Ep 298: Award Yourself with a Sticker, A Memory Hack, and a Conversation with Rachel Hollis About Dealing with Unexpected Challenges
Inspired by “I Voted” stickers, we discuss why you might award yourself a sticker to mark an important accomplishment, talk about a hack for remembering forgotten details, and talk to bestselling writ...
4 Nov 202036min
Little Happier: Sometimes, Transcendent Forces Seem to Enter the World.
Sometimes, the transcendent seems to appear in the concreate, ordinary world—in a conversation, in an experience, or even in a person.Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; podcast@gretchenrubin.comGet in touc...
2 Nov 20203min
Ep. 297: Happier Podcast Book Club: Author Yaa Gyasi Talks about Family, Faith, Science, and Belonging in “Transcendent Kingdom”
We talk to writer Yaa Gyasi about her compelling bestselling novel “Transcendent Kingdom.”Join my brand-new Outer Order Inner Calm 30-Day SMS Challenge! You’ll get daily text messages with an audio me...
28 Okt 202040min
Little Happier: A Pediatrician Shows How Well She Understands How Children Think.
My daughter’s pediatrician asked a question that showed how well she understand the way children’s minds work.Join my brand-new Outer Order Inner Calm 30-Day SMS Challenge! You’ll get daily text messa...
26 Okt 20201min
Ep. 296: Establish Your Personal Policy, a Reading Hack, a Deep Dive into Listeners’ Hidden Delights, and a Demerit That’s Common These Days
We discuss why you might want to establish your personal policy, I share a reading hack, we take a deep dive into listeners’ hidden delights, and Elizabeth gives herself a demerit related to the pande...
21 Okt 202029min
Little Happier: Building More Roads Won’t Relieve Traffic—Literally and Figuratively.
Despite urban planner Robert Moses’s attempts to relieve congestion on New York City’s road, the traffic just got worse. The lesson of “induced travel demand” is something that can apply in our own li...
19 Okt 20201min
Ep. 295: Do Something Familiar in a New Way, an Easy Hack to Control Snacking, and a Conversation with Al Roker About Work and Life
We talk about why we should do something familiar in a new way, share a hack from a listener that makes it easier to control impulse snacking, and have a conversation with legendary broadcaster Al Rok...
14 Okt 202030min
Little Happier: On My Wedding Anniversary, It Makes Me Happy to Remember What a Nurse Said.
Jamie is the love of my life! I want to treat him that way, and so often, really, I don’t. But I try. It makes me happy to remember a time when, from observing us, someone assumed that we were in the ...
12 Okt 20202min
