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Weathering someone’s moods can be exhausting. This edition of Doing What Works will help you avoid being the person others want to avoid. Here are your show notes… You bring your own weather to the picnic. You are responsible for the energy you bring. “That’s a lot of acting fascinated.” “Husbands don’t want to be happy. They just want to be left alone.” This Is Water.

It’s elegant, it’s efficient, it’s actionable. Katie and I would not be the people we are without poetry, and this edition of Doing What Works is packed with so many great ideas you might wonder how you’ve lived without it. Here are your show notes… Taylor Mali. Like Lilly Like Wilson. The 2010 National Poetry Slam. Wile E. Coyote. Pamela Ribon. Yertle the Turtle. Drew Dudley’s lollipop moment. There’s no redeeming value in harshness. “I wish I could go back and do the little things you asked me to.” Joshua Turek poetry. “The Guest House.” The jerk store called! “A Great Wagon.” What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

You probably know how to take good care of yourself. In this edition of Doing What Works we’ll help you actually do it. Here are your show notes… The Willpower Workaround. Is it food or entertainment? Dr. Daniel Amen suggests you choose foods you love that love you back. Reasoning from first principles.

Would you rather work independently or as part of a team? This encore edition of Doing What Works is a study in why that matters. Here are your show notes… The Tyranny of E-mail. Job hunting usually means being rejected before accepted. “Not a good fit” is a perfect reframe for rejection.

You don’t know what’s going to make you happy until you try it. The job or the relationship that looks good on paper may not feel so great at, say, ten o’clock on a Tuesday. That’s one reason to say yes to more things, so you can get a better feel for more things. Saying yes is a habit and a mindset. If you practice saying yes to smaller things with low stakes, you might find yourself more willing to take bigger risks. That’s what we hope to inspire in this edition of Doing What Works. Here are your show notes… Irresistible author Adam Alter [http://adamalterauthor.com/] was one of Katie’s professors at NYU Stern and “say yes” was his advice. “I wish I might go back and do the little things you asked me to” is from a poem by Alice E. Chase [https://www.scrapbook.com/poems/doc/860.html] entitled “To My Grown-Up Son.” Saying “yes” (and “yes, and”) is a rule of improv [https://medium.com/the-improv-blog/the-first-rule-of-improv-is-yes-and-30e5954240d6]. “If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.” That’s from Dilbert creator Scott Adams [https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays]. “Marriage is a big bet. It’s the only bet of its kind, one in which you say, ‘This feels right; I think I’ll change everything.’” That’s from Jerry Seinfeld [https://www.today.com/popculture/seinfeld-turns-25-read-jerrys-best-real-life-lines-1D79884423].