Drop Your Phone, Make Your Bed, Says Gretchen Rubin

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🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Note to Self listeners are struggling to find joy on the internet after this election. Gretchen Rubin, 'Happier' host and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Happiness Project, has advice.

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0:00.0	I'm struggling with coming to terms with the amount of racism I've seen this year in
0:12.3	this presidential election.
0:15.0	I think there's a lot more in this country than what I realized.
0:18.4	When I looked at Twitter, all I saw were comments about how any Trump supporter is actually
0:24.1	deep down a racist and that there's no other reason to be glad for the results.
0:30.1	And that's not true.
0:32.2	I just can't afford health insurance.
0:34.9	And it feels like he is listening.
0:44.8	The Lemmas and Considerations.
0:48.2	What do we do next?
0:49.8	Online or off?
0:52.1	To feel a little better after the election.
0:54.8	No matter who you voted for.
0:57.3	It's note to self, the tech show about being human.
1:00.9	I'm a new summer ody.
1:11.2	Last week we learned that Donald Trump will be our next president.
1:15.3	To put it mildly, it was a surprise.
1:17.7	It kind of felt like the country was turned upside down.
1:21.1	So we put out the call to you asking how are you dealing with all the information coming
1:26.8	at you?
1:27.8	Poles that seemed very wrong.
1:30.4	Intense, Twitter feeds, fake Facebook posts, unrepresentative journalism and angry
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