Deep Dive with Gretchen Rubin on Happiness

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The word is EVERYWHERE. Happiness. I don’t even always believe that it’s a worthy goal honestly, but that might be a matter of semantics. How you define happiness defines how you approach it. This is a careful conversation with Gretchen Rubin that’s based on what research and experience tell us makes a life that feels pretty satisfying most of the time. Gretchen wrote The Happiness Project 15 years back and has been playing with the tenets and practices ever since on her podcast Happier. (Previously aired) Our takeaways were long on this one…if you’d like to receive the weekly list in your inbox subscribe to our Weekly Takeaways email at www.kellycorrigan.com/takeaways. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.0	And what I realize is, you can't do that.
0:48.5	There is no one-size-fits-all solution to happiness because we're all so different.
0:50.6	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:54.8	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about something that is talked about almost constantly, the pursuit of happiness. My thought partner is author and podcaster Gretchen
1:03.0	Rubin. She's been on the show before, but we're having her back because she's currently
1:07.8	celebrating the 15th anniversary of her book, The Happiness Project,
1:11.8	which details a year in her life in which she, very consciously, sought out happiness and found
1:18.9	some ideas for all of us. Here's my conversation with Gretchen Rubin. So here we are, Gretchen and Kelly sharing some insights about relationships in honor of the 15th anniversary
1:35.6	of the Happiness Project. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's hard to believe. So of all the things
1:43.6	that you brought up in that book, I think that probably
1:47.2	the one I'm most interested in that most overlaps with everything I've been thinking about is relationships.
1:52.9	So you and I both know that meaningful connection to others is the number one driver of human happiness across time, across culture.
2:00.6	So let's talk deeply about what you had in mind going into the happiness project,
2:08.1	what you surfaced during that year, and then how, if at all, anything has changed over these past 15 years.
2:16.1	And then I'll feed in some ideas from my book. Tell Me
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