Ep. 193: Have You Ever Felt Your Personality Slip?

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Celebrate a personal anniversary, a hack that makes it easier to use a cell phone, and persuading people to tackle end-of-life tasks. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected]; happiercast.com/193; 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about ideas to help us become happier, healthier,
0:05.3	more productive and more creative.
0:07.3	This week we'll talk about why you might celebrate a personal anniversary and I've got a hack
0:12.1	related to cell phone use.
0:15.9	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.
0:31.2	I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth today is Halloween
0:36.5	and that got me thinking about you and me and dad and trick-or-treating in our neighborhood
0:41.0	in Kansas City when we were little.
0:42.8	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen as I remember
0:48.3	it rained like every single year.
0:50.8	I remember I always had some sort of cardboard in my costume and it would get wet.
0:56.1	Or we had to wear like a parka over like our beautiful costume and only the bottom peeked
1:00.5	Yeah, but it was still...
1:00.5	Yeah, not a problem you face in LA.
1:02.8	No, but it doesn't happen in Los Angeles.
1:05.2	Yeah, so what is Jack doing for Halloween?
1:07.6	He is going to be a ninja.
1:09.9	Okay, he's got the costume like two months ago.
1:11.9	You go to a fun neighborhood where there's tons of trick-or-treating and he trick-or-treats
1:15.5	there with some friends.
1:19.2	Well it's kind of a little bit of a sad milestone for me because Eleanor isn't going trick-or-treating
1:20.4	this year. She's getting dressed up for school because they can dress up for school.
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