Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you ideas about how to build happier

habits into your daily life.

This week we'll talk about why you should make friends with people of different ages

and why you should manage pain.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth I am five years

older than you.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen always happy

to have the wisdom of my elder brother and I'm talking to you.

So this week we are gearing up for our very special episode 120.

Every 10th episode is a very special episode and this very special episode is going to be

dedicated to listener questions about the four tendencies.

And if you don't know if you are a holder, a questioner, a bliger or a rubble which of

the four tendencies describes you, you can take the quiz at HappierCast.com slash quiz.

And if you have any questions, send them our way because we are going to be talking about

that for episode 120.

Yes, can't wait to hear what everybody asks.

There's going to be a lot of good stuff.

Now Gretchen, in episode 116 we talked about raising the bar.

It's a happiness stumbling block.

We talked about how sometimes you do something good, you accomplish something and the person

you're talking to raises the bar says, oh, well, it's nice you did that but now you should

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