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Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about ways to help ourselves to create happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative lives.

This week we'll talk about why it's helpful to remember that the things that go wrong often make the best memories,

and we'll ask, are you in an age of expansion or an age of concentration?

I'm Gretchen Ruben, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.

I'm UGASTIT right here in my home office in New York City and joining me today from the office and writer's room that also serves as her bedroom in gorgeous Puerto Rico is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living usually in LA, but right now in Puerto Rico, filming a fantasy island for Fox.

Yay! Yay!

Cretch, before we dive in we have an update from a Gretchen in Missouri, but not you, about designing her summer.

She says, as a teacher summer is a big deal to me.

I have two sons and for the last few years we've each worked on our summer bucket list using the attached template at dinner on one of the first days of summer.

It brought joy to my heart when my 15 year old asked just this morning mom, when are we going to work on our bucket list?

I found that giving categories as shown on the template projects, people, adventures, foods, etc. was much more manageable for kids than the wide open question, what do you want to do this summer?

Beyond the obvious reasons that you described for designing a summer using this sheet has had a couple of added benefits.

First, I saved the paper copy so it is great fun to look back and remember what we've done over the years and to see the changes and hobbies friends and even handwriting.

Second, my husband is in the Navy reserves and many summers he has gone for his reserve duty.

This summer he is in the midst of a nine months deployment overseas.

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