Ep. 234: Try the SLANT Approach to Listen Better and How to Deal with a Sweetheart’s Unenthusiastic Support

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Try the SLANT approach to help yourself listen and learn more effectively, an easy way to do a happiness-boosting good deed, and how to deal with a sweetheart who responds very unenthusiastically to good news. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; podcast@gretchenrubin.com 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/234 Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, and Happier in Hollywood. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Gretchen and I had so much fun going on the road. We're going to do it again.
0:05.4	Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle. Tickets are now on sale for our live shows in September.
0:11.7	You can get details and ticket links at GretchenRubin.com slash events.
0:17.1	And we'll be announcing more cities and dates soon. If you want to make sure you get notified
0:22.0	we're coming to your city, sign up for Gretchen's newsletter at GretchenRubin.com slash hashtag newsletter.
0:29.5	Yes, that's hashtag newsletter. Please come and bring your friends. Hope to see you there.
0:36.6	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast all about how to be spoiler alert.
0:41.3	Happier. This week we'll talk about why you might use the flant approach and we'll discuss a tough
0:48.1	listener question. How to handle it when a sweetheart doesn't take pleasure in your accomplishments.
1:00.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.
1:09.7	I'm in New York City and with me is my sister, Elizabeth Kraft, and Elizabeth, I naturally follow
1:14.4	this slant approach and I'm listening to you. That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer
1:20.8	living in LA. And Gretchen, I appreciate that. I always feel like you're paying great attention to
1:26.4	what I did. One of the things I like about you. Before we jump in, I wanted to mention
1:32.7	September is coming up and for a lot of people as I write about my book Happier at home,
1:37.3	September is the other January. It's a time when a lot of times people want to kind of tackle
1:42.0	something new. And our friend Melissa Hartwig-Eurban, who has the fantastic podcast do the thing,
1:48.3	is leading kind of a group whole 30 for the month of September. So if you have been intrigued
1:55.2	to jump in and try a whole 30, which is a way of approaching your eating habits to sort of
2:00.7	reset your eating habits and your relationship with food, this is going to be a whole thing.
2:04.8	Everyone's going to start on the same day, which is Monday, September 2nd. I'm going to share it
2:08.7	on social media. The whole 30 team is going to have extra support and recipes and success stories
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