Ep. 282: Do Good to Feel Good, Bruce Feiler Suggests Two Questions to Ask Yourself to Help Manage Transitions, and a Spotlight on Octavia Butler

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We discuss why one way to overcome COVID-19 listlessness is to do good for other people, explore some Know-Yourself-Better questions to help manage tough transitions with Bruce Feiler, and shine a spotlight on author Octavia Butler. 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/282 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 about how to be happier.
0:05.5	This week we'll talk about why we might do good to feel good and we'll talk to author
0:10.1	Bruce Filer about how we can know ourselves better as we make our way through life's
0:14.3	many transitions.
0:18.6	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose study is happiness, good habits and human nature.
0:31.2	I am in New York City and with me is my sister, Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth Boy.
0:35.9	We've been going through a lot of transitions lately.
0:38.9	That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and yes, Cretchen, I've
0:43.7	transitioned to my home office.
0:47.7	Do me both.
0:49.2	Now before we lunch in, first of all, I wanted to let everybody know that for some summer
0:54.1	fun, because we are in the summer, I am giving away a copy of my coloring book, Enter
0:59.8	to Win This Giveaway on my Instagram account at Cretchen Rubin.
1:03.5	It ends on Monday, July 20th.
1:06.0	Now the coloring book is for US listeners only, but I have a digital giveaway for my international
1:11.8	fans too.
1:13.1	So, I want to do something for some summer fun.
1:15.9	Gretchen, we also got some interesting updates we wanted to share with our listeners.
1:20.5	This comes from Erica.
1:22.2	She says, I am a young working professional living in Philadelphia and have often found
1:27.1	myself struggling with how to measure success.
1:30.6	I started the yearly list with 19 for 2019 and found it really helped me to measure
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