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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 465: Tackle a Topic with Someone Who Resists, Try a New Book Club, and Use Technology Mindfully

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We discuss several suggestions to help start a conversation with someone who wants to delay any discussion. We also share a suggestion from a listener about an unconventional approach to a book group, and we talk to Rohan Gunatillake, host of the podcast Meditative Story, about how to use technology more mindfully.    You can learn more and listen to Meditative Story here: https://listen.meditativestory.com/happier  Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Follow on social media: @GretchenRubin on YouTube @GretchenRubin on TikTok @GretchenRubin on Instagram @GretchenRubin on Threads @LizCraft on Instagram @LizCraft on Threads @GretchenRubin on ThreadsGet 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/465 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 available wherever 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

How do I tell them? How do I pay the bills? How do I pay the bills? I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. The questions, the fears, the need to know. How do I know? Because I'm living with

0:17.1

cancer too. That's why I joined the Macmillan online community and we can help people like you, whatever you need to ask.

0:27.0

To join us, search Macmillan Online Community. Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ways to become

0:36.6

happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. This week we'll talk

0:41.2

about why you might try a tip to tackle the topic, which is a real tongue twister,

0:46.7

and we'll talk about a hack that is a different approach to the Classic Book Club.

0:52.4

Plus we'll talk to Rohan Gunatylica,

0:55.0

host of the thought-provoking podcast,

0:57.0

Meditative Story. I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, the five senses, human nature.

1:16.8

I'm in my little home office here in New York City and joining me today from LA is my sister

1:22.1

Elizabeth Kreft and Elizabeth you're always

1:24.8

willing to tackle a hard topic with me. That's me Elizabeth Kraft TV writer and

1:30.1

producer living in LA and yeah Gretch you know I love to talk things through. Yes you sure do and

1:35.7

before we jump in I want to remind everybody I am doing the happiness

1:40.3

project revisited course and it is your last chance to enroll in this course

1:45.8

for 2024. January 19th, 2024 is the final date. It's already underway but you can still jump in. You know the best

1:54.8

time to start a happiness project is 20 years ago. The second best time is

1:58.2

January 19th and if you use the code, last chance 25, you can get 25% off at happiercast.com

2:07.6

slash course. It is so fun. I am loving doing my own happiness project.

2:12.6

Of course, I'm so interested to hear what other people are doing.

2:16.3

We're having a live check-in and coming up in a few weeks.

2:19.8

This is really turning out to be something that is,

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