Ep. 462: A Surprising Way to Be More Likeable, a Habit-Keeping Hack, and an Unusual In-Laws Problem

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We discuss surprising new research that suggests that being accommodating doesn’t actually make us more likable. We also mention a hack that makes habit- keeping easier, discuss whether or not we’ve kept childhood vows, and debate a listener’s question about how to handle her unusual challenge with her in-laws. 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/462 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	What happens now? How will I cope? How will I cope?
0:06.0	Sometimes you don't want to talk about cancer, the people you know. You just want to talk
0:11.4	to someone who knows how you feel.
0:14.4	That's why I joined the Macmillan online community.
0:17.8	We know what it's like because we're living with cancer too.
0:22.2	And whatever's on your mind, we're living with cancer too.
0:26.0	And whatever's on your mind, we're here to help. To join us, search Macmillan online community.
0:32.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ideas and strategies for how to make our lives
0:38.0	happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.
0:41.3	This week we'll talk about why perhaps counterintuitively it's a good
0:45.6	idea to state our preferences and we'll discuss a question from a listener who faces an
0:51.1	unusual challenge from her in-laws. I'm Gretchen Rubin, writer who studies happiness, good habits, the five senses,
1:10.0	human nature.
1:11.0	I'm back in my little home office in New York City and joining me today from
1:15.2	LA is my sister Elizabeth Craft and Elizabeth we had so much fun in Kansas City.
1:20.3	That's me Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and yes scratch we ate
1:26.2	Winsteads we made cookies we did all the things that you and I love to do at the holidays All the things that you and I love to do at the holidays.
1:32.8	All the things.
1:35.1	And now for this week's Try This At Home,
1:37.6	our suggestion is to state your preference.
1:41.8	When it comes to making a decision, say what you want.
1:44.8	Yeah, and this is something that comes up a lot when you're coordinating a decision with other people,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lemonada Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lemonada Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.