Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss cutting edge science, the wisdom

of the ages, lessons from pop culture, and our own experiences in how to be happier.

This week we'll talk about why you should find an Oasis and how wisely to plan an exception

to a good habit.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, the four tendencies

in human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth, whenever

I visit you it's like an Oasis in my mind that I'm looking forward to visiting.

Oh thank you.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA, and Gretchen you had a big

milestone this week.

I did, so as I obsessively talk about I have this framework that I developed called the

four tendencies that divides people into a poll der's, questioner, sublagers and rebels,

and I have a quiz that you can take online if you want to take the quiz to find out what

your tendency is, which is at HappierCast.com slash quiz if anybody wants to take it.

And it turns out creating these quizzes is a lot harder than you would think.

You know they're all over the place these quizzes, but when I sat down to write one, oh my

gosh it melted my brain.

But you labored over it.

I labored over it.

It's been through many iterations, but now a million people have taken this quiz.

Wow.

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