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 about how to be happier.

This week we'll talk about why you might go into low power mode and we'll suggest another hack for dealing with that

perennial stumbling block, the time sucking app.

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

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth, you're in ultra high power mode right now.

I bet low power mode sounds very enticing to you.

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

I was in low power mode for a few days recently, which I'll discuss.

But now you ramp, you ramped back up again.

I am an ultimate high power mode.

Now, before we jump in an update from episode 179, there we talked about why you might make each day of the week distinctive.

And we heard from listeners who really did this in very interesting ways.

Yeah, Kamala said, I am from India and I have many different types of attires in my wardrobe and many of them don't get used

often, making me feel guilty.

So I started following this little game where I assign mix and match Monday, traditional Tuesday,

Western Wednesday, trendy Thursday, formal Friday, sorry Saturday.

This solves my guilt and makes me happy.

Well, and in this vein of clothes tied to a day of the week, Michael wrote in, I thought I'd email about a common way.

I've heard some people nerds, especially make Friday distinctive at work.

How I ensure it's I used to do this in college and it gained some steam among my professors and classmates in the physics department.

It definitely helps keep summer as a state of mind during winter months.

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