Can a Few Simple Words Really Change Your Life? | Gretchen Rubin
Good Life Project
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4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Unlock life's deepest truths with happiness expert Gretchen Rubin as she shares potent insights from her latest book, Secrets of Adulthood: Simple Truths for Our Complex Lives.
Discover surprising keys to self-knowledge, stronger relationships, and better judgment through Rubin's profound yet practical aphorisms. This thought-provoking conversation will leave you inspired to craft your own profound personal mantras.
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| 0:00.0 | And it's so important because we can only build a happy life on the foundation of our own nature, |
| 0:04.0 | our own interests, our own values, our own temperament. So so much goes back to, well, it depends on |
| 0:10.2 | Gretchen Rubin is a leading voice on happiness, habits, and human nature and the best-selling author |
| 0:16.0 | of The Happiness Project in so many other books. Her newest book, Secrets of Adulthood, |
| 0:21.7 | distills decades of insight into concise, life-changing aphorisms that guide us through life's |
| 0:27.0 | complexity. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself. |
| 0:32.2 | It's one of those things where there's a tension in this. There is a tremendous tension, yes. |
| 0:36.7 | And maybe you don't agree with this. |
| 0:38.7 | One of the ones that I love is there's no right way to create a happy life, just like there's |
| 0:43.6 | no one right way to cook an egg. Because people would always say to me, how should I become |
| 0:47.5 | happier? And I would say, but we skip this step. |
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