Ep. 289: Ask Yourself, “Do I Already Own This?” How to Feel Better in Just Five Minutes with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, and Our Next Book Club Choice

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We discuss why it’s helpful to ask, “Do I already own this?” We also talk to Dr. Rangan Chatterjee about his new book, “Feel Better in 5,” and announce our next book club choice: Yaa Gyasi’s brilliant novel “Transcendent Kingdom.” 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/289 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 that gives you strategies and solutions for building
0:05.5	happier habits into your daily life.
0:07.9	This week we'll talk about why we should ask ourselves, do I already own this?
0:12.5	And we'll talk to Dr. Rangan Chatterjee about his terrific new book Feel Better in 5.
0:26.2	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness could have it in human nature.
0:32.6	I am right here in my home office in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth
0:37.7	Kraft.
0:38.7	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen definitely
0:43.7	looking forward to feeling better in 5.
0:46.7	Yes, 5 minutes, that's great.
0:51.2	So we are very excited to announce our next book club choice.
0:55.4	This is a book that just hit the shelves.
0:58.1	It is the brilliant novel by Yadjessi Transcendent Kingdom.
1:03.7	Yes, we love it so much and we first heard about this novel before it came out from Ann
1:10.2	Patchett.
1:11.2	Yes, we were interviewing Ann Patchett for our last book club episode, which was episode
1:15.4	283 and she said something like even now I can come to tears just thinking about Transcendent
1:22.1	Kingdom.
1:23.1	I cried at the end because it was so good.
1:25.0	So of course I was like, oh my gosh, I have to get my hands on this book.
1:29.5	Here is the official description of Transcendent Kingdom, but we did cut out some spoilers.
1:35.8	Gifty is a six year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine
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