Ep. 432: Happier Podcast Book Club: Surprise! We Talk About How “Life in Five Senses” Makes Us Happier

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Happier Podcast Book Club: We have a conversation about “Life in Five Senses”—abandoned titles, most surprising lessons, material that was cut out, the origin of the “What’s Your Neglected Sense?” quiz, and more. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Instagram Get the podcast show notes by email every week: happiercast.com/shownotes Get the resources and all links related to this episode here: http://happiercast.com/432 Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest book Life in Five Senses to see how she discovered a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, luck, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. Now available - order here. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. 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— Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. 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 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about how to be Happier.
0:07.2	This week is our discussion for the Happier Podcast Book Club and I am thrilled to get
0:12.0	this chance to be the featured author for my new book Life in Five Senses.
0:17.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, human nature and surprise
0:33.9	the Five Senses.
0:35.1	I'm in New York City and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister, Elizabeth
0:39.4	Kraft, who was both a character in my book and what of my best early readers.
0:44.3	That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen, very excited
0:50.1	that today I get to interview you.
0:52.4	Yeah, this is going to be fun.
0:54.5	Yep, so a while back we launched our Happier Podcast Book Club and we've read so many
0:58.8	terrific books and then all of a sudden I have to say it hadn't occurred to me but then
1:04.2	you were like, let's talk about your book for the podcast book club.
1:07.3	That's great.
1:08.3	Yes, I feel like we talk about it a lot sort of bits here and there but we haven't had
1:13.4	a central discussion so I'm very excited.
1:17.0	And Gretchen I have to point out that you were on the New York Times bestseller list for
1:23.4	Life in Five Senses so congratulations on that.
1:27.0	And here's the description in case anybody hasn't read it.
1:30.2	For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature.
1:34.9	Then one day a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a
1:38.9	key element of happiness, her five senses.
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