Ep. 313: Help People Not Disappoint You, a Hack for Reading More, a Talk with Deepa Iyer about Different Roles to Play in Social Change

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We talk about how and why it’s a good idea to help people not disappoint us, share a reader suggestion about how to read more, and Deepa Iyer explains her map for social change. 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/313 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.
0:05.4	This week we'll talk about why we might help people to not disappoint us and we'll
0:10.3	talk to Deepa Eyer about a framework she's created to help us identify the roles we might
0:15.8	play in bringing about positive social change.
0:31.9	I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer whose studies happiness, good habits and human nature and to everyone's
0:37.1	astonishment.
0:38.1	I am still in my home office right here in New York City, and joined me today from LA is
0:43.1	my sister Elizabeth Kraft, my sister the sage.
0:46.3	That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen we're still here
0:52.8	doing our thing in home.
0:54.7	Yes, just keep trucking eyes.
0:56.3	Yeah.
0:57.3	Now before we launch in we got a wonderful update from Erica in Jersey City that we wanted
1:02.3	to share.
1:03.3	Yeah, she says I'm 25 years old and have been listening for five years now, which I just
1:08.2	realized is 20% of my life.
1:10.7	Mind blown.
1:12.2	This is one of the first times writing in and I wanted to thank you for the biggest
1:15.8	surprise I received because of your happiness hack in episode 311 find happy memories by searching
1:22.3	for old properties online.
1:25.0	My grandfather passed away a few years ago and his house is since sold, but we have so
1:29.6	many happy memories that I decided to view his house with Google Street View.
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