How to Learn from Others
When I was a road comic, I used to carry a Ziploc bag to put the hotel TV remote in so I could use the remote without actually having to touch it. The initial idea was that perfect strangers had used the remote and I couldn’t trust them to not be disgusting. Over time I learned that many of the hotels had specific rooms, rooms undesirable to guests, that they would put the comedian in every week. This meant that I knew many of the people who had used the remote before me.
That made me want to double-bag the remote.