Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about, you guessed it, how to be

happier.

This week we'll talk about why it's helpful to adopt a threshold ritual and why it's

fun and useful to identify your personal symbols.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits, and human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

And even though, or maybe because, I know her so well, I'm extremely curious to hear what she's

going to identify as her personal symbols.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA.

And Gretchen, this week I decided to think of you as my happiness cheerleader instead of

my happiness bold.

Here we go, I like that so much better, excellence.

That's very nice.

What a nice sister.

Oh well, I try.

Before we get into trying this at home, I wanted to thank everybody for sending in advice

to my 16 year old niece Eliza, your daughter, who was our very special guest last episode,

30.

She asks people often talk about what advice they'd give to their 16 year old selves.

Well, I'm 16 now, so what advice do you have for me?

And we're getting great responses, so keep them coming and we'll update everybody on some

great pieces of advice.

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