Ep. 342: Join the Work Happier Challenge, Use a Rubber Duck to Tackle a Tough Problem, and How to Fight Against Falling into Zombie Mode
Happier with Gretchen Rubin
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The Best Way to Learn Computer Programming Is to Teach It
There's an idea in computer programming called rubber duck d bugging. In your fighting a code that doesn't work, you explain it out loud to a rubber duck. It has the added benefit of not needing to interrupt a co worker for help. Keep one on your desk. Give one to your kids and a ya, ya then you don't have to yell for one to help. Now for a happiness. A real thing that scientists have studied. There's something called the fir night effect. I ill figure out what it is just from hearing the name.
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