191. Why Etiquette is B.S. & New Rules for Living

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.8 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

1. When is it too late to cancel on someone? 2. How do we split the bill? 3. Text messages: What NOT to do, and is there time-induced amnesty? 4. Phone calls in public: Hell no, or do what you wish? 5. Once and for all: Can we agree on how we all get off the plane? Today, Abby – whose mom sent her to etiquette school to learn to be a “lady” – and Glennon and Amanda – whose mom did not – discuss the New Rules for being human while surrounded by humans; the thin line between manners meant to offer consideration vs. manners meant to signal superiority; how we are all inadvertently insulting each other; and where we go from here.

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0:00.0	If stopped asking directions, some places they've never been.
0:12.5	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things, and it's just the three of us today.
0:17.5	And while we absolutely love having guests, there's something that makes me so happy about
0:25.3	when it's just the three of us.
0:27.4	Because when we have a guest...
0:28.4	Three of us, we can make it if we try.
0:32.6	Okay, that's enough.
0:33.8	So when it's just the three of us, it kind of feels like it does when we're at our house,
0:38.4	and there's just the three of us, and there's no one else to worry about, you know?
0:43.2	I don't know.
0:44.2	I just feel more relaxed.
0:45.2	That's a really nice segue to our topic today, which is bad manners.
0:47.8	Right.
0:48.8	Bad manners.
0:49.8	So this article came out a while back that I loved and thought was so fun to read.
0:55.6	And it was about the new etiquette.
0:57.5	It was the cut, put it out through New York Magazine, and I was intrigued by it just by
1:05.7	the title, because etiquette has always been a hot topic in my life, our family marriage,
1:13.2	the whole thing.
1:14.2	So Abby went to etiquette school, no, she did not.
1:16.9	No, she did not.
1:17.9	So tell us why you went to etiquette school, why your mother sent you to etiquette school.
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