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 might watch old video clips of someone you admire,

and we'll talk about a know yourself better question related to long or short vacations.

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

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and with this you could probably

use a long or short vocation.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, a living in LA, and yeah Gretchen I haven't

had a long vacation in like three years.

No, I know.

And I wanted to remind people before we lunch in that I'm creating this online course

about the four tenancies.

So if you want to go dig deeper into the four tenancies, this is the thing for you.

Someone opens on April 30th and in the course you'll get to identify your tendency and

how to use that knowledge to manage yourself better and then also how to handle other

people better.

Appreciate them better and then figure out how to communicate with them better and cut

down on stress, burn out, conflict, frustration, procrastination, all the things that come

up when we're trying to deal with other people.

And Gretchen will people actually be interacting with you during this course?

Yeah, there's going to be some sessions called Ask Gretchen Anything Calls where people

can ask real-time questions and get answers and we'll have a whole discussion kind of

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