Chapter 6: Life Tips
- If you ever go to the zoo, wear the same colors as the employees do. The animals will come right up to you.
- Need to tell a believable lie? Make sure to include an embarrassing detail about yourself. Nobody will doubt a story that makes you look dumb.
- Have a tough decision to make? Flip a coin. Not to decide for you, but you'll realize what you really want when it's in the air.
- Never ask someone how his or her job search is going. It's going terribly until they tell you they got a new job.
- Never base your life decisions on advice from people who don't have to deal with the results of your decision.
- If your car is about to get towed, get in it. Tow trucks are forced to stop to avoid kidnapping charges.
- While driving, move your seat as far back as you can while still being able to touch your pedals. This will help prevent speeding.
- If you are buying headphones or speakers, test them out with Bohemian Rhapsody. It has the complete set of highs and lows in instruments and vocals.
- Make a password into a goal of yours so you're constantly reminded of it.
- Try and eat at least five home-cooked meals a week. A recent study shows that doing so makes you 47% more likely to live an extra decade.
- You can see if a certain pair of jeans will fit without trying them on by placing the waistline around your neck.
- When buying something online, only read the reviews that gave three stars. They're usually the most honest about the pros and cons.
- Never go shoe shopping late at night. your feet can get 5% to 10% larger at the end of the day compared to the morning.
- The Two-Minute Rule: If you see something that needs doing and it can be completed within two minutes, do it immediately.
- Put things back where you first looked for them, not where you found them.
- You can call 311 for non-emergency calls to the police.
- If you ever have to park in a city at night, park in front of a bank. They're lit up and have cameras everywhere.
- Don't know what to get someone for their birthday? Have them make three guesses of what you got them and now you have three ideas.
- When you're at a restaurant, wash your hands after ordering. The menu is generally the dirtiest thing you can touch.
- When filling up your car with gas, hold the trigger halfway. You'll get more gas and less air in the tank.
- It's been proven that sleeping on your right side will help you fall asleep faster than sleeping on your left.
- When starting a game of "rock paper scissors" always start with paper. Most people start with rock just because it's the shape the hand easily forms.
- When you feel like you need something, but you can't figure out what it is, it's water. It's always water.
- On camera, wearing. yellow makes you look bigger and wearing green makes you look smaller.
- Golden spending rule: If you can't afford two of it, you can't afford it.
- The phrase "don't take this the wrong way" has a 0% success rate.
- Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Try to spend more money on experiences and less on things. You'll thank yourself later in life.
- Never loan a friend more than you can afford to give away.
- In a public bathroom, the stall that is closest to the door is usually the cleanest because it's the least used.
- In order to be a good liar, you need to convince everyone that you are a bad liar.
- Never be afraid to spend a little extra on a new bed and shoes. If you're not in one, you're in the other.
Taken from the book Life Hacks by Keith Bradford
