Good morning.
And welcome to morning cereal
Okay, good morning and welcome to Monday
and welcome to February
officially. What a month ahead of us
We've got the Super Bowl, go Swifties. We
had Groundhog's Day. We've got
Valentine's Day and
it's Black History Month
But don't blink it'll go by quickly
It's the shortest month of the year with
only 28 days this
year and because of that
It's the only month that can pass without
a full moon. If you
just spit out your coffee
Don't fret grab a napkin. There's a full
moon on February 12th this year
All right
Let's go ahead and just
jump into today's quotes
One fun nostalgic quote and then a second
quote to tease our book
review later in the episode
Hopefully one of these quotes will speak
to you and jumpstart your
day in a positive direction
All right. The first quote is from funny
man Mike Myers who is quoted as saying
It's better to fail
trying than to never try it all
No doubt the chance that we might fail is
a scary thought but the
chance that we might succeed is
Exhilarating have the courage to take
that chance and today's teaser quote from
the book review is I
Got the feeling that I had done something
for him without his
being able to do anything
Whatever in return for me and as usual
we'll unpack that here in just a few
minutes during the book review segment
But first let's jump into our usual dose
of fun and historic facts
from this day in history
Today's news facts and
birthdays are for February 3rd in
1690
Massachusetts issued the first paper
money in the American colonies in
1876 Albert Spalding he invested $800 to
start a sporting goods company
Manufacturing the first official baseball
tennis ball basketball
golf ball and football
That's about twenty four thousand dollars
in today's dollars in
1917 not yet involved in World War one
the United States broke off diplomatic
Relations with Germany after the Germans
announced their intention to practice
unrestricted submarine warfare
in 1928
Paleoanthropologist Davidson black he
reported his findings on the ancient
human fossils that he found in
Zucadian China in the journal nature and
he declared them to be a
new species that he named
Something that I'm not even gonna try to
pronounce, but we now
know it as Homo erectus
and on this date in
1959 it's the day when the music died
It's when the plane crashed near Clear
Lake, Iowa that killed musicians, buddy
Holly Richie Valens and JP Richardson
and in
1966 Luna 9 touchdown on the moon. That's
the unmanned Soviet spacecraft
It was the first one to achieve a soft
landing on the moon in
1990 for the first time ever the UK top
three music singles featured non-British
and non-american acts
It included Ireland's Sinead O'Connor
Australia's Kylie Minogue
and Belgium's technotronic
finally in
1995 American astronaut Eileen Collins
became the first woman to pilot a space
shuttle and she piloted
the Discovery Space Shuttle
If you were born in February, you are
either an Aquarius or
Pisces. So happy birthday
If today is your birthday you share a
birthday with actor Nathan Lane. He's 68
you know him from movies like the
birdcage the Lion King he
played the original Timon and
Australian actress Isla Fisher. She's 49
the number one song on this date in
1983 was the song Africa by Toto
This is an iconic song in any decade with
some of the most famous lyrics like I
bless the rains down in Africa
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus
above the Serengeti. I mean come on
Interestingly Toto won a Grammy for album
of the year for Toto
for the name of the album
But the song Africa wasn't nominated for
either record of the year or song of the
year because critics
preferred the album's lead single
Rosanna another classic and one that
actually was nominated in both categories
and won the Grammy for record of the year
However, Rosanna peaked at only number
two on the US charts never reaching
number one as Africa did
the band's only number one hit
And as a side note here in a reminder if
you follow Morning Serial
podcast on Instagram you can hear
snippets from these songs that I
highlight every day and
the number one movie on
this date back in 1992
Maybe has a different vibe than the
cinematic feel that the
song Africa had well in 1992
Wayne's world was the number one movie
Wayne's world was a big screen spin-off
of the Saturday Night Live skit starring
Mike Myers as Wayne
and Dana Carvey as Garth
However, the movie has just as many
iconic quotable lines as the song Africa
I mean, we're not worthy
We're not worthy if you're
gonna spew spew into this
Yeah, and monkeys might fly out of my
butt in the bohemian rap city scene
again. Come on today
Wayne's world is the only SNL skit that
was made into a movie that has grossed
over a hundred million dollars in total
The movie grossed about a hundred and
eighty three million
With that let's move on with some
personal growth in the book review
segment of Morning Serial
This is where we take a few moments to
reflect on lessons
learned from the current book
We're reading and currently we're reading
through Dale Carnegie's how to win
friends and influence people
It's a timeless book that is consistently
on all the must-read lists and it's
packed with rock-solid advice and actions
For us all to use and build healthy
foundational concepts to live by
Last week we finished reading chapter 5
of part 2 which is entitled
how to interest people and
We learned Carnegie's principle number 5
is to talk in terms of
other people's interests
Putting in the time in the effort to find
out what other people are interested in
is helpful in both business and socially
And we'll be rewarding
to both parties involved
So now we have five of the six principles
Carnegie outlines to make
people like you since it's Monday
I'll do a quick rundown on those number
one become genuinely interested in other
people number two smile number three
Remember that a person's name is to that
person the sweetest and most important
sound in any language
number four be a good listener
Encourage others to talk about themselves
and number five talk in
terms of other people's interests
Today we start chapter 6 of part 2
entitled how to make
people like you instantly and
Carnegie starts out this chapter with the
story that again to me at least
Shows his sense of humor and sarcasm in
the end as the story goes
Carnegie was waiting in line at the post
office to mail a letter and he saw that
the clerk appeared to be
bored at his monotonous
Job, so Carnegie thought that he might
say something to the
clerk to make him like him
So Carnegie looked to find something
about the clerk he admired and Carnegie
acknowledges here that it can be hard to
find something to admire
About a stranger, but in this
case it was easy for Carnegie
He told the clerk when
it was his turn that quote
I certainly wish I had your head of hair
in quote the clerk looked up surprised
and said that it wasn't as good as it
Used to be but after some more small talk
the last thing the clerk
said to Carnegie was quote
Many people have admired my hair in quote
Carnegie goes on to say that
he bet he made that guy's day
That that guy was walking on air that he
went home to tell his wife
about it and Carnegie says
Quote I'll bet he looked in the mirror
and said it is a beautiful head of hair
in quote, which I think is funny
anyways
Carnegie told this story in public ones
and he was asked what he was trying to
get out of or from the clerk and
Carnegie contemptuously replied quote.
What was I trying to get out of him?
Three exclamation marks here by the way
and Carnegie continued
quote if we are so contemptibly
Selfish that we can't radiate a little
happiness and pass on a bit of honest
appreciation without trying to get
something out of the
other person in return if our
Souls are no bigger than sour crab
apples. We shall meet with the failure
We so richly deserve in quote and I
appreciate this quick
side bit from Carnegie again
Reminding us that this book does teach us
how to deal with people and to
specifically construct
approaches to gain certain outcomes
But it's also teaching us
just to be good human beings
Much of this book is as simple as that
and after the soapbox moment
Carnegie says quote. Oh, yes
I did want something out of that chap
I wanted something priceless and I got it
I got the feeling that I had done
something for him without his being able
to do anything whatever in return for me
That is a feeling that flows and sings in
your memory long after the
incident is passed in quote
Here Carnegie reminds us that there is
one all-important law of how we should
live and if we do it right
It will bring us
countless friends and happiness
But if we get it wrong it will lead to
endless trouble and that law again is
quote always make the other person feel
Important in quote we covered that from
John Dewey earlier in the book and
Carnegie reminds the reader that quote
The desire to be important is the deepest
urge in human nature
And the desire is what separates us from
the animals and is
responsible for civilization itself
Real in today's review
segment on what Carnegie says
Philosophers leaders and figures
throughout history have taught from the
Zorister in Persia to Confucius in China
Lao cha in the Valley of Han to Buddha
and to Jesus on the hills of Judea
Who Carnegie says summed it up best
quoting Jesus quote do unto others as you
would have others do unto you
Again, so simple, but so true and so
often hard to come by
Tomorrow Carnegie covers a story about a
man that owned a castle and how the power
of appreciation helped him get there
Well, what better way to start the week
than to remind
ourselves of the golden rule
Perhaps that will help you through a
difficult situation today or this week
another week on the grind, but keep at it
You're doing great life is what happens
when you're busy making other plans
So make those moments in between matter.
We'll see you tomorrow
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