Ep. 276: Design Your Summer, Solutions to Create Sibling Harmony, and How Cornstarch Can Enliven a Boring Afternoon

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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We discuss why you might design your summer, how you can use cornstarch for a fun, science-based activity, and review listeners’ solutions for creating harmony among siblings. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/276 Order a copy of Gretchen’s new book OUTER ORDER, INNER CALM here: http://outerorderinnercalmbook.com 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, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we discuss how to be happier.
0:05.7	This week we'll talk about why you might design your summer.
0:09.3	I'm Gretchen Ribbon, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.
0:13.3	I'm in my home office in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.
0:17.8	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles and wow Gretchen,
0:25.4	what a week it has been.
0:27.0	Yes, absolutely.
0:29.4	We are recording this episode on Monday, June 1st and before we launch into our conversation
0:34.4	today, we want to acknowledge everything that has been happening here in the United States
0:38.8	in the last week.
0:40.4	The murder of George Floyd and also Amad Arbery and Breonna Taylor and so many other
0:45.1	incidences has sparked protests across the country.
0:48.4	Yes, there has been a lot of pain and darkness.
0:51.8	And then when we see racism and violence playing out like this, it's very hard not to despair.
0:59.0	Yeah, and I think events like this really make us ask what am I doing in my own life to
1:04.8	live up to my country's most noble ideals.
1:08.1	This is a question we should be thinking about all the time and now more than ever.
1:13.0	Over the weekend, Gretchen, Jack's school held an online candlelight vigil and even though
1:19.3	we all know thoughts and prayers aren't enough, it felt really good to share a moment
1:25.6	of community and just to reflect like how can I do better?
1:30.0	Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of soul searching going on.
1:32.9	I know I've been doing a lot of soul searching.
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