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**Make Your Damn Bed**

@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum – better your life.

Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed – so you can start making it!

Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an “as-is” basis.

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1590 || tools for skeptical thinking || throwback Oct 26, 2025

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Enjoy this throwback episode (from day 872) before the new series drops on Monday!

"There's a sucker born every minute." - P.T. Barnum

Carl Sagan shares guidelines with us for how to critically think. Today, I share them with you!

Critical thinking never goes out of style. especially when we consider how MUCH information we are forced to take in on a daily basis.

Historically speaking, Never have people had so much information FORCED upon them - we gotta be diligent about how we learn new information so we’re not falling victim to the Riff-raff.

RESOURCES: https://stimpunks.org/glossary/critical-thinking/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World

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The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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1589 || the list for getting unstuck || throwback Oct 25, 2025

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ENJOY THIS THROWBACK EPISODE FROM DAY 751, BEFORE THE NEW SERIES DROPS ON MONDAY -

Make a list of all the shit you're good at + a list of all the good shit in your life + all the shit that bothers you about your life.

Using the first two lists, attempt to solve the last list and bingo-bango you've got yourself a lil action plan template.

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1588 || why learning sucks Oct 24, 2025

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Curiosity is fragile. Learning is difficult as hell. Our brains are built for efficiency, not thinking. We can trick our brains into motivation by worrying about the difficulty of the challenge, rather than the topic or the content. We rely on our memories more than our thinking brain.

According to Daniel Willingham's book, "Why Students Don’t Like School?" "Thinking occurs when you combine information (from the environment and from long-term memory) in new ways. That combination happens in working memory."

SOURCES:

Read Daniel's article for yourself, here: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/WILLINGHAM%282%29.pdf

Check out his website + other work: http://www.danielwillingham.com/books.html

Or read this synopsis of the book: https://classteaching.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/why-dont-students-like-school/

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1587 || a silly + true teacher story Oct 23, 2025

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Some of the lessons I prioritize, still: Stop being so hard on yourself when you’re struggling to learn or master or understand something new. You’re actually doing a great job as a learner. You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be, trying, messing up, learning. If you knew already, you wouldn’t be learning anymore. Learning is impossible to mess up, unless you give up. It’s supposed to be challenging - but that doesn’t have to mean frustrating. Take your time to be a learner. Tests are hard for some of us, but that doesn’t mean you’re dumb. Judge a fish by ability to climb a tree, and all that.

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1586 || some of my teacher stories || birthday episode Oct 22, 2025

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And that’s the beauty of math, right? There are many ways to get there, but there is one answer.

It’s tidy, if you’re tidy.

It’s also why I hate math - because I am not the tidiest worker.

I try to be, and am training myself to be so I can enjoy the process of things more, and actually invest in the process as much as the outcome, but when I was younger and sometimes still, I really don’t have time for poorly worded instructions, and I tend to rush through shit if I don’t see the point in it.

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1585 || dirt in a cog Oct 21, 2025

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Dirt in a cog is a way to embody resistance. It focuses on slowing down, jamming up, creating little bits of friction that make it difficult to keep attacking our citizens effectively.

We need all types of resistance, don't think there are limits to your modes of resistance. Make fascism hard. Don't normalize the violence we're seeing. Keep showing your community + your country that you aren't going to lie down and watch it burn.

You don't have to wait for one big act of revolutionary change to start pushing back. You can push back against the shift in everyday actions + choices, if you know where to look.

THE "DIRT IN A COG" ZINE: https://invisiblehistory.org/dirt-in-a-cog-zine/

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1584 || the next best choice Oct 20, 2025

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Joy is part of the practice.

When you can't find it and don't know where to start? Start small. Start by reminding yourself that joy still exists, and it's a frequency vibrating right above our heads, and if we can just poke our heads out of this damned hole, we can find it - tap into it, and use it like the resource it is.

Pay attention to the glimmers that make you feel seen.

The goal is to make the next best choice.

Reclaim your agency by starting with fun, whimsy, and joy.

Inspirational stuff that has helped to pry me from my funk lately:

DIRT IN A COG VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyU50dserEY

CHAOTIC GUIDE TO MAKING STUFF INSTEAD OF DOOMSCROLLING: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n8W6CBxc64&t=102s

RADICAL NEIGHBORING VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynQV-oKM0E

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1583 || tactical frivolity (joy is our way out) Oct 19, 2025

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Tactical frivolity is what happens when you use humor, whimsy, and joy to make those in power look ridiculous. It flips the script and reclaims agency. The optics matter, the message matters, and how the message arrives matters. So get involved, stop leaning into despair, and flip that damned script. Get some joy in your resistance. It's exactly what the world needs right now.

Threads: https://www.threads.com/@eorlins/post/DP8wkOgDfyt/have-you-heard-of-tactical-frivolityits-one-of-my-favorite-forms-of-protesttacti

Leeja Miller's Video on Tactical Frivolity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGiEhbaa8Ko

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1582 || mental gymnastics (and how to stop) Oct 18, 2025

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Beliefs require faith, rationality requires flexibility. Unless your belief is rooted in rationality, these things can conflict.

Refusing to acknowledge or label something doesn’t make it go away, but it does take your power away from being able to confront or address it.

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1581 || analysis paralysis Oct 17, 2025

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Our brains have a tendency to over-value the effect of TINY inconsequential differences when comparing options.

Distinction bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate how different their options are when they compare them to each other rather than evaluating them independently, against some absolute standard. This bias often leads to an exaggerated perception of the differences between options. - ClearerThinking.org

Distinction Bias effects: https://www.clearerthinking.org/post/distinction-bias-definition-examples-and-effects

Distinction Bias Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_bias

Nir's take on Distinction Bias: https://www.nirandfar.com/distinction-bias/

Reddit's solutions: https://www.reddit.com/r/adhdwomen/comments/1ig89cd/anyone_else_agonize_over_decisions_and_then_end/

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