Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be happier, healthier, more productive

and more creative starting right now.

This week we'll talk about why you should do something scary, and I'm going to ask

a list of several etiquette questions related to cell phone use.

I'm Gretchen Rubin at Writer Who Studies, happiness, good habits and human nature.

I'm a New York City, and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, and Elizabeth, I think you

just naturally have good manners, so I'm going to fire some questions at you about manners.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen, I do have

to remind you I'm the one who's thank you no challenge.

So I don't know how good my hand was on, but I would try.

Okay.

I would have to thank you no, so you'll handle the cell phone etiquette.

Well Gretchen, before we dive in, we have to remind everyone that it's very exciting,

that it's your 10th anniversary of the Happiness Project.

Yeah, the book is hit to shelves, it's very exciting, and it's really sweet.

Jamie, my husband has been traveling a lot, and every time he sees it in an airport

bookstore, he takes a picture and sends it to me.

He says like, here it is in Denver, here it is in La Guardia.

So it's been very nice to see it kind of popping up all over the country, I can see it in

my feed, so that's been nice.

Yeah, and I got my copy, and I enjoyed reading the updates on everyone, even though of course

I know what everyone's doing, I still enjoyed reading about what was happening to everyone

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