Cody Cassidy is back to talk about how soap was invented. You’ll also learn about a bias that makes people believe poor people have thicker skin, and how good anxiety can help you get things done.

Good Anxiety Can Help You Get Things Done by Reuben Westmaas

• Must We Suffer to Succeed? | Journal of Individual Differences | Vol 38, No 2. (2017). Journal of Individual Differences. https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/1614-0001/a000228
• Dolan, E. W. (2017, July 8). People can use anxiety to motivate themselves, study finds. PsyPost; PsyPost. https://www.psypost.org/2017/07/people-can-use-anxiety-motivate-study-finds-49274

Society Perceives the Poor to Have a "Thick Skin" Compared to Others by Kelsey Donk

• Society perceives the poor as less affected by distress than those with more means. (2020). EurekAlert! spt081720.php">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/puww-spt081720.php
• Cheek, N. N., & Shafir, E. (2020). The thick skin bias in judgments about people in poverty. Behavioural Public Policy, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2020.33

Additional resources from author Cody Cassidy:

• Pick up “Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History” on Amazon: https://amazon.com
• Cody Cassidy’s articles on Wired: https://www.wired.com/author/cody-cassidy/
• Cody Cassidy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CodyCassidy

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