Ep. 284: Why Buying Isn’t Doing, a Deep Dive into Ways to Display Your Favorite Quotations, and a Spotlight on Harriet Washington

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We talk about why we shouldn’t confuse buying with doing, reveal a happiness hack for staying in touch with grandparents, review listeners’ suggestions for displaying terrific quotations, and shine a spotlight on author Harriet Washington. 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/284 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.
0:05.6	This week we'll talk about why we should remember that buying isn't doing and will take
0:10.0	a deep dive into listener suggestions about how to display favorite quotations and aphorisms.
0:27.4	I'm Gretchen Ribin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.
0:31.0	I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, and Elizabeth we will
0:35.1	discuss today one of your favorite ways to display a quotation.
0:38.8	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen I have to
0:44.0	mention I enjoy getting your quote of the day.
0:47.0	Oh yes, it is one way I get my aphorisms.
0:50.6	Yes, yes, my moment of happiness.
0:52.5	We will talk about that more.
0:54.3	Now before we launch in a few updates, first of all I realize that some listeners don't
0:59.8	realize that at the very end of the episode we have what we call a button which is like
1:04.3	a little outtake.
1:05.3	And so if you get a kick out of something like that be sure to listen to the end so you
1:09.0	don't miss it.
1:10.0	Yes.
1:11.0	And then this came from Jill Gretchen, she said, I listened to episode 279 today and you
1:17.0	were discussing a listener's decision to virtually hike Camino de Santiago using the website
1:23.8	www.walkingfor.com.
1:29.5	I have virtually hiked the Colorado Trail, the Florida Keys Trail, Portugal Camino and
1:35.2	multiple others.
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