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 should be where the endowment effect, as a way to

come back clutter, and we'll take a deep dive into listeners' one-word themes for the

year.

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

I'm in New York City, and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, whose one-word theme

and, agmatically, is number six.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Gretchen, when you

say my theme, it sounds like it's like a title of an episode of Lost or something.

I like it.

Number six.

Well, click update.

In episode 2004, we talked about why you might put a bandaid on it, and we heard from a

lot of people about this idea.

For one thing, a lot of people wrote into say that they had good luck using put a bandaid

on it with family issues that just weren't ever going to get resolved.

Issues with in-laws or stepchildren or family members where you sort of have to make

the best of it and move on, and you just sort of have to deal with that.

And in reading their emails about these kinds of situations, I was reminded of one of

my favorite moments from the movie Madagascar, which is when the hilarious penguins are

hoping that no one is going to notice that they are plotting their escape from the zoo,

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