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  TRANSCRIPT If you stay positive, you're winning the war against negativity. You're winning the war against despair. You're winning the war against stress.  When you succumb to negativity, it changes your character. You snap at your kids, you snap at your teammates, you feel stuck, you feel on edge, you feel tense. And, that's why I wanna talk to you about the power of your attitude right now because your brain is a pattern-recognizing machine. And, when you succumb to negativity whether you think you're doing it or not, your brain will automatically start to see more negativity and feel more negativity which is why it's so easy to get stuck ruminating and worrying and in this sort of loop that you can't get out of.  So, we're gonna talk today about building a positive attitude as a habit. Positive, powerful attitude is infectious. It inspires other people. It makes you resilient . It will help you spot more positive things. What positive things...

  Transcriber: Worldwide, online retail has been on the rise. In 2019 alone, shoppers spent nearly 3.8 trillion dollars online. And to keep those figures climbing, some companies are pulling out all of the stops to hold your attention and to keep you spending. To help you regain control of your shopping environment, I'll identify three of their tactics and share three tips to counteract them. [Your Money and Your Mind with Wendy De La Rosa] One online gimmick that sites use is gamification, and this is where websites use game design elements to get you to spend more time and more money on their sites. Now, some sites have a virtual wheel for you to spin to get a chance at that day's discounts. Others, they let you accrue loyalty points based on how you interact with the site. And that kind of gamification, in my mind, is really dangerous. In one classic experiment, lab rats were more captivated by the random chance of pushing a lever and receiving a food pellet than by the c...

  The guy you're looking at is the world's biggest Wikipedia editor. He is the guy who is in his room editing  Wikipedia  more than three million times. Who is he? Why is he doing this? And how much knowledge does he have? For the first time ever, I want to introduce you to Steven . "Hi, I'm Steven and I have made the largest number of edits to  Wikipedia  in the world!" This guy is single-handedly responsible for millions of  Wikipedia  edits and he lives here in a small town in Virginia, USA and he has a normal job and a normal life. You see, 16 years ago when  Steven  was still in university, he came across a small unknown encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to. So, he had the idea to write about his great great grandfather, Peter Francisco , who fought in the American revolutionary war.  "I thought it'd be fun to write about Peter because I knew about him and the family knew about him but he wasn't in any mainstream encyclop...