Your Day, Your Way

The Fact and Fiction Behind Your Daily Decisions

By: Timothy Caulfield

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

Part pop-science, part self-help, Your Day. Your Way. is a friendly, funny, fact-based guide to changing how you make decisions in order to live a better - maybe even your best - life.

We make, and worry about, a thousand big and little decisions during our waking hours. And for most of us, these decisions are made (after a lot of hemming and hawing), based on concerns or beliefs about our world that...well...simply aren't true. These misperceptions impact day-to-day decisions and stress us out unnecessarily - and we all have enough stress as it is. Tim Caulfield seeks to provide the antidote to this analysis paralysis, teaching listeners - through sound science and silly stories - that reevaluating their decision-making processes can lead to lives that are both more fulfilling and more exciting.

Your Day. Your Way. unfolds like a typical day - from the first buzz of the alarm clock all the way to bedtime. As the clock moves forward, Caulfield tackles topics associated with that particular time of day and addresses them through science-informed responses about health, offering listeners a way to cut through the noise and have healthier and happier lives in the age of anxiety. Caulfield highlights what science says we should be worried about and how we can de-stress and live a healthy lifestyle.

Rather than burying you in the facts, or listing out a bunch of specific things you should or should not be doing, Caulfield uses wit, humor, and a wide variety of examples to encourage listeners to reevaluate how they make all of those decisions - so that they can live in a way that truly works for them.

©2020 Timothy Caulfield (P)2020 Running Press Adult

Critic reviews

"Perhaps you, like me, find yourself bewildered by conflicting claims about everything from the food you should eat, to the 'five second rule' if that food falls on the floor, to whether public toilet seats pass along terrifying diseases. Tim Caulfield masterfully, and humorously, walks you through all of the things you're likely to encounter in a typical day and provides such much needed sanity in a world of claims run amok. It also serves as an introduction to critical thinking for those who don't know how to approach such questions, enabling all of us to make better sense of any new nonsense that comes forward. I devoured it (and it didn't even fall on the floor)." (Daniel Levitin, author of Successful Aging and The Organized Mind)

"In Your Day, Your Way Tim Caulfield gives us an entertaining guide to some of the most entrenched as well as the more recent wellness fads. No one understands the impact of pop culture on health communication better than Caulfield, who is an expert in the marketing of health misinformation and disinformation. He is an entertaining science communicator who understands that fear is a big driver of our headline-driven 24/7 news cycle. Every day we are met with headlines-which often contradict the ones from the previous week-as to how we should be living our lives.Caulfield tackles this confusing clickbait by walking the reader through an imaginary day. His style of communication is effective and easy to understand. And I learned a lot! Read this book-it will vaccinate you against misinformation!" (Dr. Jen Gunter, renowned gynecologist and author of The Vagina Bible)

Synopsis of studies

Well reasoned presentation of studies applicable to everyday life and their strengths and faults. Unfortunately most of the results and much of the analysis I have heard before, so if you read a lot of this type of book or listen to a lot of podcasts like Freakonomics and You are not so Smart there will be little that is new to you. For me it was just that riding a bike in traffic is much less dangerous than one would think.
The author did a great interview on the SGEM (Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine).

Handy everyday advice that is free from bias

Caulfield provides funny, insightful truths that help us through our day. His simple common sense, science backed approach is a breath of fresh air.