Ep. 336: Allow Others to Share Your Enthusiasm, the Props Listeners Use to Manage Anxiety, a Deep Dive into Listeners’ One-Word Themes—Plus a Hack for Asking Tough Questions

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We discuss why it’s a good idea to allow others to share your enthusiasm, we review the props used by listeners to help manage anxiety, take a look at listeners’ one-word themes for 2021, and share a hack for asking a tough question. 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/336 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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0:31.2	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be happier. This week we'll talk about why we
0:36.8	should allow others to share our enthusiasm and we'll have a deep dive double feature. We do a
0:42.6	deep dive into listeners use of props and listeners one word themes for 2021.
1:00.4	I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer who studies happening as good habits in human nature and surprise,
1:05.2	surprise. I am right here in my home office in New York City and joining me today from
1:10.4	Puerto Rico is my sister Elizabeth Crab. That's me Elizabeth Crab to TV writer and producer living in LA
1:17.1	although right now Puerto Rico on fantasy island and Gretchen will soon be home in my home office.
1:23.8	I am looking forward to it. Yes, I do really enjoy having you in the eastern time zone. I have to say
1:30.8	it is convenient. We seem so much more coordinated but I also know that you're eager to go home.
1:36.8	Indeed. It's coming. It's coming soon. Before we jump in we have an update. I asked if people
1:44.0	had suggestions for rhyming slogans about why it's useful for us to give ourselves a
1:50.0	dimaret because sometimes people say, hey, don't give yourself dimaret all the time. Don't
1:54.0	beat yourself up. But we find it by kind of articulating a dimaret. We often help ourselves to do
2:00.4	a better job going forward. So we suggested that maybe we should come up with a slogan for this.
2:06.2	And we heard from a lot of listeners. Gretchen are some of the top suggestions. A lot of people
2:11.7	suggested these. Name it to tame it. Say it to slay it. Love that. Share it to repair it. Very apt.
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