Ep. 496: Make the Most of the First 3 Weeks, Use an Alarm & Cope with Exploitation of Obligers

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

We discuss research suggesting that during the first three weeks with strangers in a new environment (such as a cruise or college), we have a special window for making friends. We also talk about why setting an alarm can alleviate restlessness and anxiety, and we address a question from an Obliger about how to deal with the fact that members of her family don’t do their share. Get in touch: [email protected] 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/496 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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about ideas and strategies about how to be
0:07.6	happier, healthier, more productive and more creative.
0:10.6	This week we'll talk about why we should make the most of our first three weeks in a new situation with strangers,
0:17.0	and we'll tackle a question from an obliger listener who is frustrated by the fact that her family of questioners and rebels don't do their share. I'm Gretchen Ribbon, a writer who studies happiness, good habits, the five senses
0:40.9	human nature. I'm in my little home office which is not air
0:44.4	conditioned while we're recording here in New York City and joining me today
0:48.6	from Los Angeles is my sister Elizabeth Kraft, my sister the proud signer signer signator, I don't know what the
0:55.4	word is of a will. Elizabeth, congratulations. That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV
1:01.1	writer and producer living in LA,
1:03.2	and yes, scratch after I don't know how many years
1:06.3	of talking about it on the podcast,
1:09.0	Adam and I have signed our will.
1:11.5	We felt very good about ourselves.
1:13.7	Well, and many listeners wrote in to say how happy they were
1:18.0	to hear that you did a will, sending you all those gold stars.
1:21.4	People also said it gave them a jolt realizing they needed to
1:25.3	update their own wills because their family situations had changed, etc.
1:29.4	And then we got this funny message from Christina. Yeah she said I shouted finally when I heard
1:35.3	Elizabeth Gold Star today then I realized I have two small kids and no will myself so I
1:41.6	really need to create one too.
1:43.7	That's good, right.
1:45.1	Yes, Liz, this is a good reminder for many people.
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