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Last weekend, I was minding my own business – just tying my shoes – when one of my daughters-in-law exclaimed “You’re tying your shoes wrong!”

Say, what?

I figure that I’ve tied my shoes 10s of thousands of times … the way that the original Grandma Homa taught me.

Wrong way?

My daughter-in-law explained the difference between hard knots and soft knots … showed me the “right” way to tie my shoes.

Since I was, shall we say, skeptical, she linked me to a classic TED talk on the subject.

Here’s how to tie your shoes the right way …

click to view  How to Tie Your Shoes

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A loyal reader (and sailor) adds:

It’s very simple:  The stronger one is basically a “square” or “reef” knot. The other is a so-called “granny knot.” No one who knows anything about knots will EVER tie a granny knot!

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Thanks to JNH for feeding the original lead and thanks to JMB for the  clarification.

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