7 most popular episodes of the podcast "Listen, it's easy"

Podcast "Listen, it's easy" started in April 2022. The first season had 13 episodes. And in just three months, all issues in total collected more than 167 thousand plays. This is a great indicator for a newcomer to the market.

After completing the first season, the podcast took a break to accumulate ideas before the second round. And so that you do not get bored, we have prepared a selection of the most popular releases.

1. Who is Schrödinger's cat and what happened to him in the end: did he survive or die

Erwin Schrödinger is world famous for his thought experiment. A theoretical physicist imagined a cat sitting in an opaque box. It also contains a dangerous mechanism. If it works, it will kill the animal.

The device is conceived in such a way that the probability of its activation within an hour is 50%. That is, during this period of time, an imaginary pet will either survive or die. Schrödinger mentally closed the cat in the box, waited 60 minutes, and then asked himself what state the cat was in now. The answer is in this issue.

2. What is kaizen and how to improve with it

The history of the Toyota brand began with looms. In 1896, Sakichi Toyoda equipped one of the machine tools with an electric motor, which automatically turned off in the event of a malfunction. Then it was a kind of know-how. After a while, the engineer founded his own factory, and the Toyoda brand grew out of it.

The business of Sakichi Toyoda was continued by his son. Kiichiro Toyoda was able to turn a weaving enterprise into a machine-building enterprise. And in 1935, the first cars under the Toyoda brand were born - the A1 passenger car and the G1 truck. After World War II, the plant was in crisis. Toyoda (and after the rebranding - Toyota) helped to overcome all this values ​​\u200b\u200band principles kaizen. We talk about them in this issue.

3. What is NFT and why many want to sell it

In March 2021, an unusual performance took place in one of the lanes of the New York district of Brooklyn. Injective Protocol Company burnedBlockchain company buys and burns Banksy artwork to turn it into a digital original / CBS News a painting by Banksy, an anonymous British street art artist.

But even before the fire destroyed the work, the company converted the image to its digital counterpart and created NFTs is a non-fungible token. So the picture remained only in the virtual world and in a single copy. It was later sold at auction for $380,000. And the fact that a certain person owns the painting confirms the token. What it is, why NFTs tend to be expensive, and how easy it is to steal - check out the podcast.

4. What is gaslighting and how bad is it?

This term is increasingly appearing in the headlines of the media, and in a variety of publications, psychologists share tips on how to recognize and avoid it. Moreover, they talk about voyeurism, gatsbing, orbiting, ghosting, bridging, stashing and many other terms. It is not always possible to even read them correctly the first time, let alone remember the meaning.

However, many of us have found ourselves in situations that hide behind these concepts. Some of them are completely harmless, but definitely not. gaslighting. And after listening to the release dedicated to him, you will no longer confuse this term with others. Moreover, behind his appearance there is more than once a filmed story.

5. What is the "Doomsday Vault" and how it can save humanity

February 14, 2022 were openedArctic seed vault to receive rare deposits / Reuters doors to the so-called "Doomsday Vault". It was replenished with new samples and after a couple of days it was sealed again. During the year, this procedure will be repeated more than once.

Such activity around an object with a disturbing name can be somewhat disturbing. But really, there is no need to panic. Nothing bad is happening. And the next issue will convince you of this.

6. What is Murphy's Law and how to use it to your advantage

In 1949, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, studies were underway on the causes of aircraft accidents. Engineer Edward Murphy worked on one of the projects.

During the next tests, the aircraft engine began to rotate the propeller not in the right direction, but in the opposite direction. Then Murphy uttered a phrase that later became famous: "If there are two ways to do something, and one of them leads to disaster, someone will choose this particular way." There are other formulations, for example, “Where it is thin, it breaks there,” and the classic version: “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong.”

If it seems that your life is directly subject to Murphy's law and if you just think about troubles, as they immediately happen, it's time to shift the focus of attention. Most likely, he is to blame, and not universal injustice. Several options for how to switch attention are given in this episode.

7. What is stockholm syndrome

Most likely, many of you have heard this phrase and know that such a syndrome occurs in the victim in relation to the aggressor. In this issue, we recalled the history of a resonant crime in the Swedish capital and tried to explain why hostages do not always hate their tormentors.

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