Refreshed & Learn From Mistakes

How much time do you have to spend outside to feel refreshed? Dangerous Dave talks about a poll that says 67 minutes is needed. Might be tought up north in the summer time. Plus, is there a point we no longer learn from our mistakes? Studies say "yes" and we look at why.

Episode Transcript

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This is deeper in the din withdangerous day? Do you ever get the
opportunity to spend quality time outside?Is walking one hundred feet up to the
Starbucks or from the parking lot toyour work? Is that helping you out?
Well? Maybe that could be thereason you don't feel revived every day.
According to a new poll, theaverage American needs to spend sixty seven

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minutes outside each day to feel refreshed, which I guess would be like walking
what four miles to work? Youknow, that's easy enough right now,
it's warmer out, not too hot. It's a struggle for those sixty seven
minutes in January, of course,up here, or in July in Arizona.
So how do you define feeling refreshed? Two and three people say outside

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relaxes and puts them in a bettermood and help them clear their head that
it's about being cooped up inside fortoo many hours, too much time.
Can it make you feel depressed?Anxious? Even cause loneliness? Really,
with all the people yammering and theother offices right around you, you can
feel lonely. I know I wantto feel lonely when I hear them maybe
a little more isolated. Maybe Ineed to get outside just to clear my

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head deeper in the two you know, we teach kids' mistakes are good because
we can learn from them. Thatis, eventually, until you say screw
it and stop trying. A newstudy found that we learn from our mistakes,
but only to a point. Specificallylooked at mistakes by surgeons because they
have a high pressure job. Itfound out that when surgeons make mistakes earlier
in their career, they tend tolearn from them and get better. They're

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less likely to make mistakes again.But over time, messing up on a
surgery or losing a patient takes atoll emotionally, so they start to distance
themselves from their mistakes. Instead ofblaming themselves, they start blaming external factors
that they can't control. Once thathappens, they tend to stop learning from
their steps. You can end upmaking them worse overall. This is something

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that applies not just to surgeons butto everybody. Researchers say that losing confidence
was something you do has a lotto do with it, but it also
might show that there are limits andhow much we can learn from our mistakes.
In general, sometimes it's better tostop, regroup and try something different.
What are you trying to tell me? Tune in again for another episode
of Deeper in the Den with DangerousDave By Dear