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The recipes had titles like how to burn a sardine.GINO: And, oops, I dropped the lemon tart. Snails were paired with coffee sauce, veal tongue with charcoal powder. And as I flipped through the pages, it became clear that this was not your typical recipe book.(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)VEDANTAM: The dishes were playful, quirky, improbable. And the title said "Never Trust A Skinny Italian Chef."VEDANTAM: (Laughter).GINO: And being Italian, it was very intrigued. We'll kick the series off today in a bookstore.(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)VEDANTAM: A few years ago, social scientist Francesca Gino was browsing the shelves when she came across an unusual-looking book in the cooking section.FRANCESCA GINO: This recipe book that looked a little bit different. And behavior that we all struggle to change. Relationships.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST)ELI FINKEL: We look to our partners to be our sculptors, to help us until we actually grow toward the best, ideal version of ourselves.VEDANTAM. It's six weeks of advice about things like jobs.AMY WRZESNIEWSKI: People for whom the work is a calling tend to be better performers and be far more deeply engaged in it regardless of what the work is.VEDANTAM. And it was so popular, we decided to bring it back this year. Last summer, we decided to put out a series that would speak to these concerns, highlighting stories about the decisions we make from the mundane to the momentous. I'm Shankar Vedantam.(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)VEDANTAM: Every day, listeners reach out to us, asking for research that would help them solve the problems we all face in life. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, HOST: This is HIDDEN BRAIN. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode.
