Ep. 454: Find the Perfect Gift, Look Behind You, and Listeners’ Ideas for Coping with Someone’s Last Days

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the new gift-giving quiz that divides people into four categories depending on the kinds of gifts they prefer to receive: Tried-and-True, Easy-to-Please, Enthusiast, and Connoisseur. We remind ourselves of the very helpful hack to check behind you each time you leave a place. We also share listeners’ many helpful suggestions about how to handle the final days of a family member or friend. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft on Instagram @GretchenRubin on TikTok and YouTube 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/454 Get Gretchen Rubin’s newest New York Times bestselling 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 availablewherever books are sold. Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. 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	You hear that?
0:06.0	That's the sound of your energy use going in reverse,
0:10.0	rewinding, reducing.
0:14.0	We're OVO, an energy company that wants you to use less energy.
0:19.0	Some may see that as a bit backwards,
0:23.0	but we like to see things differently.
0:26.0	Join us and see energy from a different angle.
0:29.0	I say.
0:32.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ways to become happier.
0:38.0	This week we'll talk about an easy way to find the perfect gift for someone
0:42.0	and we'll do a deep dive into the very helpful answers we received
0:47.0	to a listener's question about how to handle her father's final days.
0:59.0	I'm Gretchen Ribbon, a writer who studies happiness,
1:07.0	the five senses, human nature.
1:09.0	I'm in a little couple together,
1:12.0	makeshift studio that I have made in a hotel room in San Francisco
1:16.0	and joining me today from LA and the Pacific time zone.
1:19.0	It's nice to be in the same time zone,
1:21.0	Elizabeth is my sister, Elizabeth Kraft.
1:23.0	My sister, the retreat host, Elizabeth Howe, was it?
1:25.0	That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA
1:29.0	and Gretchen, the retreat was fantastic.
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