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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 476: If You Want Neither to Lie nor Tell the Truth, Plus a “Silky” Debate and a Yoga-Block Hack

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Lemonada Media

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We talk about how we can boost happiness by paying attention to the textures in our everyday lives. We also share an easy hack for improving video meetings and share listeners’ creative ideas for #Write24in24. We also discuss a question from a listener who faces a tough challenge: for understandable reasons, she doesn’t want to lie, and she also doesn’t want to share the truth.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/476 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

This may just sound like someone on the train sending boring emails, but it's so much more.

0:06.0

It's the sound of Claire landing her biggest sail.

0:09.0

And this is the sound of her planning what she'll spend her pay rise on, a fancy dinner or a multi-compartment

0:16.1

bin. How will she decide? Claire's living her best phone life on the UK's fastest 5G network, three. Life needs a big network.

0:25.8

Ucla speed test intelligence data, 1, 2020c3.3.

0:28.9

C3.C.3.C. 3.C.C. 3.C.

0:29.1

The UK slash Bid Network.

0:30.1

Hello and

0:33.3

Welcome to Happier a Podcast where we talk about ideas and strategies and research and

0:37.8

suggestions about how to make our lives happier.

0:40.8

This week we'll talk about why we might choose to focus on the

0:44.5

textures in our life and we will also share listeners suggestions for

0:50.5

hashtag right 24 and 24 or the right way there is no wrong way but there is a right way I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, the five senses, human nature. I am here in my little home office in

1:16.0

New York City and joining me today from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Kraft and Elizabeth

1:22.0

one thing I always love to do with you is to talk about the

1:25.6

amazing texture of Winstead's ice.

1:28.6

That's me Elizabeth Craft, a TV writer and producer living in LA, and yes, Grutch, we are going to be

1:34.8

chomping on some of that ice soon because we are going to be in Kansas City together.

1:38.8

I cannot wait.

1:39.9

They have the best ice in the world at Winsteads.

1:42.8

But before we jump in, we have a few updates.

1:45.5

One coming from a listener who was responding to episode 472

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