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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 185: Make a "Facts of Life" Book

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Why you should make a "Facts of Life" book, how to deal with an outer-order related conflict, and a hack for telling left from right.  Get in touch @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com; happiercast.com/185; 774-277-9336.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and ideas for how to build happier habits into your daily life.

0:06.5

This week we'll talk about why you should make a fax of life book and we'll discuss a listener question that combines two of my favorite subjects,

0:14.5

Outer Order and the Four Attendencies.

0:30.5

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness good habits in human nature. I'm a New York City, specifically I'm in Brooklyn right now,

0:37.0

And with me is my sister Elizabeth Krabb and Elizabeth I was just thinking of you when Eliza Eleanor and I were all in Kansas City.

0:43.5

We went to Winsteads, we went to Plaza Princess Gardens, Ward Parkway. I just wish you could be there too.

0:48.5

I know, that's me Elizabeth Krabb to TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen I was so jealous.

0:55.0

I loved all the pictures you sent me but I was very jealous because it really looked like a great summertime visit to Kansas City.

1:02.5

Yeah, well we thought of you.

1:04.5

And listen, you have a really exciting interview score that you got for your Happier and Hollywood podcast,

1:12.0

The podcast you do with your co-writer Sarah Fane coming up. So tell everybody about that.

1:18.5

Yes, we always have had a dream guest for Happier and Hollywood and it was Channing Dungee. She's the president of ABC Entertainment.

1:28.0

She's the first African American president of a major broadcast network and she is just fantastic. We've admired her for years because we've worked with her in the past and she's always just like given the best notes.

1:43.0

You have to say part of the reason that you could visit her brilliance. She's always been big fans of your work.

1:49.0

That's true. But anyway, she agreed to come on the podcast and we have a great interview with her coming up on episode 69 of Happier and Hollywood.

1:59.5

And she's just got so many interesting things to say. I encourage everyone to listen and hear from Channing who also Gretchen is the person who pulled the plug on the new reboot of Roseanne.

2:12.0

So she was recently in the news. So we also talk about that. Yeah, I cannot wait for that. That's going to be fascinating.

2:19.0

And before we jump into the try this at home, we got a great before and after story from our listener, Antonia.

2:25.0

Yes, Antonia says, I've always loved to organize and declutter but have had an especially overwhelming urge to clear clutter since listening to the Happier podcast.

2:36.5

And Gretchen, you'll remember in episode 160, we cleared my office in episode 10, we cleaned my closet.

2:44.0

Yeah. So we want to go back and listen to that.

2:47.5

The answer to the one said Antonia said particularly inspired her.

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