Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for how to build

happier habits into your daily life.

This week we'll talk about when and why you might consider reading a work of children's

literature and we'll talk about whether you can change your tendency.

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

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, who recently was responsible

for a work of children's literature, or really YA literature.

Yes, that's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA.

And yeah, Gretchen, the book I co-authored with Shay Olsen called Flower is out in stores

now and available anywhere you buy books, so please do check it out.

And it's so good, I loved it.

And great cover too.

Thank you.

Mom read it recently and she gave me a rave.

Happy about that.

So I'm very excited.

Speaking of books that we've authored, I'm very excited because it's just 13 days, maybe

an inauspicious number of the countdown.

It's how my book, The Four Tendencies, hits the shelves.

It's hard to believe.

It's really coming up in just 13 days.

I know in Gretchen sometimes I feel like because we talk so much about the tendencies, people

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