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Good Life Project

Can a Few Simple Words Really Change Your Life? | Gretchen Rubin

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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.


You can find Gretchen at: Website | Instagram | Happier with Gretchen Rubin - Podcast


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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

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