Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you strategies and tips for building

happier habits in your daily life.

This week we'll talk about why you should have an uncomfortable conversation, and we're

going to have an interview with terrific scientist and writer, the Harvard Physics Professor,

Lisa Randall.

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

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

This age, even though she is not a physics professor, Elizabeth Kraft.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer, living in LA, and Gretchen, I am excited

to see that you released a new jacket for your better than before paperback.

Yes, yes, if everybody wants to see it, check out our site, and you can see what the paperback

cover looks like.

I'm really excited.

And speaking of going to the site to look up something that we've mentioned, Elizabeth,

you sort of predicted that there might be problems with my new snappy way of helping people

find the show notes and back episodes.

And indeed, I have experienced what I would call a backslash, back lash, when I was introducing

our way of referring to the episodes, I misused the term backslash.

It is just a slash.

So that will clear up everything, I'm sure.

Yes, all your problems are solved.

I was so preoccupied with the happier cast part of it.

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