037: Gretchen Rubin – The Foundation For Happiness | Simplicity vs. Abundance Lovers | The One Minute Rule
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On today's show, we are speaking with #1 New York Times and international bestselling author, Gretchen Rubin. She has written several books including The Happiness Project and Better Than Before. Gretchen is a happiness and good habit expert. She recently started a weekly podcast with her sister, Happier with Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Nature vs. nurture when it comes to being happy
- The foundation for happiness
- Your external environment affects your internal environment
- The power of making your bed
- Some people thrive in chaos
- How possessions CAN make us happy
- Simplicity vs. abundance lovers
- Under buyers vs. over buyers
- Major life changes create space for new habits
- Different people need to approach habit change differently
- We infect the people around us with emotions
- The one minute rule
- Using lists to clear your mind for creativity
- Respecting our individual differences when it comes to habits and happiness
- Success in the past CAN determine success in the present
- Buying the best won't make you happiest
- Most decisions don't require extensive research
- Things become easier when you are clear about what you want
- The negative side of habits
- Habits are a good servant but a bad master
Related Links:
Follow Gretchen Rubin on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Happier with Gretchen Rubin (Gretchen's podcast)
Gretchen Rubin - Better Than Before (book)
Gretchen Rubin - The Happiness Project (book)
Gretchen Rubin's Quiz: The Four Tendencies
Barry Schwartz - The Paradox of Choice (book)
Gary Taubes - Why We Get Fat (book)
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105: Sharon Salzberg – Real Happiness: The Power Of Meditation
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 37th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast my name is |
| 0:13.8 | Jesse Chappas and I'm here with Marty Wasserman. Today we have a really amazing |
| 0:18.1 | guest Gretchen Rubin she has most well known for her book The Happiness Project and more recently she |
| 0:24.9 | released better than before but before we get into any more on Gretchen we're |
| 0:29.1 | going to read the iTunes Review of the Week and this one is by Lee Yo J.C. |
| 0:34.6 | It's a five-star review and the title is informative and entertaining. |
| 0:39.9 | This person writes, I'm an avid listener of health nutrition fitness |
| 0:43.7 | Podcast and can't get enough of them as a full-time student it's difficult to keep up with them all |
| 0:49.1 | So I've had to select my favorite ones to devote my time to I I started listening to the Ultimate Health |
| 0:54.7 | podcast from when it first came out, not knowing how the show would turn out. |
| 0:58.8 | From episode one the show has gotten more and more informative and has become one of my go-to |
| 1:04.4 | podcasts. Marty and Jesse provide top-notch information on the latest happenings in |
| 1:09.7 | the health world in a clear non-b biased approach. I only dream of having |
| 1:14.6 | cacoelixers with them one day. Well that sounds amazing. We should |
| 1:19.6 | definitely make that happen down the line. |
| 1:22.0 | Marnie and I would love that. |
| 1:23.0 | We're always down for a good cacao elixir. |
| 1:25.0 | So awesome and thank you very much for that review and thank you to everybody else |
| 1:30.0 | who's taking the time to leave a review. |
| 1:34.1 | And we mentioned on last show that we're doing a contest with Four Sigma Foods and it was supposed |
| 1:39.9 | to go for a week. |
| 1:41.3 | We're going to extend it for another week. We've gotten a |
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