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  Speaker 2: Hey, it's Mariel Segarra. You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
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  Speaker 2: Remember how exciting it was to start a new school year?
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  Speaker 2: I used to love running my fingertips along the cover
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  Speaker 2: of a fresh marble notebook and picking out my outfit
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  Speaker 2: for the first day of school. There's something buzzy about
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  Speaker 2: this time of year, even if you're not in school anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's a chance at a fresh start, a time to
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  Speaker 2: ditch old habits, try a new extracurricular, settle into a routine, or.
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  Speaker 3: Even completely reinvent yourself.
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  Speaker 2: On this episode of Life Kit, how to harness that
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  Speaker 2: energy with five back-to-school rituals reimagined for your adult life.
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  Speaker 3: Takeaway one, pack a lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all, takeout has gotten so expensive, and most of the time,
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  Speaker 2: in my experience, it doesn't taste very good, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not healthy either. So why not get in the habit
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  Speaker 2: of bringing your lunch? Now, if you're thinking, I don't
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  Speaker 2: have time to make a sandwich every morning, meal prepping
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  Speaker 2: is for you. Kevin Curry is the founder of Fit
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  Speaker 2: Men Cook. Twice a week, he'll spend 45 minutes cooking
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  Speaker 2: five components to mix and match over the next few days,
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  Speaker 2: like chickpeas, chicken... jasmine rice, roasted vegetables, and sauteed greens.
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  Speaker 4: And with those five foods that I prepped, I made
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  Speaker 4: about 10 different meal combinations because one day I was like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what? I think I want chicken, rice, and greens. Boom.
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  Speaker 4: Another day, I think I want the chickpeas, roasted veggies,
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  Speaker 4: and the greens, and maybe a little bit of rice.
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  Speaker 4: Mix everything together.
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  Speaker 2: Another tip is to make a sauce for the week,
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  Speaker 2: something packed with flavor that you can toss on lots
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  Speaker 2: of different things, grain bowls, sandwiches, salads. One thing I
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  Speaker 2: like to do is buy a handful of fresh herbs,
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  Speaker 2: maybe that's basil this week or dill or parsley, and
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  Speaker 2: then make a sauce or a dressing from that. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: while you're making your lunch, why not jazz it up
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  Speaker 2: a little bit? Get cookie cutters and cut your fruits
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  Speaker 2: and veggies into cute shapes or write yourself a note.
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  Speaker 2: Sully Jessica Wu is a mom and author of the cookbook,
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  Speaker 2: Let's Make Some Lunch. Here's what she says makes a
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  Speaker 2: good lunchbox note.
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  Speaker 5: I like to keep it relevant to what we're going through. Today,
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  Speaker 5: my daughter is having MAPS tests for the beginning of
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  Speaker 5: the year where they see what level your child is
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  Speaker 5: at in the core classes. So for that, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I always just write like, hey, I know you'll do
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  Speaker 5: great in your MAPS testing. Just try your best, stuff
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  Speaker 5: like that. And then with song lyrics, I just write
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  Speaker 5: like cute song lyrics about love or succeeding or being determined,
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  Speaker 5: anything like that. quotes from movies that we're currently loving.
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  Speaker 5: I just kind of try to find inspiration in everything
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  Speaker 5: that we're doing and what's relevant and what they're into.
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  Speaker 3: So how about you?
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  Speaker 2: Got a big meeting at work next week? Write yourself
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  Speaker 2: a note of encouragement. Or are you so excited about
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  Speaker 2: the transition to sweater weather? Remind yourself to take breaks
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  Speaker 2: and go outside. You could also draw yourself a little doodle.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, if you have a partner or you
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  Speaker 2: live with someone, you can do this for each other. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we've packed our cute little lunches. Takeaway two, plan your
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  Speaker 2: fall outfits. September is a great time to think about
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  Speaker 2: how your personal style has changed since you put away
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  Speaker 2: your cold weather clothes.
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  Speaker 3: And what you're excited to wear now.
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  Speaker 2: Start by trying everything you have on and asking yourself,
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  Speaker 2: do I still like this shirt or dress or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: Do I feel good in it?
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  Speaker 2: If the answer is absolutely not, that's easy. It goes
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  Speaker 2: in the donate pile. If the answer is I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I like it, but it just doesn't fit right. You
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  Speaker 2: might be able to alter it. Sophie Strauss is a
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  Speaker 2: stylist in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'll often look, where is somebody sort of
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  Speaker 6: adjusting the garment, right? Are they futzing with it at
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  Speaker 6: the hem, at the sleeve, at the neckline? Do they
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  Speaker 6: keep lifting it up? Go, oh, well, hmm, I see
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  Speaker 6: you're pulling at the hemline. Okay, I wonder if we
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  Speaker 6: got that hemmed like two inches and we'll roll up
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  Speaker 6: the bottom.
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  Speaker 7: Do you like that better?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, great. What if we tuck it in if we
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  Speaker 6: don't hem it?
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  Speaker 3: What if we tuck it into pants that hit around
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  Speaker 3: that spot? Oh, I like that better too.
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  Speaker 5: Great.
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  Speaker 2: Another fun way to alter your clothes is to dye them.
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  Speaker 2: And did you know you can actually do that with
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  Speaker 2: pieces of plants? Like avocado pits and onion skins?
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  Speaker 3: Life Kit has a whole.
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  Speaker 2: Guide on this. We'll link to it in the show notes. Now,
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  Speaker 2: back-to-school season wouldn't be complete without some fresh fits. Before
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  Speaker 2: you go shopping, though, look around for inspirations. Notice when
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  Speaker 2: you see someone wearing an outfit you like on the
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  Speaker 2: street or in a TV show. You can also look
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  Speaker 2: through magazines, current or vintage, and designer archives. And take
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  Speaker 2: note of any common threads. Ruby Redstone is a fashion
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  Speaker 2: historian and writer.
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  Speaker 8: Whether you're like, oh, I'm loving really feminine floaty slip
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  Speaker 8: dresses weighed down by heavy boots, or I'm loving seeing
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  Speaker 8: things that are inspired by men's suiting. And then, finding
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  Speaker 8: a way to do that that's within your budget, whether
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  Speaker 8: that's going to a bunch of thrift stores and thrifting
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  Speaker 8: slip dresses, or if that's going to a department store,
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  Speaker 8: trying on a bunch of options and investing in one
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  Speaker 8: beautiful piece that you know you're going to be able
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  Speaker 8: to re-wear.
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  Speaker 2: She mentioned thrifting. It is such a good way to
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  Speaker 2: try out new styles. And one tip on that front
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  Speaker 2: is to know your measurements. Mary Jacobs is a secondhand stylist.
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  Speaker 2: She puts together looks for people with thrifted clothes. And
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  Speaker 2: she says you want to measure your chest and your
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  Speaker 2: hips ahead of time and then bring a tape measure
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  Speaker 2: with you to the store. That way you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to try on as many clothes.
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  Speaker 1: So you definitely want your chest measurement.
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  Speaker 9: You'll go around the largest part of your chest and
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  Speaker 9: you'll take that measurement and you'll divide it in two
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  Speaker 9: and then you'll measure across armpit to armpit on whatever top.
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  Speaker 2: And if armpit to armpit is at least half the
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  Speaker 2: measurement you took at home?
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  Speaker 10: It should fit.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing goes for your hips. Wrap the tape measure
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  Speaker 2: around the widest part, divide that number in two... and
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  Speaker 2: compare it to the front or back side of a
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  Speaker 2: dress or pants. Lastly, when you're shopping, it helps to
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  Speaker 2: have a set of rules about what items you will
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  Speaker 2: and won't buy. That tip comes from Asia Jackson, who
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  Speaker 2: makes videos on YouTube about personal style.
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  Speaker 11: One of my rules is that I don't buy ballet flats.
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  Speaker 3: They're uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 11: Every single time that I purchased them, I hated them
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  Speaker 11: and I never wore them again. So even if I
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  Speaker 11: see a really nice outfit on Pinterest and the girl
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  Speaker 11: is wearing ballet flats, I'm not going to go out
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  Speaker 11: and buy ballet flats because I've known that they just
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  Speaker 11: don't work for me.
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  Speaker 3: On my don't buy list, blazers.
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  Speaker 2: I buy them and then I never actually wear them.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Back to School is not just about lunches
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  Speaker 2: and outfits. We were there to learn. So after the break,
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  Speaker 2: All right, takeaway three. If you miss learning new things,
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  Speaker 2: read some more books. Your first step here is to
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  Speaker 2: find books that you think you could love. Because there's
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  Speaker 2: no summer reading list that you have to get through, right?
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to be graded on this.
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  Speaker 3: You're reading because you want to.
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  Speaker 2: go to a library or a bookstore and wander around.
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  Speaker 15: also read this other book that I hated, and I'm
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  Speaker 15: in the mood for something that feels like you know,
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  Speaker 15: here you go. And they always come up with something.
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  Speaker 2: a book by its cover.
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  Speaker 15: I like to look and see what's on the tables
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  Speaker 15: in the front because that usually is something that's new
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  Speaker 15: and exciting to either the world at large or the
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  Speaker 15: booksellers in that specific store. Bookstores get to decide what
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  Speaker 15: they stock.
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  Speaker 10: So.
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  Speaker 15: They're going to stock things that they think will sell
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  Speaker 15: their community. If the bookstore that I go into has
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  Speaker 15: books that face out on the shelves, I like to
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  Speaker 15: see which books they've sort of picked to face out.
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  Speaker 15: And I'm also just kind of looking around to see
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  Speaker 15: what jumps out at me.
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  Speaker 2: Once you have some books in hand, don't wait for
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  Speaker 2: that perfect, distraction-free moment to crack them open. This tip
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  Speaker 2: comes from Kevin Nguyen, author of the novels My Document,
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  Speaker 2: and New Waves. He says to look for smaller chances
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  Speaker 2: to read throughout the day. Read when you're early to
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  Speaker 2: school pickup or when you're waiting for your clothes to
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  Speaker 2: be done at the laundromat. And if you commute to work, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's a gimme.
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  Speaker 16: You're driving to work. It's audiobook time. You get on
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  Speaker 16: the subway. It's time to, like, open the book. I'm
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  Speaker 16: not going to play video games on my phone or listen.
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  Speaker 1: To a podcast.
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  Speaker 16: It's really easy to have that kind of discipline because
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  Speaker 16: it's sort of like a sequestered part of your day
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  Speaker 16: where you decide, I'm doing this thing at this time.
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  Speaker 2: Also, Tracy says if you find yourself constantly getting distracted
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  Speaker 2: or rolling your eyes or falling asleep when you're reading
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  Speaker 2: a particular book, put it down. There's no need to
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  Speaker 2: push through if you aren't enjoying it.
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  Speaker 15: Save yourself. There are too many books in the world
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  Speaker 15: to read books you do not like. That is called
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  Speaker 15: cultivating taste.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear that? Bell's ringing. Time for recess.
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  Speaker 2: I loved the make-believe we did during recess when we'd
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  Speaker 2: pretend we were teachers or ship captains or that we
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  Speaker 2: were doing battle with fire-breathing dragons. Or, you know, we'd
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  Speaker 2: just play tag. Takeaway four, if you miss horsing around
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  Speaker 2: at recess, bring some of that energy into your adult life.
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  Speaker 3: Play more. especially physical play.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you aren't sure what kind of play you like,
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  Speaker 2: you can ask yourself, how did I like to play
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  Speaker 2: as a kid?
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  Speaker 3: Here's play coach Jeff Harry.
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  Speaker 4: Your kid self knows what makes you happy.
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  Speaker 16: Your kid self knows what makes you fulfilled and satisfied.
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  Speaker 2: So for instance, were you super into Legos or finger painting,
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  Speaker 2: catching fireflies, seeing how far you could catapult yourself off
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  Speaker 2: the swing set?
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  Speaker 3: For me, it was Barbies.
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  Speaker 2: I loved to dress them up and make them fight
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  Speaker 2: or kiss. However you played, think about why you loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it that you like telling stories or moving your body, competing,
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  Speaker 2: making people laugh, building things? How might you embrace those
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  Speaker 2: as an adult? And you can actually take a quiz
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  Speaker 2: to figure out your play style. It's based on thousands
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  Speaker 2: of personal play histories collected by psychologist Stuart Brown and
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  Speaker 2: the National Institute for Play.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have a link in the show notes.
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  Speaker 2: Stewart studied play for decades, and he says another way
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  Speaker 2: to figure out your kind of play is to think
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  Speaker 2: about what makes you feel free.
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  Speaker 17: Was there a moment, was there a circumstance, was there
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  Speaker 17: a situation that allowed you to really feel like you
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  Speaker 17: were yourself, whether you were four years old or 40?
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  Speaker 2: I always felt free when I was on the swing
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  Speaker 2: set and when I was singing or dancing. So I
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  Speaker 2: do those things now, whenever I get a chance, even
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  Speaker 2: if I'm just, you know, singing in the car. All right,
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  Speaker 2: on that note, it's time to make some friends because Duck, Duck,
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  Speaker 2: Goose is hard to play alone. Takeaway five, make new
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  Speaker 2: friends and keep the old. I love the idea that
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  Speaker 2: kids just go up to each other and say hi.
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  Speaker 2: They share their toys or their snacks and suddenly they've
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  Speaker 2: got a new friend.
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  Speaker 3: What if we did that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was a bit easier when we were
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  Speaker 2: in school because we saw these other kids every day.
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  Speaker 2: On that note, Marissa Franco, author of Platonic, How the
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  Speaker 2: Science of Attachment Can Help You Make and Keep Friends,
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  Speaker 2: says it helps to join an activity that repeats.
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  Speaker 9: So don't go to a networking event. Go to maybe
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  Speaker 9: a regular professional development group because you're going to see
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  Speaker 9: people over time. Then you capitalize on something called the
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  Speaker 9: mere exposure effect, our unconscious tendency to like people simply
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  Speaker 9: because they're familiar to us. You can expect that once
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  Speaker 9: you first meet new people, It's going to be uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 9: So don't assume if we don't connect in the first meeting,
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  Speaker 9: I shouldn't keep going to this book club because it's
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  Speaker 9: too awkward.
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  Speaker 5: No, right?
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  Speaker 9: That's just a part of the process.
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  Speaker 2: She also wants you to assume people like you until
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  Speaker 2: told otherwise.
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  Speaker 9: According to research on a phenomenon called the liking gap,
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  Speaker 9: when strangers interact, they underestimate how liked they are by
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  Speaker 9: the other person. And the more self-critical we are, the
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  Speaker 9: more pronounced this underestimation is. So reminding yourself that even
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  Speaker 9: if you think people might reject you, they're actually a
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  Speaker 9: lot less likely to reject you than you think they are.
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  Speaker 9: And then I would say, shoot your shot, which just
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  Speaker 9: looks like, hey, it's been so great to talk to you.
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  Speaker 9: I'd love to connect further. Do you mind if we
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  Speaker 9: exchange contact information?
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  Speaker 1: And reach out.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds simple, but when you meet someone you like,
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  Speaker 2: ask them to hang out and do it soon. Here's
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  Speaker 2: Kat Velos, author of the book, We Should Get Together,
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  Speaker 2: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships.
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  Speaker 10: A common mistake that people make when they're trying to
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  Speaker 10: get together with a new acquaintance or build a new friendship,
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  Speaker 10: is they wait too long to see that new acquaintance again.
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  Speaker 10: And in that time, the spark can fizzle out.
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  Speaker 2: And don't just say, hey, we should hang out sometime.
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  Speaker 1: Be specific.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you met playing softball, invite them to the
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  Speaker 2: batting cages the next week.
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  Speaker 10: Because that we should hang out sometime.
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  Speaker 9: Sometime is a vague sense in the future.
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  Speaker 10: And this is part of why, you know, my book
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  Speaker 10: is called We Should Get Together because everyone says that.
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  Speaker 10: But it's like, no, literally, we really need to get together.
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  Speaker 10: Don't just say that as a substitute for it was
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  Speaker 10: nice to meet you. Say it if you really mean
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  Speaker 10: it and then follow through on it.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing you can do to bring back that
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  Speaker 2: carefree spirit of friendship, remember having sleepovers in elementary school?
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  Speaker 3: Invite one of your close friends to stay at your
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  Speaker 3: house for a night.
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  Speaker 2: You can order pizza, braid each other's hair, play video games,
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  Speaker 2: stay up way too late, and tell each.
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  Speaker 3: Other ghost stories. Bonus points if they're true. All right, students,
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  Speaker 3: it's time for a recap. Five activities to try this September.
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  Speaker 2: Pack your lunch, plan your outfits, read more books, plan
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  Speaker 2: your own recess, and make some new friends.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is hard to put yourself out there, but remember.
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  Speaker 2: That was what made Back to School so exciting. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just the new shoes or the new notebook. It
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  Speaker 2: was the other people that were going to see those things,
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  Speaker 2: to see you in a new light after a long summer.
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