Life is full of problems, big and small, and everyone has to deal with them. Running away from them to a remote island won't solve them; the pesky darn things seem to know how to get around, constantly finding a way to haunt us. Most of us mortals don't have the money for it in the first place.
So we have to solve them. And, believe it or not, we can do it even without having all the answers. All it takes is a little creativity. And to show you that human ingenuity has no limits when it comes to making life easier, Bored Panda has compiled a list of clever life hacks. Can't cut an onion without tearing up? Put on your ski goggles. Don't have a coin for a supermarket trolley? Use a round-headed key instead. In a way, I guess, we're all engineers, applying rational thinking to develop solutions. We just need to remember it.
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Don't worry to implement an idea you've just come up with, even if you think it looks dumb. Bence Nanay Ph.D., who is a BOF Research Professor of Philosophy at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp, for example, thinks that stupidity is part of human nature.
"We are influenced by various cognitive biases that we are not aware of," Nanay wrote in Psychology Today. "The music we are listening to influences our opinion of the wine we drink, the weight of the spoon influences how creamy we find the yogurt and our moral assessment of strangers depends on what movie we have just watched. I call this paradigm of empirical findings the 'We're All Stupid' paradigm."
That’s Brilliant
According to Nanay, even expert probability-theorists are very easily fooled into making the most basic mistakes about probability and wine experts routinely mistake white wine with added odorless colorant for red wine.
"I argue that we should embrace our stupidity. Rather than setting ourselves up to fail all the time, we should take our emotion-infused, irrational, oversimplifying mental setup as the baseline," Nanay said, adding that it is only in those rare and exceptional moments when we manage to overcome our stupidity and achieve true rationality.
To put it simply, you won't come up with something extraordinary if you're afraid to fail -- we all do.
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An original idea which I'm sure could benefit essential workers and us alike
Now how do you stop it from riding up into the eyes???
Load More Replies...I work in a hospital and we have used this really good idea for months now. You can also sew buttons to the ends of a 6" or 7" piece of ribbon.
I'm crocheting what I call mask helpers, it's just a length of yarn with buttons on the end. Her idea is more brilliant.
At the request of some nurse, I have been crocheting "ear saver" which are bands with buttons sew on for those that don't wear headbands.
I don't wear headbands but its an excellent idea for those who do.
I use hair clips (the snappy ones, not bobby pins, although they would probably work too) because I don't wear headbands routinely either. I have a stupidly shaped/sized head so elasticated headbands fall off after a short time. I also need the child-sized masks or they verge on covering my eyes. I've tried the "tie a knot in the elastic" trick, which sort of works, but then makes the elastic hurt my ears. Fun times. Still not going to go out without one.
Load More Replies...or attach rubberbands to the elastic and fasten behind the head with a paperclip.
I was thinking of having buttons installed on my temples, but I like this idea better.
My sister has one of these. She bought it because she thought it was a mask at first, and now she brags about it anytime she wears it.
A friend of mine who runs a Cross Fit centre in the UK, found herself with lots of free time during the lockdown. Sha made tens and hundreds of these and gave them away to essential workers. She's an angel in disguise. If you're in the UK and want to get some training done, look for LN CrossFit in Lincoln!
i did the same with a homemade mask. i saw it on the server at a restaurant and went home to attempt to make it
This is such a helpful and thoughtful idea. I'm a retired RN and when my aunt had CA and her ear tissue was so thin and painful from the oxygen tubes wrapped around one's ears 24'7 get so painful. I tried lubricated kleenex but nothing of that nature helped because it didn't address the problem that started all the symptoms. Getting the TUBING OFF THE TENDER EAR TISSUE. It gets raw behind the ears and I don't thing many professionals realize this. I did not..Thank you so much for your valuable observations. Although I'm an rn and was dealing with a family member this valuable hint didn't occur to me. It could easially be attached to a head band as well. Thanks so much.
Boy, you are a downer. Can’t you just say it’s a good idea, geez.
Load More Replies...im going to try this idea but sew them them onto my belt to hang the shopping on.
Also I’ve found that putting the elastic around the knobbly part at the back of your ear instead of the very back of your ear where the skin connects with your head will prevent any soreness.
If you where facemasks on a daily basis as part of your profession. You build a tolerance or at least I did.
Headbands always fall off the back of my head. This might solve that problem too!
And now the loops won't snag your glasses off your face when you remove the mask.
My cousin was making these as well as cloth masks for essential workers.
Very good. I saw a staffer at Sprouts Market wearing a sun visor who used safety pins in a similar way.
That's great! Thanks for sharing. Sending to my daughter, who is a hospice nurse
I work in a hospital and always have lots of cotton pads around, so i tape two of those to the ear loops to cushion them
Bend a paper clip to hook the loops together behind your head. Keeps me from losing a hearing aid.
I think as everyone is encouraged to wear masks this could be the new black. It's a shame she won't get the credit for it.
I have never experienced any discomfort from wearing a mask. I was really surprised by the complaints of sore ears during this pandemic. maybe in my country there are common masks with longer elastic bands? I have no idea. but here I have never encountered the need for such buttons, even among operating theater workers.
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I don't know if you would consider this stupid or smart. I have loaned out so many books, or tools and such over the years that were never returned. Now I still don't refuse loaning...but instead I take a digital pic of them holding what I am loaning. I use it, to get my stuff back...infact now I don't even have to use the photo as leverage..they know and return it accordingly. 😏
A life hack I was taught was to take a photo of your young kids when you get to a busy place like an amusement park. That way if one got lost you can show the staff exactly what they look like at that time. This is good as many parents freak when their kids go missing and forget what the kids were wearing.
Most of those were brilliant ideas, even a few "hacks," and not the least bit stupid, so why were they in an "it ain't stupid if it works" post?
one more time I watched some many ideas which worked out for some people but I will possibly never use them in my life. I make my own 😎
Very enjoyable but long missed a few because I didn't know what the hell it was. I would like to see some more complex and intricate solutions to problems.
I don't know if you would consider this stupid or smart. I have loaned out so many books, or tools and such over the years that were never returned. Now I still don't refuse loaning...but instead I take a digital pic of them holding what I am loaning. I use it, to get my stuff back...infact now I don't even have to use the photo as leverage..they know and return it accordingly. 😏
A life hack I was taught was to take a photo of your young kids when you get to a busy place like an amusement park. That way if one got lost you can show the staff exactly what they look like at that time. This is good as many parents freak when their kids go missing and forget what the kids were wearing.
Most of those were brilliant ideas, even a few "hacks," and not the least bit stupid, so why were they in an "it ain't stupid if it works" post?
one more time I watched some many ideas which worked out for some people but I will possibly never use them in my life. I make my own 😎
Very enjoyable but long missed a few because I didn't know what the hell it was. I would like to see some more complex and intricate solutions to problems.