink their jobs wasenough to drop absenteeism by

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60% and turnover by 75% theresearchers discovered that
people who are able to findmeaning and purpose in their
work. Can see how they make adifference through that work. I
mean, we work long hours everyday, and every now and then, I
have to remind myself, Oh, maybethere are people listening, and
maybe this is helping me. Itreminds you that what you're
doing, you know, has has agreater purpose that's beyond

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you. It's beyond just makingmoney. And look, this is good
for any activity. You know, Italk about how I talk about this
all the time on our coachingcalls and on the air, I coach
Little League, right? And whenyou lose a game, it really
stinks to watch you. You know,to lose a game of Little League,
but I I have to find the thingsthat make it worth it, which is
the incremental improvementsthat some of the kids are

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making. So any activity that youhave, if you can just, if you
can just put put that mindsetinto what you're doing, if it's
your marriage, if it'sparenting, whatever, the thing
is, the more you can lean intothat idea, the more fulfillment
you'll find, and the morefulfillment you find, the more
engagement you'll have with thework
you're doing. Yeah, I think itwas the great writer, John
Maxwell, who wrote the bookfailing forward. Yeah, exactly

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what that is. So Gib, we've beentalking about how great the
Mediterranean diet is fordecades on this radio show, and
now we have another benefit totell you about. It actually
produces your stress. Oh, yeah.
So journal Nutrition and Healthfound that people who ate a
Mediterranean diet reportedsignificantly less stress than
people who ate a standardWestern diet full of processed
foods. That's it, and you'realways talking about the
inflammation from processedfoods. So I'm sorry, real

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quickly, Mediterranean diet,fish, nuts, produce and beans.
That's thething. There's no processed
Mediterranean food. That's whyit's that's why it's such a
great diet. That's why it's soanti inflammatory. It's one of
the reasons why, if you firststart a ketogenic diet, or a
whole 30 diet, it's why all ofthese are so good for your
overall inflammation. Is becauseall of those extra chemicals,
the emulsifiers, the differentoils, all the things that allow

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food to stay stable on the shelffor a really long time. You know
that we have in our in ourstandard diet, where we're happy
with standard Western diet, allthis processed food that's laden
with sodium and and all thatother stuff well, that is
inflaming in your system as yourbody digested. Those are all the
byproducts of your digestion.

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Are inflammatory in your body.
When you're having those kindsof processed foods, if you're
eating whole foods, like yousaid, fish, nuts, olive oil,
that kind of stuff, it is sogood in terms of inflammation in
your body. So yes, I totallylive by that now. It
reduces your stress. Yeah, it'sawesome. Let's talk about scent,
as in, smell. Lots of tests onthis powerful motivator scent is

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and it can make you spend moremoney. So you should just be
aware of this, and it'sconversation starter, right? Gib
as you know, some stores pipe inpleasing aromas, like Cinnabon.
Oh, yeah. What you may not knowis that the right scent can
increase sales by as much as 50%that's a big number. Your sense
of smell impacts your emotions,and the aromas that work best
are vanilla, chocolate andcinnamon. Okay,

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so, you know, cake,right? Basically, you'll eat
more cake. So,I mean, the Cinnabon knows what
it's doing. But by the way, usethis. Use this for your dating
life. If, if people are morelikely to buy something because
they smell those things, you'rethe product, they're going to be
more likely to buy you if yousmell like vanilla, chocolate
and cinnamon all at the sametime, sure? Why not just just

(05:12):
smell like cinnamon? My earssmell smell like chocolate. I'm
not saying that you can go ontoa restaurant wholesale site and
buy Cinnabon air freshener, butyou can candles, and then you
can just spray it all overyourself before your next date.
Win, win.
We just changed the whole worldof day. Oh my gosh, it's gonna
be crazy out there. Baby Boom.
So I could tell you folks thatGib family, all of them are

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readers. In fact, all three kidshave Kindles, and from eight to
13 years old and read likecrazy, which is great to see.
And reading has come back now,real books and electronic books.
And now there's another readingtrend that's gaining popularity,
which is buddy reading. It's asmaller version of a book club,
kind of like a book club for twoinstead of getting together with

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a book club after you finishreading a book, you connect with
each other during the readingprocess. And a lot of people do
this remotely on Zoom. Imean, this is we used to just
call this telling your friendabout a book and seeing if they
want to read it with you, right?
What buddy reading? Whatever youwant to call anything that gets
people reading. And I, you know,I love the combination of an

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audio book and a written book atthe same time. I'll go back and
forth between the two. That'show I go through books and but
anytime you can connect overideas with somebody else,
whether it's over zoom, whetherit's buddy reading, it's it's
good. I use a website calledGood Reads, and oh yeah, I can
see what my friends are reading,and then I can, I can write
reviews. I can read my friendsreviews like I know what some

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people I went to high schoolwith read in the last three
months. And it's so fun to beable to do that and to sort of
feel like, oh, okay, I can seewhere this exchange of ideas is
happening. I need to findsomebody to talk to on Zoom
though, because that sounds fun.
Yeah, I use Goodreads a lot forgreat, great quotes, yeah? And
it's a great place to get bookrecommendations. So there it is
that, and that's buddy reading.
So Gib, and I have told you alot about how there's a great

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deal of loneliness in the worldright now. It started or was
exposed during COVID. And wealso know from studies that you
can damage your physical andmental health. But now,
according to the journal Naturemental health, there is an easy
way to feel better that doesn'tcost a thing. So after tracking
the movement of nearly 400people, the researchers found
that people who walked an hour aday at a speed of three miles an

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hour, they felt less lonely,even if they exercised alone. Oh
yeah, people who walked indoors,like on a treadmill, got the
same boost in well being.
Look this when we talk aboutexercise is medicine, this is
like one of 1000 studies thatshow that exercise is medicine
for your body. So if you, Imean, we talk about how, if you

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live, if you know, I have anoffice in my house, and I spend
a lot of time working in myoffice alone in my house, and if
I could just get up and do aquick walk around the
neighborhood, if I just get mysteps in for the day, it totally
changes my mood before, after,during work. This is, this is a
secret life hack. You want tofeel better you and by the way,
exercise is actually better thanmost anti prescription

(08:04):
antidepressants in terms of itsefficacy. Dancing, by the way,
is the most effective treatmentfor depression, but it's so
amazing. But just getting yoursteps in, guys, getting your
steps in, is absolutely enoughto fix most of your loneliness
problems. Gib,I just read this statistic, and
I was, I was shocked. It was thewhat is that? What is the top
magazine in circulation? Andpeople guessed, people us,

(08:24):
weekly Time Magazine, RollingStone, whatever. So here are
officially the top threemagazines in circulation right
now. The two largest are AARP,the magazine and the AARP
bulletin. For those of you whodon't know, it's those are
retired people. The AmericanAssociation for retired first,
yeah, people over over 65basically read that. So

(08:47):
maybe, like, look, I, I believeit, I believe it. I It's super
useful. But then nobody in myhousehold is over the age of 50,
and I get AARP magazine sent tome. So I'm wondering if they're
juicing the numbers a little bitby just sending it to everybody.
Yeah,or they know that you're gonna
get old eventually. It's true.
That's true. The nation's thirdlargest magazine by print
circulation is Costcoconnection. I bet you get that.

(09:09):
I also get that. And I read thatcover to cover. It sends out to
its members every month. Morethan 15 million copies are
printed. An extra 300,000 arepicked up while people are in
stores. Wow. Bythe way, if you want some ideas
for Christmas shopping, if youwant some ideas for how to
redecorate your your patio withnew furniture, the Costco
connection is the way to go. Iread it cover to cover, and

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you know that your mom and I goon a date at Costco. We just
walked the aisles. It's thebest. All right, from our dating
and relationship files. Let'ssee what you think give Gerard
here the top threecharacteristics women wanted a
partner. I guess I should haveasked your wife and my wife.
According to the journalevolutionary psychology science,
who studied this, number one isfaithfulness, more than eight
out of 10 women rated that asthe most attractive quality.

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Yes, it's a weird combination,though. They want to feel like
you're in demand, but thatyou're that you're fully theirs.
That's, yeah, it's a. We it's aweird little overlap there. But
yes, the second most importantcharacteristic demand is
dependability. 75% of women wantmen who will do what they say
they will, from texting topicking up milk on the way home.
So sofar, these are two things that I
think everybody kind of wants ina partner, right? You want to

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want them to be faithful anddependable. I get that,
yeah. Also, women want a man whois kind, because if you treat
others with kindness, you mostlikely treat your partner kindly
too. So why is it that womendate men who are bad boys? It's
becausethey think they can fix them.
Oh, that's it. They think that,they think that they can make
him kind only for her. That'sthat's the psychology of that.
And it goes it's for everybody,right? We all think, oh, that

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person seems rebellious. I feellike, I feel like I can, I can
change her. I absolutelymentally. We all, we all go into
and and you know, when my wifehears this, or your wife
thinking that they're just goingto send us a text saying, What
do you know about what womenthink
fair there? I have no idea it isfair.
John touch with Gib Gerard, andwe often on this program, and

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also on our coaching programs,which you can [e-mail] we
talk about all the differentworkouts that are going to add
years longevity to your life,absolutely. And the one that's
been coming up lately isstretching. And there are a
bunch of stretching apps thathave been released. The first
thing we do when we're stressedis our body really clenches up.
So Jamie long vol is a CertifiedStrength and Conditioning

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Specialist at Brown, and shesays stretching is an effective
strategy for stress relief,because when you lengthen your
muscles, you relieve tension.
Yes, you, I mean, it's you'reliterally relieving tension. So
any kind of stretch thatwherever you're you're tight. I
carry a lot of tightness in myin my back, my neck, my jaw, but
I have a secret, because I'mterrible at stretching. I have a

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I have a mat, oh no, a bunch ofneedles on it. It's like,
yeah, it's like, it's like a bedof nails. It's exactly what
it's like. And by, by, by layingon it, it, it relieves it like
it stresses my muscles out tothe point where it finally
exhausts and it relieves all ofthe tension. It's unbelievable.
So I loveit. I started stretching it
again because I was feeling tiedup. I got I re energized my

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rollerball. That roller thingrolled up. My amazing, oh, yeah,
it's so good. Yeah, because itunhuntches your back, you can
justget a, you get a lacrosse ball
and just lay on it. And it's alittle cheaper, but yeah,
this thing is long and round.
It's really good. Well,stretching anyway. You want to
feel better about everything.

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Just good stretch. Well, it'sofficial, we are really
interested in desperate for alaugh every day, which is why
ticket sales for in personcomedy shows are surging right
now. Oh, yeah. So last year, Gibnearly $1 billion worth of
tickets were sold for livecomedy shows. I get it. Part of
the increase is due to comedianshaving more visibility on social

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media at streaming platforms andNetflix, they had this thing
called Netflix is a joke, hasinvested heavily in its
streaming comedy shows. And I'veseen this where, where unknown
comedians like, well, likesomebody like Nate bargain just
blew up on YouTube, yeah, andnow it's stadiums. Yes,
it look if you're, if you're anin demand comic, and you can go
viral just a couple of times ifyour bits start to get a little

(13:10):
bit of attention, all of asudden you're hosting Saturday
online, yeah, all of a suddenyou're doing arenas. It's
totally different. There's nocomedy. Is one of those places
where there's very fewgatekeepers. So if you're
running into gatekeepers in LosAngeles, well, guess what? Go
to, you know, go to Scottsdaleand go to the improv in
Scottsdale, go to Denver and getstage time, and then the money's
the same. Yeah, that's why somany comedians are like, I'm not

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they're quitting televisionshows just to go on the road
because, because so many peopleare much more interested in
going and seeing them live thanthey are watching TV
shows. So true. It's so true.
Live comedy huge right now.
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