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Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Ep. 497: Forecast Your Foibles, a Big Life Change & the Correct Way to Load a Dishwasher

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.713K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by college move-in day, we talk about why it’s helpful to forecast our own foibles. We also weigh in on the hot debate around the correct way to load a dishwasher, and we introduce a new podcast segment—along with a big life change. 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/497 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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Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast where we talk about strategies and ideas for making our lives happier.

0:36.0

This week we'll talk about why it's helpful to forecast our own foibles, and we will weigh in

0:41.4

with some answers on a hot debate that has divided households and generations. I'm Gretchen Riven, writer who studies happiness good habits, the open door, aka the empty nest,

1:06.8

human nature, I'm in my little home office in New York City, and joining me today from

1:10.8

Los Angeles is my sister, Elizabeth Elizabeth Craft and Elizabeth you and I

1:14.4

share a few foibles. That's me Elizabeth Kraft a TV writer and producer living

1:19.8

in LA and Gretch one of the foibles we share is hostess neurosis.

1:25.0

That is not even one of the foibles I was thinking of.

1:27.4

We do share that foible and several others.

1:30.5

But before we jump in, we want to let everybody know that we are introducing a new segment for this next year

1:37.1

So stay tuned for later in the episode for that

1:40.6

Yes, very exciting this week our tried this at home tip is to forecast your own

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