Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to take the abstract idea of happiness

into the practice of our everyday lives.

This week we'll talk about why you might create a time capsule box and we'll have a conversation

with the brilliant and hilarious comedian writer, actor and podcaster Pete Holmes about his

new memoir, Comedy Sex God.

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

I'm a New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft who sometimes calls me her

happiness fully.

That's me and Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles and

French, I always say that lovingly.

Now Elizabeth, here's an update before we jump in.

Obviously we often talk about the four tendencies framework and if you do not know your

tendency, whether you're in a folder, a questioner, a bliger, a rubble, you can take the quiz

at quiz.gretchenrubin.com, I'll post a link to it.

But we talk about the four tendencies and we talk about how obligers need outer accountability

to meet inner expectations.

Like if an obliger wants to do something for themselves, they need outer accountability.

And it's always fun to talk about the new and ingenious ways that obligers create accountability

because often it's not that it's hard but you need imagination to think about how to create

the outer accountability and that one of my favorite things is seeing how obligers do this.

Create that outer accountability.

Yeah and this one comes from Gabrielle, very creative.

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