Ep. 208: To Fight Clutter, Beware the “Endowment Effect”

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’ll talk about why you should beware the “endowment effect” as a way to combat clutter, and we’ll take a deep dive into listeners’ one-word themes for the year. We also discuss listener responses to the “Try This at Home” from episode 204 to “put a band-aid on it.” Happiness hack from a listener: challenge myself to make the most of my wardrobe and wear a different outfit every day. Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/208 Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter If you pre-ordered Gretchen’s new book Outer Order, Inner Calm, get your preorder bonuses here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com 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 where we discuss cutting-edge science, the wisdom
0:06.1	of the ages, lessons from pop culture, and our own experiences about how to be happier.
0:12.4	This week we'll talk about why you should be where the endowment effect, as a way to
0:16.4	come back clutter, and we'll take a deep dive into listeners' one-word themes for the
0:21.1	year.
0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.
0:37.6	I'm in New York City, and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, whose one-word theme
0:42.4	and, agmatically, is number six.
0:45.8	That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and Gretchen, when you
0:50.5	say my theme, it sounds like it's like a title of an episode of Lost or something.
0:55.8	I like it.
0:57.8	Number six.
0:58.8	Well, click update.
1:02.4	In episode 2004, we talked about why you might put a bandaid on it, and we heard from a
1:07.4	lot of people about this idea.
1:09.6	For one thing, a lot of people wrote into say that they had good luck using put a bandaid
1:14.4	on it with family issues that just weren't ever going to get resolved.
1:20.1	Issues with in-laws or stepchildren or family members where you sort of have to make
1:25.2	the best of it and move on, and you just sort of have to deal with that.
1:28.8	And in reading their emails about these kinds of situations, I was reminded of one of
1:33.8	my favorite moments from the movie Madagascar, which is when the hilarious penguins are
1:40.6	hoping that no one is going to notice that they are plotting their escape from the zoo,
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