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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

A Little Happier: Why Would an Accomplished Juggler Deliberately Drop a Prop?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In his speaking, Winston Churchill often deliberately made mistakes. He understood that an imperfect speech would be more persuasive and moving than a perfect speech, and he chose to make his performance better by making it worse.

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0:00.0

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0:51.1

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0:56.9

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1:06.2

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1:13.6

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1:35.5

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1:41.4

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1:52.6

Lemonada.

1:56.5

I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is a little happier.

1:59.7

One of my favorite secrets of adulthood is

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