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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 216: Give Someone an Unusual Compliment

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Give someone an unusual compliment, a hack to make it easier to leave the house, identify your favorite time of day, and Elizabeth reports on her battle with stress-eating. Get tickets for Gretchen's book tour and Happier podcast live events at: http://gretchenrubin.com/events Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com Get the resources and all links related to this episode here:http://happiercast.com/216 Leave a voicemail message on: 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and ideas for how to

0:06.2

build happier habits in daily life.

0:08.9

This week we'll talk about why you should give someone an unusual compliment and Elizabeth

0:13.9

reports on her battle with stress eating.

0:17.8

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habit, and I'm not a bad person,

0:28.8

hoping this good habits, outer order, and human nature.

0:32.2

I'm in New York City usually, but today I have the luxury of being in the LA studio with

0:37.7

my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

0:39.2

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

0:44.2

fun to have you sitting across from me.

0:46.3

I know, we can vibe.

0:49.3

So Gretchen, you have been touring all over the US with your new book, Outer Order, Intercom,

0:56.4

how has it been?

0:57.4

Oh, it's been so fun.

0:58.8

I love it and I really enjoyed the Q&A period because it's interesting to hear what people

1:05.8

bring up.

1:07.3

Like a lot of people are bringing up the difficulty of dealing with items that are kind of inheriting

1:13.3

either because someone has actually died or because someone's downsizing or just things

1:18.7

coming into your possession, things that have family meaning or we're important to somebody

1:23.9

but not really important to you and how people are dealing with that.

1:26.3

That's a big theme.

1:27.3

So that's interesting, that can be its own book.

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