Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about how to have happier habits

every day.

This week is the first in a series of four special episodes we're doing on the four tendencies.

And this week we're going to talk about upholders.

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

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, who was a big help when

I was grappling with the four tendencies of spring work.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and thanks to Gretchen,

I know that I'm a classic obliger.

More on that in another episode.

Today is the first day of our special four tendencies series, very exciting.

The first Elizabeth, let's have an update on your novel writing.

I'm struggling with the novel writing as we've discussed and I do appreciate people writing

in about it.

One person by the way wrote in and said she thinks I don't really want to write the novel,

which was interesting.

She thought if I wanted to, I would have done it.

And I wrote back to her and I said, you know, as her sister, I have to say that I think

you really do want to write the novel.

But this kind of accountability through the podcast is not working and so it's time for

Plan B.

Which we will figure out.

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