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We’re back again this week with another two fantastic questions from our podcast listeners. 

First up we’ve got Arthur. 

Arthur is looking for advice on purchasing his own residential property and getting a lodger to live with him.

He’s thinking about leaving London and moving to Manchester where he can afford a two-bedroom terraced house. 

However, he keeps waiting for prices to drop or for there to be a crash, but since this is going to be his residential property, should he not care as much?

He wants to know if he should just go for it now, but is concerned that as soon as he does there will be a crash. 

Hopefully Rob & Rob can help him with this one.

Our second caller this week is Will who’s got a bit of a personal question for The Robs. 

Obviously, Rob & Rob are massively into investing in property, but he wants to know if either of The Robs put money into their tax free ISAs? 

Does Rob D just stick to property or does he do both?

Tune in to find out.

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Humans like starting new things much more than taking care of older things. This is true on both an institutional and individual level: it's more exciting to build a new road than to maintain it; more exciting to lose weight than to keep it off. There's plenty of short-term pleasure and intrinsic motivation when it comes to pursuing something novel, but the effort to keep up unsexy maintenance on what we've already got takes real intent.

My guest today says we've lost that intent and need to revive it. His name is Lee Vinsel and he's a professor of science, technology, and society, the co-founder of The Maintainers, a research network dedicated to the study of maintenance, repair, upkeep, and ordinary work, and the co-author of The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession With the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most. Lee and I begin our conversation with how our cultural focus on innovation has come at the expense of attention paid to maintenance and repair, and yet how talking more about innovation hasn't really led to greater progress. We then get into the way the necessity of maintenance, repair, and caretaking has been neglected in business and government, creating a situation where we keep on building new things without investing in the upkeep of our current infrastructure. From there we turn to the way our all too common neglect of maintenance applies not only to big institutions, but also our personal lives, as in the areas of home ownership and health. We discuss how there's less incentive these days to repair things in our disposable society where everything is cheap, and stuff is harder to fix, even when we want to. We end our conversation with how we can revive a maintenance mindset in our culture and individual lives.

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Smarts matter. But other factors may play an even bigger role in whether someone succeeds. This week, we speak with Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman about the skills that predict how you'll fare in life. We'll also look at programs that build these skills in the neediest of children – and new research that suggests the benefits of investing in kids and families can last for generations.

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Episode 394 - We live in an instant world. Everything is delivered today or 10 minutes or less, etc. But success will never be instant, it takes time. The greatest things in life take time. Listen to this episode to learn how to train yourself to be okay with delaying your gratification.