May 30, 2022
Being Type A with Neal
Description
Cardiologist Neal Yuan checks in for a heart-to-heart about poop composition, persiflage, and having a Type A personality.
Episode
Bio
Neal is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at UC San Francisco. Neal was a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa bioengineer from Princeton University, as well as an Alpha Omega Alpha MD from UCSF. In his spare time, Neal enjoys one-pot cooking + actually officiated Jason + Dora's wedding!
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What Jason Learned
Mount Kinabalu (the third tallest mountain on an island) is extremely biodiverse, with over 5,500 species of plants and 100 species of mammals.
What Kelcey Learned
Babies can go multiple days without pooping, and it is totally normal.
Top Five Tips for Living with a Type A Personality

  1. Take a step back if you're feeling impatient or anxious.

  2. Sometimes, you don't need to delay gratification (sometimes, eat your dessert first).

  3. Satisficing (do something satisfactory rather than spending too much time maximizing your option).

Fact or Fiction: Personality Types

  1. Helpful people have more sex - FACT, the more altruistic people are, the more sexual partners they have AND the more frequently they have sex, according to a study by the British Journal of Psychology (Arnocky et al 2016)

  2. People get meaner as they grow older - FICTION, people get nicer as they grow older; three major changes to personality that occur with age are more conscientious, more agreeable, and less neurotic (moody) - Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Riccelli et al, 2016)

  3. Narcissists prefer sweet foods - FICTION, having a preference for bitter tastes is linked to pyschopathy, narcissism, and everyday sadism; a predilection for tonic water or coffee, could indicate some pyschopathic tendencies in a person’s personality (Appetite, Sagioglou & Greitemeyer, 2016)

  4. People can hear your personality - FICTION, people can guess your personality simply by smelling your t-shirt, according to a study by the European Journal of Personality; the study found that people were good at identifying neuroticism, extraversion, and dominance, and in fact, people were particularly accurate at smelling dominance (or otherwise) of the opposite sex.

Won't You, Haiku?
Type A

What is persiflage?
Helpful people have more sex
How is this Type A?