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I got a fan email last week from a guy named Ryan: "I like IQNEWS, but my girlfriend Faiza is a superfan!!! She also loves IQBARs."
Shoutout to Ryan and Faiza - a couple with refined tastes.
In honor of superfans, everything on our site is 20% off until Monday (it's also IQBAR's 8th birthday, but consider the promo a "fan-related adjustment").
As always, please forward IQNEWS to a friend if you're a fan!
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STORY OF THE WEEK |
"Future you" is mostly a stranger
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You hugely underestimate how much your personality will change over time.
A new study asked ~1K Americans to estimate how much their character changed in the past, and how much it would change. They then cross-referenced answers against eight datasets that tracked ~200K people aged 15-90.
The gap was staggering.
We underestimate our year-to-year personality shift 90% of the time, and our lifetime shift 100% of the time.
Curiously, we underestimate shifts in health and income far less (29% and 43%).
So what changes most about us? Extraversion and openness are among the steepest lifetime decliners. Conscientiousness too, but that's more volatile (increases for years, then dips).
"For a long time, both the general public and many psychologists believed personality traits were permanent," the study reads.
Turns out they aren't. We're a work in progress folks!
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IN OTHER NEWS |
Fake tracks flop, dreams that drain, seaweed season...
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| Researchers at Tohoku found vivid dreams tire us out. As mice slipped into REM sleep, their neurons' fuel source fell fast, drained by the memory filing vivid dreams require. |
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| Scientists at USF and NOAA discovered ocean algae is booming, growing 13.4% a year. The ocean is slowly turning green. Main culprits? Farm runoff and warming water. |
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| Quorum Innovations created a supplement made of dead bacteria that traps microplastics in our diet like flypaper. In a first human test, 98% of microplastics were neutralized! |
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HACK OF THE WEEK |
Your own advice is worth the price
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Ever notice you give great advice to everyone but yourself?
There's a fix. Next time you're stuck, don't ask "What should I do?" Ask "What would I tell my best friend to do here?"
Even say it out loud in the third person, using your own name.
Psychologists call it Solomon's Paradox, after the king who dished out wisdom to everyone while his own life quietly unraveled.
Stepping outside your own head strips away ego, panic, and sunk costs.
Now get out there and self-talk like a boss.
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SHOWER THOUGHTS |
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1. An octopus is just a wet spider.
2. Every mirror you buy is used.
3. Meatloaf is a rectangular meatball.
4. Ironically, there's no synonym for the word "synonym."
5. If my calculator had a search history, it'd be more embarrassing than my browser history.
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POST OF THE WEEK |
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QUOTE / TIL / WORD / TRIVIA |
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Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” |
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Today I learned A "jiffy" is a real scientific unit of time: how long light takes to travel one centimeter, about 33 trillionths of a second. So "back in a jiffy" is a wildly overambitious promise. (more here) |
metanoia [ met-uh-NOY-uh ] - noun
a profound, transformative change of heart or mind.
After the retreat, Faiza came home in a state of quiet metanoia, unsure exactly what had shifted but certain something had. |
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Q: Which letter of the alphabet never appears in any U.S. state name?
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SHOP BRAIN + BODY FUEL |
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Fan of IQNEWS? Forward to friends! 
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