Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions
Part pop-science, part self-help, Your Day. Your Way. is a friendly, funny, fact-based guide to changing how you make decisions in order to live a better — maybe even your best — life.

We make, and worry about, a thousand big and little decisions during our waking hours. And for most of us, these decisions are made (after a lot of hemming and hawing), based on concerns or beliefs about our world that . . . well . . . simply aren't true. These misperceptions impact day-to-day decisions and stress us out unnecessarily — and we all have enough stress as it is. Tim Caulfield seeks to provide the antidote to this analysis paralysis, teaching readers — through sound science and silly stories — that reevaluating their decision-making processes can lead to lives that are both more fulfilling and more exciting.

Your Day. Your Way. unfolds like a typical day — from the first buzz of the alarm clock all the way to bedtime. As the clock moves forward, Caulfield tackles topics associated with that particular time of day and addresses them through science-informed responses about health, offering readers a way to cut through the noise and have healthier and happier lives in the age of anxiety. Caulfield highlights what science says we should be worried about and how we can de-stress and live a healthy lifestyle. Rather than burying you in the facts, or listing out a bunch of specific things you should or should not be doing, Caulfield uses wit, humor, and a wide variety of examples to encourage readers to reevaluate how they make all of those decisions — so that they can live in a way that truly works for them.
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Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions
Part pop-science, part self-help, Your Day. Your Way. is a friendly, funny, fact-based guide to changing how you make decisions in order to live a better — maybe even your best — life.

We make, and worry about, a thousand big and little decisions during our waking hours. And for most of us, these decisions are made (after a lot of hemming and hawing), based on concerns or beliefs about our world that . . . well . . . simply aren't true. These misperceptions impact day-to-day decisions and stress us out unnecessarily — and we all have enough stress as it is. Tim Caulfield seeks to provide the antidote to this analysis paralysis, teaching readers — through sound science and silly stories — that reevaluating their decision-making processes can lead to lives that are both more fulfilling and more exciting.

Your Day. Your Way. unfolds like a typical day — from the first buzz of the alarm clock all the way to bedtime. As the clock moves forward, Caulfield tackles topics associated with that particular time of day and addresses them through science-informed responses about health, offering readers a way to cut through the noise and have healthier and happier lives in the age of anxiety. Caulfield highlights what science says we should be worried about and how we can de-stress and live a healthy lifestyle. Rather than burying you in the facts, or listing out a bunch of specific things you should or should not be doing, Caulfield uses wit, humor, and a wide variety of examples to encourage readers to reevaluate how they make all of those decisions — so that they can live in a way that truly works for them.
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Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions

Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions

by Timothy Caulfield
Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions

Your Day, Your Way: The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions

by Timothy Caulfield

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Part pop-science, part self-help, Your Day. Your Way. is a friendly, funny, fact-based guide to changing how you make decisions in order to live a better — maybe even your best — life.

We make, and worry about, a thousand big and little decisions during our waking hours. And for most of us, these decisions are made (after a lot of hemming and hawing), based on concerns or beliefs about our world that . . . well . . . simply aren't true. These misperceptions impact day-to-day decisions and stress us out unnecessarily — and we all have enough stress as it is. Tim Caulfield seeks to provide the antidote to this analysis paralysis, teaching readers — through sound science and silly stories — that reevaluating their decision-making processes can lead to lives that are both more fulfilling and more exciting.

Your Day. Your Way. unfolds like a typical day — from the first buzz of the alarm clock all the way to bedtime. As the clock moves forward, Caulfield tackles topics associated with that particular time of day and addresses them through science-informed responses about health, offering readers a way to cut through the noise and have healthier and happier lives in the age of anxiety. Caulfield highlights what science says we should be worried about and how we can de-stress and live a healthy lifestyle. Rather than burying you in the facts, or listing out a bunch of specific things you should or should not be doing, Caulfield uses wit, humor, and a wide variety of examples to encourage readers to reevaluate how they make all of those decisions — so that they can live in a way that truly works for them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762472499
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Timothy Caulfield is a media maven and populist snake-oil debunker, author of the bestselling books Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong about Everything? and The Cure for Everything!, and creator and host of the Netflix series A User's Guide to Cheating Death. Tim is also a lawyer, professor, and fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, and serves as the research director of the University of Alberta's Health Law Institute.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Decisions, Decisions 7

Part I Morning

6:30 AM-Wake up! 17

6:31 AM-Check phone 23

6:35 AM-Brush teeth 24

6:40 AM-Check phone, again 29

6:45 AM-Step on the bathroom scale 30

6:50 AM-Get dressed 42

6:55 AM-Coffee 45

7:00 AM-Breakfast 46

7:05 AM-Milk 51

7:15 AM-Vitamins 61

7:45 AM -Kids off to school 62

7:50 AM-Getting to work 73

8:15 AM-Parking 81

8:30 AM-Start work 84

9:30 AM-Public toilet seat 84

9:33 AM-Wash hands 88

10:00 AM-Another coffee? 92

10:30 AM-Multitask 92

11:00 AM-Anticipate lunch 95

Part II Afternoon

12:00 PM-Lunch 99

1:15 PM-Rant! 105

1:30 PM-Thank-you letter 112

1:45 PM-Stand up 113

2:00 PM-Another coffee? 120

2:15 PM-Soap 124

2:17 PM-Drink water 127

2:20 PM-Office meeting 130

2:30 PM-Nap time 133

3:00 PM-Five-second rule 140

3:15 PM-Email 144

4:00 PM-Handshake 153

4:00 PM-Hug 157

4:30 PM-Time panic! 159

Part III Evening

5:00 PNM-Exercise 171

5:45 PM-Hang with kids 172

5:45 PM-Check phone, again 179

6:00 PM -Dinner 183

6:15 PM-Wine 188

7:00 PM-Dishes 194

7:30 PM-Toilet seat up or down? 195

7:50 PM-10,000 steps? 199

8:00 PM-Binge-watch TV 200

10:00 PM-Check phone, again 208

10:30 PM-Wash hair 208

10:45 PM-Floss teeth 210

10:50 PM-Sex 215

10:55 PM-Cuddle 216

11:00 PM-Sleep 216

The Your Day, Your Way Rules 223

Acknowledgments 233

References and Notes 237

Index 305

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