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

building happier habits into daily life. This week we'll talk about why you

should introduce a note of whimsy and we'll talk about how a creative team can

harness the power of the four tendencies and one half of that team is our own

Kristen Minds' Air.

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

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister and some might say happiness

Guinea Pig, Elizabeth Kraft. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and

producer living in LA and yes Gretchen I guess you could say I'm your lab rat.

Elizabeth I understand you have an update for us about your your issue with

your treadmill and your broken television. Yes so I have given myself a couple

of demarrads now about not doing the treadmill at home as I had been doing and

it all started when our TV wasn't working so I couldn't watch the housewives

while he's on the treadmill and therefore I just stopped doing it and I finally

got an atom to have the guy look at the TV and Adam was like there was nothing

wrong with it and I you know it was fine so I'm like oh I must be crazy. It

fixed itself that happens so I go and finally get back on the treadmill and

start going and turn the TV on it's broken again so I stopped the treadmill I

go get Adam I'm like look at this TV is broken you guys didn't look at it

right he comes in turns the TV on it's working I'm like am I insane I said I

swear it wasn't working he leaves again I I turned the TV on the TV is

working I turn on my treadmill I start going it doesn't work again but I

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