100th Episode of This Sh!t Works!

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Welcome to episode 100 of this shit works.

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A podcast dedicated to all things, networking, relationship

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building and business development.

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I'm your host, Julie Brown.

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And today I'm discussing.

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Little known facts about the number 100.

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When I started this podcast in August of 2020, the pandemic in

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full effect, still working from home.

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I had no idea how I would create seven episodes of a podcast.

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Let alone a hundred.

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But here we are.

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And we've learned so much together over the past 100 episodes.

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I'm so glad that you have been here with me through it all.

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And thinking about how to celebrate the hundredth episode.

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I started to wonder why I even cared that it was the hundredth episode,

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like is the number hundred really better than say the number 83?

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Why do we care so much about the number 100?

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So I did what I always do in these situations.

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I did research.

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And Baylor university and Dr.

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Sandy Cooper, Dr.

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Trena Wilkerson and Dr.

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Rochelle Rogers posted a blog with some well-known facts about the number 100.

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As well as some lesser known facts.

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The well known facts being.

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On the Celsius scale, 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of water.

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The United States has 100.

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Senators.

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There are a

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Hundred yards in American football field.

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100 is a perfect square number and its square root is 10.

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100 is the basis of percentages percent meeting per hundred in

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Latin with 100% being a full amount.

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And there are a hundred pennies in a dollar.

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And here are some lesser known facts.

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Uh, C is the Roman numeral for a hundred and C comes from the Latin word Centrum.

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A person who lives to be a hundred is called a centenarian.

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The sum of the first nine prime numbers is a hundred.

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The sum of the first 10 odd numbers equals a hundred.

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There are a hundred letter tile.

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There are a hundred letter tiles in a Scrabble game.

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The record number of points scored in one NBA game by a single player was a hundred

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points set by wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia warriors on March 2nd, 1962.

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Okay.

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Now let's take a moment to think about how we gravitate towards rounded numbers.

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I don't even want to bring up gas prices right now, but it's a good example.

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It's you're like me.

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When you're pumping your gas, you don't stop the pump at $24 and 88 cents.

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No, you keep squeezing the pump until you hit a nice even $25.

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Why do we do that?

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Our recent Washington post article sites, that decades of research

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hasn't covered that we love round numbers so much that we will often

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regulate our behavior to achieve them.

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Like those of you who were fitness trackers you don't set

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your goal to be 9,572 steps.

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Nope.

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You set it to be 10,000 steps and you modify your behavior to achieve that goal.

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Same thing with pumping gas, like I just said, When deciding whether

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to order food at a restaurant.

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Or any product whose quality cannot be judged before purchase, you may

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unconsciously use the roundness of the price as a proxy for quality and non

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round prices as a stand in for value, according to a management study.

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So think about it like this.

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When you're at a restaurant with a menu of round numbers, meaning the steak is $39.

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The salmon is $30.

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You think of that as higher quality than if you were at

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a restaurant where the steak.

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I was 38 99 and the salmon was 29 99.

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Weird.

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Olga short cough, a behavioral economist at Wellesley college

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says that's why you don't see a Chanel bag for $4,999 and 99 cents.

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It plays into almost every part of our life.

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Think about the presidency, there was no constitutional or statutory

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significance to the first hundred days of a president's term.

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And yet we always play so much emphasis on quote the first hundred days, because it

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sounds like a lot more important than the first three months in a couple of days.

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Eugena Chang, a scientist and residents at

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school of the art Institute of Chicago says that our love for

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round numbers and putting so much emphasis on multiples of 10.

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Is because it's very intimately linked to the fact that we have 10 fingers.

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It makes sense since we learn how to count on our digits, counting in ones, tens,

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hundreds, thousands come so natural to us.

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Now that we tend to forget that there are alternatives to the 10 based system.

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So there you have it.

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Lots of research and studies into why we love round numbers and why

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you make such a big deal out of them in celebrate the number a hundred.

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In that i celebrate you the listeners because you have been here for me

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through every episode number 1, 3 47, 84.

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All the way up to this 100th episode and i thank you for that

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Okay Onto the cocktail of the week Which is called the perfect 10.

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Here's what you're going to need one and a half ounces of Jenn phyllis shaker

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with ice pour the gin into the cocktail shaker and shake vigorously into the

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surface of the cocktail shaker fields chilled strain into our martini glass

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and garnish with a twist a grapefruit twist Nice and enjoy And if you haven't

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heard i have a little century challenge going on for this podcast and for my

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book I'm trying to get a hundred amazon reviews of the book and a hundred itunes

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reviews of this podcast At the time of this recording i have 55 amazon reviews

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of the book and 64 itunes reviews of this podcast so we have a little bit of

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work to do together If you haven't yet please take a moment to review either or

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both To help me get to that century mark Thanks so much and until next week Cheers