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The hidden variable in the chore-and-desire debate is not the dishes

Who does the housework affects desire. What they think about it affects it more.

Fair warning: the technical language of research tends to produce some pretty diabolical phrases, and this story features the term "benevolent sexism." Buckle up.

Who would want to be romantic after unloading a dishwasher? Nobody. And if you felt put upon to do it? Even worse. But as Mark Wales reports, a new study in the Journal of Sex Research found that how much it costs you depends heavily on what you believe about who should have been doing it in the first place.

The twist is in what the researchers found hiding inside that number. It's not a straight chores-wreck-desire story. How much it costs you depends on factors outside the dishwasher's control, which is where that dodgy phrase comes in. 

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Well-being

There's a name for why your intentions never quite become your actions

"I know, I know." So why aren't you working out?

The most irritating phrase in day-to-day parenting is "I know!" You say, hey, you need to brush your teeth, and back comes the "I know!" And sure, he knows. But do the teeth get brushed? Reader, they do not.

Adults don't tend to say "I know" out loud quite so often. It's almost rude. But that doesn't mean we're any better at the doing. I know I should have worked out this morning before sitting down to lovingly craft you a delightfully uplifting newsletter. Did the working out get done? I think we both know that it did not.

So why is that? Physical therapist Laura Baehr points to a concept that psychologist Albert Bandura named in 1977, which researchers keep returning to because it keeps proving right. Not motivation. Not discipline. Something quieter, and weirdly, something you can build.

She lays out four small shifts to build it, including one you can pull off while your lunch is in the microwave.

And what did we learn?

Yesterday, we shared a story on what it costs to live in the country’s 10 most and least expensive cities while abiding by the 50% needs, 30% wants, 20% for the future budgeting framework.

How many GOOD readers are actually living the 50/30/20 dream? Over 30% of you think it’s a pipe dream, and I’m right there with you! I’m just speculating, but that ration had to have come from someone not raising kids, right?

• My financial gospel. I live by it! (21.2%)

• It's the goal, but I'm not there yet. (18.2%)

• It's a pipe dream. I'm more like 80/19/1. (31.8%)

• The what now? (28.8%)

And a correction: Yesterday, I credited the clever comment about pups to GOOD reader Leslie Law. Her comment was about Alaskan sled dogs. Our delightfully clover Border Collie comment came from GOOD reader Mohn Dog. Sorry about the mix-up.

On May 12, 1965, the Rolling Stones wrapped up a marathon recording session at RCA Studios in Hollywood. The session produced six tracks in roughly 18 hours, but only one of them mattered: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Keith Richards had dreamed up the riff six days earlier in a Florida hotel room, stumbled out of bed, recorded it on a portable tape machine, and promptly fell back asleep. The tape captured about 30 seconds of guitar followed by 40 minutes of snoring. He nearly forgot the whole thing.

Richards never wanted that riff on the record at all. The buzzing, distorted sound came from a Gibson Fuzz Box he was using as a scratch placeholder, meant to stand in for a horn section until they could do it "properly." Listen again with that in mind, and you can almost hear it as a trio of trumpets. But the other Stones loved it, outvoted him, and the fuzz stayed. The entire stock of Gibson Fuzz Boxes sold out by the end of 1965.

Four weeks after its June release, "Satisfaction" hit number one in America, where it stayed for four weeks. It topped charts in nearly 40 countries, launched the Stones into the stratosphere, and landed at number two on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Not bad for a song its own writer tried to scrap.

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