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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

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8:35

1587 || a silly + true teacher story

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/23

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

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7:48

1586 || some of my teacher stories || birthday episode

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/22

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, andI tend to rush through shit if I don’t see the point in it.Resources

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8:45

1585 || dirt in a cog

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/21

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

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8:50

1584 || the next best choice

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/20

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

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9:32

1583 || tactical frivolity (joy is our way out)

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/19

Tactical frivolityis 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:

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8:37

1582 || mental gymnastics (and how to stop)

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/18

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.Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bedDONATE to the Palestinian Children's

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9:16

1581 || analysis paralysis

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/17

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.orgDistinction Bias effects:

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9:07

1580 || contrast effect

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2025/10/14

The contrast effect isa bias where the perception of something is distorted by being compared to something else, making the differences between them seem greater than they are.SOURCES: BUSTER BENSON'S MEDIUM POST: https://medium.com/@buster/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18Contrast effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_effect#:~:text=%5Bclarification%20needed%5D-,Domains,The%20checker%20shadow%20illusionAnchoring Bias:

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9:17

1579 || omission bias

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2025/10/13

Theomission biasrefers to our tendency to judge harmfulactionsas worse than harmfulinactions, even if they result in similar consequences.SOURCES: BUSTER BENSON'S MEDIUM POST: https://medium.com/@buster/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18OMISSION BIAS: https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/omission-biasand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_biasMore biases here: Bizarreness effect, Humor effect,Von Restorff effect,Negativity bias,Publication bias,Omission biasResources for Resisting a Coup:

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8:29

1578 || different versions of negativity bias

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2025/10/12

Our brains are designed to notice interesting (or negative) events. This can lead us to make decisions based on the negative experiences in our lives, and forget to consider the positive. SOURCES: BUSTER BENSON'S MEDIUM POST: https://medium.com/@buster/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18More biases here: Bizarreness effect, Humor effect,Von Restorff effect,Negativity bias,Publication bias,Omission biasResources for Resisting a Coup:

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8:23

1577 || how the brain copes with too much information

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2025/10/11

Too much information means our brain needs to take some shortcuts. Let's discuss how they work so we can know what to watch out for. SOURCES: BUSTER BENSON'S MEDIUM POST: https://medium.com/@buster/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18Read more about the biases here: Availability heuristic,Attentional bias,Illusory truth effect,Mere exposure effect,Context effect, Cue-dependent forgetting, Mood-congruent memory bias,Frequency illusion, Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon,Empathy gapResources for Resisting a

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9:09

1576 || frictionless leads to swaglessness

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2025/10/09

Friction is a type of resistance that leads to consideration, growth, and unique solutions. Without friction, we all flatten into the same, boring, identity. Also, friction doesn't "go away" it shifts. So, where you find a frictionless experience, it means that someone else had to take that on.Most importantly: Friction isn't the enemy. It is a valuable communicator, if we're willing to listen.The

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9:49

1575 || our frictionless society

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2025/10/08

Loneliness isn’t just personal. It’s institutional. It’s fiscal. It’s a bit engineered. It’s purposeful. - Kyla ScanlonThe Sources: Kyla Scanlon's Substack Post: https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-theResources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bedDONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.netGET AN OCCASIONAL

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7:32

1574 || there is a better way forward

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/07

We are not cooked. We just have to learn how to imagine all the ways it CAN be better, first. The Sources: Faron Sage's Medium Post: https://medium.com/illumination-curated/everybody-needs-to-wake-up-the-world-17d4636d15ddProjects likeMoral ImaginationsandThrutopiaand activists likeRob HopkinsandManda ScottResources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!):

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8:08

1573 || inside you are two wolves

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/06

Which wolf will you feed?The Source: https://theacademy.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/two-wolves-cherokee-story.pdfResources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!): https://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bedDONATE to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: www.pcrf.netGET AN OCCASIONAL PERSONAL EMAIL FROM ME: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.comTUNE IN ON INSTAGRAM FOR COOL CONTENT:

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8:24

1572 || the life audit

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2025/10/05

How often are you checking in with your values to see if your actions are aligning with them? Today we're doing a life audit - starting with our personal consumer ideology: spend one week at a time, assessing your current consumption habits. You may wanna take it a step further and Audit Your Favorite Brands. Then, create your “In a Perfect World" Company.Resources for Resisting a Coup: https://makeyourdamnbed.medium.com/practical-guides-to-resisting-a-coup-b44571b9ad66SUPPORT JULIE (and the show!):

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9:11

1571 || in the zone (where even winning is a...

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/04

Sometimes, when you're dissociating effectively, and really "in the zone" of distraction? You can find ANY interruption to be an inconvenience. Even winning. I fear this is what has been happening to me when I lock into my phone too hard. Every interruption (even the good ones) feel like a shock to my system. Everything feels like a distraction. Learning why this happens has been really helpful in my ability to address the "infinite scroll loop" trap that I sometimes find myself in. THE SOURCE:

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9:24

1570 || state sponsored disinformation

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/03

Did you know that your* government has run official, formal, propaganda campaigns against its own citizens to spread disinformation. They have manipulated media, created bot account farms to sow discontent, and created smear campaigns - all in the name of "political strategy". "Remember kids, the next time someone tries to tell you the government wouldn't do that, oh yes, yes they would." If they want you to distrust your neighbor, don't buy in. Distrust the government, instead. Today's resources:

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8:30

1569 || the internet is alive, actually

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/02

We've discussed the "dead internet theory" a bit in the past, but today I want to remind you that is by design - and the people who profit off of you believing the internet is dead are grateful you don't look for the alive parts of it, that are still there + pushing back against the pollution + misinformation they are spreading. The internet is not trash. I think of it like thrifting. Most of it is trash, but there is the occasional treasure that is so worth sifting through the mountain of shit,

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9:58

1568 || are ads inescapable?

Make Your Damn Bed ·

2025/10/01

Tech companies + advertising executives are manipulating us, no matter what. Today we're talking about how they do it. Tomorrow we'll talk about what to do about it. Main source: "Your Brain on Ads": https://www.npr.org/2011/06/14/137175622/this-is-your-brain-on-ads-an-internal-battleAdvertiser's Tactics (neuroscience): https://www.usdatacorporation.com/blog/brain-response-to-ads-the-neuroscience-of-effective-marketing/How Does Advertising Affect Mental Health

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